Billy Gilbert

Highest Rated: 100% Destry Rides Again (1939)

Lowest Rated: 20% Devil Doll (1964)

Birthday: Sep 15, 1891

Birthplace: Not Available

Tall, rotund, popular comedic supporting actor Billy Gilbert is best remembered for his ability to sneeze on cue. The son of opera singers, he was 12 when he started performing. Later, in vaudeville and burlesque, he perfected a suspenseful sneezing routine; this became his trademark as a screen actor (he provided the voice of "Sneezy," one of the Seven Dwarfs, in Disney's feature cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, [1938]). Gilbert appeared in some silent films, then began a busier screen career during the sound era, eventually appearing in some 200 feature films and shorts where he was usually cast in light character roles as comic relief to straight performers and as support for major comedians, notably Laurel and Hardy. He also frequently had accented roles, including Field Marshall Herring in Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940). In the late '40s, Gilbert directed two Broadway shows; he also wrote a play, Buttrio Square, which was produced in New York in 1952. Billy Gilbert rarely appeared in films after the early '50s.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Big Game	Fisher	—	2013
20%	Devil Doll	Butler	—	1964
No Score Yet	Five Weeks in a Balloon	Sultan-Auctioneer	—	1962
No Score Yet	Laurel & Hardy	Actor	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Kissing Bandit	General Felipe Torro	—	1948
75%	Fun & Fancy Free	Willy the Giant	—	1947
62%	Anchors Aweigh	Cafe Manager	—	1945
No Score Yet	Cookin' Up Trouble	Actor	—	1944
No Score Yet	Crazy House	Stone	—	1943
No Score Yet	Stage Door Canteen	Stage Door Canteen Star	—	1943
No Score Yet	Spotlight Scandals	Himself	—	1943
No Score Yet	Mr. Wise Guy	Knobby	—	1942
No Score Yet	Song of the Islands	Palola's father	—	1942
No Score Yet	Arabian Nights	Ahmad	—	1942
No Score Yet	Valley of the Sun	Justice of the Peace	—	1942
No Score Yet	Week-End in Havana	Arbolado	—	1941
No Score Yet	Melody Master	Actor	—	1941
No Score Yet	No, No, Nanette	Styles	—	1940
No Score Yet	A Night at Earl Carroll's	Machinist's Mate	—	1940
No Score Yet	Tin Pan Alley	Sheik	—	1940
No Score Yet	Seven Sinners	Tony	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Villain Still Pursued Her	Announcer	—	1940
No Score Yet	Pardon My Berth Marks	Actor	—	1940
98%	His Girl Friday	Joe Pettibone	—	1940
92%	The Great Dictator	Herring	—	1940
No Score Yet	Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot	Hector	—	1940
No Score Yet	Lucky Partners	Charles	—	1940
100%	Destry Rides Again	Loupqerou, the Bartender	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Star Maker	Steel Worker	—	1939
No Score Yet	Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus	Mr. Boggs	—	1938
No Score Yet	Breaking the Ice	Mr. Small	—	1938
No Score Yet	Block-Heads	Mr. Gilbert	—	1938
No Score Yet	Joy of Living	Cafe Owner	—	1938
No Score Yet	Maid's Night Out	Popolopolis	—	1938
No Score Yet	My Lucky Star	Nick	—	1938
No Score Yet	Happy Landing	Counter Man	—	1938
98%	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Grumpy	—	1937
No Score Yet	Live, Love and Learn	Newsboy	—	1937
No Score Yet	Music for Madame	Krause	—	1937
83%	100 Men and a Girl	Garage Owner	—	1937
No Score Yet	Broadway Melody of 1938	George Papaloopas	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Toast of New York	Portrait Photographer	—	1937
93%	Captains Courageous	Soda Steward	—	1937
No Score Yet	When You're in Love	Jose the Bartender	—	1937
No Score Yet	On The Avenue	Joe Papaloupas	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Firefly	Innkeeper	—	1937
No Score Yet	Rosalie	Oloff	—	1937
No Score Yet	Maytime	Drunk in Cafe	—	1937
No Score Yet	Love on the Run	Cafe Manager	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Bride Walks Out	Donovan	—	1936
87%	The Devil-Doll	Butler	—	1936
No Score Yet	Mistaken Identity	Actor	—	1936
No Score Yet	One Rainy Afternoon	Court Clerk	—	1936
No Score Yet	I Dream Too Much	Cook	—	1935
97%	A Night at the Opera	Engineer's Assistant/Peasant	—	1935
No Score Yet	Here Comes the Band	Oswald Carroll - the Sneezer (uncredited)	—	1935
100%	Mad Love	Autograph Seeker on Train	—	1935
No Score Yet	Evelyn Prentice	Barney, the Cafe Owner	—	1934
88%	The Merry Widow	Fat Lackery	—	1934
No Score Yet	Them Thar Hills	The Doctor	—	1934
No Score Yet	Cockeyed Cavaliers	Innkeeper (uncredited)	—	1934
100%	Sons of the Desert	Steamship Official	—	1933
No Score Yet	This Day and Age	Manager of Nightclub	—	1933
No Score Yet	Towed in a Hole	Joe	—	1932
No Score Yet	Their First Mistake	Process server	—	1932
No Score Yet	Pack Up Your Troubles	Mr. Hathaway	—	1932
No Score Yet	Skyscraper Souls	Ticket agent	—	1932
No Score Yet	Million Dollar Legs	Secretary of the Interior	—	1932
No Score Yet	County Hospital	The Doctor	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Chimp	Landlord	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Music Box	Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen	—	1932
No Score Yet	Red Noses	Tailor's Customer	—	1932
No Score Yet	One Good Turn	Drunk	—	1931
No Score Yet	Chinatown After Dark	Dooley	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Rival Mashers	Movie Patron	—	1914
No Score Yet	Tango Tangles	Guest in Cowboy Hat	—	1914

Quotes from Billy Gilbert's Characters

Snow White:	Once there was a Princess....
Snow White:	Once there was a Princess...
Doc:	Was the princess, you?
Snow White:	And she fell in love.
Sneezy:	Was it hard to do?
Snow White:	It was very easy! Anyone could see that the Prince was charming. The only one for me.

Sneezy:

Keep it away! My nose! My hay fever! You know I can't stand it.

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