Movies: Ethelyn Gibson

Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy....

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik...

Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow....

In 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...

A 1925 silent comedy....

A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy....

Billy West comedy for Arrow....

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 artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on....

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 roles....

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 he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work....

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp....

The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was ...

Heaven help the woiking goil, a funny comedy of true love!...

A Billy West slapstick comedy....

Winnie Winkle's wee brother Perry captains a rag tag sandlot team....

The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful ...

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

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 landlady's daughter....

Billy West wanders into town and is made sheriff because the older ones got killed or ran away....

FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy)....