Jack Hill

Jack Hill

Born: September 10, 1887
Died: November 22, 1963
in Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Jack Hill was an American actor who appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies.

Movies for Jack Hill...

Backfire
Title: Backfire
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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Matri-Phony
Title: Matri-Phony
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
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Saps at Sea
Title: Saps at Sea
Character: Man Beneath Auto
Released: April 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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The Heckler
Title: The Heckler
Character: Baseball Spectator
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
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Mooching Through Georgia
Title: Mooching Through Georgia
Character: as Soldier
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Bit
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Stolen Harmony
Title: Stolen Harmony
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Tit for Tat
Title: Tit for Tat
Character: Passerby
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendship, but the grocer again becomes convinced that Ollie and his wife are fooling around.
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Babes in the Goods
Title: Babes in the Goods
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
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Busy Bodies
Title: Busy Bodies
Character: Shop Worker (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
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Crook's Tour
Title: Crook's Tour
Character: Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A short film from Hal Roach Studios' All-Star series.
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Beauty and the Bus
Title: Beauty and the Bus
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls win a car in a raffle.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Dance Hall Patron (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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Any Old Port!
Title: Any Old Port!
Character: Spectator
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Fun House Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Policeman
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Be Big!
Title: Be Big!
Character: Railway Station Passerby
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
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Below Zero
Title: Below Zero
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
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The Night Life
Title: The Night Life
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
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The Big Kick
Title: The Big Kick
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
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The Gas Station
Title: The Gas Station
Character: Policeman
Released: March 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
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Blotto
Title: Blotto
Character: Man in Rainbow Club
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Title: Cat, Dog & Co.
Character: Pedestrian
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
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Leaping Love
Title: Leaping Love
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
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Railroadin'
Title: Railroadin'
Character: Grocery truck driver
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
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Movie Night
Title: Movie Night
Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
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Wrong Again
Title: Wrong Again
Character: Man on buckboard
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Officer
Released: January 26, 1929
Type: Movie
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
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Election Day
Title: Election Day
Character: Gangster
Released: January 12, 1929
Type: Movie
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
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Their Purple Moment
Title: Their Purple Moment
Character: Doorman / Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1928
Type: Movie
The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Ringside spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
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Putting Pants on Philip
Title: Putting Pants on Philip
Character: Extra
Released: December 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
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Sugar Daddies
Title: Sugar Daddies
Character: Hotel extra
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
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The Glorious Fourth
Title: The Glorious Fourth
Character: Man With Monocle
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
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The Fighting Demon
Title: The Fighting Demon
Character: Professor
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Officer
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.