William Gillespie Movies

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...

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to...

A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson.

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

Captain Dandy (Snub Pollard) is about to sail and arrives on the dock where several women take turns to individually say goodbye to him (the last one...

Two lifelong friends vie for the affection of the same woman.

Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across...

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...

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

Charley Chase has car trouble.

A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the...

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

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...

Paul's career as a shoeshine man is interrupted when he is mistaken for an escaped convict, but after the Station Master gives him a job at the train...

Snub is an street sweeper with OCD, living in a neighborhood full of fussy people. He is sweeping the street when he anticipates a cop who is about...

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