Billy West Movies

'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice...

Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang...

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

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

Billy meets a charity worker named Ethelyn, who raises contributions by flirting with men. Just as she's about to deposit her money in a bank a thief...

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...

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries...

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

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...

Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.

Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.

A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.

Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of Little Italy, for his music hall. So she dresses...

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...

Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.

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...

Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his...

The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.

Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.