15-09-1891
Birthday
Virgo
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72
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William Gilbert, Little Billy Gilbert
Also known as (male)
Hollywood, California, USA
Place of Birth
15-09-1891
Birthday
Virgo
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
72
Total Films
William V. Campbell , William Gilbert, Little Billy Gilbert
Also Known As (male)
Hollywood, California, USA
Place of Birth
actor
72 Works
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director
4 Works
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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.Year:
1936
The Bees' Buzz
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.Year:
1929
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.Year:
1929
Motorboat Mamas
Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.Year:
1928
The Campus Carmen
A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.Year:
1928
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."Year:
1928
Smith's Army Life
19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.Year:
1928
Fiddlesticks
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.Year:
1927
For Sale, a Bungalow
For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy shortYear:
1927
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.Year:
1927
The Pride of Pikeville
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.Year:
1927
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.Year:
1927
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.Year:
1927
A Small Town Princess
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.Year:
1927
The Jolly Jilter
Silent comedy short film starring Ben TurpinYear:
1927
Peaches and Plumbers
To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.Year:
1927
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.Year:
1926
The Soapsuds Lady
The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.Year:
1926
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.Year:
1926
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.Year:
1926
Smith's Baby
Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.Year:
1926
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.Year:
1926
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.Year:
1926
Whispering Whiskers
Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde are hobos who happen upon a train and are hired as cooks.Year:
1926
A Sweet Pickle
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.Year:
1925
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.Year:
1924
Stuck Up
Bud Duncan comedy produced by Schiller and distributed by Reelcraft.Year:
1921
All Wet
A slapstick comedy featuring Bud Duncan & Billy Gilbert.Year:
1921
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.Year:
1921
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.Year:
1916
A Submarine Pirate
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.Year:
1915
Fickle Fatty's Fall
Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
Mabel’s Wilful Way
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.Year:
1915
Wished on Mabel
Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.Year:
1915
A One Night Stand
Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
Fatty's New Role
Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1915
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.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
Leading Lizzie Astray
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
His Musical Career
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
Those Love Pangs
Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.Year:
1914
The Rounders
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
Those Country Kids
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
A Busy Day
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
The Star Boarder
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
His Favorite Pastime
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.Year:
1914
Tango Tangles
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
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.Year:
1914
Rebecca's Wedding Day
Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.Year:
1914
He Would a Hunting Go
Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.Year:
1913
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!Year:
1913
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.Year:
1913
The Speed Kings
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.Year:
1913
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.Year:
1913
Mother's Boy
Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.Year:
1913
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.Year:
1913
