Movies

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.

In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie...

The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.

A small town princess gets hired for the movies.

Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the...

The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and...

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well -...

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and...

Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.

The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off...

Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy

A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy...

The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.

In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by...

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated...

A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of...

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).