Stan Laurel
Biography
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Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
Laurel began his career in music hall, where he developed a number of his standard comic devices, including the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. His performances polished his skills at pantomime and music hall sketches. He was a member of "Fred Karno's Army", where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. He and Chaplin arrived in the United States on the same ship from the United Kingdom with the Karno troupe.
Laurel began his film career in 1917 and made his final appearance in 1951. From 1928 onwards he appeared exclusively with Hardy, and Laurel officially retired from the screen following his comedy partner's death in 1957.
In 1961 Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
In 2009, a bronze statue of the Laurel and Hardy duo was unveiled in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston, England.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-06-16
Place of birth
Ulverston, Lancashire, England, UK
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Cast
Swim Meet
1951
0.00
The Flying Deuces
1939
6.40
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
5.60
Way Out West
1937
7.05
Nothing But Trouble
1944
6.00
Babes in Toyland
1934
6.34
A Chump at Oxford
1940
6.90
The Hollywood Clowns
1979
0.00
Busy Bodies
1933
7.30
Sons of the Desert
1933
7.02
Block-Heads
1938
6.97
A-Haunting We Will Go
1942
6.00
Air Raid Wardens
1943
7.10
Bonnie Scotland
1935
6.60
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
6.70
Any Old Port!
1932
6.90
The Music Box
1932
7.60
Our Relations
1936
7.00
Great Guns
1941
5.87
Saps at Sea
1940
6.80
The Midnight Patrol
1933
6.50
Men O' War
1929
6.74
Oliver the Eighth
1934
7.10
Night Owls
1930
7.40
Our Wife
1931
7.10
Sugar Daddies
1927
5.94
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
6.90
One Good Turn
1931
7.00
On the Wrong Trek
1936
5.80
Going Bye-Bye!
1934
7.40
Below Zero
1930
6.50
Big Business
1929
6.67
Be Big!
1931
6.70
Dirty Work
1933
6.90
The Chimp
1932
6.50
County Hospital
1932
6.80
Their Purple Moment
1928
6.55
Perfect Day
1929
6.92
Liberty
1929
6.81
On the Loose
1931
6.70
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
6.43
Beau Hunks
1931
6.80
Come Clean
1931
7.10
Double Whoopee
1929
6.70
The Fixer Uppers
1935
6.80
Flying Elephants
1928
5.70
Leave 'Em Laughing
1928
5.94
The Finishing Touch
1928
6.83
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
6.70
Me and My Pal
1933
6.42
The Live Ghost
1934
7.10
Laughing Gravy
1931
7.20
Scram!
1932
7.10
Brats
1930
6.80
Angora Love
1929
6.44
The Dancing Masters
1943
6.00
Another Fine Mess
1930
6.80
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926
5.20
Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
2001
0.00
Laurel & Hardy - Best of
1999
0.00
Bacon Grabbers
1929
6.30
Blotto
1930
7.20
The Second 100 Years
1927
6.29
Chickens Come Home
1931
6.70
Putting Pants on Philip
1927
6.30
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
5.70
Sailors, Beware!
1927
6.80
Do Detectives Think?
1927
6.20
The Battle of the Century
1927
6.80
Berth Marks
1929
6.69
Duck Soup
1927
6.30
Early to Bed
1928
6.09
The Hoose-Gow
1929
6.60
Them Thar Hills
1934
7.50
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
5.80
Helpmates
1932
7.20
Habeas Corpus
1928
6.60
Thicker Than Water
1935
7.20
Twice Two
1933
6.69
Two Tars
1928
6.63
Unaccustomed as We Are
1929
6.90
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
5.60
That's My Wife
1929
6.64
They Go Boom!
1929
6.76
With Love and Hisses
1927
6.10
Tit for Tat
1935
6.80
Slipping Wives
1927
5.10
You're Darn Tootin'
1928
5.80
Their First Mistake
1932
6.40
Towed in a Hole
1932
7.00
Hog Wild
1930
6.80
We Faw Down
1928
5.89
Wrong Again
1929
6.60
Utopia
1951
5.60
The Bohemian Girl
1936
6.10
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.58
The Lucky Dog
1921
5.80
Swiss Miss
1938
6.20
Jitterbugs
1943
5.82
From Soup to Nuts
1928
6.50
The Stolen Jools
1931
5.58
The Big Noise
1944
5.97
Just Rambling Along
1918
5.20
The Devil's Brother
1933
6.70
The Bullfighters
1945
5.80
The Tree in a Test Tube
1942
4.90
West of Hot Dog
1924
5.60
Oranges and Lemons
1923
5.26
Mud and Sand
1922
5.90
When Comedy Was King
1960
6.70
Wild Poses
1933
7.60
Pick a Star
1937
4.80
4 Clowns
1970
7.50
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
1925
6.60
Get 'Em Young
1926
5.00
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
5.50
Night of Goblins
1930
6.00
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
1951
0.00
Thieves
1930
6.88
The Pest
1922
6.30
Somewhere In Wrong
1925
5.20
Pie-Eyed
1925
5.20
Roughest Africa
1923
5.50
Navy Blue Days
1925
5.80
Performers arrive in Hampshire
1947
0.00
Short Kilts
1924
5.30
Bears and Bad Men
1918
5.10
Frauds and Frenzies
1918
5.80
Huns and Hyphens
1918
5.90
Now I'll Tell One
1927
5.80
Mixed Nuts
1922
5.00
Eve's Love Letters
1927
6.30
The Egg
1922
5.80
The Noon Whistle
1923
7.00
Pick and Shovel
1923
6.00
Under Two Jags
1923
5.00
A Man About Town
1923
5.50
Save The Ship
1923
6.50
White Wings
1923
6.70
Collars and Cuffs
1923
5.60
Kill or Cure
1923
4.80
Scorching Sands
1923
5.40
The Soilers
1923
5.47
Short Orders
1923
4.90
Rupert of Hee-Haw
1924
5.20
Detained
1924
5.50
Smithy
1924
5.20
Mandarin Mix-Up
1924
5.80
Hollywood Party
1934
5.80
Girl 27
2007
6.40
Seeing the World
1927
6.10
The Sleuth
1925
5.80
Frozen Hearts
1923
5.40
The Whole Truth
1923
5.50
Playing at Politics
1931
6.88
Should Tall Men Marry?
1928
5.90
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
10.00
Half a Man
1925
5.20
The Rogue Song
1930
5.80
The Night Life
1930
7.20
The Skulls
1931
6.10
The Chiselers
1931
6.60
Shivering and Shaking
1930
6.82
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
2011
7.50
Do You Love Your Wife?
1919
5.70
Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
2005
0.00
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
5.50
Gas and Air
1923
5.50
Hustling for Health
1919
5.10
What's the World Coming To?
1926
4.50
Pardon Us
1931
6.40
The Weak-End Party
1922
5.80
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.30
On the Front Page
1926
5.70
Near Dublin
1924
6.00
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
0.00
Radiomanía
1930
0.00
That's Entertainment! III
1994
7.00
Hats Off
1927
6.30
That's That!
1937
4.40
The Snow Hawk
1925
6.00
Mother's Joy
1923
5.20
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
5.70
Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
2002
8.50
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.86
Wide Open Spaces
1924
5.00
Twins
1925
5.50
Haunted at Midnight
1931
8.50
Salute to Stan Laurel
1965
0.00
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
1965
7.90
Dick & Doof - Best of
2010
0.00
Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
1932
0.00
Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
1932
0.00
When Knights Were Cold
1923
5.70
Dance of the Cookoos
1982
0.00
MGM 1935 Promo Reel
1935
6.00
Brothers Under the Chin
1924
5.50
The Handy Man
1923
5.00
Postage Due
1924
5.30
Stan and Olly
1932
0.00
Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons
1978
0.00
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
0.00
Hinter Schloss und Riegel
1932
0.00
Laurel & Hardy: Year One
2023
10.00
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
10.00
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
7.41
Cocoon
1985
6.62