Billy Armstrong

Acting

Billy Armstrong

Born — Died

1891-01-13 — 1924-03-01

Place of birth

Bristol, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

The Tramp poster
6.5

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.

The Tramp

1915

Shanghaied poster
6.0

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.

Shanghaied

1915

Triple Trouble poster
5.0

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.

Triple Trouble

1918

The Champion poster
6.5

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.

The Champion

1915

The Bank poster
6.3

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

The Bank

1915

By the Sea poster
5.5

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.

By the Sea

1915

Film credits

1920s · 17 titles

Down on the Farm poster
5.8

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.

Down on the Farm

1920

Love, Honor and Behave poster
8.0

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.

Love, Honor and Behave

1920

No Vacancies poster
NR

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?

No Vacancies

1923

Skirts poster
8.0

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Skirts

1921

When Knights Were Cold poster
6.2

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.

When Knights Were Cold

1923

Hard Knocks and Love Taps poster
8.0

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.

Hard Knocks and Love Taps

1921

The Extra Girl poster
6.4

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.

The Extra Girl

1923

The Quack Doctor poster
9.0

In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.

The Quack Doctor

1920

No artwork available
10.0

A rival courtships in a variety of absurd situations.

This Way Out

1923

Don't Weaken! poster
6.3

A dancing instructor gets involved with a newly rich family.

Don't Weaken!

1920

Smile Please poster
6.0

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...

Smile Please

1924

Shanghaied Lovers poster
5.5

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

Shanghaied Lovers

1924

The Glad Eye poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Glad Eye

1920

Asleep at the Switch poster
10.0

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.

Asleep at the Switch

1923

One Spooky Night poster
7.0

One Spooky Night is a 1924 comedy short

One Spooky Night

1924

When Summer Comes poster
10.0

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

When Summer Comes

1922

Conductor 1492 poster
5.5

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.

Conductor 1492

1924

1910s · 24 titles

The Tramp poster
6.5

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.

The Tramp

1915

Shanghaied poster
6.0

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.

Shanghaied

1915

Triple Trouble poster
5.0

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.

Triple Trouble

1918

The Champion poster
6.5

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.

The Champion

1915

The Bank poster
6.3

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

The Bank

1915

By the Sea poster
5.5

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.

By the Sea

1915

Police poster
6.3

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

Police

1916

Hello Trouble poster
6.0

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.

Hello Trouble

1918

No artwork available
9.0

1918 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy

Painless Love

1918

A Woman poster
6.1

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.

A Woman

1915

In the Park poster
5.4

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.

In the Park

1915

In Dutch poster
10.0

Comedy short starring Alice Howell

In Dutch

1918

Yankee Doodle in Berlin poster
5.7

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.

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

1919

No artwork available
7.5

Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.

Hop to It, Bellhop

1919

Work poster
5.9

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.

Work

1915

Sheriff Nell's Tussle poster
NR

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

Sheriff Nell's Tussle

1918

No artwork available
NR

A doctor and an undertaker form a partnership and get more business through the alliance, but one or the other loses his wife in the business rush.

Watch Your Neighbor

1918

Hearts and Flowers poster
6.5

A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.

Hearts and Flowers

1919

No artwork available
6.0

A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.

The King of the Kitchen

1918

Rip & Stitch: Tailors poster
8.0

Rip, an eccentric and somewhat clumsy tailor, and his wife manage his tailoring business. His attempts at control lead to a series of physical gags and chaotic misunderstandings involving his customers, his wife, and even "an unusual husband" (played by Hughie Mack) and his "pretty wife" (played by Myrtle Lind).

Rip & Stitch: Tailors

1919

Gertie's Gasoline Glide poster
6.5

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.

Gertie's Gasoline Glide

1916

No artwork available
7.0

Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.

Up in Alf's Place

1919

No artwork available
9.0

A 1917 short film directed by Hampton Del Ruth & Fred Hibbard.

An International Sneak

1917

The Man Inside poster
NR

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.

The Man Inside

1916