William Gillespie

William Gillespie

William Gillespie (24 January 1894 – 23 June 1938) was a Scottish actor. Gillespie started in Hollywood films from the silent era. He played in about 180 films between 1915 and 1939, although his appearances were often uncredited. Gillespie frequently appeared in Hal Roach comedies from 1917, usually as stuffy official or manager. He supported such "slapstick comedians" as Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy, but was most prolific supporting Harold Lloyd in 60 films.

  • Title: William Gillespie
  • Popularity: 3.216
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1894-01-23
  • Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
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  • Also Known As: Wm. Gillespie
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William Gillespie Movies

  • 1923
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    Sold at Auction

    Sold at Auction

    4.5 1923 HD

    This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

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  • 1918
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    It's a Wild Life

    It's a Wild Life

    5 1918 HD

    Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store...

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  • 1925
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    Sherlock Sleuth

    Sherlock Sleuth

    1 1925 HD

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

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  • 1925
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    Your Own Back Yard

    Your Own Back Yard

    5.8 1925 HD

    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. ...

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  • 1925
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    Moonlight and Noses

    Moonlight and Noses

    4.5 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1920
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    Raise the Rent

    Raise the Rent

    5 1920 HD

    Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an...

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  • 1924
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    All Wet

    All Wet

    5.2 1924 HD

    Charley Chase has car trouble.

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  • 1923
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    Her Dangerous Path

    Her Dangerous Path

    1 1923 HD

    Her Dangerous Path

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  • 1924
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    Why Men Work

    Why Men Work

    1 1924 HD

    A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

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  • 1923
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    White Wings

    White Wings

    6.7 1923 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Double Whoopee

    Double Whoopee

    6.5 1929 HD

    Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell...

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  • 1921
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    Now or Never

    Now or Never

    6.1 1921 HD

    A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

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  • 1921
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    Among Those Present

    Among Those Present

    5.8 1921 HD

    An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

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  • 1917
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    The Flirt

    The Flirt

    4.2 1917 HD

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

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  • 1917
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    Bliss

    Bliss

    4.3 1917 HD

    A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."

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  • 1922
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    Dr. Jack

    Dr. Jack

    6.8 1922 HD

    Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after...

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  • 1924
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    The Goofy Age

    The Goofy Age

    1 1924 HD

    The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to...

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  • 1918
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    Bees in His Bonnet

    Bees in His Bonnet

    1 1918 HD

    Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.

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  • 1921
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    Never Weaken

    Never Weaken

    6.8 1921 HD

    Our hero is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend...

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  • 1920
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    Get Out and Get Under

    Get Out and Get Under

    6.3 1920 HD

    The comic adventures of a new car owner.

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  • 1917
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    Move On

    Move On

    4.5 1917 HD

    Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

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  • 1918
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    Somewhere in Turkey

    Somewhere in Turkey

    6 1918 HD

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

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  • 1918
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    That's Him

    That's Him

    5 1918 HD

    Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes...

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  • 1918
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    An Ozark Romance

    An Ozark Romance

    1 1918 HD

    Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.

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  • 1925
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    Chasing the Chaser

    Chasing the Chaser

    6 1925 HD

    A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...

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  • 1923
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    Dogs of War!

    Dogs of War!

    5.5 1923 HD

    The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

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  • 1918
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    Take a Chance

    Take a Chance

    6 1918 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    The Dumb-Bell

    The Dumb-Bell

    6 1922 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    The Sleuth

    The Sleuth

    1 1922 HD

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

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  • 1923
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    Dear Ol' Pal

    Dear Ol' Pal

    1 1923 HD

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

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  • 1920
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    Run 'Em Ragged

    Run 'Em Ragged

    5 1920 HD

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

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  • 1922
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    Shine 'Em Up

    Shine 'Em Up

    5 1922 HD

    Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train...

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  • 1923
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    Under Two Jags

    Under Two Jags

    5 1923 HD

    Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his...

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  • 1923
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    Scorching Sands

    Scorching Sands

    5.4 1923 HD

    The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

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  • 1924
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    Postage Due

    Postage Due

    5.3 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Innocent Husbands

    Innocent Husbands

    6.2 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1923
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    It's a Gift

    It's a Gift

    6 1923 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    The Music Box

    The Music Box

    7.6 1932 HD

    The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von...

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  • 1917
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    The Cure

    The Cure

    6.8 1917 HD

    An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.

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  • 1917
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    The Immigrant

    The Immigrant

    7.26 1917 HD

    An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

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  • 1918
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    Hey There

    Hey There

    6.9 1918 HD

    In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved...

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  • 1921
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    Dodge Your Debts

    Dodge Your Debts

    7.5 1921 HD

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

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  • 1919
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    Looking for Trouble

    Looking for Trouble

    5.2 1919 HD

    Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight...

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  • 1920
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    The Dippy Dentist

    The Dippy Dentist

    5.2 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me

    6.6 1947 HD

    On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but...

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  • 1919
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    Do You Love Your Wife?

    Do You Love Your Wife?

    5.7 1919 HD

    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...

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  • 1925
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    Sure-Mike!

    Sure-Mike!

    1 1925 HD

    Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

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  • 1925
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    Is Marriage the Bunk?

    Is Marriage the Bunk?

    5 1925 HD

    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 think...

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  • 1924
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    The Cowboy Sheik

    The Cowboy Sheik

    5 1924 HD

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

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  • 1929
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    Wrong Again

    Wrong Again

    6.7 1929 HD

    Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return...

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  • 1924
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    Smithy

    Smithy

    5.2 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    The Poor Fish

    The Poor Fish

    5 1924 HD

    Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

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  • 1925
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    The Rat's Knuckles

    The Rat's Knuckles

    6.8 1925 HD

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

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  • 1926
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    Wandering Papas

    Wandering Papas

    5.1 1926 HD

    A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the...

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  • 1923
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    Fully Insured

    Fully Insured

    5 1923 HD

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

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  • 1923
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    The Green Cat

    The Green Cat

    1 1923 HD

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

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  • 1926
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    Exit Smiling

    Exit Smiling

    7.9 1926 HD

    The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's...

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  • 1918
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    Pipe the Whiskers

    Pipe the Whiskers

    5 1918 HD

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

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  • 1918
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    The City Slicker

    The City Slicker

    5 1918 HD

    Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

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  • 1918
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    Look Pleasant, Please

    Look Pleasant, Please

    5 1918 HD

    A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

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  • 1933
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    Thundering Taxis

    Thundering Taxis

    1 1933 HD

    Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.

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  • 1926
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    Madame Mystery

    Madame Mystery

    5.6 1926 HD

    A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

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  • 1922
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    Pardon Me

    Pardon Me

    1 1922 HD

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

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  • 1926
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    Bromo and Juliet

    Bromo and Juliet

    5.6 1926 HD

    A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a...

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  • 1931
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    Helping Grandma

    Helping Grandma

    6.8 1931 HD

    The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

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  • 1920
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    His Royal Slyness

    His Royal Slyness

    5.8 1920 HD

    A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

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  • 1923
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    Safety Last!

    Safety Last!

    7.8 1923 HD

    When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

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  • 1920
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    Haunted Spooks

    Haunted Spooks

    6.2 1920 HD

    After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to...

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  • 1918
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    Bride and Gloom

    Bride and Gloom

    1 1918 HD

    A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

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  • 1920
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    Any Old Port

    Any Old Port

    1 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1921
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    On Location

    On Location

    1 1921 HD

    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...

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  • 1923
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    It's a Joy!

    It's a Joy!

    1 1923 HD

    'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

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  • 1943
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    Cabin in the Sky

    Cabin in the Sky

    6.3 1943 HD

    When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

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  • 1925
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    Should Sailors Marry?

    Should Sailors Marry?

    5.4 1925 HD

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  • 1923
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    Why Worry?

    Why Worry?

    6.6 1923 HD

    A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

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  • 1922
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    Do Me a Favor

    Do Me a Favor

    5 1922 HD

    Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.

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  • 1920
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    High and Dizzy

    High and Dizzy

    6.6 1920 HD

    A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

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  • 1921
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    Fifteen Minutes

    Fifteen Minutes

    5 1921 HD

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

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  • 1923
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    Pick and Shovel

    Pick and Shovel

    6 1923 HD

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

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  • 1924
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    Zeb vs. Paprika

    Zeb vs. Paprika

    5.5 1924 HD

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

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  • 1924
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    Wide Open Spaces

    Wide Open Spaces

    5 1924 HD

    Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.

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  • 1924
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    Brothers Under the Chin

    Brothers Under the Chin

    5.5 1924 HD

    A 1924 silent comedy.

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  • 1928
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    Horse Shy

    Horse Shy

    7 1928 HD

    Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.

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  • 1919
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    Next Aisle Over

    Next Aisle Over

    5.4 1919 HD

    A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.

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  • 1920
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    Number, Please?

    Number, Please?

    6.6 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Punch the Clock

    Punch the Clock

    5 1922 HD

    Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.

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