William Gillespie Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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