William Gillespie Movies

Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars...

A very good as a faithful husband, whose wife is looking for proof that more than his eyes have been roving. She hires a private detective to provide...

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested.

This Hal Roach comedy short I found on the "American Slapstick" DVD collection of rare silent comedies starts bizarre and has an anything...

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

Charley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the...

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

Our newlywed hero is about to embark on a journey when he realizes that he has lost the train tickets. A crook knocks him down and switches clothes...

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...

Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.

Snub is determined to make his new restaurant, The Green Cat, a success---no matter what it takes.

Her Dangerous Path

A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has...

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...

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director.

The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to...

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...

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...