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Billy Gilbert

Acting

Biography

*** FYI: NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH ACTOR BILLY GILBERT (born William Gilbert Barron) WHO LIVED FROM 1894 TO 1971. *** Billy Gilbert (born William V. Campbell; September 15, 1891—April 29, 1961) was involved in more than 150 American films between 1913 and 1936, working as either an actor, extra, or director. Gilbert spent his entire career working almost exclusively in shorts, often uncredited. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

Tango Tangles
5.1

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

Tango Tangles

1914
The Knockout
5.7

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

The Knockout

1914
Move On
4.7

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

Move On

1917
The Rodeo
9.0

The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.

The Rodeo

1929
The Rounders
6.1

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

The Rounders

1914
His Bitter Pill
5.2

Jim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his opportunity as Diamond Dan, a big city slicker, has already proposed to her, to which she's accepted.

His Bitter Pill

1916
Mabel's Strange Predicament
5.3

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

Mabel's Strange Predicament

1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914
Caught in a Cabaret
5.7

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

Caught in a Cabaret

1914
Making a Living
5.7

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

Making a Living

1914
Those Love Pangs
5.6

Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.

Those Love Pangs

1914
The Masquerader
5.7

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

The Masquerader

1914
A Busy Day
4.7

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

A Busy Day

1914
His Musical Career
6.0

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

His Musical Career

1914
The Campus Carmen
6.0

A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.

The Campus Carmen

1928
Fatty at San Diego
N/A

Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.

Fatty at San Diego

1913
Gentlemen of Nerve
5.7

Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up.

Gentlemen of Nerve

1914
Crazy to Act
6.7

Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.

Crazy to Act

1927
Mabel's Dramatic Career
5.5

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.

Mabel's Dramatic Career

1913
Fiddlesticks
7.3

Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.

Fiddlesticks

1927