Bud Ross Movies

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

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...

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

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

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 -...

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

A Scottish immigrant on board ship becomes a pawn in a jewel heist aboard the S.S. Cognac, a three-star liner. Blackie Dawson, the uncrowned king of...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...

Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the hip." Bill keeps the town free of criminals, and...

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...

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

Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.

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...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.