Billy Engle

AKA: Maurice Braun, Billy Engel, William Engel
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1889-05-27

Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {103}

Prince Henry Ferdinany

1926-05-01 0

She's a Prince

Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper society full of bizarre rituals. This zany film again f ...
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Herman Corkscew

1927-02-27 9

Chicken Feathers

Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies ...
Genre :Comedy

Revolutionary (uncredited)

1930-09-28 5.8

Soup to Nuts

Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of h ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Stuttering Deputy

1931-07-28 0

The Nevada Buckaroo

When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets rob ...
Genre :Western

Deputy (uncredited)

1945-07-19 5.8

Along Came Jones

An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend. ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

'Dinkey' Hook

1926-10-17 0

Red Hot Leather

Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her ...
Genre :Western

'Beans' Baker

1927-02-20 0

The Western Whirlwind

Jack Howard, returning from the war, learns that his father, Sheriff Howard, has been killed by an unknown assailant, and he induces the mayor of Gold Strike to swear him in as sheriff. ...
Genre :Western

The Thief

1924-02-02 5

One of the Family

Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous. ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-08-31 0

Why Men Work

A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films. ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-11-09 5

Accidental Accidents

Jimmy Jump gets rather wet. ...
Genre :Comedy

Shop Keeper (uncredited)

1935-03-29 6.8

Pop Goes the Easel

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain (uncredited)

1935-04-26 6.1

Uncivil Warriors

Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide ...
Genre :Comedy, War

1936-10-09 6.5

Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional a ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Townsman (uncredited)

1942-07-03 7.048

Mrs. Miniver

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

1925-10-24 0

All Wool

Earl Mohan and Billy Engle are paired in a Mutt & Jeff-style comedy. ...
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1922-04-30 0

Special Delivery

Al is told to deliver a radiophone message to a certain business man. A gang of wicked looking plotters endeavor to capture him and steal the message. A long chase follows and ends with the safe deliv ...
Genre :Comedy

Customer (uncredited)

1946-12-25 7.79

The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Funeral Guest (uncredited)

1957-05-01 6.4

The Garment Jungle

Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

The Mayor

1924-01-12 0

The Big Idea

Inventor Ignatius Pollard develops a new "Pavement Polisher" to clean the streets, but a demonstration of the device does not go as planned. ...
Genre :Comedy

Undetermined Role

1935-01-14 5.8

The Best Man Wins

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. M ...
Genre :

1944-03-31 6.7

It Happened Tomorrow

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Drunken club patron

1924-10-12 4.4

Too Many Mammas

Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard. ...
Genre :Comedy

1926-01-01 0

This Is The Life

When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills. ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-06-06 4

Riders of the Kitchen Range

An odd little one reel comedy starring Earl Mohan and Billy Engle, from the Hal Roach Studio. Directed by Tay Garnett. ...
Genre :

Waiter

1938-11-05 5

Exposed

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Knit

1928-12-29 0

Nifty Numbers

Fourth release in the "Confessions of a Chorus Girl" comedy series. ...
Genre :Comedy

King Tonsilitis

1926-02-15 0

Tight Cargo

Charles Puffy and the cannibals. ...
Genre :Comedy

Immigrant Convict

1923-10-14 5

Jus' Passin' Through

At Thanksgiving, a tramp arrives in a homeless-hostile town. ...
Genre :Comedy

Professor Lightfoot

1925-11-24 0

Kick Me Again

Don’t expect much in the way of a plot from Kick Me Again. When a married student falls for her portly dance instructor, Puffy is forced to flee in a ballet tutu from the clutches of her jealous husba ...
Genre :

1923-12-09 5.4

Scorching Sands

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man in Employment Line

1924-01-19 5.2

Smithy

After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc am ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-02-17 5.3

Postage Due

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 crimina ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-06-15 2

Fast Black

"Hunky" Dorrey and "Dinky Dubbs are on the run from the cops. They consider getting a job. After one gets his face blackened from a car's exhaust, they see an ad for a "colored Pullman porter". Mistak ...
Genre :Comedy

Third Bank Teller (Uncredited)

1932-10-28 6.5

Hot Saturday

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Dittenfuss - Alfredo's Assistant (uncredited)

1937-10-29 5.8

Live, Love and Learn

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can b ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Minor Role

1938-04-29 6

The Nurse from Brooklyn

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

Tramp Comic (uncredited)

1939-06-12 5.3

Tell No Tales

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Vendor (uncredited)

1955-12-23 6.598

Guys and Dolls

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Beer Drinker (uncredited)

1933-02-10 5.4

What! No Beer?

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters. ...
Genre :Comedy

Little Mover

1926-12-12 7.1

The Cruise of the Jasper B

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inher ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Circus Attendant

1939-02-17 6.85

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his pe ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-02-11 0

Holy Mackerel

Jimmie Adams leads the cast, along with Lorraine MacLean and Billy Engle, in this Al Christie production. ...
Genre :Comedy

Short Friend

1926-06-26 0

Chase Yourself

Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but ...
Genre :

1926-05-30 0

Papa's Pest

A husband wants to slip out of the house to go to a poker game, but his wife catches him, and he is forced to stay at home and mind her sister's baby. Neal goes to the poker game and takes the baby wi ...
Genre :

Legionnaire

1939-11-03 6.4

The Flying Deuces

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Wh ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Taxicab Driver

1939-10-26 3.5

The Housekeeper's Daughter

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop. ...
Genre :Comedy

1922-03-19 0

A Studio Rube

Al attempts to sneak inside the studio to keep a date with an actress. He finally exchanges places with a dummy and lands within the walls of the studio, finds the girl and is promptly thrown out when ...
Genre :Comedy

1928-03-24 0

Love Shy

Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie. ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-02-03 5

The Cowboy Sheik

A shy cowboy is interested in the local school teacher, but must compete with a bully for her attention. ...
Genre :

Mr. Bloomer

1929-04-06 0

Naughty Baby

A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show...... ...
Genre :Comedy

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

1934-02-22 7.8

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Townsman (uncredited)

1954-02-12 6.9

The Far Country

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly ...
Genre :Western

1929-02-16 0

His Angel Child

A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man at Party (uncredited)

1958-10-09 4.7

Flying Saucer Daffy

Joe accidentally takes a picture of a paper plate which Moe and Larry submit to a magazine as an authentic picture of a flying saucer. Moe and Larry collect a big prize, but when the picture is proven ...
Genre :Comedy

Museum Director

1933-05-06 0

Knight Duty

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carr ...
Genre :Comedy

Assistant

1930-01-11 4

The Head Guy

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town. ...
Genre :Comedy

Short Officer

1924-06-07 5.2

Rupert of Hee-Haw

Genre :Comedy

Client

1923-12-16 5

Fully Insured

A Hal Roach comedy starring 'Snub' Pollard and James Finlayson. ...
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Dancing Academy Customer

1934-12-14 0

The Dancing Millionaire

The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-01-01 0

His One Night Stand

Film directed and starring Harry McCoy ...
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1940-08-23 6

When the Daltons Rode

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod ...
Genre :Western

Barfly

1940-12-06 6.5

Go West

Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Small Role (uncredited)

1956-11-25 6.618

Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when ...
Genre :Drama, War

Sam - the Stutterer

1932-01-04 0

Ridin' for Justice

More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of t ...
Genre :Western

Sound Man in Courtroom (uncredited)

1940-04-19 6.6

Two Girls on Broadway

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly ...
Genre :Romance

Piano Tuner (uncredited)

1949-09-05 5.8

Red, Hot and Blue

In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Crime

Newspaper Owner

1940-07-05 4

The Way of All Flesh

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Well-Wisher

1935-03-22 0

Life Begins at Forty

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank. ...
Genre :Comedy

1934-05-03 0

Good Time Henry

Henry is lured by old pal Hale into a night on the town despite fears that his wife will discover their hijinks. ...
Genre :Comedy

Shorty

1943-08-06 5

The Lone Star Trail

Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to ga ...
Genre :Romance, Western

Golf Player

1936-06-05 7

Early to Bed

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sl ...
Genre :Comedy

Short Miner (uncredited)

1934-03-16 5.3

The Gold Ghost

Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Bookkeeper (uncredited)

1939-08-01 6

I Stole a Million

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Peewee

1939-03-31 5

Sudden Money

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Breezy's Assistant

1934-08-06 0

Contented Calves

An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls. ...
Genre :Comedy

Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)

1932-07-08 6.6

Million Dollar Legs

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. ...
Genre :Comedy

Phil Sheridan

1924-07-06 5

Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

1923-11-11 0

Hustlin' Hank

Hal Roach produced comedy has Will Rogers playing the title character, a rather slow, dimwitted man who works on a ranch where he usually gets pushed around at. A woman (Marie Mosquini) comes to town ...
Genre :Comedy

Studio Musician

1923-12-30 0

It's a Joy!

'Snub' Pollard as a eccentric movie director. ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-03-02 5

The Cake Eater

A young cowboy takes a job at a ranch owned by two aging spinsters, unaware that both are completely in love with him. ...
Genre :Comedy

1929-05-04 0

Stage Struck Susie

Eddie Barry bewilders himself backstage at a show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Man from Audience assisting Blondini

1927-02-13 0

Duck Out

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through ...
Genre :Comedy

Man

1950-03-31 5.6

Appointment with Danger

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Townsman

1935-10-25 6

The Rainmakers

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Waiter

1938-01-16 3

The Jury's Secret

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Romance

Townsman

1937-09-26 0

Behind the Mike

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Amateur Contest Contestant (uncredited)

1946-02-27 6.6

Road to Utopia

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Music, Family

1925-01-04 0

The Wages of Tin

aka Billy, the Ford Buster ...
Genre :Comedy

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1933-09-01 4.6

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts

A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Racetrack Tout (uncredited)

1938-02-06 5.2

Midnight Intruder

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Romance

Abie Cohen (uncredited)

1934-10-02 6.863

Our Daily Bread

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Man with Goblet (uncredited)

1938-08-26 6.578

Marie Antoinette

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in variou ...
Genre :Drama, History

1921-01-01 0

The Noodle Nut

Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the boss' beautiful daughter, Madge Kirby ...
Genre :Comedy

Prospector

1923-11-24 5.467

The Soilers

During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight. ...
Genre :

1924-03-16 5.5

Zeb vs. Paprika

Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race. ...
Genre :Comedy

Floorwalker

1924-06-29 5

Stolen Goods

A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac. ...
Genre :Comedy

Freddie’s friend

1927-12-31 0

Swiss Movements

To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion. ...
Genre :Comedy

Townsman (uncredited)

1957-07-18 6.4

The Quiet Gun

A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town. ...
Genre :Western

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1927-08-20 6.8

The Cat and the Canary

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Prisoner (uncredited)

1950-03-01 6.9

The Outriders

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) ...
Genre :Western

The Girl's Father

1920-12-20 0

The Punch of the Irish

Genre :Comedy

1921-06-27 0

A Game Lady

Genre :Comedy

'Madame Louise'

1926-08-28 0

Beauty à la Mud

When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills. ...
Genre :Comedy