Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Born: January 17, 1892
Died: August 7, 1957
in Harlem, Georgia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In some of his early works, he was billed as "Babe Hardy".

Oliver Hardy died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957, at age 65. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.

Movies for Oliver Hardy...

Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Title: Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Released: June 30, 2020
Type: Movie
New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Two features and 17 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film "The Battle of the Century," making it's video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years!
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Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
Title: Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
Released: April 3, 2020
Type: Movie
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Title: Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
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Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection
Title: Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Laurel & Hardy were one of the most critically acclaimed comedy teams of early American cinema. Their films produced by Hal Roach during the 20s and 30s defined their legacy, and are now available for the first time in a one comprehensive collection.
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A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Title: A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Title: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
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Dick & Doof - Best of
Title: Dick & Doof - Best of
Character: Schauspieler
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Girl 27
Title: Girl 27
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 27, 2007
Type: Movie
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
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Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
Title: Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
Character: Oliver
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
Title: Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
Character: Hardy
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Title: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Character: Ollie (archive footage)
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
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Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Title: Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Released: January 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors. Watch as Stan fights a superior opponent in the boxing ring and as Ollie is taking an involuntary bath and see where a steadfast friendship between two men can get you...
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
Title: Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
Character: Ollie
Released: January 16, 2001
Type: Movie
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of
Title: Laurel & Hardy - Best of
Character: Ollie
Released: March 17, 1999
Type: Movie
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Chaplin's Goliath
Title: Chaplin's Goliath
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
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That's Entertainment! III
Title: That's Entertainment! III
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Title: Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Character: Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Title: George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Dance of the Cookoos
Title: Dance of the Cookoos
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
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The Hollywood Clowns
Title: The Hollywood Clowns
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Title: Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.
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4 Clowns
Title: 4 Clowns
Character: (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
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Title: Dick und Doof
Character: Oliver
Released: July 17, 1970
Type: TV
A series of feature-length and classic short films by the legendary comedy team.
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The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
Title: The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A compilation of clips from various Laurel and Hardy films
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Title: The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
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Salute to Stan Laurel
Title: Salute to Stan Laurel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.
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Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Title: Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Character: Ollie (archive footage)
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others---plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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30 Years of Fun
Title: 30 Years of Fun
Released: February 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Title: Days of Thrills and Laughter
Character: archive footage
Released: March 21, 1961
Type: Movie
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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When Comedy Was King
Title: When Comedy Was King
Character: edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Released: March 29, 1960
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Title: The Golden Age of Comedy
Character: archive footage
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: Ollie
Released: October 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Title: The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Sucker (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Title: The Fighting Kentuckian
Character: Willie Paine
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: Movie
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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Performers arrive in Hampshire
Title: Performers arrive in Hampshire
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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The Bullfighters
Title: The Bullfighters
Character: Ollie
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
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Nothing But Trouble
Title: Nothing But Trouble
Character: Oliver
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Ollie
Released: September 22, 1944
Type: Movie
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
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The Dancing Masters
Title: The Dancing Masters
Character: Ollie
Released: November 19, 1943
Type: Movie
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.
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Jitterbugs
Title: Jitterbugs
Character: Ollie
Released: June 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
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Air Raid Wardens
Title: Air Raid Wardens
Character: Ollie
Released: April 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
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The Tree in a Test Tube
Title: The Tree in a Test Tube
Character: Ollie
Released: November 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Title: A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Ollie
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
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Great Guns
Title: Great Guns
Character: Oliver
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
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Saps at Sea
Title: Saps at Sea
Character: Ollie
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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A Chump at Oxford
Title: A Chump at Oxford
Character: Ollie
Released: January 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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The Flying Deuces
Title: The Flying Deuces
Character: Ollie
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Dr. Henry Tibbett
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Block-Heads
Title: Block-Heads
Character: Ollie
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
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Hollywood Handicap
Title: Hollywood Handicap
Character: Himself
Released: May 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
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Swiss Miss
Title: Swiss Miss
Character: Ollie
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Oliver Hardy
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Way Out West
Title: Way Out West
Character: Ollie
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
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That's That
Title: That's That
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That's That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have been compiled by film editor Bert Jordan as a present for Stan Laurel's birthday in 1937.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Ollie / Bert Hardy
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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On the Wrong Trek
Title: On the Wrong Trek
Character: Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
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The Bohemian Girl
Title: The Bohemian Girl
Character: Ollie
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Title: MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Character: Cleaner
Released: December 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips are shown from Rose Marie, Anna Karenina, Broadway Melody, China Seas, The Great Ziegfield and others. Don't miss a few seconds from the 1935 version (now lost) of Tarzan Escapes showing Jane with a great ape; there were no great apes in the 1936 release.
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Bonnie Scotland
Title: Bonnie Scotland
Character: Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
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Thicker Than Water
Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Ollie
Released: March 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.
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Their Night Out - Screen Test
Title: Their Night Out - Screen Test
Character: Mr. Hardy
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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The Fixer Uppers
Title: The Fixer Uppers
Character: Ollie
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
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Tit for Tat
Title: Tit for Tat
Character: Ollie
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 Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: Ollie Dee
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
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The Live Ghost
Title: The Live Ghost
Character: Ollie
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar for a dollar a head. Successful at first, the boys end up getting themselves shanghaied, and the crew vow revenge.
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Them Thar Hills
Title: Them Thar Hills
Character: Ollie
Released: July 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
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Going Bye-Bye!
Title: Going Bye-Bye!
Character: Mr. Hardy
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
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Hollywood Party
Title: Hollywood Party
Character: Ollie
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
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Oliver the Eighth
Title: Oliver the Eighth
Character: Ollie
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.
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Sons of the Desert
Title: Sons of the Desert
Character: Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Released: December 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Ollie
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.
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Wild Poses
Title: Wild Poses
Character: Baby
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Busy Bodies
Title: Busy Bodies
Character: Ollie
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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The Midnight Patrol
Title: The Midnight Patrol
Character: Officer Oliver Hardy
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
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The Devil's Brother
Title: The Devil's Brother
Character: Ollio
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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Me and My Pal
Title: Me and My Pal
Character: Ollie
Released: April 22, 1933
Type: Movie
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon become absorbed in the puzzle. A taxi driver, butler, policeman and messenger boy join in as well.
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Twice Two
Title: Twice Two
Character: Ollie / Mrs. Laurel
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office.
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Towed in a Hole
Title: Towed in a Hole
Character: Ollie
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
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Their First Mistake
Title: Their First Mistake
Character: Ollie
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does. Unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as correspondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Ollie
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
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Scram!
Title: Scram!
Character: Ollie
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
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Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Title: Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Character: Himself
Released: July 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Tynemouth in North East England.
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Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Title: Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Character: Himself
Released: July 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Scotland in the Summer of 1932
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County Hospital
Title: County Hospital
Character: Ollie
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
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The Chimp
Title: The Chimp
Character: Ollie
Released: May 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
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The Music Box
Title: The Music Box
Character: Ollie
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
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Any Old Port!
Title: Any Old Port!
Character: Ollie
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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Helpmates
Title: Helpmates
Character: Ollie
Released: January 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: New Suitor (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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Beau Hunks
Title: Beau Hunks
Character: Ollie
Released: December 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
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One Good Turn
Title: One Good Turn
Character: Ollie
Released: October 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
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Come Clean
Title: Come Clean
Character: Ollie
Released: September 2, 1931
Type: Movie
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
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Pardon Us
Title: Pardon Us
Character: Ollie
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
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Haunted at Midnight
Title: Haunted at Midnight
Character: Ollie
Released: May 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
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Our Wife
Title: Our Wife
Character: Ollie
Released: May 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
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Playing at Politics
Title: Playing at Politics
Character: Oliver
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
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The Skulls
Title: The Skulls
Character: Señor Hardy
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! and Laughing Gravy. The two shorts were edited together into one continuous film. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.
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Laughing Gravy
Title: Laughing Gravy
Character: Ollie
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Police Driver
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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Chickens Come Home
Title: Chickens Come Home
Character: Mr. Oliver Hardy
Released: February 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
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Be Big!
Title: Be Big!
Character: Ollie
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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The Chiselers
Title: The Chiselers
Character: M. Hardy
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed.
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Another Fine Mess
Title: Another Fine Mess
Character: Ollie
Released: November 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Night of Goblins
Title: Night of Goblins
Character: Ollie
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Title: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Character: Ollie
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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Hog Wild
Title: Hog Wild
Character: Ollie
Released: May 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Ollie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
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Shivering and Shaking
Title: Shivering and Shaking
Character: Ollie
Released: April 28, 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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Below Zero
Title: Below Zero
Character: Ollie
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: Ollie
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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Brats
Title: Brats
Character: Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.
Released: March 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.
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Blotto
Title: Blotto
Character: Ollie
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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The Rogue Song
Title: The Rogue Song
Character: Murza-Bek
Released: January 17, 1930
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
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Thieves
Title: Thieves
Released: January 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.
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Night Owls
Title: Night Owls
Character: Ollie
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack. He persuades vagrants Stan and Ollie to rob the chief's house so he can regain his reputation by catching them. The policeman promises to later get the boys off. Things do not go as planned.
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Angora Love
Title: Angora Love
Character: Ollie
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Title: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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The Hoose-Gow
Title: The Hoose-Gow
Character: Ollie
Released: November 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.
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Bacon Grabbers
Title: Bacon Grabbers
Character: Oliver
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
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They Go Boom!
Title: They Go Boom!
Character: Ollie
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Stan snores. Both of them have trouble falling asleep because of this. They try to solve their problems, but this results in total chaos.
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Perfect Day
Title: Perfect Day
Character: Ollie
Released: August 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
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Men O'War
Title: Men O'War
Character: Ollie
Released: June 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.
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Berth Marks
Title: Berth Marks
Character: Ollie
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show talkies.
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Double Whoopee
Title: Double Whoopee
Character: Ollie
Released: May 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
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Unaccustomed as We Are
Title: Unaccustomed as We Are
Character: Oliver Hardy
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Ollie
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
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That's My Wife
Title: That's My Wife
Character: Ollie
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.
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Wrong Again
Title: Wrong Again
Character: Ollie
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: Ollie
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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We Faw Down
Title: We Faw Down
Character: Ollie
Released: December 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
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Habeas Corpus
Title: Habeas Corpus
Character: Ollie
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
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Two Tars
Title: Two Tars
Character: Ollie
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Ollie
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Title: Should Married Men Go Home?
Character: Ollie
Released: September 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
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Their Purple Moment
Title: Their Purple Moment
Character: Ollie
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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You're Darn Tootin'
Title: You're Darn Tootin'
Character: Ollie, French horn player
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.
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From Soup to Nuts
Title: From Soup to Nuts
Character: Hired butler
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
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The Finishing Touch
Title: The Finishing Touch
Character: Ollie
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.
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Flying Elephants
Title: Flying Elephants
Character: Mighty Giant
Released: February 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
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Leave 'Em Laughing
Title: Leave 'Em Laughing
Character: Ollie
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.
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The Battle of the Century
Title: The Battle of the Century
Character: Manager
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: J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
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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Do Detectives Think?
Title: Do Detectives Think?
Character: Sherlock Pinkham
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
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Love 'em and Feed 'em
Title: Love 'em and Feed 'em
Character: 'Happy' Hopey
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.
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Hats Off
Title: Hats Off
Character: Ollie
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying the machine up a large flight of steps, only to find out that a young lady wants them to post a letter for her. The boys later get into an argument knocking off each other's hats, which eventually involves scores of others. A police van eventually carts all those involved away except Stan and Ollie, who afterwards try to find their own headgear amongst the hundreds of others lying on the street.
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Call of the Cuckoo
Title: Call of the Cuckoo
Character: Asylum Inmate
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
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The Second Hundred Years
Title: The Second Hundred Years
Character: Big Goofy
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
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Now I'll Tell One
Title: Now I'll Tell One
Character: Policeman
Released: October 4, 1927
Type: Movie
This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
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Sailors, Beware!
Title: Sailors, Beware!
Character: Purser Cryder
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
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Sugar Daddies
Title: Sugar Daddies
Character: Brittle's butler
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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With Love and Hisses
Title: With Love and Hisses
Character: Top Sergeant Banner
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
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Why Girls Love Sailors
Title: Why Girls Love Sailors
Character: First Mate
Released: July 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
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Baby Brother
Title: Baby Brother
Character: Ice Man
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
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Fluttering Hearts
Title: Fluttering Hearts
Character: Big Bill
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
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Love 'Em and Weep
Title: Love 'Em and Weep
Character: Judge Chigger
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
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Crazy to Act
Title: Crazy to Act
Character: Gordon Bagley
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
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No Man's Law
Title: No Man's Law
Character: Sharkey Nye
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
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The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Title: The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Character: The Butler
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
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Slipping Wives
Title: Slipping Wives
Character: Butler
Released: April 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Maltravers
Released: March 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
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Why Girls Say No
Title: Why Girls Say No
Character: Policeman
Released: February 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
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Two-Time Mama
Title: Two-Time Mama
Character: The Cop (as Babe Hardy)
Released: January 29, 1927
Type: Movie
The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
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Should Men Walk Home?
Title: Should Men Walk Home?
Character: Party Guest at Punch Bowl
Released: January 29, 1927
Type: Movie
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Hotel Detective
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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The Nickel-Hopper
Title: The Nickel-Hopper
Character: Jazz band drummer
Released: December 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
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Be Your Age
Title: Be Your Age
Character: Oswald Schwartzkopple
Released: November 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
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Bromo and Juliet
Title: Bromo and Juliet
Character: Cab Driver
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
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Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Charley's Victim (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Along Came Auntie
Title: Along Came Auntie
Character: Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
Released: July 25, 1926
Type: Movie
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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The Gentle Cyclone
Title: The Gentle Cyclone
Character: Sheriff Bill
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
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Long Fliv the King
Title: Long Fliv the King
Character: The Prime Minister's Assistant
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
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Say It with Babies
Title: Say It with Babies
Character: Hector - the Floorwalker
Released: May 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
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Madame Mystery
Title: Madame Mystery
Character: Captain Schmaltz
Released: March 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
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Wandering Papas
Title: Wandering Papas
Character: Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
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A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Title: A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Character: The Taxi Driver
Released: February 6, 1926
Type: Movie
A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.
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The Perfect Clown
Title: The Perfect Clown
Character: Babe Mulligan
Released: December 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
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Should Sailors Marry?
Title: Should Sailors Marry?
Character: Doctor
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
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They All Fall
Title: They All Fall
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy.
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Yes, Yes, Nanette
Title: Yes, Yes, Nanette
Character: Her former sweetheart
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanette's former lover returns, and Hillory must confront him
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Title: Isn't Life Terrible?
Character: Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
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Hop to It!
Title: Hop to It!
Character: A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
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The Joke's on You
Title: The Joke's on You
Character: Wilbert Perkins
Released: June 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.
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Fiddlin' Around
Title: Fiddlin' Around
Released: June 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
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Fiddlin' Around
Title: Fiddlin' Around
Character: Theatre manager
Released: June 14, 1925
Type: Movie
FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).
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Rivals
Title: Rivals
Character: The Rival
Released: May 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 silent comedy.
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Hey, Taxi!
Title: Hey, Taxi!
Character: A Rival Taxi Driver
Released: April 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Stick Around
Title: Stick Around
Character: Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Farmhand
Released: February 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
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Roaring Lions at Home
Title: Roaring Lions at Home
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Short comedy featuring Oliver Hardy and a lion
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Kid Speed
Title: Kid Speed
Character: Dangerous Dan McGraw
Released: November 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
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Her Boy Friend
Title: Her Boy Friend
Character: Killer Kid
Released: September 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Bootlegger
Released: March 12, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Perfect Lady
Title: The Perfect Lady
Character: (unconfirmed)
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume home. He meets with varied experiences, and is such an attractive looking "woman" that the men all want to make dates with him.
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Horseshoes
Title: Horseshoes
Character: Dynamite Duffy
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.
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Lightning Love
Title: Lightning Love
Character: Oliver, the Other Suitor
Released: October 22, 1923
Type: Movie
The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
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The Gown Shop
Title: The Gown Shop
Character: Store manager
Released: August 13, 1923
Type: Movie
Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) This time round, he blunders into a boutique. After causing some damage he can't pay for, Larry is put to work as a general dogsbody. Mayhem ensues.
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The Barnyard
Title: The Barnyard
Character: Farm Hand
Released: June 11, 1923
Type: Movie
Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
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The Midnight Cabaret
Title: The Midnight Cabaret
Character: Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor
Released: May 9, 1923
Type: Movie
The Midnight Cabaret is a 1923 American film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.
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No Wedding Bells
Title: No Wedding Bells
Character: The Girl's Father
Released: January 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.
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The Counter Jumper
Title: The Counter Jumper
Character: Gaston Gilligan
Released: December 8, 1922
Type: Movie
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.
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Little Wildcat
Title: Little Wildcat
Character: 'Bull' Mulligan
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
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Golf
Title: Golf
Character: The neighbor
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Comedy on the golf links.
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A Pair of Kings
Title: A Pair of Kings
Character: General Alarm
Released: June 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)
Released: March 19, 1922
Type: Movie
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
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The Sawmill
Title: The Sawmill
Character: The Foreman
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
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The Lucky Dog
Title: The Lucky Dog
Character: Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
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The Bell Hop
Title: The Bell Hop
Character: Hotel manager
Released: September 17, 1921
Type: Movie
A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
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The Fall Guy
Title: The Fall Guy
Character: Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)
Released: July 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
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The Bakery
Title: The Bakery
Character: Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
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The Rent Collector
Title: The Rent Collector
Character: The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
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His Jonah Day
Title: His Jonah Day
Character: The Life Saver
Released: November 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
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The Backyard
Title: The Backyard
Character: Thug
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A policeman shows up and he is terrified; later, disguised as a policeman, he encounters Oliver Hardy, who is in brutal mode here.
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Married to Order
Title: Married to Order
Character: Her Father (as Babe Hardy)
Released: October 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
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The Stage Hand
Title: The Stage Hand
Character: Audience member (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Decorator
Title: The Decorator
Character: Babe, a millionaire
Released: September 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph.
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Squeaks and Squawks
Title: Squeaks and Squawks
Released: March 28, 1920
Type: Movie
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Distilled Love
Title: Distilled Love
Character: Mr. Peeble Ford (as Babe Hardy)
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
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Bungs and Bunglers
Title: Bungs and Bunglers
Character: Al K. Hall
Released: November 24, 1919
Type: Movie
Vitagraph comedy with Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy.
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Dull Care
Title: Dull Care
Character: A Janitor
Released: October 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
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Hop To It, Bellhop
Title: Hop To It, Bellhop
Character: Solomon Soop(as Babe Hardy)
Released: February 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
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He's In Again
Title: He's In Again
Character: Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
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The King of the Kitchen
Title: The King of the Kitchen
Character: A German customer
Released: October 30, 1918
Type: Movie
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)
Released: September 25, 1918
Type: Movie
A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
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Playmates
Title: Playmates
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
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Bright and Early
Title: Bright and Early
Character: The Boss
Released: May 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
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The Scholar
Title: The Scholar
Character: The Superintendent
Released: March 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
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The Rogue
Title: The Rogue
Character: Cafe Owner
Released: February 14, 1918
Type: Movie
'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice Davenport and Marie Dressler, with a dash of Hattie Jacques. He crosses paths with a counterfeit count (White) and a stolen violin worth $20,000.
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His Day Out
Title: His Day Out
Character: Ollie
Released: January 14, 1918
Type: Movie
In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Oliver, the saloonkeeper
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Released: November 15, 1917
Type: Movie
The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off roles.
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The Hobo
Title: The Hobo
Character: Harold (as Babe Hardy)
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
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The Candy Kid
Title: The Candy Kid
Character: Rival Proprietor
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
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The Chief Cook
Title: The Chief Cook
Character: Babe (as Babe Hardy)
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
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The Villain
Title: The Villain
Character: Nell
Released: July 14, 1917
Type: Movie
In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
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Cupid's Rival
Title: Cupid's Rival
Character: Poor Artist
Released: July 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
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The Hero
Title: The Hero
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
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Little Nell
Title: Little Nell
Character: Little Nell
Released: January 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.
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The Guilty Ones
Title: The Guilty Ones
Character: Babe
Released: December 16, 1916
Type: Movie
The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.
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The Candy Trail
Title: The Candy Trail
Character: Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Released: October 12, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1926 silent comedy.
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Love and Duty
Title: Love and Duty
Character: Pvt. Plump
Released: September 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell for disobeying orders, where he later escapes with the assistance of his sweetheart, and a casual touch of assault when he bumps the guard with his large stomach. The final chase scene ends with everyone getting what they want.
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The Lottery Man
Title: The Lottery Man
Character: Maggie Murphy
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
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Hungry Hearts
Title: Hungry Hearts
Character: Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Released: June 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
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The Battle Royal
Title: The Battle Royal
Character: Plump
Released: April 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
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The Serenade
Title: The Serenade
Character: Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Released: March 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
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One Too Many
Title: One Too Many
Character: Plump
Released: February 16, 1916
Type: Movie
When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
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Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
Title: Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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Something in Her Eye
Title: Something in Her Eye
Character: The Grocer
Released: November 9, 1915
Type: Movie
A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.
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The Lilac Splash
Title: The Lilac Splash
Character: Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1925 silent comedy.
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The Haunted Hat
Title: The Haunted Hat
Released: August 31, 1915
Type: Movie
A cat gets caught under a hat and walks around, frightening everyone in town.
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Avenging Bill
Title: Avenging Bill
Character: Bill, the Grocer's Boy
Released: August 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Lucy works for the Grouch family, and is used to being overworked and abused. But when Mr. Grouch punches her sweetheart, Bill, she has had enough. She grabs a knife and chases Mr. Grouch until he apologizes to Bill.
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It May Be You
Title: It May Be You
Character: Paul Simmons
Released: July 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
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A Lucky Strike
Title: A Lucky Strike
Character: Bill Myers
Released: May 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.
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An Expensive Visit
Title: An Expensive Visit
Character: Jack
Released: March 22, 1915
Type: Movie
At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jealous husband, forcing dad to buy his way out of trouble.
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They Looked Alike
Title: They Looked Alike
Character: Pedestrian
Released: January 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Two tramps look so much alike that they can outfox the police time after time. When one of them is locked in a shack, the police manage to catch the other one and expose the trick.
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Babe's School Days
Title: Babe's School Days
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Ikie is always abused by the other schoolboys. Finally he and his father get even.
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The Servant Girl's Legacy
Title: The Servant Girl's Legacy
Character: Cy (as Babe Hardy)
Released: November 27, 1914
Type: Movie
A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend.
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Mother's Baby Boy
Title: Mother's Baby Boy
Character: Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)
Released: November 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Percival is a spoiled mama's boy. When two toughs make time with his girlfriend he sends a telegram to his mother for help.
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Making Auntie Welcome
Title: Making Auntie Welcome
Character: Grocery Boy
Released: August 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Jack pretends to be crazy to get his aunt to cut her visit short. The maid sees him practicing his 'insanity' and thinks he's trying to kill his wife.
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Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
Title: Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 3
Title: Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 3
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
Title: Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The World of Laurel and Hardy
Title: The World of Laurel and Hardy
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The funniest moments from Laurel and Hardy's most hilarious films