{{short description|1915 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{use mdy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Avenging Bill | image = | caption = | director = John A. Murphy | producer = Arthur Hotaling | writer = Epes W. Sargent | narrator = | starring = Oliver Hardy | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{film date|1915|8|31}} | runtime = | country = United States | language = Silent film<br>English intertitles | budget = }}
'''''Avenging Bill''''' is a 1915 American silent film featuring Oliver Hardy, made in Jacksonville, Florida, by the Lubin Film Company.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Blair |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Almost_Hollywood/faCTiHZS1VwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Avenging+Bill%22+1915&pg=PA43&printsec=frontcover |title=Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida |date=2013-04-18 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=978-0-7618-5994-9 |pages=43 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Louvish |first=Simon |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Stan_and_Ollie_The_Roots_of_Comedy/iSfU38xkO7AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Avenging+Bill%22+1915&pg=PA481&printsec=frontcover |title=Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy |date=2005 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-312-32598-5 |pages=481 |language=en}}</ref>
== Plot == Bill is a grocer's boy working for the Grouches. When Lucy witnesses Mr. Grouch abusing Bill, she attacks Mr. Grouch with a knife, chasing him through the house and yard. Police arrive on the scene but cannot belief young Lucy posed any threat to "a husky brute like Grouch". Lucy and Bill take their own revenge on the Grouches, and leave their employment to get married.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 28, 1915 |title=Stories of the Films |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Stan_and_Ollie_The_Roots_of_Comedy/iSfU38xkO7AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Avenging+Bill%22+1915&pg=PA481&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Moving Picture World |pages=1539}}</ref>
==Cast== * Mabel Paige as Lucy * Royal Byron as Mr. Grouch * Eloise Willard as Mrs. Grouch * Oliver Hardy as Bill, the Grocer's Boy (as Babe Hardy)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==See also== * List of American films of 1915 * Filmography of Oliver Hardy
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0268962|title=Avenging Bill}}
Category:1915 films Category:1915 short films Category:American silent comedy short films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1915 comedy films Category:1915 American films Category:1915 English-language films Category:English-language comedy short films
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