Billy Gilbert
Date of birth: 1894-09-11
Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: William Gilbert Barron, William Gilbert
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Billy Gilbert (September 12, 1894 – September 23, 1971) was an American comedian and actor known for his comic sneeze routines. He appeared in over 200 feature films, short subjects and television shows starting in 1929. He is not to be confused with silent film actor Billy Gilbert (a.k.a. Little Billy Gilbert, born William V. Campbell, 1891–1961).
Movie Credits
Swing Fever
1937-06-21
At Dr. Van Loon's Sanitarium, swing music is the cure.
The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938-01-14
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from h
His Girl Friday
1940-01-18
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star
Railroad Follies
1930-08-01
A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.
Mickey and the Beanstalk
1947-09-27
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Sing
Mr. Wise Guy
1942-02-20
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck.
The Sound of Laughter
1963-12-17
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Tripping Through the Tropics
1934-07-27
Frank Albertson's father wants his son to marry Lois January, but they really are only friends. Fran
Rio
1939-09-29
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he i
Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale
Billie Gets Her Man
1948-09-09
Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962-08-22
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl
Arabian Nights
1942-12-25
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous da
Rosalie
1937-12-24
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Europ
Destry Rides Again
1939-11-30
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the
Happy Landing
1938-01-23
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to Ame
Block-Heads
1938-08-19
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937-08-20
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading
The Firefly
1937-11-05
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937-09-05
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends a
Music in Your Hair
1934-06-02
Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher play neighbors who go to a speak easy to see Gilbert's son perform.
Joy of Living
1938-05-06
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B
Men in Black
1934-09-28
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They c
Pardon My Scotch
1935-08-01
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides
The Devil-Doll
1936-07-10
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scienti
A Night at the Opera
1935-11-15
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin
One Good Turn
1931-10-31
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches.
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007-05-10
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
County Hospital
1932-06-25
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
On the Loose
1931-12-26
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The ne
Their First Mistake
1932-11-05
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than w
Them Thar Hills
1934-07-21
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into w
Towed in a Hole
1932-12-31
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too
The Villain Still Pursued Her
1940-10-11
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934-06-29
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
This Day and Age
1933-08-25
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and
The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the
Queen of the Mob
1940-06-28
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c
Bring 'Em Back a Wife
1933-01-13
When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an att
Sea Devils
1937-02-19
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of
Just Another Murder
1935-10-03
A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries.
His Bridal Sweet
1935-03-14
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
Super Stupid
1934-09-14
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett being.... Super Stupid....
Maid's Night Out
1938-03-03
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering mi
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937-04-16
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
One Rainy Afternoon
1936-05-13
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young
Who's Looney Now
1936-08-23
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains t
The Brain Busters
1936-01-09
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of
Love on a Bet
1936-03-06
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he
Army Girl
1938-08-11
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martia
She's Got Everything
1937-12-31
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors h
Espionage
1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours
The Life of the Party
1937-09-03
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
The Girl Downstairs
1938-12-23
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom
Grand Jury
1936-08-07
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to
Bulldog Edition
1936-09-13
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gan
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932-04-25
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to
Three of a Kind
1936-05-19
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1938-12-02
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and befo
The Big Game
1936-10-09
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Paradise Alley
1962-01-02
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live
We're on the Jury
1937-02-12
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1938-10-07
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich
Safari
1940-06-14
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hu
Love on the Run
1936-11-20
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry
Anchors Aweigh
1945-08-13
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai
Maid in Hollywood
1934-05-19
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy a
The First Baby
1936-04-02
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demandi
Breaking the Ice
1938-09-22
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Jo
Sealskins
1932-02-06
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that t
Asleep in the Feet
1933-01-21
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
My Lucky Star
1938-09-09
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports
Sea Legs
1930-12-01
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fle
Happy Landing
1934-09-01
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A
Scatterbrain
1940-07-20
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract.
Reaching for the Sun
1941-05-01
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by work
Angels with Broken Wings
1941-05-27
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is abou
What Price Taxi
1932-08-13
Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Luncheon at Twelve
1933-12-09
Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Soup and Fish
1934-03-30
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Pat
Red Noses
1932-03-18
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Maids a la Mode
1933-03-04
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Fallen Arches
1933-02-04
Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.
The Nickel Nurser
1932-03-12
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
On the Avenue
1937-02-12
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her ow
The Man Who Found Himself
1937-04-02
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passio
Hi, Gaucho!
1935-10-10
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-buck
The Cracked Ice Man
1934-01-27
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Skyscraper Souls
1932-07-16
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his
Week-End in Havana
1941-10-17
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s
Song of the Islands
1942-03-13
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on beha
Night Waitress
1936-12-18
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Fra
The Bargain of the Century
1933-04-08
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, t
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free'
1997-01-01
From all the cartoons Walt Disney and his team create a full length feature film fun and fancy free
I Dream Too Much
1935-11-29
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin
The Music Box
1932-04-16
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player pi
Down Among the Sheltering Palms
1953-03-01
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and ar
Strictly Unreliable
1932-04-30
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
The Pajama Party
1931-10-03
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at h
Sneak Easily
1932-12-10
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
One Track Minds
1933-05-20
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Catch-As Catch-Can
1931-08-22
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Paris in Spring
1935-07-05
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Dogs Is Dogs
1931-11-21
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un
The Chimp
1932-05-21
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. T
Sons of the Desert
1933-12-29
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932-09-16
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War
The Bride Walks Out
1936-07-10
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But pa
The Under-Pup
1939-08-31
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy
Women in War
1940-06-05
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an acciden
Roamin' Vandals
1934-04-28
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.
Chinatown After Dark
1931-10-15
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in
Million Dollar Legs
1939-07-13
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie F
Spotlight Scandals
1943-09-24
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventual
The Toast of New York
1937-07-22
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a
Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a
Forged Passport
1939-04-23
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f
The Panic Is On
1931-08-14
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of
Hasty Marriage
1931-12-16
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and h
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940-08-10
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communi
Sandy Is a Lady
1940-05-21
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endanger
Three of a Kind
1944-07-22
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.
Trouble Chasers
1945-05-02
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a va
Crazy Knights
1944-12-08
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted ho
Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat
Shantytown
1943-04-20
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Valley of the Sun
1942-02-06
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Always a Bridesmaid
1943-09-24
The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winc
Rhapsody in Brew
1933-09-29
The Schmaltz Brothers are tricked into buying a beer garden.
Coronado
1935-11-27
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crus
Call Her Sausage
1933-05-12
Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous
The Rummy
1933-06-09
After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben bring
Wreckety Wrecks
1933-02-18
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "bo
Strange Innertube
1932-09-16
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a
Taxi Barons
1933-03-31
After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked
Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla
No, No, Nanette
1940-12-19
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr
Hot Spot
1932-09-21
When the boys end up with a half-naked woman in their cab, trouble ensues when her jealous husband a
Keg o' My Heart
1933-11-11
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Roger
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968-12-14
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Lucky Partners
1940-08-02
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Grandma's Buoys
1936-12-18
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. W
First in War
1932-05-27
Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a r
Yoo-Hoo
1932-10-04
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
Nurse to You!
1935-10-04
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on
When You're in Love
1937-02-12
An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Mooc
Music for Madame
1937-10-08
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh
The Girl in 419
1933-05-26
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a
Shiver My Timbers
1931-10-09
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
Spanky
1932-03-25
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
Mad Love
1935-07-12
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's han
Early to Bed
1936-06-05
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before
Made on Broadway
1933-05-19
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre
Ever Since Venus
1944-09-14
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwrit
China Passage
1937-03-12
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San
The Star Maker
1939-08-25
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and pro
Model Wife
1941-04-17
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Crazy Like a Fox
1944-05-01
Publicity man Norton Persuades taxi driver Billy to substitute for an uncooperative potentate.
Shot in the Escape
1943-08-06
When Billy and Cliff try to help a woman cross a muddy street, they wind up getting soaked. The woma
Wedded Bliss
1944-08-18
Radio announcer Billy Gilbert is hired by a friend to get smitten with his wife.
Another Wild Idea
1934-06-16
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie
The Tabasco Kid
1932-01-30
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for th
His Old Flame
1935-01-25
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid
So and Sew
1936-08-24
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a
New Wine
1941-09-10
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schun
Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c
Wing and a Prayer
1944-01-01
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant
Sleepytime Gal
1942-03-05
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure
Crazy House
1943-10-08
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie.
Once Over Lightly
1938-12-17
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004-05-31
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy a
The Happy Hottentots
1930-04-22
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regr
Taxi for Two
1932-12-03
Billy and Ben continually make a mess of things, having multiple accidents with their Taxi.
The Keyhole
1933-03-25
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Dangerous Waters
1936-02-10
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a
Hail, Brother
1935-03-26
A man gets hit on the head and decides to give his fortune to artists.
Fun and Fancy Free
1947-09-27
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and
Apples to You!
1934-04-07
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
You're Telling Me
1932-04-16
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's pla
Dance of the Cookoos
1982-01-01
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar
Free Eats
1932-02-13
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
Forgotten Babies
1933-03-11
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
Disney's Greatest Villains
1977-05-15
The Slave in the Magic Mirror is the host of this show, designed to explain that all heroes need vil
Millions in the Air
1935-12-12
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it
A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940-12-06
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a pa
The Hollywood Handicap
1932-08-10
1930s Thalians Club comedy.