Billy Franey Movies

A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

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

A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.

Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms 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...

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

Jack, an outlaw on the run, discovers a child whose parents have been killed by raiders. But the sheriff knows something about the baby that Jack...

Learning his father's railroad business from the ground up, layabout Leonard Hathaway undertakes to win a large ore-hauling contract by making his...

After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out...

A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the...

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

"The Sleuth" (1921) is a short silent comedy film produced by Reelcraft Pictures Corporation and starred by comic actor Billy Franey as part of his...

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil...

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

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

Ed puts his father-in-law forward for a night watchman job at his office but Pop applies for an executive job --- an gets Ed's.

Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of...

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...