William Gilbert was a versatile actor on stage, vaudeville, movies, radio, TV and burlesque. He got a lot of mileage with his humorous drawn-out sneeze routine. He was the model for, and voice of, Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He played the dim-witted process server Pettibone in His Girl Friday (1940), and appeared in The Great Dictator, Destry Rides Again, and The Under-Pup.