Billy Bevan

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the...

A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director...

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune...

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and...

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the...

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish...

A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to...

Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston)...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year...

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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their...

Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young...

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.

A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

The Mayor and the Chief of Police have offices in the same building, and are both enamored of the chief's stenographer, Dolly. However, she gives...

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is...

Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short

Mack Sennett comedy short subject spoofing filmmaking, with girls, lions, and limburger cheese.

Billy is a professional deadbeat who prefers to ride his bicycle instead of work. His wife's brother, Henry, puts pressure on his sister to leave...

Dress shop owner, Tillie Tucker, lands a job at a Hollywood film studio and brings her boyfriend and employee, Miss Boyle, out West.

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.

Hubby's Weekend Trip is a silent comedy short.

Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife, Carmelita, is being unfaithful. Billy, his landlord, offers to take out Carmelita...

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst...

Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making...

Billy treats his marriage vows lightly, and his wife suspects him. Nieghbor Vernon is murderously jealous. Billy sends his wife some silk pajamas to...

Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However,...

Hayfoot, Strawfoot? is a silent comedy short.

A group of amateur actors in a small town attempt to produce a play in the local opera house. True to the slapstick style of Sennett’s productions,...

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.

Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to...

Alice, a waitress working in a restaurant managed by a flirtatious and diminutive proprietor (Barney Hellum). The proprietor’s wife is a...

Should Sleepwalkers Marry? is a 1927 comedy short

Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy

Inbad the Sailor is a 1923 comedy short.

One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short

The on and off land escapades of a sailor as he prepares for a boxing match.

Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race between the pathetic train and an auto bus...

A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job...

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

An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-service lunch counter. Word arrives that he will be...

Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!

To make her boyfriend jealous a society girl starts dating a plumber but his sweetheart gets revenge.

Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!

Young Flint (Eddie Quillan), finds himself in a series of slapstick mishaps revolving around the absurdity of the bullfighting arena, featuring a...

Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal,...

Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property...

The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they...

This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.

Billy Brooks, a lawyer, sets out to get a divorce for a client by framing him in a compromising situation. But the scheme goes askew when the...

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the...

Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail"...

The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a...

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home, to giver her lessons, while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The...

A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few...

In and out of the water, Billy makes waves at the Blue Point Beach Club.

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with...

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he...

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of...

A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by...

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Billy Judkins is a naturally gloomy Gus. His life changes when he is transferred from working in his company's Hoboken office to their Hollywood...

There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country...

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.

Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift (some pearls). The problems are that she has her...

While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he...

A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove...

Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under...

Billy Bevan and Andy Clyde play hobos who hop onto a train where they are hired. Their misadventures lead to chaos, blending mistaken identity with...

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000,...

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.

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

Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing...

Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.

In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...

Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day....

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.

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...

Two circus hands create chaos.

Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

An island princess falls in love with a young man whose picture she sees in the newspaper. Her father, the king, sends his agents to the U.S. to...

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...

On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be...

Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler...

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving...

Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio...

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

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores,...

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to...

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry...

A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her...

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl...

Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.

A broken engagement sends a sweetheart on the trail for her near-husband-to-be, who is finally corralled at the bathing beach and landed in an...

A 1922 comedy short.

A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she...

A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way...

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund...

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia...

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob...

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord,...

Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is...

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible...

A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who...

The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.

Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate...

Rival Taxi Companies compete for business and make a slapstick mess of everything.

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either of them.

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal...

Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.

Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan and Eileen Percy.

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow...

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when...

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives...

Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

Glenn Tryon is at his Bachelor's Dinner, attended only by a dozen of his girl friends, prior to marrying Connie Watts but Ma Watts has plans for...

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in...

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...

In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in...

Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because.... hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don't have time...

Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera man and director nearly get dropped off a...

A jail break turns into a race.

A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple...

Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has...

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while...

A small town princess gets hired for the movies.

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom...

A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former...

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins...

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure,...

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid...

A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed....

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those...

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne,...

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets...

A virtuous lawyer falls for a beautiful but extravagant woman, leading him into financial trouble as he tries to keep up with her wasteful spending,...

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining...

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin,...

TECHNO-CRAZY has to be one of the strangest comedy shorts of the 1930's. Starring Monte Collins as a young man who dreams of technological progress...

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a...

A crusade against women wearing clothes which are more abbreviated than the law allows results in policemen and jurists being captivated by their...

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another...

Ben Turpin's rival marries his college sweetheart played by Phyllis Haver.

A writer it charged with the task of trying to come up with an exciting plot in the next chapter of a serial.