William Gillespie
Birthday: 1894-01-23
Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Biography: 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.
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Sold at Auction!
Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to t...
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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...
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Sherlock Sleuth
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart at...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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....
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White Wings
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist....
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Double Whoopee
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Lau...
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Now or Never
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip....
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The Flirt
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there....
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Bliss
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 amuse...
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Somewhere in Turkey
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl....
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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 ticket...
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An Ozark Romance
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric...
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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...
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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...
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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 ru...
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The Dumb-Bell
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an ...
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The Sleuth
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik...
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Run 'Em Ragged
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up...
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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 afte...
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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, b...
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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...
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Innocent Husbands
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a ...
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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 th...
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The Music Box
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player pi...
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The Cure
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos....
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The Immigrant
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in ...
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Hey There
In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young l...
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Dodge Your Debts
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-temp...
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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...
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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 ...
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They Won't Believe Me
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ou...
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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 attent...
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Wrong Again
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two ...
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Smithy
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employme...
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The Poor Fish
Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch job...
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The Rat's Knuckles
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925....
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Wandering Papas
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rab...
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The Green Cat
Snub is determined to make his new restaurant, The Green Cat, a success— no matter what it takes....
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Exit Smiling
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st...
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Pipe the Whiskers
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place....
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The City Slicker
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gad...
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Look Pleasant, Please
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues....
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Thundering Taxis
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything....
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Madame Mystery
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts ...
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Bromo and Juliet
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his ...
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Helping Grandma
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids t...
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His Royal Slyness
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station....
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Safety Last!
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force ...
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Haunted Spooks
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking...
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Any Old Port
Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns...
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On Location
Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping th...
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Cabin in the Sky
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where h...
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Why Worry?
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a re...
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Do Me a Favor
Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping...
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High and Dizzy
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street....
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Fifteen Minutes
While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break....
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Pick and Shovel
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel....
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Brothers Under the Chin
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted an...
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Horse Shy
Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughte...
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Next Aisle Over
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping....
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Number, Please?
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl ...
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Punch the Clock
Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on...
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A Gasoline Wedding
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- ...
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Beat It
Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvi...
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Here Come the Girls
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer a...
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Step Lively
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has ...
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Bashful
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family....
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decide...
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they c...
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