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Billy Gilbert

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*** FYI: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ACTOR BILLY GILBERT (born William Gilbert Barron) WHO LIVED FROM 1894 TO 1971. *** Billy Gilbert (born William V. Campbell; September 15, 1891—April 29, 1961) was involved in more than 150 American films between 1913 and 1936, working as either an actor, extra, or director. Gilbert spent his entire career working almost exclusively in shorts, often uncredited. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

15-09-1891

Birthday

Virgo

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

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William Gilbert, Little Billy Gilbert

Also known as (male)

Hollywood, California, USA

Place of Birth

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Creative career

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72 Works

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4 Works

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Give Us This Night

Give Us This Night

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
7.0

Year:

1936

The Bees' Buzz

The Bees' Buzz

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
4.0

Year:

1929

The Rodeo

The Rodeo

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
0.0

Year:

1929

Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
0.0

Year:

1928

The Campus Carmen

The Campus Carmen

A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
4.0

Year:

1928

Movie Mania

Movie Mania

Part of a short-lived "Izzie and Lizzie" series named after the male and female ingénues in two comically contrasted families living next door to one another, this slapstick adventure finds Lizzie Murphy (Bess True) "going Hollywood." Having won a beauty contest, she's invited to travel west for a film test. Both Izzie Cohen and the Murphy menfolk are soon in hot pursuit, having belatedly realized that (according to a lurid tell-all book) Tinsel Town is the ruin of many a virtuous maiden. When they arrive, Lizzie is already starring in a movie and the wide-eyed family folk are fast wreaking havoc on the lot at "Paramet Studio."
0.0

Year:

1928

Smith's Army Life

Smith's Army Life

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
0.0

Year:

1928

Fiddlesticks

Fiddlesticks

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
6.0

Year:

1927

For Sale, a Bungalow

For Sale, a Bungalow

For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short
0.0

Year:

1927

Smith's Pony

Smith's Pony

The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
0.0

Year:

1927

The Pride of Pikeville

The Pride of Pikeville

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
0.0

Year:

1927

Smith's Fishing Trip

Smith's Fishing Trip

Twelfth release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies and the family gos fishing while their house is renovated.
0.0

Year:

1927

Crazy to Act

Crazy to Act

Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
5.5

Year:

1927

A Small Town Princess

A Small Town Princess

A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
0.0

Year:

1927

The Jolly Jilter

The Jolly Jilter

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
0.0

Year:

1927

Peaches and Plumbers

Peaches and Plumbers

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.
0.0

Year:

1927

Flirty Four-Flushers

Flirty Four-Flushers

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
5.0

Year:

1926

The Soapsuds Lady

The Soapsuds Lady

The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
0.0

Year:

1926

Smith's Uncle

Smith's Uncle

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.
0.0

Year:

1926

Smith's Landlord

Smith's Landlord

Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.
0.0

Year:

1926

Smith's Baby

Smith's Baby

Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
0.0

Year:

1926

Ice Cold Cocos

Ice Cold Cocos

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 as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
0.0

Year:

1926

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.
0.0

Year:

1926

Whispering Whiskers

Whispering Whiskers

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.
0.0

Year:

1926

A Sweet Pickle

A Sweet Pickle

A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
0.0

Year:

1925

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

Ten Dollars or Ten Days

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
4.5

Year:

1924

Stuck Up

Stuck Up

Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.
0.0

Year:

1921

All Wet

All Wet

A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.
0.0

Year:

1921

Dynamite Allen

Dynamite Allen

Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
0.0

Year:

1921

His Bitter Pill

His Bitter Pill

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.
5.2

Year:

1916

A Submarine Pirate

A Submarine Pirate

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
4.9

Year:

1915

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.
0.0

Year:

1915

A Hash House Fraud

A Hash House Fraud

A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
4.5

Year:

1915

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
4.5

Year:

1915

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
4.9

Year:

1915

Wished on Mabel

Wished on Mabel

Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
5.2

Year:

1915

A One Night Stand

A One Night Stand

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.
5.0

Year:

1915

That Little Band Of Gold

That Little Band Of Gold

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
5.1

Year:

1915

Hogan Out West

Hogan Out West

After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.
0.0

Year:

1915

Fatty's New Role

Fatty's New Role

Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
5.2

Year:

1915

Love, Speed and Thrills

Love, Speed and Thrills

After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
5.0

Year:

1915

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
5.5

Year:

1915

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
6.1

Year:

1914

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
5.0

Year:

1914

Ambrose's First Falsehood

Ambrose's First Falsehood

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's taken a train for business, but then his wife reads that the train crashed.
4.2

Year:

1914

His Prehistoric Past

His Prehistoric Past

Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.
5.6

Year:

1914

Leading Lizzie Astray

Leading Lizzie Astray

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
4.2

Year:

1914

His Trysting Places

His Trysting Places

On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
6.1

Year:

1914

His Musical Career

His Musical Career

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
5.9

Year:

1914

Gentlemen of Nerve

Gentlemen of Nerve

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.
5.7

Year:

1914

Those Love Pangs

Those Love Pangs

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
5.5

Year:

1914

The Rounders

The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
6.1

Year:

1914

The Masquerader

The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
5.6

Year:

1914

Those Country Kids

Those Country Kids

Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
4.5

Year:

1914

The Knockout

The Knockout

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
5.7

Year:

1914

A Busy Day

A Busy Day

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
4.7

Year:

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
5.6

Year:

1914

The Star Boarder

The Star Boarder

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
5.1

Year:

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
5.1

Year:

1914

His Favorite Pastime

His Favorite Pastime

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
5.2

Year:

1914

Tango Tangles

Tango Tangles

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
5.0

Year:

1914

A Film Johnnie

A Film Johnnie

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
5.4

Year:

1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.
5.3

Year:

1914

Making a Living

Making a Living

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.
5.6

Year:

1914

Rebecca's Wedding Day

Rebecca's Wedding Day

Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.
0.0

Year:

1914

He Would a Hunting Go

He Would a Hunting Go

Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
0.0

Year:

1913

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty Joins the Force

Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
5.4

Year:

1913

Fatty at San Diego

Fatty at San Diego

Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.
0.0

Year:

1913

The Speed Kings

The Speed Kings

Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
4.2

Year:

1913

A Quiet Little Wedding

A Quiet Little Wedding

The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
0.0

Year:

1913

Mother's Boy

Mother's Boy

Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
0.0

Year:

1913

Mabel's Dramatic Career

Mabel's Dramatic Career

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
5.4

Year:

1913