Cast: Billy Gilbert

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Billy Gilbert. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Great Dictator

1940 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Jack Oakie · Reginald Gardiner

Plot In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks so...

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8.6

84K votes

8.6

84K votes

His Girl Friday

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Bellamy · Gene Lockhart

Plot Hildy Johnson has divorced Walter Burns and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that they are going to get married the day...

8.0

11K votes

8.0

11K votes

The Music Box

1932 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Billy Gilbert · William Gillespie

Plot Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.

7.0

290 votes

7.0

290 votes

Block-Heads

1938 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Patricia Ellis · Minna Gombell

Plot It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in...

6.8

159 votes

6.8

159 votes

Towed in a Hole (S)

1932 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Billy Gilbert

Plot Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy is an easy task.

6.6

100 votes

6.6

100 votes

One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Leopold Stokowski · Adolphe Menjou · Alice Brady

Plot The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski...

6.6

116 votes

6.6

116 votes

The Chimp (S)

1932 · Movie · 24 min. · United States

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Bobby Burns · Baldwin Cooke

Plot In lieu of back wages, the defunct circus that Stanley and Oliver have been working for pay them off with a flea circus and a trained chimpanzee named "Ethel." Unfortunately,...

6.6

56 votes

6.6

56 votes

Them Thar Hills (S)

1934 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Charley Rogers

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Charlie Hall

Plot Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so that Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the...

6.6

86 votes

6.6

86 votes

Pack Up Your Troubles

1932 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall · Ray McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Don Dillaway · Jackie Lyn Dufton

Plot The boys' Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Back home after Armistice, they try to find Eddie's father and...

6.4

111 votes

6.4

111 votes

County Hospital (S)

1932 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Billy Gilbert · May Wallace

Plot Visiting Oliver in the hospital where he's recovering from a broken leg, Stanley wreaks havoc on both his friend (getting Oliver strung up from the ceiling by his cast-encased leg)...

6.4

121 votes

6.4

121 votes

One Good Turn (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mary Carr · James Finlayson

Plot Stan and Ollie are down on their luck and beg at an old lady's house for food. While they are eating they overhear a villainous landlord (Finlayson) threatening to evict...

6.3

67 votes

6.3

67 votes

Seven Sinners

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Albert Dekker · Broderick Crawford

Plot Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes...

6.2

120 votes

6.2

120 votes

Their First Mistake (S)

1932 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Billy Gilbert

Plot Mrs. Hardy is irate that her husband Oliver spends more time with his friend Stanley than with her. Oliver decides to adopt a baby, hoping that it will keep his...

6.2

62 votes

6.2

62 votes

All Night Long (S)

1924 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Natalie Kingston · Fanny Kelly · Vernon Dent

Plot After falling asleep in a theater, Harry is starting to head home when he stumbles upon a burglary in progress. One of the burglars recognizes Harry as an old army...

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

Joy of Living

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Irene Dunne · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Alice Brady · Guy Kibbee

Plot A young stage star is at the prime of her career. She lives an intensely hectic life, chock full of promotional appearances and shallow, greedy family members. But all this...

6.0

55 votes

6.0

55 votes

The Toast of New York

1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Edward Arnold · Cary Grant · Frances Farmer · Jack Oakie

Plot The story starts just before the Civil War, showing Fisk, Boyd, and Luke conning Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that, might, have a $10 gold piece inside. Found...

5.9

160 votes

5.9

160 votes

Fiddlesticks (S)

1927 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Harry Edwards

Cast Harry Langdon · Vernon Dent · Anna Dodge · Billy Gilbert

Plot Is there a place in the world for Harry Hogan. On the day his parents and burly brothers kick him out of the house for never earning money - and...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

Arabian Nights

1942 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Sabu · Jon Hall · Maria Montez · Leif Erickson

Plot Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of kalif Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which...

5.8

318 votes

5.8

318 votes

The Bride Walks Out

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Leigh Jason

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Gene Raymond · Robert Young · Ned Sparks

Plot Carolyn and Michael fall in love and decide to marry. However, Michael insists that Carolyn quit her job. She soon finds that the two of them cannot make ends meet...

5.5

59 votes

5.5

59 votes

His Musical Career (S)

1914 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Mack Swain · Charley Chase · Fritz Schade

Plot Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano...

5.4

264 votes

5.4

264 votes