William Gillespie Movies

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband...

Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

The film begins with a girl who is supposedly irresistible to all men. Several guys all come to her to pledge their undying love--including Harold...

Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later."...

Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.

A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.

A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the...

Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. ...

Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his...

Snub plays a rich guy who wants to impress the ladies with his virility. So he pays a tough boxer to take a dive in a staged fight, though the fight...

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

Our hero, a professor in Turkey, challenges a Sultan for the affections of a girl.

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an...

Despite his fear of horses, Eddie Hamilton takes part in a fox hunt, in order to impress the daughter of his host, Colonel Calhoun.

Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.

While his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.

Harold invades the "Gilded Guzzle" café, where he appropriates a lady's roll of money, hides under a table and impersonates a cigar store...