Ernest Bourbon

Onésime Goes to Hell

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.

Onésime champion de boxe

Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an American fi...

Onesime, Clockmaker

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth,...

Onésime's Family Drama

Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking.

Onésime et le pas de l'ours

The fact that the Four Arts Club were organizing an international competition of modern dances was welcome news...

Tragic Error

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

Onésime et la grève des mineurs

Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into his apartment...

Onésime et l'oeuvre d'art

Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bourbon is tak...

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime short

Onésime gardien du foyer

Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby, but with...

Zigoto Drives a Locomotive

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.

Onésime et son collègue

Batty Bill has some bachelor apartments. He also has a friend, who has fallen in love. These lovers adjourn to...

Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else!

Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.

Zigoto plombier d'occasion

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

Zigoto et le château mystérieux

Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road with a mag...

Onésime et son âne

Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phrased that a...

La prairie en feu

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. B...

Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy

Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West.

Onésime Gets Married... So Does Calino

Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office.

The Railway of Death

When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each other, which...

Onésime and the Heart of the Gypsy

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering waltz on a m...

Onésime et l'étudiante

Onésime short

Onésime est trop timide

Ernest Bourbon is introduced to a young lady, object matrimony. Unfortunately for him, he slips the ring on the...

Onésime, Post Office Employee

Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovel...

Onésime's Theatrical Debut

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, i...

Onésime et le physicien

Onésime sur le sentier de guerre

French parody western.

Onésime: Costume Boy

While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play...

Onésime Loves Animals

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for s...

Oxford vs. Martigues

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

Onésime vs. Onésime

His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.

The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits o...

The Disappearance of Onésime

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in mis...

No! You’re Not Going Anywhere Without Me!

An early Gaumont short

The Money Maniac

En route to the U.S., Joe Hoggart persuades several other immigrants to pool their money and purchase a tract o...

Onésime: Calino's Inheritance

Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective...