Billy West Movies

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries...

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

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.

Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of Little Italy, for his music hall. So she dresses...

Slapstick experts host this look at the life and films of Charley Chase with rare film clips and photos.

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

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...

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...

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik

After five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a...

In 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...

A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy...

A 1925 silent comedy.

The 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...

'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...

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...

They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.