The best Billy West’s movies

Billy West

Billy West

22/09/1892- 21/07/1975
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Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Ex-Lady

Ex-Lady
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/05/1933
  • Character: Panhandler (uncredited)
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher
7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/05/1933
  • Character: Reporter Stacy (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

She Couldn't Take It

She Couldn't Take It
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1935
  • Character: Reporter
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

The Shadow of the Eagle

The Shadow of the Eagle
5.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/02/1932
  • Character: Bob the Clown
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.

He Was Her Man

He Was Her Man
6.2/10
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

Newly Rich

Newly Rich
6.1/10
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.

The Defense Rests

The Defense Rests
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/07/1934
  • Character: Reporter
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

Hallelujah I'm a Bum

Hallelujah I'm a Bum
6.9/10
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt

A Very Honorable Guy

A Very Honorable Guy
6/10
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.

The Personality Kid

The Personality Kid
5.8/10
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

He's In Again

He's In Again
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1918
  • Character: A Customer
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.

The Scholar

The Scholar
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/03/1918
  • Character: The Scholar
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy

The Hobo

The Hobo
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1917
  • Character: The Hobo
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.

The Rogue

The Rogue
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/02/1918
  • Character: Billy
'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice Davenport and Marie Dressler, with a dash of Hattie Jacques. He crosses paths with a counterfeit count (White) and a stolen violin worth $20,000.

The Candy Kid

The Candy Kid
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/10/1917
  • Character: The Candy Kid
A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1919
  • Character: Charlie
Charlie stays at a seaside lodging house frequented by sailors. He gets involved with a gang of crooks when a sea captain attempts to kidnap his landlady's daughter.

Perfectly Mismated

Perfectly Mismated
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/11/1934
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.

The Chief Cook

The Chief Cook
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/09/1917
  • Character: The Star Boarder
The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.

Bright and Early

Bright and Early
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1918
  • Character: A Bellboy
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.

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