Acting

Billy Ruge

Born 1863-08-16 · Plattsburgh, New York, USA

Acting credits

Hungry Hearts poster
4.6

Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.

Hungry Hearts

1916

The Serenade poster
5.3

Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.

The Serenade

1916

No artwork available
8.0

Babe Hardy and Billy Ruge appear as Plump and Runt.

Aunt Bill

1916

One Too Many poster
5.1

When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.

One Too Many

1916

Love and Duty poster
4.9

Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell for disobeying orders, where he later escapes with the assistance of his sweetheart, and a casual touch of assault when he bumps the guard with his large stomach. The final chase scene ends with everyone getting what they want.

Love and Duty

1916

No artwork available
10.0

As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.

Bullin' the Bullsheviki

1919

The Battle Royal poster
6.5

Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.

The Battle Royal

1916

The Guilty Ones poster
8.0

The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.

The Guilty Ones

1916

The Candy Trail poster
5.5

A 1916 silent comedy.

The Candy Trail

1916

McQuade of the Traffic Squad poster
NR

Policeman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate Patrick in Nora's eyes.

McQuade of the Traffic Squad

1915

No artwork available
NR

A very early Pokes & Jabbs with Billy Ruge filling in for the absent Walter Stull.  Pokes and Runt try to impress a couple of girls at Palisades Park.

A Pair of Birds

1915

Out and In poster
NR

A Jaxson comedy.

Out and In

1918

No artwork available
NR

Letty, who considers herself the "whole cheese" in the chop house near the car barn in the city, decides to quit and return to the farm, owing to the persistent wooing of Billy, the Beau Brummel of conductors and motormen. Jim, her country sweetheart, goes to town to meet her and arrives in time to see Letty in the midst of a battle royal which results in the wrecking of the chop house.

On the Love Line

1917

No artwork available
NR

Billy Ruge puffs too hard on the opium pipe and dreams he is on a pirate ship with an all-woman crew..... well, almost,

Powder Puff Pirates

1921

No artwork available
9.0

Billy Ruge in a ugly courtship.

Winning a Widow

1921