Bud Ross
Also Known As: Aaron Crawford Ross, Budd Ross, Buddy Ross, Aaron Crawford "Bud" Ross
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 08, 1868
Age: 156 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 19, 1932
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Yukon Jake
Overview: 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 is also in love with the mayor's daughter. But when Yukon Jake brings his gang to town, causing trouble and kidnapping Bill's girl, it looks as if Bill might have more trouble than he can handle.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-07
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Playmates
Overview: A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Masked Mamas
Overview: A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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Her Actor Friend
Overview: Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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The Cannon Ball Express
Overview: 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 sponsored by the promoter. There is dirty work at the cross-roads but the villain gets his.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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The Raspberry Romance
Overview: The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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The Marriage Circus
Overview: The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Little Robinson Corkscrew
Overview: Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Flickering Youth
Overview: Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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The Sea Squawk
Overview: 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 jewel thieves, and his accomplice Pearl Blackstone, have stolen a huge ruby. A detective is searching every cabin, so Blackie forces our young Scot to swallow the gem and, under threat of being shot, to stay mum. The detective is assisted by Flora Danube, a blue-eyed Bulgarian daisy who keeps those eyes open. To escape death, the young Scot disguises himself as a woman, but that draws a lot of attention; when his disguise is discovered, he must climb for his life. Is a European union in the offing?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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His Day Out
Overview: 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 trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-14
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The Hollywood Kid
Overview: A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-19
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He's In Again
Overview: 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 he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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Galloping Bungalows
Overview: 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 which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Water Wagons
Overview: A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-22
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Brilliantine the Bull Fighter
Overview: Brilliantino the Bullfighter (originally titled Flood and Sand) is one of the first spoofs of Blood and Sand, Paramount’s smoldering matador melodrama that set box offices ablaze. Like Mud and Sand, starring Stan Laurel, the Banks parody was rushed into theaters in November 1922, while memory of the Valentino vehicle was fresh. The concept of Monty Banks impersonating the passionate matador must have been innately hilarious to audiences who had seen the original picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-21
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Cupid's Rival
Overview: 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 artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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Broke in China
Overview: 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 - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-23
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Ice Cold Cocos
Overview: 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 as he flirts with her. Her husband is not pleased at Billy's attentions to his new bride. There is a skating contest at the local ice-rink, and the bride, her mother and her husband are in attendance, as are Billy and Andy, the icemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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The Chief Cook
Overview: The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Pool Sharks
Overview: Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-19
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Married to Order
Overview: 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 twin brother and all chaos follows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-29
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The Pest
Overview: 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 roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-15
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The Stranger
Overview: After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Cat's Meow
Overview: Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The Hobo
Overview: 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 customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Bright Eyes
Overview: An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-24
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Bright and Early
Overview: Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-14
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The Villain
Overview: 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 found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-14
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The Candy Kid
Overview: A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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The Scholar
Overview: Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-15
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A Small Town Princess
Overview: A small town princess gets hired for the movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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Easy Curves
Overview: Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Overview: In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store. However, circumstantial evidence points to the store's soda clerk having committed both the $10,000 robbery and the assumed murder of the store's nightwatchman, who is missing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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According to Hoyle
Overview: "'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-06
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The Hero
Overview: The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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