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Billy Gilbert (I) (1894–1971)

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The son of singers in the Metropolitan Opera, Billy Gilbert began performing in vaudeville at age 12. He developed a drawn-out, explosive sneezing routine that became his trademark (he was the model for, and voice of, Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Gilbert's exquisite comic timing made him the perfect foil for such comedians as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy... See full bio »

Born:

William Gilbert Barron
in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Died:

(age 77) in Hollywood, California, USA
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1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon
Sultan/Auctioneer
 
1962 Paradise Alley
Julius Wilson
 
1956-1961 The Red Skelton Hour (TV series)
Dr. Schuman / Friar Tuck / Mayor Edgar C. Mathews / …
– Clem the Genius (1961) … Dr. Schuman
– San Fernando for Governor (1960) … Mayor Edgar C. Mathews
– Clem, the Photographer (1958) … Uncle Hopper
– Pirate Show (1956) … Pirate
– Robin Hood (1956) … Friar Tuck
 
1956-1961 Make Room for Daddy (TV series)
Mr. Hofsteader / Mr. Mason (Joey Mason's Father)
– Everything Happens to Me (1961) … Mr. Mason (Joey Mason's Father)
– Danny Goes on USO Tour (1956) … Mr. Hofsteader
 
1961 The Roaring 20's (TV series)
Gus Weber
– Coney Red Hots (1961) … Gus Weber
 
1958-1960 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV series)
Able Baker / Gypsy Father
– Madeline (1960) … Gypsy Father
– Mother Goose (1958) … Able Baker
 
1957 El coyote (TV movie)
Manuel
 
1956 Producers' Showcase (TV series)
Giant / Mr. Poopledoop
– Jack and the Beanstalk (1956) … Giant/Mr. Poopledoop
 
1955 Andy's Gang (TV series)
The Teacher (voice)
 
1955 The Butcher, the Baker, the Ice Cream Maker (short)
Baker/Merchant (voice) (uncredited)
 
1954 My Little Margie (TV series)
– A Job for Freddie (1954)
 
1953 Down Among the Sheltering Palms
King Jilouili
 
1950-1951 Musical Comedy Time (TV series)
Col. Kasimer Popoff / Don Emilio
– Revenge with Music (1951) … Don Emilio
– The Chocolate Soldier (1950) … Col. Kasimer Popoff
 
1949 Bride of Vengeance
Beppo
 
1948 The Kissing Bandit
General Felipe Toro
 
1947 Mickey and the Beanstalk (short)
Willie the Giant (voice) (uncredited)
 
1947 Fun & Fancy Free
Willie the Giant (voice)
 
1945 Anchors Aweigh
Café Manager
 
1944 Crazy Knights
Billy
 
1944 Three Is a Family (uncredited)
 
1944 Ever Since Venus
Tiny Lewis
 
1944 Wedded Bliss (short)
 
1944 Crazy Like a Fox (short)
Cabbie
 
1943 Crazy House
Sid Drake
 
1943 Always a Bridesmaid
Nicholas 'Nick' Neopolitan
 
1943 Shot in the Escape (short)
Alexsos
 
1943 Spotlight Revue
Billy
 
1943 Shantytown
'Papa' Ferrelli
 
1942 Arabian Nights
Ahmad
 
1942 Sleepytime Gal
Chef Popodopolis
 
1942 Mr. Wise Guy
Knobby
 
1942 Valley of the Sun
Homer Burnaby - Justice of the Peace
 
1942 Song of the Islands
Palola's Father
 
1941 Week-End in Havana
Arbolado
 
1941 New Wine
Poldi
 
1941 Angels with Broken Wings
Billy Wilson
 
1941 One Night in Lisbon
Popopopoulos
 
1941 Reaching for the Sun
Amos
 
1941 Model Wife
Dominic
 
1940 No, No, Nanette
Styles
 
1940 A Night at Earl Carroll's (uncredited)
 
1940 Tin Pan Alley
Sheik
 
1940 Seven Sinners
Tony
 
1940 The Great Dictator
Herring
 
1940 The Villain Still Pursued Her
Master of Ceremonies
 
1940 A Little Bit of Heaven
Tony
 
1940 Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Hector
 
1940 Lucky Partners
Charles (uncredited)
 
1940 Scatterbrain
Hoffman
 
1940 Cross-Country Romance
Orestes
 
1940 Queen of the Mob
Mr. Reier
 
1940 Safari
Mondehare
 
1940 Women in War
Pierre, the Cobbler
 
1940 Sandy Is a Lady
Billy Pepino
 
1940 His Girl Friday
Joe Pettibone
 
1939 Chicken Feed (short)
Professor
 
1939 Destry Rides Again
Loupgerou
 
1939 Rio
Manuelo
 
1939 The Under-Pup
Tolio
 
1939 The Star Maker
Steel Worker
 
1939 Million Dollar Legs
Dick Schultz (uncredited)
 
1939 Forged Passport
Nick Mendoza
 
1938 The Girl Downstairs
Garage Proprietor
 
1938 Once Over Lightly (short)
Professor Dimitrius Kapouris
 
1938 Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Bud Boggs
 
1938 Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
Professor Minorous
 
1938 Breaking the Ice
Mr. Small
 
1938 My Lucky Star
Nick
 
1938 Block-Heads
Mr. Gilbert
 
1938 Army Girl
Cantina Pete
 
1938 Joy of Living
Cafe Owner
 
1938 Maid's Night Out
Mr. Papalapoulas
 
1938 Happy Landing
Counter Man
 
1937 She's Got Everything
Chaffee - a Creditor
 
1937 Rosalie
Oloff
 
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
 
1937 Fight for Your Lady
Boris - Reporter
 
1937 Music for Madame
Krause
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl
Garage Owner
 
1937 The Life of the Party
Dr. Molnac
 
1937 The Firefly
Innkeeper
 
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938
George Papaloopas
 
1937 The Toast of New York
Photographer
 
1937 Swing Fever (short)
Dr. Van Loon
 
1937 Captains Courageous
Soda Steward (uncredited)
 
1937 The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Charley - the Bartender
 
1937 The Man Who Found Himself
Fat hobo
 
1937 Maytime
Drunk (uncredited)
 
1937 China Passage
Bartender
 
1937 Espionage
Turk (as William Gilbert)
 
1937 Sea Devils
Billy (policeman)
 
1937 When You're in Love
Jose the Bartender (uncredited)
 
1937 We're on the Jury
Mr. Ephraim Allen
 
1937 On the Avenue
Joe Papaloupas
 
1936 Night Waitress
Torre - Cafe Owner
 
1936 Love on the Run
Cafe Manager (uncredited)
 
1936 The Big Game
Fisher (uncredited)
 
1936 Bulldog Edition
George Poppupoppalas (uncredited)
 
1936 Violets in Spring (short)
Professor Emmanuel Frederick Gottfried Maximillian Wiesenfader (uncredited)
 
1936 Who's Looney Now (short)
Dr. Von Blatt
 
1936 So and Sew (short)
Rudolpho
 
1936 Pepper
Man Eating Sandwich (uncredited)
 
1936 My American Wife
French Chef (uncredited)
 
1936 Grand Jury
Otto, Janitor (uncredited)
 
1936 The Devil-Doll
Matin's Butler (uncredited)
 
1936 The Bride Walks Out
Mr. Donovan - collector for Acme Furniture
 
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
Waiter (uncredited)
 
1936 Parole!
Salvatore Arriolo (uncredited)
 
1936 Early to Bed
Burger
 
1936 Three of a Kind
The Tailor
 
1936 One Rainy Afternoon
Courtroom Doorman (uncredited)
 
1936 The First Baby
Italian in Park (uncredited)
 
1936 Love on a Bet
New York Policeman (uncredited)
 
1936 Sutter's Gold
Gen. Ramos (uncredited)
 
1936 Dangerous Waters
Carlos (uncredited)
 
1936 The Brain Busters (short)
Billy
 
1936 Two Lame Ducks (short)
Billy
 
1935 Millions in the Air
Nikolas Popadopolis
 
1935 I Dream Too Much
Cook at Cafe (uncredited)
 
1935 Coronado
Waiter (uncredited)
 
1935 A Night at the Opera
Passenger Asking Fiorello Not to Play Piano (uncredited)
 
1935 Hi, Gaucho!
Cappa Rosa - Del Campo's Foreman (uncredited)
 
1935 Nurse to You! (short)
Dr. W.J. Gilbert
 
1935 Just Another Murder (short)
Mr. Quick
 
1935 Here Comes the Band
Oswald Carroll (uncredited)
 
1935 Pardon My Scotch (short)
Sr. Luis Balero Cantino (uncredited)
 
1935 Curly Top
The Cook (uncredited)
 
1935 Mad Love
Autograph Seeker on Train (uncredited)
 
1935 Escapade
Singer (uncredited)
 
1935 Paris in Spring
First Chef (uncredited)
 
1935 Hail, Brother (short)
 
1935 His Bridal Sweet (short)
Lesh the Lush
 
1935 His Old Flame (short)
 
1934 Evelyn Prentice
Barney - Cafe Owner (uncredited)
 
1934 Nifty Nurses (short)
Dr. Hofbrau
 
1934 Washee Ironee (short)
Sneeze dub (voice)
 
1934 Men in Black (short)
Dangerous Patient (uncredited)
 
1934 Super Stupid (short)
 
1934 Happy Landing
Husband (uncredited)
 
1934 Peck's Bad Boy (uncredited)
 
1934 Tripping Through the Tropics (short)
Fritz, Jack's Dad
 
1934 Them Thar Hills (short)
The Doctor (uncredited)
 
1934 Cockeyed Cavaliers
Innkeeper (uncredited)
 
1934 Another Wild Idea (short)
Uncle Percy (voice) (uncredited)
 
1934 Get Along Little Hubby (short)
Professor DeSoto - Pianist (uncredited)
 
1934 Music in Your Hair (short)
Meyer Schmaltz
 
1934 Movie Daze (short)
Mr. Schmaltz
 
1934 Maid in Hollywood (short)
Sneezing Man
 
1934 Roamin' Vandals (short)
Doc Gilbert
 
1934 Mrs. Barnacle Bill (short)
 
1934 Apples to You! (short)
Pinsky
 
1934 Soup and Fish (short)
Count Gustav
 
1934 The Caretaker's Daughter (short)
 
1934 Next Week-end (short)
 
1934 The Cracked Iceman (short)
 
1933 Sons of the Desert
Mr. Ruttledge (voice) (uncredited)
 
1933 Luncheon at Twelve (short)
Betty's Father
 
1933 Keg o' My Heart (short)
Schmaltz
 
1933 Rhapsody in Brew (short)
Louie Schmaltz (as The Schmaltz Brothers)
 
1933 This Day and Age
Manager of Nightclub (uncredited)
 
1933 The Big Fibber (short)
Spike
 
1933 The Rummy (short)
Schmaltz
 
1933 The Girl in 419
Sneezing Patient (uncredited)
 
1933 One Track Minds (short)
Train Conductor
 
1933 Made on Broadway
Commissioner Jerry Allesandro (uncredited)
 
1933 Call Her Sausage (short)
Heinie Schmaltz
 
1933 The Bargain of the Century (short)
Captain Schmaltz
 
1933 Taxi Barons (short)
Billy / Dutchie
 
1933 Forgotten Babies (short)
Radio station NIX announcer/Dr. Nemo, serial character
 
1933 Maids a la Mode (short)
Von Smaltz
 
1933 Wreckety Wrecks (short)
Bill
 
1933 Fallen Arches (short)
Mr. Gilbert
 
1933 Asleep in the Feet (short)
Mr. Gilbert, Dance Hall Proprietor
 
1933 Bring 'Em Back a Wife (short)
Billy Gilbert
 
1932 Towed in a Hole (short)
Joe - Junkyard Owner
 
1932 Sneak Easily (short)
Attorney for the Prosecution
 
1932 Taxi for Two (short)
Billy Gilbert
 
1932 Their First Mistake (short)
Process Server
 
1932 Yoo-Hoo (short)
 
1932 Hot Spot (short)
 
1932 Strange Innertube (short)
Billy
 
1932 Pack Up Your Troubles
Mr. Hathaway
 
1932 Young Ironsides (short)
Effeminate Train Passenger (uncredited)
 
1932 Blondie of the Follies
Kinskey's Friend (uncredited)
 
1932 What Price Taxi (short)
Jealous Husband
 
1932 The Hollywood Handicap (short)
Character
 
1932 Skyscraper Souls
Second Ticket Agent (uncredited)
 
1932 Million Dollar Legs
Secretary of the Interior (uncredited)
 
1932 County Hospital (short)
The Doctor
 
1932 First in War (short)
 
1932 The Chimp (short)
Joe the Landlord (uncredited)
 
1932 Strictly Unreliable (short)
The Actor
 
1932 Just a Pain in the Parlor (short)
 
1932 In Walked Charley (short)
The Doctor
 
1932 You're Telling Me (short)
Bill Morgan, Eddie's Father
 
1932 The Music Box (short)
Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)
 
1932 Spanky (short)
Spanky's father
 
1932 Red Noses (short)
Tailor's Customer
 
1932 The Nickel Nurser (short)
Todd's Butler
 
1932 Never the Twins Shall Meet (short)
Mr. Clark
 
1932 Free Eats (short)
Head of the family of thieves
 
1932 Seal Skins (short)
(uncredited)
 
1932 The Tabasco Kid (short)
Mr. Jones, a Rancher
 
1931 On the Loose (short)
Pierre, the Dressmaker (as William Gilbert)
 
1931 The Hasty Marriage (short)
Distraught Passenger On Streetcar (uncredited)
 
1931 Dogs Is Dogs (short)
Mr. Brown (uncredited)
 
1931 A Melon-Drama (short)
Fruit Cart Vendor
 
1931 One Good Turn (short)
Drunk (uncredited)
 
1931 Chinatown After Dark
Dooley
 
1931 Fast and Furious (short)
 
1931 Shiver My Timbers (short)
The Sea Captain
 
1931 The Pajama Party (short)
Butler (uncredited)
 
1931 Catch as Catch Can (short)
Ring Announcer (uncredited)
 
1931 The Panic Is On (short)
Smith - Investment Broker aka The Spot (uncredited)
 
1931 First Aid
Jenkins
 
1930 Sea Legs
Naval Officer (uncredited)
 
1930 The Doctor's Wife (short)
 
1930 The Happy Hottentots (short)
Stage Manager (uncredited)
 
1929 The Woman from Hell
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (12 titles)
2012 Parks and Recreation (TV series)
– Pawnee Commons (2012) (performer: "Heigh-Ho")
 
1992 The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song (video documentary) (performer: "Heigh-Ho")
 
1956 Producers' Showcase (TV series)
– Jack and the Beanstalk (1956) (performer: "People Should Listen To Me")
 
1951 Musical Comedy Time (TV series)
– Revenge with Music (1951) (performer: "Never Marry A Dancer")
 
1947 Fun & Fancy Free (performer: "Fee Fi Fo Fum" 1947 - uncredited)
 
1940 Tin Pan Alley (performer: "The Sheik of Araby" 1921 - uncredited)
 
1939 Rio (performer: "Si, Si, Si" - uncredited)
 
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (performer: "Heigh-Ho" 1937 - uncredited, "Bluddle-uddle-um-dum Dwarfs' Washing and Yodel Song" 1937 - uncredited, "The Silly Song" 1937 - uncredited)
 
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (performer: "Largo al factotum" 1816 - uncredited)
 
1937 We're on the Jury ("Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851)
 
1935 Curly Top ("When I Grow Up" 1935 - uncredited)
 
1935 Here Comes the Band (performer: "Lyonel's aria M'appari, tutt'amor" 1847 - uncredited)
 
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1938 Once Over Lightly (short) (writer)
 
1934 Super Stupid (short)
 
Show ShowDirector (2 titles)
1933 Keg o' My Heart (short)
 
1933 Rhapsody in Brew (short)
 
Show ShowSelf (14 titles)
1970 Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '70 (TV movie)
Himself
 
1962 Here's Hollywood (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 13 July 1962 (1962) … Himself
 
1959-1961 The Garry Moore Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #3.19 (1961) … Himself
– Episode #1.28 (1959) … Himself
– Episode #1.24 (1959) … Himself
 
1960 About Faces (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 27 April 1960 (1960) … Himself
 
1956 Tonight! (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #5.23 (1956) … Himself
 
1956 The Red Skelton Hour (TV series)
Himself
– Old Vaudeville (1956) … Himself
 
1949-1952 The Buick-Berle Show (TV series)
Himself - Comic Actor
– Episode #4.33 (1952) … Himself - Comic Actor
– Episode #1.39 (1949) … Himself - Comic Actor
 
1950 The Faye Emerson Show (TV series)
Himself
– Halloween Party (1950) … Himself
 
1945 Trouble Chasers
Himself
 
1944 Three of a Kind
Himself
 
1941 Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 4 (short)
Himself
 
1941 Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (short)
Himself
 
1941 Meet the Stars #7: Meet Roy Rogers (documentary short)
Himself
 
1938 Hollywood Goes to Town (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
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2008 That Fellow in the Coat (TV series)
 
2007 Hitler: The Comedy Years (TV documentary)
Field Marshal Herring (uncredited)
 
2001 Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All (video documentary short)
Sneezy (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
 
1992 The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song (video documentary)
Sneezy (voice)
 
1992 A Tribute to the Boys: Laurel and Hardy (TV movie)
 
1990 Celebrating Walt Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': The One That Started It All (TV documentary)
Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
 
1987 Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho (video short)
Sneezy (voice)
 
1986 The Laurel and Hardy Show (TV series)
Various
 
1986 Jiminy Cricket's Christmas (video)
Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
 
1982 Dance of the Cookoos
Doctor/Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen
 
1963-1977 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series)
 
1963 The Sound of Laughter (documentary)
Large duck hunter (edited from: Two Lame Ducks)
 
1956 Columbia Laff Hour
 
1952 Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (documentary short)
 
1944 Wing and a Prayer
Himself, Sheik (edited from: Tin Pan Alley) (uncredited)
 
1944 Take It or Leave It
Himself: Clip from 'Tin Pan Alley' (uncredited)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage: Appeared in "Of Thee I Sing". See more »

Alternate Names:

William Gilbert | The Schmaltz Brothers

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

13-year-old adopted son, Barry, committed suicide after being scolded by his grandmother for letting his pet parrot escape from its cage. See more »

Trademark:

His exaggerated sneeze See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo