Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 – September 23, 1971) was an American comedian and actor known for his comic sneeze routines. He appeared in over 200 feature films, short subjects and television shows starting in 1929. He is not to be confused with silent film actor Billy Gilbert (a.k.a. Little Billy Gilbert, born William V. Campbell, 1891–1961).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
as Field Marshal Herring (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004
as Willie the Giant (voice) (archive sound)
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci...

The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997
as Self (archive footage)
From all the cartoons Walt Disney and his team create a full length feature film fun and fancy free . Learn the story of how ww2 Changed bongo and the...

Dance of the Cookoos
1982
as Doctor / Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework acti...

Disney's Greatest Villains
1977
as Sneezy / Willie the Giant (voice) (archive footage)
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need villains to balance things out. Without villains, the...
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
as First Drunk / Doctor (archive footage)
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.

The Sound of Laughter
1963
as Billy (Large Duck Hunter)
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
as Sultan/Actioneer
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...

Paradise Alley
1962
as Julius Wilson
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of ...

Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953
as King Jilouili
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.

The Kissing Bandit
1948
as General Felipe Toro
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's...
Billie Gets Her Man
1948
as Suitor (uncredited)
Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now wealthy,...

Mickey and the Beanstalk
1947
as Willie the Giant (voice) (uncredited)
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the a...

Fun and Fancy Free
1947
as Willie the Giant (voice)
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fa...

Anchors Aweigh
1945
as Cafe Manager
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew...

Trouble Chasers
1945
as Billy
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.

Crazy Knights
1944
as Billy
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.

Ever Since Venus
1944
as Tiny Lewis
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a so...
Wedded Bliss
1944
Radio announcer Billy Gilbert is hired by a friend to get smitten with his wife.

Three of a Kind
1944
as Billy
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.

Take It or Leave It
1944
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Crazy Like a Fox
1944
as Cabbie
Publicity man Norton Persuades taxi driver Billy to substitute for an uncooperative potentate.

Wing and a Prayer
1944
as (archive footage)
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M...

Crazy House
1943
as Sid Drake
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...

Spotlight Scandals
1943
as Billy Gilbert
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go ...
Always a Bridesmaid
1943
as Nicholas 'Nick' Neopolitan
The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club whic...
Shot in the Escape
1943
as Alexsos
When Billy and Cliff try to help a woman cross a muddy street, they wind up getting soaked. The woman invites them up to her apartment to dry off, but...

Shantytown
1943
as 'Papa' Ferrelli
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

Arabian Nights
1942
as Ahmad
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.

Song of the Islands
1942
as Palola's Father
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by tr...

Sleepytime Gal
1942
as Chef Popodopolis
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell ca...

Mr. Wise Guy
1942
as Knobby
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes ...

Valley of the Sun
1942
as Homer Burnaby - Justice of the Peace
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

Week-End in Havana
1941
as Arbolado
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waiver...

New Wine
1941
as Poldi
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941
as Self
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken...

Angels with Broken Wings
1941
as Billy Wilson
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But ...

Reaching for the Sun
1941
as Amos
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Model Wife
1941
as Mr. Dominic
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.

No, No, Nanette
1940
as Styles
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Att...

A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940
as Machinist's Mate
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, th...

Tin Pan Alley
1940
as Sheik
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...

Seven Sinners
1940
as Tony
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangste...

The Great Dictator
1940
as Field Marshal Herring
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940
as Master of Ceremonies
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get...

A Little Bit of Heaven
1940
as Tony
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to mov...
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940
as Hector
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all th...

Lucky Partners
1940
as Charles (uncredited)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Scatterbrain
1940
as Hoffman
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Cross-Country Romance
1940
as Orestes
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Queen of the Mob
1940
as Mr. Reier
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Safari
1940
as Mondehare
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned ad...

Women in War
1940
as Pierre, the Cobbler
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out ...

Sandy Is a Lady
1940
as Billy Pepino
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.

His Girl Friday
1940
as Joe Pettibone
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wi...

Destry Rides Again
1939
as Loupgerou
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into ...

Rio
1939
as Manuelo
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlem...

The Under-Pup
1939
as Tolio
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...

The Star Maker
1939
as Stanislov Papadopoulos
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

Million Dollar Legs
1939
as Dick Schultz (uncredited)
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get ...

Forged Passport
1939
as Nick Mendoza
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly...

The Girl Downstairs
1938
as Garage Mechanic
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falli...

Once Over Lightly
1938
as Professor Dimitrius Kapouris
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. ...

Once Over Lightly
1938
Screenplay
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. ...

Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938
as Bud Boggs
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner ...

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1938
as Prof. Minorous
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the...

Breaking the Ice
1938
as Mr. Small
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm...

My Lucky Star
1938
as Nick
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertise...

Block-Heads
1938
as Mr. Gilbert
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old ...

Army Girl
1938
as Canteen waiter
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to m...

Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self (uncredited)
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...

Joy of Living
1938
as Cafe Owner
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic...

Maid's Night Out
1938
as Mr. Papalapoulas
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he...

Happy Landing
1938
as Counter Man
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938
as Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jeal...

She's Got Everything
1937
as Chaffee - a Creditor
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marr...

Rosalie
1937
as Oloff
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

The Firefly
1937
as Innkeeper
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...

Fight for Your Lady
1937
as Boris
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

Live, Love and Learn
1937
as Newsboy (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...

Music for Madame
1937
as Krause
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...

One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
as Garage Owner
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderst...

The Life of the Party
1937
as Dr. Molnac
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

Broadway Melody of 1938
1937
as George Papaloopas
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve...

The Toast of New York
1937
as Photographer
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str...

Captains Courageous
1937
as Soda Steward (uncredited)
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vesse...
Swing Fever
1937
At Dr. Van Loon's Sanitarium, swing music is the cure.

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
as Charley - the Bartender
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

The Man Who Found Himself
1937
as Fat hobo
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it ...

China Passage
1937
as Bartender
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on succes...

Espionage
1937
as Turk
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Sea Devils
1937
as Billy
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash,...

We're on the Jury
1937
as Ephraim Allen
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

On the Avenue
1937
as Joe Papaloupas
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, b...

When You're in Love
1937
as Jose
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.

Night Waitress
1936
as Torre
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low char...
Grandma's Buoys
1936
as Von Muller
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barfl...

Love on the Run
1936
as Cafe Manager
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.

The Big Game
1936
as Fisher
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Bulldog Edition
1936
as George Poppupoppalas (uncredited)
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also ...
So and Sew
1936
as Rudolpho
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that ...

Who's Looney Now
1936
as Dr. Von Blatt
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson ...

Grand Jury
1936
as Otto, the Janitor (uncredited)
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and...

The Devil-Doll
1936
as Matin's Butler (uncredited)
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When th...

The Bride Walks Out
1936
as Mr. Donovan
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carol...

Early to Bed
1936
as Burger
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with ...

Three of a Kind
1936
as The Tailor
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.

One Rainy Afternoon
1936
as Court Doorman (Uncredited)
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki...

The First Baby
1936
as Italian in Park
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.

Love on a Bet
1936
as New York Policeman
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-...

Sutter's Gold
1936
as Gen. Ramos
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Dangerous Waters
1936
as Carlos (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
The Brain Busters
1936
as Billy
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on ...
Millions in the Air
1935
as Nikolas Popadopolis
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio pr...

I Dream Too Much
1935
as Cook at Cafe (uncredited)
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, ...

Coronado
1935
as Waiter (uncredited)
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San...

A Night at the Opera
1935
as Orchestra Member Asking Fiorello Not to Play Piano (uncredited)
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera sin...

Hi, Gaucho!
1935
as Cappa Rosa
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.

Nurse to You!
1935
as Dr. W.J. Gilbert
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.
Just Another Murder
1935
as Mr. Quick
A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries.

Here Comes the Band
1935
as Oswald Carroll (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie...

Pardon My Scotch
1935
as Senor Luis Balero Cantino (uncredited)
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsm...

Mad Love
1935
as Autograph Seeker on Train (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which...

Paris in Spring
1935
as First Chef
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of...
Hail, Brother
1935
A man gets hit on the head and decides to give his fortune to artists.
His Bridal Sweet
1935
as Lesh the Lush
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
His Old Flame
1935
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw ...

Men in Black
1934
as Dangerous Patient (uncredited)
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse...
Super Stupid
1934
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett being.... Super Stupid....

Happy Landing
1934
as Husband
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a d...
Tripping Through the Tropics
1934
as Fritz, Jack's Dad
Frank Albertson's father wants his son to marry Lois January, but they really are only friends. Frank watches Lois doing a hooch dance at a secret tro...

Them Thar Hills
1934
as The Doctor
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped the...

Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
as Innkeeper
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Another Wild Idea
1934
as Uncle Percy (voice)
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. ...
Music in Your Hair
1934
as Meyer Schmaltz
Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher play neighbors who go to a speak easy to see Gilbert's son perform.

Maid in Hollywood
1934
as Sneezing Man
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Pat...

Roamin' Vandals
1934
as Doc Gilbert
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.

Apples to You!
1934
as Pinsky
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.

Soup and Fish
1934
as Count Gustav
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly t...

The Cracked Ice Man
1934
as William Gilbert
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Sons of the Desert
1933
as Mr. Ruttledge (voice) (uncredited)
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Luncheon at Twelve
1933
as Betty's Father
Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Keg o' My Heart
1933
as Schmaltz
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Keg o' My Heart
1933
Director
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
as Louie Schmaltz
The Schmaltz Brothers are tricked into buying a beer garden.
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
Director
The Schmaltz Brothers are tricked into buying a beer garden.

This Day and Age
1933
as Nightclub Manager
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-...
The Rummy
1933
as Schmaltz
After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben brings in his flea to be stuffed & loses it. They g...

The Girl in 419
1933
as Sneezing Patient
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

One Track Minds
1933
as Train Conductor
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

Made on Broadway
1933
as Commissioner Jerry Allesandro (uncredited)
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cul...
Call Her Sausage
1933
as Heinie Schmaltz
Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous "who's on first" skit.

The Bargain of the Century
1933
as Captain Schmaltz
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-...

Taxi Barons
1933
as Billy / Dutchie
After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European ...

The Keyhole
1933
as Cuban Carriage Driver (uncredited)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Forgotten Babies
1933
as Radio Voice
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

Maids a la Mode
1933
as Von Smaltz
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Wreckety Wrecks
1933
as Bill
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.

Fallen Arches
1933
as Mr. Gilbert
Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.

Asleep in the Feet
1933
as Mr. Gilbert, Dance Hall Proprietor
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Bring 'Em Back a Wife
1933
as Billy Gilbert
When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an attempt to pass him off as the little woman.

Towed in a Hole
1932
as Joe - Junkyard Owner
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

Sneak Easily
1932
as Attorney for the Prosecution
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Taxi for Two
1932
as Billy Gilbert
Billy and Ben continually make a mess of things, having multiple accidents with their Taxi.

Their First Mistake
1932
as Process server
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says ...
Yoo-Hoo
1932
as I.M. Sweet, truck driver
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
Hot Spot
1932
as Cabbie
When the boys end up with a half-naked woman in their cab, trouble ensues when her jealous husband appears.

Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
as Mr. Hathaway
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man name...

Strange Innertube
1932
as Billy
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.

Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Kinskey's Friend (uncredited)
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the ...

What Price Taxi
1932
as Jealous Husband
Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
1930s Thalians Club comedy.

Skyscraper Souls
1932
as Second Ticket Agent (uncredited)
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despit...

Million Dollar Legs
1932
as Secretary of the Interior
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Million Dollar Legs
1932
as Secretary of the Interior (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

County Hospital
1932
as The Doctor
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

First in War
1932
as Commanding General
Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.

The Chimp
1932
as Joe the Landlord
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are g...

Strictly Unreliable
1932
as The Actor
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932
as Musician
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.

The Music Box
1932
as Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)
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 ...
You're Telling Me
1932
as Bill Morgan
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - thou...

Spanky
1932
as Spanky's Father
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."

Red Noses
1932
as Tailor's Customer
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.

The Nickel Nurser
1932
as Todd's Butler
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.

Free Eats
1932
as Head of the Family of Thieves
The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Sealskins
1932
as Mr. Morton (uncredited)
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen...

The Tabasco Kid
1932
as Mr. Jones a Rancher
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.

On the Loose
1931
as Pierre, the Dressmaker (as William Gilbert)
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mu...

Hasty Marriage
1931
as Distraught Passenger On Streetcar (uncredited)
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she pr...

Dogs Is Dogs
1931
as Mr. Brown (uncredited)
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

One Good Turn
1931
as Drunk
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord t...

Chinatown After Dark
1931
as Dooley
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.

Shiver My Timbers
1931
as The Sea Captain
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

The Pajama Party
1931
as Butler (uncredited)
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.

Catch-As Catch-Can
1931
as Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

The Panic Is On
1931
as Smith - Investment Broker aka The Spot (uncredited)
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression i...

Sea Legs
1930
as Naval Officer
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a re...
Railroad Follies
1930
A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.

The Happy Hottentots
1930
as Stage Manager (uncredited)
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.