Movies

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 small town princess gets hired for the movies.

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial...

A 1926 comedy short directed by Eddy Cline.

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage...

"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of...

A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.

After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up...

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...

The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.

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...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

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...

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...

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.

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

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.