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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. Born : 23rd-Jan-1894

Movie Credits

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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 left on a doorstep before we see him fully grown about 20 or so years later still in that basket! From there, he gets bumped car to car crossing the street prior to getting literally thrown through a window as an auction is taking place! Also appearing is James Finlayson as a man who's items accidentally get sold.
Released : 26th-May-1923

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It's a Wild Life

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.
Released : 21st-Apr-1918

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Sherlock Sleuth

House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," who is on the loose in the hotel, assisted by a sultry vamp. Plenty of hilarious gags along the way; including the operator taking a call from an irate lodger, so hot that it makes the switchboard steam. Taking advantage of the situation, she pulls out the offending plug and curls her bangs. The MGM lion even puts in a guest appearance.
Released : 12th-Jul-1925

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Your Own Back Yard

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. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.
Released : 26th-Sep-1925

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Moonlight and Noses

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 -- if they go to a cemetery and bring back the body of a man who he believes died of "water on the brain."
Released : 3rd-Oct-1925

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Raise the Rent

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 improvised tent.
Released : 22nd-Feb-1920

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All Wet

Charley Chase has car trouble.
Released : 1st-Jan-1924

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Her Dangerous Path

Her Dangerous Path
Released : 12th-Aug-1923

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Why Men Work

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
Released : 31st-Aug-1924

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White Wings

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
Released : 12th-May-1923

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Double Whoopee

Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
Released : 18th-May-1929

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Now or Never

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
Released : 27th-Mar-1921

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Among Those Present

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
Released : 29th-May-1921

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The Flirt

A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
Released : 11th-Nov-1917

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Bliss

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
Released : 14th-Oct-1917

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Dr. Jack

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 years of unsuccessful treatment.
Released : 26th-Nov-1922

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The Goofy Age

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 store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.
Released : 10th-Dec-1924

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Bees in His Bonnet

Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
Released : 15th-Sep-1918

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Never Weaken

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 injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1921

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Get Out and Get Under

The comic adventures of a new car owner.
Released : 26th-Sep-1920

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Move On

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
Released : 9th-Dec-1917

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That's Him

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 with him. The assailant's victims pursue our man while his bride is led to believe that she has been deserted.
Released : 4th-Aug-1918

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Somewhere in Turkey

Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
Released : 16th-Jun-1918

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An Ozark Romance

Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
Released : 6th-Jul-1918

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Chasing the Chaser

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 it.
Released : 4th-Jul-1925

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Dogs of War!

The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
Released : 1st-Jul-1923

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Take a Chance

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 countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
Released : 15th-Dec-1918

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The Dumb-Bell

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.
Released : 16th-Jul-1922

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The Sleuth

Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
Released : 16th-Jul-1922

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Dear Ol' Pal

Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.
Released : 11th-Nov-1923

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Run 'Em Ragged

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sophisticated sight gags test the limits of the characters’ perception, making expert use of such props as a seemingly bottomless rowboat.
Released : 1st-Aug-1920

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Shine 'Em Up

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 station he proves his worth.
Released : 4th-Nov-1922

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Under Two Jags

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 affections.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1923

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Scorching Sands

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
Released : 9th-Dec-1923

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Postage Due

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 that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
Released : 17th-Feb-1924

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Innocent Husbands

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 Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Released : 1st-Aug-1925

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It's a Gift

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 devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.
Released : 13th-Oct-1923

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The Music Box

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 Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
Released : 16th-Apr-1932

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The Cure

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Released : 16th-Apr-1917

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The Immigrant

An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
Released : 17th-Jun-1917

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Hey There

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 beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Released : 28th-Apr-1918

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Dodge Your Debts

A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
Released : 16th-Oct-1921

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Looking for Trouble

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 definitely does not go anything like expected.
Released : 14th-Dec-1919

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The Dippy Dentist

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 Lloyd's brother, Gaylord (who is a dentist). Shortly after this, a new dentist (Snub Pollard) arrives to work in an office across the hall. In a very funny scene, Pollard manages to steal all of Gaylord's patients from his waiting room. However, when it comes to dental work, Snub is highly unlikely to receive the American Dental Association's seal of approval. That's because he's incredibly rough and manages to toss a guy out the window when he pulls his tooth.
Released : 25th-Jan-1920

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They Won't Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Released : 16th-Jul-1947

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Do You Love Your Wife?

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.
Released : 5th-Jan-1919

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Sure-Mike!

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 relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.
Released : 23rd-May-1925

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Is Marriage the Bunk?

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 he's a drip--as does his wife. Later, when he's given a simple job to do by his boss, he screws it up--and loses face once again with his family.
Released : 29th-Mar-1925

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The Cowboy Sheik

A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
Released : 3rd-Feb-1924

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Wrong Again

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 of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."
Released : 23rd-Feb-1929

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Smithy

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 he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Released : 19th-Jan-1924

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