William Gillespie Movies

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

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

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...

Charley Chase has car trouble.

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

After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where...

Her Dangerous Path

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...

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight...

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

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

Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

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...

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...

Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector...

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

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...