Billy Franey Movies

This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On...

Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin...

Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he...

A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!

Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested...

Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to...

Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil...

Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to...

The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a...

First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in...

A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life...

Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper...

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.

Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.

Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get...

The misadventures of a dog catcher