Bud Ross
Actor · 1868 – 1932 · Springfield, Illinois, USA
Movies24
- Movie
An eccentric American billionaire travels to Paris and Monte Carlo, where his lavish spending and impulsive adventures draw him into a series of comic misunderstandings, duels, and romantic entanglements.
The Billionaire
1914
Movie5.5ComedyIn The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
The Villain
1917 · 2 votes
Movie5.2ComedyTwo romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.
Pool Sharks
1915 · 43 votes
Movie4.2ComedyShort King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
The Scholar
1918 · 2 votes
Movie5.5ComedyIn this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
1924 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
The Reformer
1915 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyA 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.
He's In Again
1918 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
A Small Town Princess
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyMild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
The Cat's Meow
1924 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedyThe Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off roles.
The Pest
1917 · 4 votes
Movie5.5ComedyThe Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
The Hero
1917 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWhen a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.
Hard Knocks and Love Taps
1921 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race between the pathetic train and an auto bus sponsored by the promoter. There is dirty work at the cross-roads but the villain gets his.
The Cannon Ball Express
1924 · 1 votes
Movie4.8ComedyBilly 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 Hobo
1917 · 6 votes
Movie6.3ComedyAll the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Galloping Bungalows
1924 · 3 votes
Movie5.6ComedyA Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
The Candy Kid
1917 · 4 votes
Movie6.5ComedyAn oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Bright Eyes
1921 · 2 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Playmates
1918 · 1 votes
Movie5.4ComedyA short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
The Hollywood Kid
1924 · 5 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
According to Hoyle
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Her Actor Friend
1926 · 1 votes
MovieComedyBrilliantino the Bullfighter (originally titled Flood and Sand) is one of the first spoofs of Blood and Sand, Paramount’s smoldering matador melodrama that set box offices ablaze. Like Mud and Sand, starring Stan Laurel, the Banks parody was rushed into theaters in November 1922, while memory of the Valentino vehicle was fresh. The concept of Monty Banks impersonating the passionate matador must have been innately hilarious to audiences who had seen the original picture.
Movie3.9ComedyIn this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.
His Day Out
1918 · 4 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
The Marriage Circus
1925 · 1 votes