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William Gillespie (actor)
William Gillespie (24 January 1894 – 23 June 1938) was a Scottish actor. Biography Gillespie started in Hollywood films from the silent era. He played in about 180 films between 1915 and 1939, although his appearances were often uncredited. Gillespie frequently appeared in Hal Roach comedies from 1917, usually as stuffy official or manager. He supported such "slapstick comedians" as Charlie Chaplin, Charley Chase, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy, but was most prolific supporting Harold Lloyd in 60 films. Selected filmography * ''The Cure'' (1917) * '' Easy Street'' (1917) * '' The Immigrant'' (1917) * '' The Big Idea'' (1917) * ''Look Pleasant, Please'' (1918) * '' Here Come the Girls'' (1918) * '' Swing Your Partners'' (1918) * '' Bumping into Broadway'' (1919) * ''An Eastern Westerner'' (1920) (uncredited) * ''High and Dizzy'' (1920) (uncredited) * ''Get Out and Get Under'' (1920) (uncredited) * '' Number, Please?'' (1920) (uncredited) * ''Among Those Present'' (1921) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithy (1924 Film)
''Smithy'' is a 1924 American silent film starring Stan Laurel. Cast * Stan Laurel - Smithy * James Finlayson - Sergeant * William Gillespie - The Boss * Glenn Tryon - Mr. Smith * Jack Ackroyd - (uncredited) * Eddie Baker - (uncredited) * Sammy Brooks - Man in Employment Line (uncredited) * Jack Gavin - Foreman (uncredited) * Ena Gregory - Secretary (uncredited) * Charlie Hall - (uncredited) * Fred Karno Jr. - Worker (uncredited) * Marvin Loback - Worker (uncredited) * George Rowe - Worker (uncredited) See also * List of American films of 1924 This is a list of American films released in 1924. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y–Z See also * 1924 in the United States Reference ... References External links * 1924 films 1924 comedy films 1924 short films American silent short films American black-and-white films Films directed by George Jeske Silent Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Street (1917 Film)
''Easy Street'' is a 1917 short action-comedy film starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Plot In a slum area called Easy Street, the police are failing to maintain law and order. The Little Tramp, a down-and-out derelict, is sleeping rough outside the Hope Mission near the streets of a lawless slum. The sounds of a service in progress draws him wearily inside. After the sermon from the preacher, he is entranced by a beautiful mission worker and organist and he stays after the service. Holding his hand, she pleads him to join the mission, inspiring his religious "awakening". He vows to reform, returning the collection box that he slipped into capacious pants. Spotting a help-wanted ad for a job at the police station, the Tramp accepts and is assigned the rough-and-tumble Easy Street as his beat. Upon entering the street he finds a bully roughing up the locals and pilfering their money. The Tramp gets on the wrong side of the bully and after a brief chase, the Tramp finds him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Terrible Day
''One Terrible Day'' is a 1922 American silent short film, the first entry in Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' (''Little Rascals'') series to be released. Directed by Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara, the two-reel short was released to theaters on September 10, 1922 by Pathé. This was the first ''Our Gang'' comedy to be released, although the fourth to be produced. Maltin, Leonard and Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. 1978). ''Our Gang: The Life and Times of The Little Rascals'', p. 23. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. The gang's leading lady in this film is Peggy Cartwright, who makes only a brief appearance in the company of an unnamed character at the country estate. Allen Hoskins’s character in this early short is female. His character will not start taking on male characteristics until the 1923 short, ''The Champeen'', when he dresses like a boy for the first time. This is very similar to what happened with the Buckwheat character years later. When the television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now Or Never (1921 Film)
''Now or Never'' is a 1921 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Hal Roach and Fred C. Newmeyer. Plot A young woman, who is employed as a nanny to a lonesome child named Dolly, is preparing to take a vacation which will include a long-awaited reunion with her childhood sweetheart. Her employers are a busy couple who have no time for their small daughter, so the nanny decides—without seeking their permission—to take Dolly with her on her vacation. Meanwhile, the young man she is to meet with races through the countryside by automobile on his way to his appointment. He crashes into a barn, loses his money to a tramp, and must complete his journey riding as a stowaway on the undercarriage of a train. After the couple meet, they and the child board a train. The woman has tickets for herself and Dolly, but the man has no ticket and no money. The young woman discovers to her horror that her young charge's father is on the train. She does not want him t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Among Those Present
''Among Those Present'' is a 1921 American "three-reeler" silent comedy film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Mary Pickford . Plot Mrs. O'Brien (Herring) is eager to be accepted as part of high society, and she is hosting a fox hunt as part of her plans. Her husband and daughter, though, have no interest in society affairs. Mrs. O'Brien wants to invite Lord Abernathy to the hunt, and she mentions this to the "society pilot" who is advising her. But this woman and a confederate are merely using Mrs. O'Brien and the hunt for their own purposes. When Lord Abernathy is unavailable, they convince an ambitious young man (Lloyd) to impersonate him, so that they can proceed with their scheme. Cast * Harold Lloyd as The Boy * Mildred Davis as The Girl * James T. Kelley as Mr. O'Brien, the Father * Aggie Herring as Mrs. O'Brien, the Mother * Vera White as Society Pilot * William Gillespie as Hard Boiled Party * Mary Pickford as Girl of his Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number, Please? (1920 Film)
''Number, Please?'' is a 1920 American short comedy film directed by Hal Roach and Fred C. Newmeyer featuring Harold Lloyd. Plot While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man (Lloyd) sees the girl (Mildred Davis) with her new boyfriend (Roy Brooks). When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. The girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent. The girl's new boyfriend races to her house to get the mother's permission, while the young man tries to telephone her. The young man faces crowded phone booths, gossiping operators, a crying baby and other obstacles in his effort to reach the mother first. Racing back to the girl, the two suitors bump into one another and a pickpocket who has just robbed the girl of her purse. The boy is mistaken for the pickpocket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Out And Get Under
''Get Out and Get Under'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by Hal Roach and starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. The car in the movie, to which Lloyd was alternately devoted or frustrated, appears to be a 1920 Ford Model T. The film's title may be a reference to the 1913 song, " He'd Have to Get Under – Get Out and Get Under (to lyrics) which was used in the movie. Cast * Harold Lloyd as The Boy * Mildred Davis as The Girl * Fred McPherson as The Rival * Roy Brooks (uncredited) * William Gillespie as Dope Fiend (uncredited) * Wallace Howe as Wedding Guest (uncredited) * Gaylord Lloyd (uncredited) * Ernie Morrison Ernest Fredric Morrison (December 20, 1912 – July 24, 1989) was an American child actor, comedian, vaudevillian and dancer who also performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy Morrison and was the only black member of the '' East Side K ... as Small Boy (uncredited) * Charles Stevenson (uncredited) * Frank Terry (uncredited) Synop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High And Dizzy
''High and Dizzy'' is a 1920 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Plot The film revolves around a young woman who sleepwalks and the doctor who is attempting to treat her. The climactic scene involves the young woman sleepwalking precariously on the outside ledge of a tall building, anticipating Lloyd's more famous skyscraper-scaling scenes in ''Safety Last!'' (1923). A subplot has Lloyd and his friend getting inebriated on homemade liquor and then trying to avoid a prohibition-era policeman who pursues them for being drunk. Cast * Harold Lloyd as the boy * Mildred Davis as the girl * Roy Brooks as his friend * Wallace Howe as her father * William Gillespie (uncredited) * Mark Jones as hotel bellboy number 2 (uncredited) * Gaylord Lloyd (uncredited) * Charles Stevenson as Police officer (uncredited) * Noah Young as man who breaks hotel room door (uncredited) See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Eastern Westerner
''An Eastern Westerner'' is a 1920 American silent Western comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy of the film exists. Plot The Boy is the hedonistic son of wealthy eastern parents. One night when he returns home at 2 a.m. from a night of carousing at a dance hall, The Boy's strait-laced father sends him packing to his uncle's ranch in a small western community called Piute Pass. Upon arriving there, The Boy becomes smitten with a local girl. She and her father are seeking work from the villainous Tiger Lip Tompkins who owns half the town and terrorizes its people. He has lecherous plans for The Girl. When she rejects Tompkins' advances, Tompkins holds The Girl's father hostage in an upstairs room in a local saloon. The Boy frees The Girl's father and is hotly pursued by a large posse of Tompkins' white-hood clad hirelings who intend to run him out of the state. Using a number of evasive ploys, The Boy eludes the posse and escapes with The Girl. The film ends with The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bumping Into Broadway
''Bumping Into Broadway'' is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. This film is notable as Lloyd's first two-reeler featuring his "glasses" character. Plot The film opens with a quick glimpse into the glamorous life of Broadway and the hubris often associated with its players. The film then shifts to the story of "The Girl" and "The Boy," she an aspiring actress and he an unpublished playwright. They are both humble artists struggling to make it big, and each are behind in their rent at a boarding house run by a stern landlady and a large, thuggish "bouncer." Having romantic feelings for the girl, the boy gives her all of his money so she can pay the back rent. Now penniless, the boy must find different ways to elude the landlady and bouncer. He finally escapes the menacing duo by hopping into a moving car. Later, the eager playwright sneaks into the theater where the gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swing Your Partners
''Swing Your Partners'' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in two collections. Plot Harold and Snub are two vagrants who are mistaken for visiting dance experts by the proprietor of Professor Tanglefoot's Dance Academy because of their startling resemblance to them. Harold teaches a class of female pupils a few interesting and lively dance steps before the real pair of experts arrive. Cast * Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley) * William Gillespie * Bud Jamison Reception Like many American films of the time, ''Swing Your Partners'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two near views of Lloyd on a piano stool facing the camera. See also * Harold Lloyd filmography These are the known films of Harold Lloyd (1893–1971), an American actor and filmmaker most f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Come The Girls (1918 Film)
''Here Come the Girls'' is a 1918 American short film, short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd about activities in a corset shop. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art. Cast * Harold Lloyd * Snub Pollard * Bebe Daniels * William Blaisdell * Sammy Brooks * Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley) * Genevieve Cunningham * Billy Fay (credited as William Fay) * William Gillespie (actor), William Gillespie * Bud Jamison * Gus Leonard * James Parrott * Dorothea Wolbert Reception Like many American films of the time, ''Here Come the Girls'' was subject to cuts by Film censorship in the United States, city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut all but one scene of the young women behind the curtain showing bare shoulders and legs and four scenes of the women's skirts being pulled up by ribbon exposing legs. See also * Harold Lloyd filmography References External links * 1918 films 1918 short films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
