Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel came from a theatrical family, his father was an actor and theatre manager, and he made his stage debut at the age of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company he was Charles Chaplin's understudy, and he performed imitations of Chaplin. On a later trip he remained in the United States, having been cast in a two-reel comedy, Nuts in May (1917) (not released until 1918). There followed a number of shorts for Metro, Hal Roach Studios, then Universal, then back to Roach in 1926. His first two-reeler with Oliver Hardy was 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first release through MGM was Sugar Daddies(1927) and the first with star billing was From Soup to Nuts (1928). Their first feature-length starring roles were in Pardon Us (1931). Their work became more production-line and less popular during the war years, especially after they left Roach and MGM for Twentieth Century-Fox. Their last movie together was The Bullfighters (1945) except for a dismal failure made in France several years later (Utopia 1951)). In 1960 he was given a special Oscar "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy". He died five years later.IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan
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- Born:
- Jun 16, 1890 In Ulverston, Cumbria, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 176
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Huns and Hyphens 1918-09-22
- Latest Project:
- Movie Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 2011-12-28
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Himself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 |
| Movie | A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy | Self (archive footage) | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic | Self (archive footage) | 2011-12-28 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
| Movie | Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys | Stan / Sandy / Alf / Lord Paddington (archive footage) | 1992-04-05 |
| Movie | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1985-03-03 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Movie | Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy | Himself (archive footage) | 1974-12-21 |
| Movie | 4 Clowns | (archive footage) | 1970-09-01 |
| Movie | The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy | 1967-12-01 | |
| Movie | Salute to Stan Laurel | Self (archive footage) | 1965-11-23 |
| Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
| Movie | Days of Thrills and Laughter | Self (archive footage) | 1961-03-21 |
| Movie | When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage) | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | The Golden Age of Comedy | archive footage | 1957-12-26 |
| Movie | The Slappiest Days of Our Lives | (archive footage) | 1951-03-23 |
| Movie | Utopia | Stan | 1951-10-17 |
| Movie | The Bullfighters | Stanley | 1945-05-01 |
| Movie | Nothing But Trouble | Stan | 1944-12-06 |
| Movie | The Big Noise | Stan | 1944-09-22 |
| Movie | Air Raid Wardens | Stan | 1943-04-04 |
| Movie | Jitterbugs | Stan | 1943-06-05 |
| Movie | A-Haunting We Will Go | Stan | 1942-08-07 |
| Movie | The Tree in a Test Tube | Stan | 1942-11-19 |
| Movie | Great Guns | Stan | 1941-10-10 |
| Movie | A Chump at Oxford | Stan | 1940-01-25 |
| Movie | The Flying Deuces | Stan | 1939-11-03 |
| Movie | Swiss Miss | Stan | 1938-05-20 |
| Movie | Block-Heads | Stan | 1938-08-19 |
| Movie | Pick a Star | Stan Laurel | 1937-05-21 |
| Movie | That's That! | Himself | 1937-01-01 |
| Movie | Way Out West | Stan | 1937-04-16 |
| Movie | The Bohemian Girl | Stan | 1936-02-14 |
| Movie | On the Wrong Trek | Cameo appearance (hitchhiker) | 1936-04-18 |
| Movie | Our Relations | Stan / Alf Laurel | 1936-09-15 |
| Movie | Early to Bed | 1936-06-05 | |
| Movie | Tit for Tat | Stan | 1935-01-05 |
| Movie | The Fixer Uppers | Stan | 1935-02-09 |
| Movie | Bonnie Scotland | Stanley MacLaurel | 1935-08-23 |
| Movie | Thicker Than Water | Stan | 1935-03-16 |
| Movie | Oliver the Eighth | Stan | 1934-01-13 |
| Movie | Hollywood Party | Stan | 1934-05-24 |
| Movie | Going Bye-Bye! | Mr. Laurel | 1934-06-23 |
| Movie | The Live Ghost | Stan | 1934-12-08 |
| Movie | Babes in Toyland | Stannie Dum | 1934-12-14 |
| Movie | Them Thar Hills | Stan | 1934-07-21 |
| Movie | The Devil's Brother | Stanlio | 1933-05-05 |
| Movie | Me and My Pal | Stan | 1933-04-22 |
| Movie | Twice Two | Stan / Mrs. Hardy | 1933-02-25 |
| Movie | The Midnight Patrol | Officer Stanley Laurel | 1933-08-03 |
| Movie | Dirty Work | Stan | 1933-11-25 |
| Movie | Busy Bodies | Stan | 1933-10-07 |
| Movie | Sons of the Desert | Stanley 'Stan' Laurel | 1933-12-29 |
| Movie | Wild Poses | Baby | 1933-10-28 |
| Movie | The Music Box | Stan | 1932-04-16 |
| Movie | Any Old Port! | Stan | 1932-03-05 |
| Movie | Helpmates | Stan | 1932-01-23 |
| Movie | The Chimp | Stan | 1932-05-21 |
| Movie | County Hospital | Stan | 1932-06-25 |
| Movie | Their First Mistake | Stan | 1932-11-05 |
| Movie | Pack Up Your Troubles | Stan | 1932-09-16 |
| Movie | Towed in a Hole | Stan | 1932-12-31 |
| Movie | Scram! | Stan | 1932-09-10 |
| Movie | The Stolen Jools | Policeman | 1931-04-04 |
| Movie | Chickens Come Home | Mr. Laurel | 1931-02-21 |
| Movie | The Chiselers | M. Laurel | 1931-02-07 |
| Movie | The Skulls | Señor Laurel | 1931-04-18 |
| Movie | Be Big! | Stan | 1931-02-07 |
| Movie | Playing at Politics | Stan | 1931-05-01 |
| Movie | One Good Turn | Stan | 1931-10-31 |
| Movie | On the Loose | New Suitor (uncredited) | 1931-12-26 |
| Movie | Come Clean | Stan | 1931-09-02 |
| Movie | Beau Hunks | Stan | 1931-12-02 |
| Movie | Pardon Us | Stan | 1931-08-15 |
| Movie | Our Wife | Stan | 1931-05-16 |
| Movie | Brats | Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr. | 1930-03-22 |
| Movie | Blotto | Stan | 1930-02-08 |
| Movie | The Rogue Song | Ali-Bek | 1930-01-17 |
| Movie | The Night Life | Stan | 1930-04-19 |
| Movie | Night Owls | Stan | 1930-01-04 |
| Movie | Thieves | 1930-01-07 | |
| Movie | Night of Goblins | Stan | 1930-10-16 |
| Movie | Below Zero | Stan | 1930-04-26 |
| Movie | The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case | Stan | 1930-08-08 |
| Movie | Another Fine Mess | Stan | 1930-11-29 |
| Movie | Hog Wild | Stan | 1930-05-31 |
| Movie | Shivering and Shaking | Stan | 1930-04-28 |
| Movie | Big Business | Stan | 1929-04-20 |
| Movie | Unaccustomed as We Are | Stan | 1929-05-04 |
| Movie | That's My Wife | Stan | 1929-03-23 |
| Movie | Liberty | Stan | 1929-01-26 |
| Movie | Double Whoopee | Stan | 1929-05-18 |
| Movie | Wrong Again | Stan | 1929-02-23 |
| Movie | Men O'War | Stan | 1929-06-29 |
| Movie | Berth Marks | Stan | 1929-06-01 |
| Movie | Angora Love | Stan | 1929-12-14 |
| Movie | Bacon Grabbers | Stan | 1929-10-19 |
| Movie | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self | 1929-11-23 |
| Movie | They Go Boom! | Stan | 1929-09-21 |
| Movie | Perfect Day | Stan | 1929-08-10 |
| Movie | Flying Elephants | Little Twinkle Star | 1928-02-12 |
| Movie | The Finishing Touch | Stan | 1928-02-25 |
| Movie | Should Tall Men Marry? | Texas Tommy | 1928-01-15 |
| Movie | From Soup to Nuts | Hired butler | 1928-03-24 |
| Movie | Leave 'Em Laughing | Stan | 1928-01-28 |
| Movie | Their Purple Moment | Mr. Pincher | 1928-05-19 |
| Movie | You're Darn Tootin' | Stanley, clarinet player | 1928-04-21 |
| Movie | Habeas Corpus | Stan | 1928-12-01 |
| Movie | Two Tars | Stan | 1928-11-03 |
| Movie | We Faw Down | Stan | 1928-12-29 |
| Movie | Should Married Men Go Home? | Stan | 1928-09-08 |
| Movie | Why Girls Love Sailors | Willie Brisling | 1927-07-17 |
| Movie | With Love and Hisses | Cuthbert Hope | 1927-08-28 |
| Movie | Love 'Em and Weep | Romaine Ricketts | 1927-06-12 |
| Movie | Duck Soup | Hives | 1927-03-13 |
| Movie | Seeing the World | English pedestrian | 1927-02-13 |
| Movie | Sugar Daddies | Brittle's lawyer | 1927-09-10 |
| Movie | Slipping Wives | Handyman | 1927-04-03 |
| Movie | Eve's Love Letters | Anatole, the butler | 1927-05-28 |
| Movie | Now I'll Tell One | Lawyer | 1927-10-04 |
| Movie | Putting Pants on Philip | Philip | 1927-12-03 |
| Movie | The Battle of the Century | Prize Fighter | 1927-12-31 |
| Movie | Sailors, Beware! | Chester Chaste, cabdriver | 1927-09-25 |
| Movie | Do Detectives Think? | Ferdinand Finkleberry | 1927-11-20 |
| Movie | Hats Off | Stan | 1927-11-05 |
| Movie | The Second Hundred Years | Little Goofy | 1927-10-08 |
| Movie | Call of the Cuckoo | Asylum Inmate | 1927-10-15 |
| Movie | What's the World Coming To? | The Man in the Window | 1926-01-16 |
| Movie | Get 'Em Young | Summers, the butler | 1926-10-31 |
| Movie | 45 Minutes from Hollywood | Hotel Guest | 1926-12-26 |
| Movie | On the Front Page | Dangerfield | 1926-11-28 |
| Movie | Pie-Eyed | Drunk | 1925-03-29 |
| Movie | Somewhere In Wrong | A tramp | 1925-01-29 |
| Movie | Navy Blue Days | Stan | 1925-05-29 |
| Movie | The Snow Hawk | Mountie | 1925-04-30 |
| Movie | Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride | Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde | 1925-07-30 |
| Movie | Half a Man | Winchell McSweeney | 1925-08-30 |
| Movie | The Sleuth | Webster Dingle | 1925-06-30 |
| Movie | Near Dublin | Con | 1924-05-10 |
| Movie | Zeb vs. Paprika | Dippy Donawho | 1924-03-16 |
| Movie | Smithy | Smithy | 1924-01-19 |
| Movie | Rupert of Hee-Haw | King / Rudolph Razz | 1924-06-07 |
| Movie | Short Kilts | McPherson's Son | 1924-08-03 |
| Movie | West of Hot Dog | Stan, a Tenderfoot | 1924-12-30 |
| Movie | Detained | A convict | 1924-10-01 |
| Movie | Mandarin Mix-Up | Sum Sap | 1924-08-29 |
| Movie | Kill or Cure | 1923-07-14 | |
| Movie | Gas and Air | Phillup McCann | 1923-07-28 |
| Movie | Collars and Cuffs | Laundry Worker | 1923-07-01 |
| Movie | Under Two Jags | 1923-06-02 | |
| Movie | The Noon Whistle | 1923-04-28 | |
| Movie | White Wings | Street Cleaner | 1923-05-12 |
| Movie | Oranges and Lemons | Sunkist | 1923-08-12 |
| Movie | Pick and Shovel | Miner | 1923-06-16 |
| Movie | Roughest Africa | Professor Stanilaus Laurello | 1923-09-29 |
| Movie | The Soilers | Bob Canister | 1923-11-24 |
| Movie | Scorching Sands | Stan | 1923-12-09 |
| Movie | Short Orders | Waiter | 1923-09-01 |
| Movie | Save The Ship | Husband | 1923-11-17 |
| Movie | The Whole Truth | The husband | 1923-11-03 |
| Movie | A Man About Town | A Man About Town | 1923-09-15 |
| Movie | Frozen Hearts | Olaf - A peasant | 1923-10-27 |
| Movie | The Egg | Humpty Dumpty | 1922-09-03 |
| Movie | Mixed Nuts | Book salesman | 1922-03-08 |
| Movie | The Weak-End Party | The Gardener | 1922-10-01 |
| Movie | Mud and Sand | Rhubarb Vaselino | 1922-11-13 |
| Movie | The Pest | Jimmy Smith | 1922-12-03 |
| Movie | The Lucky Dog | Brash young man accused of dognapping | 1921-10-01 |
| Movie | Do You Love Your Wife? | Toby - the janitor | 1919-01-05 |
| Movie | Hustling for Health | The Man | 1919-02-02 |
| Movie | Huns and Hyphens | Gang member | 1918-09-22 |
| Movie | Bears and Bad Men | Pete | 1918-10-07 |
| Movie | Just Rambling Along | Nervy Young Man | 1918-11-03 |
| Movie | Frauds and Frenzies | Simp, Second Prisoner | 1918-11-17 |