Bud Ross Movies

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well -...

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage...

Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the...

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial...

Billy and Andy impersonate two ice-delivery men in a suburban town. Billy takes a fancy to a newly-wed bride and most of his loose cash is liquidated...

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

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...

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

Brilliantino the Bullfighter (originally titled Flood and Sand) is one of the first spoofs of Blood and Sand, Paramount’s smoldering matador...

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

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...

A small town princess gets hired for the movies.

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

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...

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...

Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.

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...