Billy West
Birthday: 1892-09-22
Place of Birth: Russia
Biography: Billy West (September 22, 1892 – July 21, 1975) was a film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as a semi-successful Charlie Chaplin impersonator. Beyond acting, he also directed shorts in the 1910s and 20s, as well as produced films. West ultimately retired in 1935.
Movies
Ship Ahoy
Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of croo...
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He Was Her Man
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for hi...
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The Hobo
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at t...
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Bright and Early
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Ha...
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The Rogue
'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by ...
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The Villain
In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this...
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His Day Out
In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hard...
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Hard Boiled Yeggs
A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough...
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Italian Love
Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of ...
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Not Wanted
After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy cha...
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He's In Again
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After...
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Cupid's Rival
A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that hi...
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A Very Honorable Guy
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacterist...
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The Personality Kid
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success....
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The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways....
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Picture Snatcher
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist....
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicid...
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The Chief Cook
The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing t...
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Don't Be Foolish
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenui...
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Line's Busy
Billy meets a charity worker named Ethelyn, who raises contributions by flirting with men. Just as s...
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Jimmy the Gent
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and te...
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It Happened One Night
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up s...
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The Pest
The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy...
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The Stranger
After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little bu...
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Bone Dry
Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his wort...
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The Shadow of the Eagle
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling f...
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Motive for Revenge
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags...
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Little Nell
Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the ...
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Fiddlin' Around
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy....
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The Scholar
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy...
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Lucky Fool
Scion of a distinguished family J. Anthony Bowden is considered unworthy by his father, a feeling he...
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Thrilling Youth
Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves c...
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She Couldn't Take It
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustra...
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Ex-Lady
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his in...
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Meet Father
The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champi...
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Newly Rich
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film ...
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Diamond Trail
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang...
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The Trouble Shooter
Billy West wanders into town and is made sheriff because the older ones got killed or ran away....
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Back Stage
Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally...
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The Trouble Chaser
Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter. ...
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Cheating Cheaters
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, t...
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