William Gillespie Movies

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

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...

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...

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

Her Dangerous Path

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

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

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...

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

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about...

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...