William Gillespie

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store...

House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel,"...

Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. ...

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars...

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an...

Charley Chase has car trouble.

Her Dangerous Path

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell...

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after...

The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to...

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.

Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend...

The comic adventures of a new car owner.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes...

Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.

Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.

A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the...

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the...

Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik

Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across...

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train...

Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his...

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector...

Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in...

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has...

The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von...

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved...

A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight...

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold...

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband...

Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

Charley has in-laws that look down on him because he's not rich. So, to try to keep up, he rushes out to buy a car--but no matter, they still think...

A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.

Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return...

After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where...

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the...

A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.

Snub is determined to make his new restaurant, The Green Cat, a success---no matter what it takes.

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's...

Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested.

A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a...

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to...

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about...

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.

Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.

Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.

A 1924 silent comedy.

Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.

A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.