But the lanky Laurel's film career didn't really take off until he teamed up with portly American actor Oliver Hardy in a string of silent films and talkies throughout the 1920s, '30s and '40s, including Do Detectives Think? (1927), Pardon Us (1931), Sons of the Desert (1933) and Babes in Toyland, aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), as well as the Oscar-winning comic short "The Music Box" (1932).
After appearing in more than 70 films with his longtime partner, who died of a heart attack in 1957, Laurel died on Feb. 23, 1965, at the age of 74.
March of the Wooden SoldiersThe meanest man in town, Silas Barnaby (Henry Kleinbach [aka Brandon]) threatens to kick Widow Peep out of her shoe unless her daughter, Bo-Peep, agrees to marry him. But Bo-Peep loves Tom-Tom, the piper's son, so it's up to Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee to come to the rescue, with the life-size wooden... Read More
Great GunsIn this madcap comedy from director Monty Banks, stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the Army to protect their rich cosseted master, Dan Forrester (Dick Nelson), who's just been drafted. Zaniness ensues when Stan and Ollie follow Dan to boot camp, where he romances camera store owner Ginger... Read More
Laurel & Hardy: Flying DeucesStan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star as a pair of doofy Americans who get caught up in the French Foreign Legion. Oliver's heartbroken when his French dream girl rejects his proposal, so he and Stan accept laundry duty in Morocco. They eventually decide to desert, and Oliver reconnects with his love,... Read More
TCM Archives: Laurel & Hardy CollectionStraight from the Turner archives, this two-film collection offers a double dose of classic laughs. In The Devil's Brother (1933), Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy decide to become bandits and stir the ire of an infamous thief. And in Bonnie Scotland (1935) -- the pair's highest grossing film -- they... Read More
This Is Your Life / At the MoviesBorn in the 1900s, the haunting and timeless comic antics of Laurel and Hardy, one of the greatest comedy film duos in history, still make film fans laugh out loud more than 50 years after their last on-screen pairing. This video includes a 1954 episode of the NBC series "This Is Your Life,"... Read More
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Slapstick, Too (2004) | NR | |
100 Years of Comedy (1997) | NR | |
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When Comedy Was King (1960) | NR | |
Laurel & Hardy (1958) | NR | |
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Laurel & Hardy: Utopia (1951) | NR | |
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The Big Noise (1944) | NR | |
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Jitterbugs (1943) | NR | |
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Laurel & Hardy: Hats Off (1939) | NR | |
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Laurel & Hardy & Friends (1938) | NR | |
Way Out West / Block-Heads (1937) | NR | |
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Sons of the Desert (1933) | NR | |
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American Slapstick: Vol. 2 (1915) | NR | |
American Slapstick (1915) | NR | |
Slapstick Encyclopedia (1909) | NR | |
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