Laurel & Hardy

Biography

Throughout their partnership Laurel (b. Arthur Stanley Jefferson, 16 June 1890, Ulverston, Lancashire (afterwards Cumbria), Britain, d. 23 Feb 1965, Santa Monica, California, USA) and Hardy (b. Oliver Norvell Hardy, 18 January 1892, Harlem, Georgia, USA, d. 7 August 1957, North Hollywood, California, USA) produced silent and speaking movies. In 1910 and 1912 Laurel toured the united states with Fred Karno, choosing to remain. Between 1917 and 1927 he produced 75 pants, before teaming with Hardy. On the other hand, Hardy sang skillfully from age eight, produced his film debut in 1913, playing minimal assignments until partnering Laurel. After switching to talkies they made an appearance in film revues, like the Hollywood Revue Of 1929, but additionally produced some musical features, like the Rogue Melody (1930, a dropped film based on Franz Lehár’s operetta Gypsy Like, starring opera vocalist Lawrence Tibbett), as well as the Devil’s Sibling (1933, UK name:Fra Diavolo, starring opera vocalist Dennis Ruler). Modified from Daniel Auber’s opera, the rating was organized by Le Roy Shield. In 1934 Babes In Toyland was based on the Broadway musical, as well as the Bohemian Gal (1936) on William Balfe’s operetta. A great many other movies had musical occasions, notably Bonnie Scotland (1935) and Swiss Miss (1938) and film tracks included ‘You WILL BE THE Ideal Of My Dreams’ in Beau Hunks (1931, UK name: Beau Chumps), ‘Lazy Moon’ in Pardon Us (1931, UK name: Jailbirds), ‘Honolulu Baby’ in Sons FROM THE Desert (1933, UK name: Fraternally Yours), ‘The Aged Spinning Steering wheel’ inside them Thar Hillsides (1934), ‘Glow On Harvest Moon’ within the Soaring Deuces (1939), and Laurel takes on concertina for ‘Mairzy Doats’ within the Big Sound (1944). In WAY TO AVOID IT Western (1937), the set dance to ‘The Path FROM THE Lonesome Pine’ before Laurel provides a bass-soprano vocal (dubbed by Chill Wills and Rosina Lawrence). Omnipresent was T. Marvin Hatley’s cheerful theme melody, ‘Ku-Ku’, better referred to as ‘The Dance FROM THE Cuckoos’. Hatley and Shield had written occasional songs and far of the backdrop music for the duo’s movies, Hatley becoming Oscar-nominated for the ratings of WAY TO AVOID IT Western and Block-Heads (1938). Furthermore to their movies, the duo also sang on the occasional trips of the united states and the united kingdom.

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#	Fact
1	David Jason is one of his, along with Oliver Hardy's biggest fans. When Jason put on weight after playing Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May (1991), he couldn't fit into a dinner jacket for the BAFTA Awards; he claimed he looked like Hardy wearing something belonging to Laurel.
2	In Spain, Stan and Ollie were known as El Gordo y El Flaco.
3	In Holland, Stan and Ollie were known as Dikke und Dunne.
4	In Germany, Stan and Ollie were known as Dick und Doof.
5	He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
6	The character Mickey in Maurice Sendak's book "Mickey in the Night Kitchen" is a caricature of Stan Laurel, while the bakers are caricatures of Oliver Hardy.
7	Stan's famous hairstyle was created by accident. He and Babe had shaved their heads to play convicts in The Second 100 Years (1927), and it grew back very unevenly and refused to stay down. Others on the Roach lot laughed, so Stan began to cultivate the new look. Offscreen, he combed it straight back, as did Oliver Hardy.
8	Stan removed the heels from his shoes while filming. It helped him accent his already humorous walk.
9	Because the Roach studio was smaller than the majors, the indoor sets were relatively close to each other, and the actors often visited other sets between takes. Matthew "Stymie" Beard picked up Stan's Irish children's derby and wore it whenever Stan put it down. Stan eventually gave Stymie a hat, which became Stymie's trademark as much as it was Stan's.
10	Laurel insisted that the quote attributed to him, "You know my hobbies; I married them all." was actually dreamed up by the publicity department.
11	He was a heavy smoker until he suddenly gave up when he was about seventy.
12	He was a staunch Democrat.
13	A comedian until the very last, Stan Laurel, just minutes away from death on February 23, 1965, told his nurse he would not mind going skiing right at that very moment. Somewhat taken aback, the nurse replied that she was not aware that he was a skier. "I'm not," said Stan, "I'd rather be doing that than have all these needles stuck into me!" A few minutes later, the nurse looked in on him again and found that Stan had quietly passed away.
14	Although Stan is recorded as being born in Ulverston Cumbria, he never knew it. He was actually born in Ulverston Lancashire. Ulverston became part of Cumbria under the "Local Government Act 1972" and became part of Cumbria two years later in 1974; nine years after Stan died.
15	Suffered a stroke in June 1955.
16	His partner Oliver Hardy was an inveterate golfer, often setting up his own little putting green on the set so he could practice between takes. Laurel once joked to a reporter interviewing him that golf was Hardy's only "bad habit". When the reporter asked if he had any bad habits, Laurel--who had been married and divorced five times--replied, "Yes, and I married them.".
17	In his later years, he was arguably the most approachable of all movie stars, keeping his phone number in the phone book, welcoming all sorts of visitors, and responding to his fan mail personally.
18	While rarely credited as a writer or director, he was the driving creative force behind the team of he and Oliver Hardy--whenever Hardy was asked a question about a gag, story idea, plotline, etc., he always pointed to Laurel and said, "Ask Stan." Laurel often worked well into the night, writing and editing their films.
19	Stan was greatly admired by Peter Sellers. Sellers claimed that the "Laurel" character was his inspiration when he created the "gardener" character in Being There (1979).
20	Is portrayed by Matthew Cottle in Chaplin (1992).
21	He was greatly admired by Jerry Lewis. When Lewis had his own production company in the early 1960s, he repeatedly tried to hire Stan for his creative team. Stan refused, despite the impressive salary. According to Lewis, he would send scripts to Stan who would read them and write suggestions in the margins.
22	In his later years, he was a close friends with Dick Van Dyke. Dick delivered the eulogy at Stan's funeral.
23	Is portrayed by Jim Plunkett in Harlow (1965).
24	An extra named John Wood from the film Babes in Toyland (1934) sued him and his stunt double, Ham Kinsey, claiming back injuries after Laurel and Kinsey threw him in the ducking pond on the set. The lawsuit specified $40,500 in damages, but was settled out-of-court.
25	Fell off a platform and tore ligaments in his right leg during the filming of Babes in Toyland (1934).
26	He and Oliver Hardy have been and continue to be very popular in Germany under the name of "Dick und Doof" (Fatty and Stupid).
27	The death of his partner Oliver Hardy left him a broken man, so much so that he fell into a deep depression and swore never to do comedy again. He didn't. In the eight years between Hardy's death and his own, he repeatedly turned down offers to do public appearances.
28	He was voted, along with comedy partner Oliver Hardy, the 45th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
29	His and Oliver Hardy's films had and still have great success in Italy where they are known as "Stanlio e Ollio".
30	Had said that out of all the impersonations done of him, he liked actor Dick Van Dyke's the best. Van Dyke even got to perform that impersonation on one of the episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and after it premiered, he called Laurel to ask his opinion. Laurel said he liked everything but one detail, the hat wasn't right. Van Dyke said he found Laurel's number in a Santa Monica, California, phone book.
31	At the time of Oliver Hardy's death in 1957, Stan was too ill to attend his late partner's funeral.
32	He and Mae Laurel lived as a common-law couple, as Mae was legally married to someone in her native Australia when she met Stan in 1918. They parted in 1925 by mutual consent and Mae returned to Australia.
33	Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
34	Subject on one of five 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating famous comedians, issued in booklet form 29 August 1991. He is shown with his partner Oliver Hardy. The stamp designs were drawn by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The other comedians honored in the set are Edgar Bergen (with alter ego Charlie McCarthy); Jack Benny; Fanny Brice; and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
35	Had always been a huge fan of westerns, and after he became a success, his company, Stan Laurel Productions, financed a series of low-budget musical westerns starring singing cowboy Fred Scott. The films were made for and released by the independent Spectrum Pictures rather than Hal Roach Studios, which made Laurel's and Oliver Hardy's films, or MGM, which released them. The Scott westerns seldom, if ever, made any money, but Laurel's enthusiasm for them never waned until his accountants showed him that they were getting to be a major drain on his finances, at which time he reluctantly dropped his participation.
36	Turned down a cameo role in Stanley Kramer's gigantic farce It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963).
37	Suffered a nervous breakdown on the death of his longtime film partner and friend, Oliver Hardy, and according to his friends, never fully recovered.
38	Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA.
39	He always thought that his "whining face" was humiliating, but the producers forced him to do it in most of his movies since the public loved it.
40	Laurel first appeared with his future partner, Oliver Hardy, in The Lucky Dog (1921), which was filmed in 1919, but not released until 1921.
41	Had two children with his first wife, Lois: a daughter, Lois Laurel; and a son, Stanley Robert (born May 7, 1930; died May 16, 1930), who was born two months prematurely and died nine days later.
42	His light blue eyes almost ended his movie career before it began. Until the early 1920s, filmmakers used black-and-white Orthochromatic film stock, which was "blue blind". Hal Roach cameraman George Stevens (the same George Stevens who would later become an acclaimed producer/director) knew of panchromatic film and was able to get a supply of it from Chicago. This new film was sensitive to blue and recorded Laurel's pale blue eyes in a more natural way. Stevens became Laurel's cameraman on his short films at Roach. When Laurel teamed with Oliver Hardy, the team made Stevens their cameraman of choice.



Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Busy Bodies	1933	Short	Stan
The Midnight Patrol	1933	Short	Officer Stanley Laurel
The Devil's Brother	1933		Stanlio
Me and My Pal	1933	Short	Stan Laurel
Twice Two	1933	Short	Mr. Stan Laurel / Mrs. Sandy Hardy
Towed in a Hole	1932	Short	Stan
Les carottiers	1932		M. Laurel
Their First Mistake	1932	Short	Stan
Pack Up Your Troubles	1932		Stan
Scram!	1932	Short	Mr. Laurel
County Hospital	1932	Short	Stan
The Chimp	1932	Short	Mr. Laurel
The Music Box	1932	Short	Stan
Any Old Port!	1932	Short	Stan
Helpmates	1932	Short	Stan
Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel	1932		3 Shorts
On the Loose	1931	Short	New Suitor (uncredited)
Beau Hunks	1931	Short	Stan
One Good Turn	1931	Short	Stan
Come Clean	1931	Short	Stan
Hinter Schloss und Riegel	1931	Short	Stan
Pardon Us	1931		Stan Laurel
Sous les verrous	1931		Stan Laurel
Spuk um Mitternacht	1931	Short	Stan
Our Wife	1931	Short	Stan
Politiquerías	1931		Stan
Los calaveras	1931		Señor Laurel
The Stolen Jools	1931	Short	Policeman
Los presidiarios	1931		Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Chickens Come Home-	1931	Short	Mr. Laurel
Glückliche Kindheit	1931	Short	Stan Stan jr.
Be Big!	1931	Short	Stan
Another Fine Mess	1930	Short	Stan
Laughing Gravy	1930	Short	Stan
Noche de duendes	1930		Stan Laurel
Feu mon oncle	1930		Stan
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	1930	Short	Stan
Radiomanía	1930	Short	Stan
Une nuit extravagante	1930	Short	Stan
Hog Wild	1930	Short	Stan
The Rogue Song	1930		Ali-Bek
Tiembla y Titubea	1930	Short	Stan
Below Zero	1930	Short	Stan
La vida nocturna	1930	Short	Stan
Brats	1930	Short	Stan Sr. Stanley Jr.
Blotto	1930	Short	Stan
Ladrones	1930	Short	Stan
Night Owls	1930	Short	Mr. Laurel
Pêle-Mêle	1930	Short	Stan Laurel
Angora Love	1929	Short	Stan
The Hoose-Gow	1929	Short	Stan
Bacon Grabbers	1929	Short	Stan (process server)
They Go Boom!	1929	Short	Stan
Perfect Day	1929	Short	Stan
Men O'War	1929	Short	Stan
Berth Marks	1929	Short	Stan
Double Whoopee	1929	Short	Stan
Unaccustomed As We Are	1929	Short	Stan
Big Business	1929	Short	Stan
That's My Wife	1929	Short	Stan
Wrong Again	1929	Short	Stan
Liberty	1929	Short	Stan
We Faw Down	1928	Short	Stan
Habeas Corpus	1928	Short	Stan
Two Tars	1928	Short	Stan
Early to Bed	1928	Short	Stan
Should Married Men Go Home?	1928	Short	Stan
Their Purple Moment	1928	Short	Mr. Pincher
You're Darn Tootin'	1928	Short	Stanley, clarinet player
From Soup to Nuts	1928	Short	Mr. Laurel
The Finishing Touch	1928	Short	Stan
Flying Elephants	1928	Short	Little Twinkle Star
Leave 'Em Laughing	1928	Short	Stan
Should Tall Men Marry?	1928	Short	Texas Tommy
The Battle of the Century	1927	Short	Prize fighter
Putting Pants on Philip	1927	Short	Philip
Do Detectives Think?	1927	Short	Ferdinand Finkleberry
Hats Off	1927	Short	Stan
Call of the Cuckoo	1927	Short	Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
The Second 100 Years	1927	Short	Little Goofy
Now I'll Tell One	1927	Short	Lawyer
Sailors, Beware!	1927	Short	Chester Chaste, cabdriver
Sugar Daddies	1927	Short	Brittle's Lawyer
With Love and Hisses	1927	Short	Cuthbert Hope
Why Girls Love Sailors	1927	Short	Willie Brisling
Love 'Em and Weep	1927	Short	Romaine Ricketts
Eve's Love Letters	1927	Short	Anatole, the butler
Slipping Wives	1927	Short	Ferdinand Flamingo aka Lionel Ironsides
Duck Soup	1927	Short	Stan Laurel aka Agnes
Seeing the World	1927	Short	English pedestrian
45 Minutes from Hollywood	1926	Short	Starving Actor - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
On the Front Page	1926	Short	Dangerfield
Get 'Em Young	1926	Short	Summers, the butler
What's the World Coming To?	1926	Short	The Man in the Window (uncredited)
Half a Man	1925	Short	Winchell McSweeney
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde	1925	Short	Dr. Pyckle / Mr. Pryde
The Sleuth	1925	Short	Webster Dingle
Navy Blue Days	1925	Short	Stan
The Snow Hawk	1925	Short	Mountie
Pie-Eyed	1925	Short	Drunk
Twins	1925	Short	Stan / his twin
Somewhere in Wrong	1925	Short	A tramp
Cowboys Cry for It	1925	Short
West of Hot Dog	1924	Short	Stan, a tenderfoot
Monsieur Don't Care	1924	Short	Rhubarb Vaselino
Detained	1924	Short	A convict
Mandarin Mix-Up	1924	Short	Sum Sap
Short Kilts	1924	Short	McPherson's Son
Wide Open Spaces	1924	Short	Gabriel Goober
Rupert of Hee Haw	1924	Short	The King / Rudolph Razz
Near Dublin	1924	Short	Con
Brothers Under the Chin	1924	Short
Zeb vs. Paprika	1924	Short	Dippy Donawho
Postage Due	1924	Short	Stan
Smithy	1924	Short	Smithy
Mother's Joy	1923	Short	Magnus Dippytack / Basil Dippytack, his son
Scorching Sands	1923	Short	Stan
The Soilers	1923	Short	Bob Canister
Save the Ship	1923	Short	Husband
The Whole Truth	1923	Short	The husband
Frozen Hearts	1923	Short	Olaf - A peasant
Roughest Africa	1923	Short	Prof. Stanislaus Laurello (Big Boss)
A Man About Town	1923	Short	A Man About Town
Short Orders	1923	Short	Waiter
Oranges and Lemons	1923	Short	Sunkist
Gas and Air	1923	Short	Phillup McCann
Kill or Cure	1923	Short	Door to door salesman
Collars and Cuffs	1923	Short	Laundry worker
Pick and Shovel	1923	Short	Miner
Under Two Jags	1923	Short	The Stranger
White Wings	1923	Short	Street cleaner
The Noon Whistle	1923	Short	Tanglefoot
The Handy Man	1923	Short	The handy man
When Knights Were Cold	1923	Short	Lord Helpus, a Slippery Knight
The Garage	1923
The Pest	1922	Short	Jimmy Smith
Mud and Sand	1922	Short	Rhubarb Vaselino
The Weak-End Party	1922	Short	The gardener
The Egg	1922	Short	Humpty Dumpty
Mixed Nuts	1922	Short	Book salesman
The Lucky Dog	1921	Short	Brash young man accused of dognapping
Hoot Mon!	1919	Short
Hustling for Health	1919	Short	The Man
Do You Love Your Wife?	1919		Toby - the janitor
O, It's Great to Be Crazy	1918	Short	Sam Squirrel (as Stanley Laurel)
Frauds and Frenzies	1918	Short	Simp, Second Prisoner
Just Rambling Along	1918	Short	Nervy Young Man
Bears and Bad Men	1918	Short	Pete
No Place Like Jail	1918	Short	Convict
Huns and Hyphens	1918	Short	Gang member
Phoney Photos	1918	Short	Swift (as Stanley Laurel)
Who's Zoo?	1918	Short	Stanley (as Stanley Laurel)
Hickory Hiram	1918	Short	Hiram (as Stanley Laurel)
Nuts in May	1917	Short	Mental Patient (as Stan Jefferson)
Utopia	1951		Stan (as Laurel)
The Bullfighters	1945		Stan Don Sebastian
Nothing But Trouble	1944		Stan
The Big Noise	1944		Stan
The Dancing Masters	1943		Stan
Jitterbugs	1943		Stan
Air Raid Wardens	1943		Stanley
A-Haunting We Will Go	1942		Stan (as Laurel)
Great Guns	1941		Stan
Saps at Sea	1940		Stan
A Chump at Oxford	1940		Stan Lord Paddington
The Flying Deuces	1939		Stan
Block-Heads	1938		Stan
Swiss Miss	1938		Stan
That's That	1937	Short	Stan
Pick a Star	1937		Stan Laurel
Way Out West	1937		Stanley
Our Relations	1936		Stan Laurel Alf Laurel
On the Wrong Trek	1936	Short	Hitchhiker (uncredited)
The Bohemian Girl	1936		Stan
Bonnie Scotland	1935		Stanley MacLaurel
Thicker Than Water	1935	Short	Stanley
The Fixer Uppers	1935	Short	Stan
Tit for Tat	1935	Short	Stan
The Live Ghost	1934	Short	Stan
Babes in Toyland	1934		Stannie Dum
Them Thar Hills	1934	Short	Stan
Going Bye-Bye!	1934	Short	Mr. Laurel
Hollywood Party	1934		Stan
Oliver the Eighth	1934	Short	Stan
Sons of the Desert	1933		Stan
Dirty Work	1933	Short	Stan
Wild Poses	1933	Short	Baby

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Bullfighters	1945	uncredited
Saps at Sea	1940	uncredited
A Chump at Oxford	1940	contributing writer - uncredited
Swiss Miss	1938	contributing writer - uncredited
Our Relations	1936	contributor to screenplay - uncredited
The Bohemian Girl	1936	uncredited
Bonnie Scotland	1935	contributor to screenplay - uncredited
Thicker Than Water	1935	Short story - uncredited
Tit for Tat	1935	Short uncredited
Babes in Toyland	1934	uncredited
Them Thar Hills	1934	Short uncredited
Going Bye-Bye!	1934	Short uncredited
Sons of the Desert	1933	uncredited
Busy Bodies	1933	Short uncredited
The Midnight Patrol	1933	Short uncredited
Me and My Pal	1933	Short uncredited
Twice Two	1933	Short uncredited
Towed in a Hole	1932	Short contributing writer - uncredited
Their First Mistake	1932	Short uncredited
Pack Up Your Troubles	1932	uncredited
Come Clean	1931	Short uncredited
Pardon Us	1931	uncredited
Our Wife	1931	Short uncredited
Be Big!	1931	Short uncredited
Laughing Gravy	1930	Short uncredited
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	1930	Short uncredited
Brats	1930	Short uncredited
Blotto	1930	Short uncredited
Night Owls	1930	Short uncredited
Their Purple Moment	1928	Short uncredited
Galloping Ghosts	1928	Short writer
The Finishing Touch	1928	Short uncredited
Love 'Em and Weep	1927	Short uncredited
Eve's Love Letters	1927	Short story & screenplay
The Honorable Mr. Buggs	1927	Short
Why Girls Say No	1927	Short uncredited
The Nickel-Hopper	1926	Short
On the Front Page	1926	Short
Raggedy Rose	1926
Get 'Em Young	1926	Short
Should Husbands Pay?	1926	Short
Along Came Auntie	1926	Short
The Devil Horse	1926	additional material
Never Too Old	1926	Short
Don Key (Son of Burro)	1926	Short
Scared Stiff	1926	Short
Wife Tamers	1926	Short
Dizzy Daddies	1926	Short
Madame Mystery	1926	Short
Wandering Papas	1926	Short
Your Husband's Past	1926	Short
Charley My Boy!	1926	Short additional material - uncredited
What's the World Coming To?	1926	Short
Starvation Blues	1925	Short story
Moonlight and Noses	1925	Short
Unfriendly Enemies	1925	Short
Chasing the Chaser	1925	Short
The Noon Whistle	1923	Short writer
The Garage	1923	writer

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Doctors	2013	TV Series performer - 1 episode
It Came from Somewhere Else	1988	performer: "Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
Top of the Pops	1976	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Nothing But Trouble	1944	performer: "The Notre Dame Victory March" 1908 - uncredited
The Big Noise	1944	performer: "Mairzy Doats" 1943 - uncredited
Saps at Sea	1940	performer: "Home, Sweet Home" - uncredited
The Flying Deuces	1939	performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon" 1908, "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" 1919 - uncredited
Swiss Miss	1938	performer: "The Mousetrap Song" 1938, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" 1910 - uncredited
Pick a Star	1937	performer: "Old Black Joe" 1860, "Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking", "Listen to the Mockingbird" 1855, "Pop Goes the Weasel" 1853 - uncredited
Way Out West	1937	performer: "At the Ball, That's All" 1913, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" 1913, "I Want to Be in Dixie" 1912 - uncredited
Tit for Tat	1935	Short "The Old Spinning Wheel" 1933, uncredited / performer: "Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" - uncredited
Them Thar Hills	1934	Short "The Old Spinning Wheel" 1933, uncredited
Sons of the Desert	1933	performer: "Honolulu Baby" - uncredited
Below Zero	1930	Short performer: "In the Good Old Summertime" 1902 - uncredited
Brats	1930	Short performer: "Go to Sleep, My Baby" - uncredited

Director

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Bullfighters	1945	uncredited
Flaming Fathers	1927	Short
Get 'Em Young	1926	Short unconfirmed
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes	1926	Short
Should Husbands Pay?	1926	Short
Madame Mystery	1926	Short co-director
Wandering Papas	1926	Short
Moonlight and Noses	1925	Short
Unfriendly Enemies	1925	Short
Book Bozo	1925	Short
Yes, Yes, Nanette	1925	Short
Chasing the Chaser	1925	Short

Producer

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Two Gun Troubador	1939	executive producer
Songs and Bullets	1938	executive producer
Knight of the Plains	1938	executive producer - uncredited
The Rangers' Round-Up	1938	executive producer
Way Out West	1937	producer - uncredited
Our Relations	1936	producer

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Seeing the World	1927	Short assistant director
Raggedy Rose	1926	assistant director
The Merry Widower	1926	Short assistant director
Never Too Old	1926	Short assistant director
Madame Mystery	1926	Short assistant director

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Jewish Prudence	1927	Short gag writer
One Hour Married	1927	Short gag writer
Good Cheer	1926	Short gag writer

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
The New Bike	2009	Short acknowledgment
The Great Race	1965	dedicatee - as Mr. Laurel

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
One Moment Please	1956	Documentary short	Himself
This Is Music Hall	1955	TV Movie	Himself
This Is Your Life	1954	TV Series	Himself
Face the Music	1953	TV Series	Himself
Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Reel	1949	TV Series	Himself
The Tree in a Test Tube	1943	Short documentary	Stan (as Laurel)
MGM 1935 Promo Reel	1935	Documentary short	Cleaner
Stan and Olly	1932	Documentary short	Himself
Grand Hotel	1932/II	Documentary short	Himself
The Hollywood Revue of 1929	1929		Himself / Stan Laurel

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Most Haunted	2016	TV Series
Pioneers of Television	2008-2014	TV Mini-Series documentary	Stan - Motion Picture Short Berth Marks / Himself
Britain's Best Loved Double Acts	2014	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Double Act
Glasgow: Big Night Out	2014	TV Movie documentary	Himself (as Laurel & Hardy)
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer	2012	TV Movie documentary	Stanley (uncredited)
Laurel and Hardy: Die komische Liebesgeschichte von 'Dick & Doof'	2011	TV Movie documentary	Himself
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy	2011	Video documentary short	Himself
On Location with the Boys	2011	Video documentary short	Himself
My Favourite Joke	2011	TV Series	Stan
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films	2011	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Edición Especial Coleccionista	2011	TV Series	Stan
100 Years of the London Palladium	2010	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Nova	2008	TV Series documentary	Himself
Hart Van Nederland	2008	TV Series	Himself
50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases	2008	TV Movie documentary	Stan (uncredited)
Hoge bomen: Pioniers	2007	TV Series documentary	Himself
Laurel & Hardy: The Fox Years	2006	Video short	Himself
Silent Clowns	2006	TV Mini-Series documentary	Stan
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	2006	Documentary
Laurel & Hardy: Hat's Off	2005	TV Movie documentary	Himself / Various roles
Bruce Forsyth's Comedy Heroes	2005	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Comedians' Comedian	2005	TV Movie documentary
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust	2004	Documentary
Room 101	2003	TV Series	Stan
Living Famously	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
Slaphappy	2001	TV Series	Himself (2001)
The 71st Annual Academy Awards	1999	TV Special	Laurel (uncredited)
The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Laurel & Hardy U.K. Tours	1995	Video documentary short	Himself
That's Entertainment! III	1994	Documentary	Performer in Clip from 'Hollywood Party' (uncredited)
Hal Roach: Hollywood's King of Laughter	1994	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Before the Bowler: Stan's Early Life	1994	Video documentary short as Stan Jefferson
On the Trail of the Comedy Mine: A History of Stan Laurel	1994	Video documentary short
The Our Gang Story	1994	Video documentary	Stan
Funny Business	1992	TV Series documentary
A Tribute to the Boys: Laurel & Hardy	1992	TV Special documentary	Stan / Sandy / Alf / ...
Legends of Comedy	1992	TV Movie documentary
Sprockets	1991	TV Series	Door to door salesman
Moonlighting	1988	TV Series	Himself
Muppet Babies	1988	TV Series
Tango Bar	1987		Himself (uncredited)
The Revenge of the Sons of the Desert	1987	Video documentary short	Himself
Classic Comedy Teams	1986	Video documentary	Himself
The Laurel and Hardy Show	1986	TV Series	Stan (1986)
Cocoon	1985		Himself, film clip from 'Flying Deuces' (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s	1984	Documentary
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	1984	Documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Historia del cine: Epoca muda	1983	Video documentary
Dance of the Cookoos	1982		Himself
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter	1982	TV Movie documentary	Actor - 'Another Fine Mess' (uncredited)
Alles oder nichts	1981	TV Series	Stan
Brooklyn Bridge	1981	Documentary	Himself (clip from "Way Out West") (uncredited)
Rascal Dazzle	1980		Baby
Lachen Sie mit Stan & Ollie	1975-1980	TV Series	Stan / Himself
The Hollywood Clowns	1979	Video documentary	Stan
Funny Business	1978	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Top of the Pops	1976	TV Series	Himself
Clapper Board	1976	TV Series
Bob Hope's World of Comedy	1976	TV Movie	Himself
America at the Movies	1976	Documentary	Stan (as Laurel)
That's Entertainment, Part II	1976	Documentary	Various Film Clips (as Laurel)
Hooray for Hollywood	1975	Documentary	Himself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary	Himself
Omnibus	1974	TV Series documentary	Himself
Laurel und Hardy auf der Jagd nach dem Mammon	1973		Stan
Die Rudi Carrell Show	1973	TV Series	Himself
Another Nice Mess	1972		Stan
4 Clowns	1970
The Best of Laurel and Hardy	1968		Stan / Alf
Dick und Doof, die Unzertrennlichen	1968		Stan
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy	1967	Documentary
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy	1966	Documentary
Salute to Stan Laurel	1965	TV Special documentary	Himself
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's	1965		Stan
Zebra in the Kitchen	1965		Stan Laurel - ( clip from 'Hollywood Party) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy	1964	Documentary	Stan in 'Hollywood Party'
Fractured Flickers	1963	TV Series	Sherman Oaks
30 Years of Fun	1963
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Himself
Nickelodeon Days	1962	Documentary
The DuPont Show of the Week	1961	TV Series	Himself
Days of Thrills and Laughter	1961	Documentary	Himself
When Comedy Was King	1960	Documentary	edited from 'Big Business' (as Laurel)
The Golden Age of Comedy	1957	Documentary	Stan (as Laurel)
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1957	TV Series	Himself
Double Trouble	1953	Short	The Twin Laurels
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians	1952	Documentary short	Himself
Ça c'est du cinéma	1951
¡Qué tiempos aquéllos!	1951	Documentary
The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'	1943	Documentary short	Himself - in a Jeep in Parade (uncredited)

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1964	Life Achievement Award	Screen Actors Guild Awards
1961	Honorary Award	Academy Awards, USA		For his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy. Stan Laurel
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 7021 Hollywood Blvd.



Title	Salary
Our Relations (1936)	$80,000
Bonnie Scotland (1935)	$80,000
The Midnight Patrol (1933)	$3,500 /week
The Devil's Brother (1933)	$3,500 /week



#	Quote
1	I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.
2	[on Oliver Hardy] He really is a very funny fellow, isn't he?
3	People have always loved our pictures. I guess that's because they saw how much love we put into them.
4	[on a comic he refused to name]: Very funny when he's not being dirty. I can't stand him.
5	[on Charles Chaplin]: Just the greatest.
6	[on the death of Oliver Hardy] Ben Shipman called me the day before and told me Babe had taken a turn for the worse and the end was expected any hours, even knowing this, the final news came as a shock to me. However, I think it was a blessing - poor fellow must have been really suffering (they discovered recently he had a bad cancer condition), so under the circumstances there was no hope of his ever recovering. What a tragic end to such a wonderful career.
7	[on Dick Van Dyke] Dick is a very clever comic, very talented, he does resemble me facially but thats about all, firstly, he is much taller and his mannerisms are entirely his own style. I enjoyed very much meeting him, a very interesting chap.
8	What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.
9	[about the eight films he and Oliver Hardy made at 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s] We had no say on those films, and it sure looked it.
10	Crazy humor was always my type of humor, but it's the quiet kind of craziness I like. The rough type of nut humor like The Marx Brothers I could never go for.
11	[on Oliver Hardy's death] The world has lost a comic genius. I've lost my best friend.
12	A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
13	If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!



#	Trademark
1	Subtle substitution of the word "me" for "my", as in the line from Way Out West: "Wait a minute while I spit on me hands."
2	Gaze into the camera with arms up and palms out in a "What now?" gesture.
3	Completely vacant stare into the camera, accentuated by white pancake makeup.
4	Wide, "hanger-in-my-mouth" smile, spiky hair sported in all of his films, and of course, the "whiny face" for which he is famous.
5	Usually played a childishly innocent man who always looked up to his good friend Oliver Hardy, whether it was deserved or not. Common schticks included crying in cases of great predicaments, taking instructions literally at all times and mixing up his lines. He and Hardy often had a scene in their films where they would get into a fight with another person that consisted solely of destroying property. The duo would destroy something the opponent values while the opponent ooks on and does not resist. When they are done, the opponent does the same to them, while they refrain from resisting, and so on.



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