Movies: William Gillespie

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

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert....

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 job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture....

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 a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends b...

Charley Chase has car trouble....

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

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

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

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

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

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything goes-quality one rarely sees in Mr. Roach's output. It stars Snub Pollard who is initially introduced as a baby ...

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

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

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

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 and being chased by the police....

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

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 marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish st...

Her Dangerous Path...

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

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