brief series of slapstick comedies co-starring the fat-and-skinny team of Oliver "Babe" Hardy and Bobby Ray, and a series of "Winnie Winkle" comedies with Ethelyn Gibson. West took small roles in sound films, first for small independent companies and later for Columbia Pictures. After cinema He became manager of the Columbia Grill restaurant. He died July 21, 1975, of a heart attack while leaving the Hollywood Park racetrack. He is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. Kalton C. Lahue and Sam Gill wrote:Billy's tramp was another dimension of Charlie's. Where Chaplin's little fellow exhibited a tendency towards cynicism, tempered with a degree of hopeful optimism (which was always badly bent by the fade out), Billy's tramp was the cheerful optimism who is treated pretty decently by faith. Most of his problems came about as a result of his own carefree ineptitude. Filmography Actor Apartment No. 13 (1912) Unicorn Film Service (1916) His Married Life (December 1, 1916) Bombs and Boarders (1916) His Waiting Career (1916) King-Bee Film Corporation (1917-1918) Back Stage (May 15, 1917) (A print is held at Nederlands Filmmuseum) The Hero (June 1, 1917) Dough Nuts (June 15, 1917) Cupid's Rival (July 1, 1917) The Villain (July 15, 1917) The Millionaire (August 1, 1917) (Nederlands Filmmuseum) The Goat (August 15, 1917) The Fly Cop (September 15, 1917) The Chief Cook (October 1, 1917) The Candy Kid (October 15, 1917) The Hobo (November 1, 1917) The Pest (working title: The Freeloader) (November 15, 1917) The Band Master (December 1, 1917) The Slave (December 15, 1917) The Stranger (working title: The Prospector) (January 1, 1918) His Day Out (working title: The Barber) (January 15, 1918) The Rogue (February 15, 1918) The Orderly (March 1, 1918) The Scholar (March 15, 1918) The Messenger (April 1, 1918) The Handy Man (May 1, 1918) Bright and Early (May 15, 1918) The Straight and Narrow (June 1, 1918) Playmates (July 1, 1918) Beauties in Distress (working title: The King of the Volcano) (July 15, 1918) Higrade Film Enterprises (1918) Bunco Billy Billy (1918) Bombs and Bull (1918) Billy in Harness (1918) Bull's Eye Film Corporation (1918-1919) He's in Again (working title: A Good Day) (December 15, 1918) Rolling Stone (January 20, 1919) Ship Ahoy! (February, 1919) Her First False Hare (May 19, 1919) Her Nitro Night (December 1, 1919) Haunted Hearts (December 15, 1919) The Chauffeur (1919) Lured (1919) Coppers and Scents