William Gillespie
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6721 |
| Birthday | 1894-01-23 |
| Place of Birth | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | Wm. Gillespie, |
1923
Sold at Auction!
6.833/3
Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He’s instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to the wrong house. After everything is sold, the real...
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Sold at Auction!
1918
It's a Wild Life
5/1
Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store Indian.
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It's a Wild Life
1925
Sherlock Sleuth
9/1
House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel," w...
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Sherlock Sleuth
1925
Your Own Back Yard
6.5/3
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Your Own Back Yard
1925
Moonlight and Noses
5.875/4
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 -...
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Moonlight and Noses
1920
Raise the Rent
6/2
Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an...
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Raise the Rent
1924
All Wet
5.833/6
Charley Chase has car trouble.
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All Wet
1923
Her Dangerous Path
10/1
Corinne Grant, a wealthy society girl, is forced, upon the physical and financial break-down of her father, to choose her future path in life. Her Chi...
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Her Dangerous Path
1924
Why Men Work
8/1
A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
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Why Men Work
1923
White Wings
7.25/4
Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.
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White Wings
1929
Double Whoopee
6.758/33
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean...
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Double Whoopee
1921
Among Those Present
5.95/20
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
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Among Those Present
1921
Now or Never
6.22/25
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
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Now or Never
1917
The Flirt
3.9/8
A man takes a job in a café, hoping to get to know the pretty waitress working there.
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The Flirt
1917
Bliss
4.3/5
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."
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Bliss
1922
Dr. Jack
6.828/32
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after yea...
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Dr. Jack
1924
The Goofy Age
8/1
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 mar...
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The Goofy Age
1918
Bees in His Bonnet
0/0
Bees in His Bonnet is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It is presumed to be lost.
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Bees in His Bonnet
1921
Never Weaken
6.906/48
A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit suic...
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Never Weaken
1920
Get Out and Get Under
6.5/21
The comic adventures of a new car owner.
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Get Out and Get Under
1917
Move On
4.7/3
Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.
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Move On
1918
Somewhere in Turkey
6/3
Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.
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Somewhere in Turkey
1918
That's Him
5/1
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 wi...
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That's Him
1918
An Ozark Romance
0/0
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
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An Ozark Romance
1925
Chasing the Chaser
6.5/2
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...
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Chasing the Chaser
1918
Take a Chance
6.1/20
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the count...
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Take a Chance
1923
Dogs of War!
5.818/11
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Dogs of War!
1922
The Dumb-Bell
6.333/3
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the...
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The Dumb-Bell
1922
The Sleuth
0/0
Paul Parrott stars as a detective in a hotel trying to recognize a fake sheik
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The Sleuth
1923
Dear Ol' Pal
10/1
Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.
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Dear Ol' Pal
1920
Run 'Em Ragged
7.5/2
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s E...
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Run 'Em Ragged
1922
Shine 'Em Up
5.167/6
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...
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Shine 'Em Up
1923
Under Two Jags
6.333/3
Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affect...
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Under Two Jags
1923
Scorching Sands
5.889/9
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
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Scorching Sands
1924
Postage Due
6.25/4
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 that...
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Postage Due
1925
Innocent Husbands
7/5
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 M...
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Innocent Husbands
1923
It's a Gift
6.5/6
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 devi...
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It's a Gift
1932
The Music Box
7.516/217
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von...
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The Music Box
1917
The Cure
6.814/140
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
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The Cure
1917
The Immigrant
7.3/315
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
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The Immigrant
1918
Hey There
6.8/8
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 a...
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Hey There
1921
Dodge Your Debts
7.333/3
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
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Dodge Your Debts
1919
Looking for Trouble
6.167/3
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 d...
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Looking for Trouble
1920
The Dippy Dentist
6.375/4
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 Llo...
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The Dippy Dentist
1947
They Won't Believe Me
6.55/50
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but i...
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They Won't Believe Me
1919
Do You Love Your Wife?
5.7/3
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 and...
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Do You Love Your Wife?
1925
Sure-Mike!
7/1
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 reli...
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Sure-Mike!
1925
Is Marriage the Bunk?
6/2
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 he'...
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Is Marriage the Bunk?
1924
The Cowboy Sheik
6.5/2
A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention.
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The Cowboy Sheik
1929
Wrong Again
6.784/37
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of...
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Wrong Again
1924
Smithy
5.75/10
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 h...
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Smithy
1924
The Poor Fish
7.5/2
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 hou...
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The Poor Fish
1925
The Rat's Knuckles
6.833/3
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.
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The Rat's Knuckles
1926
Wandering Papas
5.4/10
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the...
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Wandering Papas
1923
Fully Insured
6.5/2
A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.
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Fully Insured
1923
The Green Cat
6/1
Snub is determined to make his new restaurant, The Green Cat, a success— no matter what it takes.
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The Green Cat
1926
Exit Smiling
7.875/8
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Fla...
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Exit Smiling
1918
Pipe the Whiskers
5/1
Our hero is a janitor in a old age rest home who actually runs the place.
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Pipe the Whiskers
1918
The City Slicker
5.2/10
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
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The City Slicker
1918
Look Pleasant, Please
5/2
A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
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Look Pleasant, Please
1933
Thundering Taxis
7/1
Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.
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Thundering Taxis
1926
Madame Mystery
6.5/5
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succee...
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Madame Mystery
1922
Pardon Me
7/1
Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested.
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Pardon Me
1926
Bromo and Juliet
5.778/9
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesk...
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Bromo and Juliet
1931
Helping Grandma
7/9
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
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Helping Grandma
1920
His Royal Slyness
6.021/24
A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.
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His Royal Slyness
1923
Safety Last!
7.715/577
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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Safety Last!
1920
Haunted Spooks
6.346/39
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to s...
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Haunted Spooks
1918
Bride and Gloom
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Bride and Gloom
1920
Any Old Port
10/1
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...
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Any Old Port
1921
On Location
0/0
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 to...
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On Location
1923
It's a Joy!
7/0
'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.
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It's a Joy!
1943
Cabin in the Sky
6.51/49
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si...
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Cabin in the Sky
1925
Should Sailors Marry?
5.833/9
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Should Sailors Marry?
1923
Why Worry?
6.5/45
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
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Why Worry?
1922
Do Me a Favor
6/2
Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.
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Do Me a Favor
1920
High and Dizzy
6.653/36
A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
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High and Dizzy
1921
Fifteen Minutes
6/2
While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.
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Fifteen Minutes
1923
Pick and Shovel
7.3/3
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Pick and Shovel
1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
5.8/5
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
Wide Open Spaces
6.333/3
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
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Wide Open Spaces
1924
Brothers Under the Chin
7/3
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." T...
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Brothers Under the Chin
1928
Horse Shy
7/1
Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.
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Horse Shy
1919
Next Aisle Over
6.143/7
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
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Next Aisle Over
1920
Number, Please?
6.569/29
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 in...
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Number, Please?
1922
Punch the Clock
6.5/2
Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.
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Punch the Clock
1921
I Do
5.96/25
Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.
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I Do
1918
Let's Go
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Let's Go
1918
A Gasoline Wedding
5.8/4
A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.
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A Gasoline Wedding
1918
Beat It
0/0
Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to re...
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Beat It
1918
Here Come the Girls
2/1
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task...
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Here Come the Girls
1918
The Tip
0/0
A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
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The Tip
1917
Step Lively
4.6/4
Snub Pollard plays a drunken man-about-town who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a lounge lizard who won't take...
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Step Lively
1917
Bashful
6.9/6
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
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Bashful
1925
Isn't Life Terrible?
6.1/10
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife l...
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Isn't Life Terrible?
1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
8/2
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring w...
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
1920
A Regular Pal
10/1
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A Regular Pal
1924
Don't Park There
7.5/2
Don't Park There was one of a series of two-reel comedies Will Rogers made for producer Hal Roach during the 1923-4 season. The story amounts to littl...
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