Billy Armstrong
Also Known As: Bill Armstrong, William A. Armstrong, William Armstrong
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 13, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 01, 1924
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The Tramp
Overview: The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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Sheriff Nell's Tussle
Overview: A slick city crook arrives in the town and succeeds in making honest Nell fall in love with him. He then suggests an entertainment with local talent, the while his confederates crack the safe and make off with the town's wealth. Nell, with her faithful but brainless lover, journeys to the city in pursuit of the loot and the looter
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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The Champion
Overview: Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-11
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By the Sea
Overview: It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-29
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In the Park
Overview: A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn't protect her in the first place. The boyfriend decides to throw himself in the lake in despair, so Charlie helps him out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-18
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A Woman
Overview: Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-12
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The Bank
Overview: A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-09
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Shanghaied
Overview: A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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Work
Overview: Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-21
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Police
Overview: Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-27
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Triple Trouble
Overview: As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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Wedding Yells
Overview: Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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Asleep at the Switch
Overview: Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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One Spooky Night
Overview: One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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Rip & Stitch: Tailors
Overview: Comedy Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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Don't Weaken!
Overview: A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Down on the Farm
Overview: The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-17
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The Extra Girl
Overview: 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 instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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An International Sneak
Overview: A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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Hop to It, Bellhop
Overview: Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-05
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Gertie's Gasoline Glide
Overview: 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 her, the first takes his revenge. He calls the police, and takes the newlyweds along on a kamikaze ride in his car, chased by the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-17
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When Summer Comes
Overview: Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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The King of the Kitchen
Overview: A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-30
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Smile Please
Overview: Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Shanghaied Lovers
Overview: Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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This Way Out
Overview: A rival courtships in a variety of absurd situations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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The Quack Doctor
Overview: In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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In Dutch
Overview: Comedy short starring Alice Howell
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-26
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Up in Alf's Place
Overview: Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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No Vacancies
Overview: Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Conductor 1492
Overview: A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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When Knights Were Cold
Overview: Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride music-hall half-horse costumes in lieu of real steads. He proceeds to fight, Fairbanks-like, dozens of swordsmen at once, and defeats his rival one-on-one, leaving him to marry the princess in a state ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Hello Trouble
Overview: A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-25
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Charlie's Triple Trouble
Overview: British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple trouble (1918)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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The Glad Eye
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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The Man Inside
Overview: Years after Barry Thornton disappears from Panama while under suspicion of stealing American defense plans for the canal, his daughter Eleanor, now the ward of Barry's twin brother Dana, is still obsessed with the mystery. Senator Carew informs her that he has solved it, but he is murdered before he can give her the details.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-17
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