Billy West

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.

  • Title: Billy West
  • Popularity: 3.174
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1892-09-22
  • Place of Birth: Russia
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  • Also Known As: Billie West, Roy B. Weissburg
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Billy West Movies

  • 1919
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    Ship Ahoy

    Ship Ahoy

    1 1919 HD

    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...

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  • 1918
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    Playmates

    Playmates

    6 1918 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    He Was Her Man

    He Was Her Man

    6.8 1934 HD

    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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  • 1917
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    The Candy Kid

    The Candy Kid

    4.5 1917 HD

    A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

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  • 1917
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    The Hobo

    The Hobo

    4.5 1917 HD

    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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  • 1917
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    The Hero

    The Hero

    5.5 1917 HD

    The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.

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  • 1918
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    Bright and Early

    Bright and Early

    4.6 1918 HD

    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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  • 1918
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    The Rogue

    The Rogue

    4.1 1918 HD

    '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...

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  • 1918
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    His Day Out

    His Day Out

    3.9 1918 HD

    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...

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  • 1917
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    The Villain

    The Villain

    5.5 1917 HD

    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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  • 1926
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    Hard Boiled Yeggs

    Hard Boiled Yeggs

    8 1926 HD

    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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  • 1920
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    Italian Love

    Italian Love

    4 1920 HD

    A Billy West slapstick comedy.

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  • 1924
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    Not Wanted

    Not Wanted

    3 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1918
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    He's In Again

    He's In Again

    5 1918 HD

    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...

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  • 1919
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    Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone

    5 1919 HD

    A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik

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  • 1917
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    Cupid's Rival

    Cupid's Rival

    5 1917 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    A Very Honorable Guy

    A Very Honorable Guy

    2 1934 HD

    Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

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  • 1934
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    The Personality Kid

    The Personality Kid

    4.2 1934 HD

    An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

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  • 1934
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    The Defense Rests

    The Defense Rests

    7 1934 HD

    A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

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  • 1933
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    Picture Snatcher

    Picture Snatcher

    6.8 1933 HD

    An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

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  • 1925
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    The Joke's on You

    The Joke's on You

    4.8 1925 HD

    Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.

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  • 1925
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    Fiddlin' Around

    Fiddlin' Around

    5 1925 HD

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

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  • 1933
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    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

    7.5 1933 HD

    A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

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  • 1917
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    The Chief Cook

    The Chief Cook

    4.5 1917 HD

    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...

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  • 1922
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    Don't Be Foolish

    Don't Be Foolish

    5.5 1922 HD

    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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  • 1924
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    Line's Busy

    Line's Busy

    1 1924 HD

    Billy West comedy for Arrow.

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  • 1934
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    Jimmy the Gent

    Jimmy the Gent

    6.208 1934 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    It Happened One Night

    It Happened One Night

    7.818 1934 HD

    A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...

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  • 1918
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    The Stranger

    The Stranger

    5.5 1918 HD

    After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up...

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  • 1917
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    The Pest

    The Pest

    5.3 1917 HD

    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...

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  • 1920
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    Cleaning Up

    Cleaning Up

    1 1920 HD

    Film starring Chaplin impersonator Billy West

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  • 1922
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    Bone Dry

    Bone Dry

    1 1922 HD

    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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  • 1932
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    The Shadow of the Eagle

    The Shadow of the Eagle

    5.444 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Motive for Revenge

    Motive for Revenge

    5 1935 HD

    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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  • 1917
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    Little Nell

    Little Nell

    4.2 1917 HD

    Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.

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  • 1925
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    Fiddlin' Around

    Fiddlin' Around

    5.5 1925 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    Perfectly Mismated

    Perfectly Mismated

    1 1934 HD

    Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.

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  • 1918
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    The Scholar

    The Scholar

    4.2 1918 HD

    Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy

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  • 1923
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    Hello Bill

    Hello Bill

    1 1923 HD

    Billy West comes home and is greeted in so many ways.

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  • 1927
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    Lucky Fool

    Lucky Fool

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1926
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    Thrilling Youth

    Thrilling Youth

    1 1926 HD

    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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  • 1935
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    She Couldn't Take It

    She Couldn't Take It

    7 1935 HD

    The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

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  • 1933
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    Ex-Lady

    Ex-Lady

    6.3 1933 HD

    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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  • 1924
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    Meet Father

    Meet Father

    1 1924 HD

    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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  • 1931
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    Newly Rich

    Newly Rich

    3 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    Diamond Trail

    Diamond Trail

    1 1933 HD

    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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  • 1925
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    Rivals

    Rivals

    6 1925 HD

    A 1925 silent comedy.

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  • 1921
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    The Trouble Shooter

    The Trouble Shooter

    1 1921 HD

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

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  • 1924
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    Not Wanted

    Not Wanted

    3 1924 HD

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  • 1919
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    Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone

    5 1919 HD

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  • 1922
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    Don't Be Foolish

    Don't Be Foolish

    5.5 1922 HD

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  • 1924
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    Line's Busy

    Line's Busy

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1926
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    Hard Boiled Yeggs

    Hard Boiled Yeggs

    8 1926 HD

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  • 1925
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    Hey, Taxi!

    Hey, Taxi!

    6 1925 HD

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  • 1925
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    Fiddlin' Around

    Fiddlin' Around

    5.5 1925 HD

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    Stick Around

    Stick Around

    6.4 1925 HD

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  • 1923
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    Hello Bill

    Hello Bill

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1925
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    Hop to It!

    Hop to It!

    5.4 1925 HD

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    Rivals

    Rivals

    6 1925 HD

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