William Gillespie Movies

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

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

The comic adventures of a new car owner.

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...

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

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. ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to...

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose...

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