Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel (16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965), was an English comic actor, writer, and director.

Short films
Laurel was born in Lancashire, England. He began his career in the late 1910s, to work with Charlie Chaplin. Among his first works in this silent comedy short, Nuts in May (1917), Phoney Photos (1918), Just Rambling Along (1918) and Do You Love Your Wife? (1919), by Hal Roach, Mud and Sand (1922), When Knights Were Cold (1923), Smithy (1924), Postage Due (1924), Monsieur Don't Care (1924), and many more.

Stan and Oliver
In 1918 he starred with Oliver Hardy, in the short silent movie The Lucky Dog. That was the beginning of the famous duo, together again years later to form Laurel and Hardy. His first Hal Roach short with Hardy was Duck Soup (1927), followed by Slipping Wives (1927), Love 'Em and Weep (1927), Why Girls Love Sailors (1927), The Second 100 Years (1927), Call of the Cuckoo (1927), The Battle of the Century (1927). Short were a great success and catapulted the duo to stardom.  They continued in short movies until 1931, his first feature film Pardon Us, by James Parrott. His biggest movies were The Devil's Brother (1933), Sons of the Desert (1934), Way Out West (1937), The Flying Deuces (1939).

His last film was Utopia (1951).

 Television 
Stan Laurel also did some work in television as NBC live program This is your Life, together with Oliver Hardy. He also made appearances on the BBC, Grand Order of Water Rats (1955), where they performed a show reliving the old days of Laurel and Hardy.

Other websites

The Laurel and Hardy Forum 
The Laurel and Hardy Magazine
The Official Laurel and Hardy website

Laurel and Hardy Museum, Ulverston
Laurel and Hardy site
The Britannia Music Hall in Glasgow where Stan Laurel made his professional debut in July 1906 
The Charlie Hall Picture Archive 
The Nutty Nut News Network
Information on his statue in North Shields 
The Stan Laurel Correspondence Archive Project
Audio interview August, 1957

Stan Laurel's Eulogy 
Stan's tempestuous love life
Newsreel footage of Stan Laurel funeral

Category:1890 births
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Category:Actors from Lancashire
Category:British silent movie actors
Category:Comedians from Lancashire
Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction
Category:English movie actors
Category:English television actors