Billy West
Billy West (September 22, 1892 – July 21, 1975) was a film actor, producer, and director. Active during the silent film era, he is best known as a semi-successful Charlie Chaplin impersonator. Beyond acting, he also directed shorts in the 1910s and 20s, as well as produced films. West ultimately retired in 1935.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.547 |
| Birthday | 1892-09-22 |
| Place of Birth | Russia |
| Also Known As | Billie West, Roy B. Weissburg, |
1918
Playmates
6/1
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
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Playmates
1919
Ship Ahoy
0/0
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 landl...
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Ship Ahoy
1934
He Was Her Man
6.8/6
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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He Was Her Man
1917
The Candy Kid
4.5/3
A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
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The Candy Kid
1917
The Hobo
4.5/4
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...
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The Hobo
1917
The Hero
5.5/2
The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
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The Hero
1918
Bright and Early
4.6/4
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
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Bright and Early
1918
The Rogue
4.1/4
'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 D...
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The Rogue
1917
The Villain
5.5/2
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...
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The Villain
1918
His Day Out
3.9/4
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 trade...
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His Day Out
1926
Hard Boiled Yeggs
8/1
A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event...
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Hard Boiled Yeggs
1920
Italian Love
4/1
A Billy West slapstick comedy.
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Italian Love
1924
Not Wanted
3/2
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 fe...
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Not Wanted
1918
He's In Again
5/2
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 h...
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He's In Again
1919
Rolling Stone
5/1
A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
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Rolling Stone
1917
Cupid's Rival
5/2
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 ar...
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Cupid's Rival
1934
A Very Honorable Guy
2/1
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se...
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934
The Personality Kid
4.2/5
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Personality Kid
1934
The Defense Rests
7/7
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Defense Rests
1933
Picture Snatcher
6.9/21
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Picture Snatcher
1925
Fiddlin' Around
5/1
FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).
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Fiddlin' Around
1925
The Joke's on You
4.8/2
Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.
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The Joke's on You
1933
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
7.5/8
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1917
The Chief Cook
4.5/5
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 th...
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The Chief Cook
1922
Don't Be Foolish
5.5/1
Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
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Don't Be Foolish
1924
Line's Busy
0/0
Billy West comedy for Arrow.
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Line's Busy
1934
Jimmy the Gent
6.2/24
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who...
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Jimmy the Gent
1934
It Happened One Night
7.8/1259
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them be...
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It Happened One Night
1917
The Pest
5.3/3
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 role...
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The Pest
1918
The Stranger
5.5/2
After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up beh...
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The Stranger
1920
Cleaning Up
0/0
Film starring Chaplin impersonator Billy West
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Cleaning Up
1922
Bone Dry
0/0
Paul plays at being a detective until dad, who is a revenue officer, sends him out to prove his worth by rounding up some desperate moonshiners.
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Bone Dry
1932
The Shadow of the Eagle
5.4/9
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig Mc...
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The Shadow of the Eagle
1935
Motive for Revenge
5/1
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in...
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Motive for Revenge
1917
Little Nell
4.2/3
Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.
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Little Nell
1925
Fiddlin' Around
5.5/1
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
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Fiddlin' Around
1934
Perfectly Mismated
0/0
Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
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Perfectly Mismated
1918
The Scholar
4.2/2
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
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The Scholar
1923
Hello Bill
0/0
Billy West comes home and is greeted in so many ways.
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Hello Bill
1927
Lucky Fool
0/0
Scion of a distinguished family J. Anthony Bowden is considered unworthy by his father, a feeling he discovers is shared by his fiancée Elma. His fath...
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Lucky Fool
1926
Thrilling Youth
0/0
Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves college in order to help his family.
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Thrilling Youth
1935
She Couldn't Take It
4.5/2
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-cent...
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She Couldn't Take It
1933
Ex-Lady
6.325/20
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.
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Ex-Lady
1924
Meet Father
0/0
The daughter of a local store fancies a man, but her father wants her to end up with a boxing champion.
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Meet Father
1931
Newly Rich
3/2
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sis...
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Newly Rich
1933
Diamond Trail
0/0
Reporter Speed Morgan helps Flash Barrett escape from the police and this gets him into Flash's gang where he poses as a gangster. Flash and his gang...
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Diamond Trail
1925
Rivals
6/2
A 1925 silent comedy.
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Rivals
1921
The Trouble Shooter
0/0
Billy West wanders into town and is made sheriff because the older ones got killed or ran away.
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