Dick Gilbert

Dick Gilbert

Born: July 8, 1889
Died: May 6, 1960
in Knox County, Kentucky, USA

Movies for Dick Gilbert...

Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Bruiser in Audience
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Black Widow Henchman
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Maid in Hollywood
Title: Maid in Hollywood
Character: Set Grip (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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Busy Bodies
Title: Busy Bodies
Character: Shoveler (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
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The Pooch
Title: The Pooch
Character: Dog Pound Worker
Released: June 11, 1932
Type: Movie
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
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Any Old Port!
Title: Any Old Port!
Character: Mugsy's Second
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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The Night Life
Title: The Night Life
Character: Phone Booth Gawker (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
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Blotto
Title: Blotto
Character: Phone Booth Gawker
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
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Election Day
Title: Election Day
Character: Gangster
Released: January 12, 1929
Type: Movie
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
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You're Darn Tootin'
Title: You're Darn Tootin'
Character: Boarder
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.
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Speedy
Title: Speedy
Character: Tough Guy (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Sewer worker (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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Love My Dog
Title: Love My Dog
Character: Attendant at gas chamber
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Farina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the gang's dog show. In the middle of the show, the dogcatchers crack down on picking up all unlicensed strays to control a hydrophobia epidemic; the injection to control the disease costs five dollars.
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The Man from the West
Title: The Man from the West
Character: Hanna
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Art Louden, foreman of the Bar H Ranch, is contemptuous of the masculine city flappers and effeminate city sheiks who are vacationing on the ranch, and when reproached by the owner, Bill Hayes, for discourtesy to a guest, Art complains that there are no "she-women" left. Seeing a newspaper photo of Iris Millard, he is attracted by her apparent innocence; then she arrives with her father, and Art is disillusioned to find her as snobbish and as jazzily dressed as the others. His disdain, however, causes Iris to play up to his ideas.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Skooter's Dad
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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What Price Orphans
Title: What Price Orphans
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Produced as a "Hey Fellas!" comedy, basically a copy of the popular Our Gang comedies. This one causing mayhem in the kitchen.
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Sherlock Sleuth
Title: Sherlock Sleuth
Character: Paddy Wagon Driver
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
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13th Alarm
Title: 13th Alarm
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The Hey Fellas gang builds a firehouse out of junkyard parts.
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Six Faces West
Title: Six Faces West
Released: March 27, 1925
Type: Movie
A rare entry from the short-lived Our Gang rip-off "Hey Fellas!" Featuring Cliff Daniels, Gene Buckel, Billy Naylor, Jeff Jenkins, Jingo Jones, Jimmy Thompson, Dick Gilbert, and Nancy McKee.
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The Klynick
Title: The Klynick
Released: January 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Produced as a "Hey Fellas!" comedy, basically a copy of the popular Our Gang comedies. Star Cliff Daniels was the brother of Our Gang regular Mickey Daniels. Here playing doctors and nurses.
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Wide Open Spaces
Title: Wide Open Spaces
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
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Zeb vs. Paprika
Title: Zeb vs. Paprika
Released: March 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
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Postage Due
Title: Postage Due
Character: Villain
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Studio guard
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.