Billy Franey
Popularity:0.085
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1889-06-23
Place of Birth:Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Also Known As:William Gerald Franey, William Franey, Wm. Franey, Bill Franey, Billie Franey

The White Panther (1924)
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...

Anne Against the World (1929)
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The...

She's a Prince (1926)
Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper...

Code of the Northwest (1926)
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.

Red Signals (1927)
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to...

War of the Range (1933)
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against...

The Dead Line (1926)
An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.

King of the Saddle (1926)
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...

The Iceman's Ball (1932)
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...

The Fargo Kid (1940)
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...

Romance of a Rogue (1928)
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.

Fangs of Vengeance (1926)
A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.

Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

No More Women (1934)
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at...

Partners (1932)
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.

The Royal Rider (1929)
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance....

Western Racketeers (1934)
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher...

The King of the Turf (1926)
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to...

The Shadow Gang (1934)
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse...

The Iron Mule (1925)
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays....

Dumb Dicks (1932)
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.

Guests Wanted (1932)
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs,...

The Cameraman (1920)
Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the...

Bullet Code (1940)
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has...

Bashful Charley's Proposal (1916)
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...

The Inspector's Double (1916)
It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and...

The Masked Marvels (1917)
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...

When Damon Fell for Pythias (1917)
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both...

Tramp Trouble (1937)
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. ...

The Water Plug (1920)
Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up...

Beaux and Errors (1938)
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them....

The Dummy Owner (1938)
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...

Dumb's the Word (1937)
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 Fuller Gush Man (1934)
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.

She Wrote a Play and Played It (1916)
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested...

Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.

The Plumber (1921)
A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!

The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933)
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a...

The Canyon of Adventure (1928)
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian...

The Glorious Trail (1928)
After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out...

Cheyenne (1929)
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help...

The Royal American (1927)
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where...

No Children (1929)
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

The Miracle Man (1932)
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he...

'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
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...

Baby Daze (1939)
Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he...

Trouble (1920)
A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.

Next Time I Marry (1938)
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

Exclusive (1937)
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...

The New Member (1921)
After getting involved in a series of fist fights, Billy Franey scrawls into a reunion from the Order of Wriggle Fingers.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

Stage to Chino (1940)
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

The Yellow Dog Catcher (1919)
The misadventures of a dog catcher

Mutiny in the County (1940)
53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...

Forgotten Women (1931)
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article...

The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

The Dancing Millionaire (1934)
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

Triple Justice (1940)
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...

Kit Carson Over the Great Divide (1925)
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit...

The Paper Hangers (1920)
Even the story is pretty much a retread of something out of a lesser Keystone from 1915. They eat paste. They make a general mess and they get...

Border Brigands (1935)
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.

The Star Packer (1934)
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

Give Us This Night (1936)
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...

The Avenger (1931)
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three,...

Come On, Tarzan (1932)
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who...

The Gallant Fool (1933)
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the...

She's a Sheik (1927)
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter...

'Taint Legal (1940)
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his...

Freighters of Destiny (1931)
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.

The Night of June 13 (1932)
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...

Dummy Ache (1936)
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

Ears of Experience (1938)
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...

Clock Wise (1939)
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.

Sunk by the Census (1940)
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to...

A Millionaire for a Minute (1915)
Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.

Wholesailing Along (1936)
Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.

A Clean Sweep (1938)
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to...

A Trailer Tragedy (1940)
Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance...

The Moonshiner (1920)
A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.

The Chef (1921)
Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.

Why Worry (1921)
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a...

Salute (1925)
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.

Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.

Custard's Last Stand (1927)
A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.

Panama Lady (1939)
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...

Loose Ankles (1930)
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the...

Circus Lure (1924)
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a...

The Great Sensation (1925)
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful...

Maid to Order (1939)
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When...

Edgar & Goliath (1937)
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his...

Kennedy the Great (1939)
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...

S.O.S. Perils of the Sea (1925)
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia...

Out All Night (1927)
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery (1915)
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...

The Janitor (1921)
Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get...

A Shadowed Shadow (1916)
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock

Under the Tonto Rim (1928)
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who...

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (1915)
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...

Quick Money (1937)
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....

The Blacksmith (1922)
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers...

Vagabond Lady (1935)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...