William Gillespie Movies

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

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

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose...

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...

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

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

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...

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

House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel,"...

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