Bud Ross Movies

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

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.

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...

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

A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy...

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

A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if...

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...

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.

A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.

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

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...

Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.

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...

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

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...