William Gillespie Movies

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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