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: 3.075
  • 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

  • 1918
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    Playmates

    Playmates

    6 1918 HD

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

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    6.9 1933 HD

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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

    6.2 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

    7.82 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    5.4 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

    4.5 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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  • 1925
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    Stick Around

    Stick Around

    6.1 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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  • 1925
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    Rivals

    Rivals

    6 1925 HD

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