Stan Laurel

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

Stan Laurel
Born	Arthur Stanley Jefferson (1890-06-16)16 June 1890 Ulverston, Lancashire, England
Died	23 February 1965(1965-02-23) (aged 74) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Occupation	Actor writer comedian entertainer director
Years active	1906–1957

Short films

Stan Laurel in Mud and Sand (1922 short)

Laurel was born in Lancashire, England. He began his career in the late 1910s, to work with Charles 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.

Stan Laurel Media

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  Plaque at Laurel's birthplace in Ulverston

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  Stan Laurel plaque, Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow

• Six years before becoming a team, Laurel and Hardy appeared for the first time together in this short, The Lucky Dog (1921), as seen at runtime 00:23:54. Stan's brother, Edward Jefferson, also appeared in the film as the butler.

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  One year after launching his film career, Laurel became the co-star of Frauds and Frenzies with Larry Semon (1918).

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  Oliver Hardy in Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925), one of Hardy's solo shorts that was directed by Laurel

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  Stan Laurel in a still from The Tree in a Test Tube (1943), a colour short made for the US Department of Agriculture

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  Laurel with Mae Dahlberg in Wide Open Spaces (1924)

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  Statue of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy outside the Coronation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria, England

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  Statue of Laurel on the site once occupied by the theatre owned by his parents, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, north east England

Other websites

Media related to Stan Laurel at Wikimedia Commons

• The Laurel and Hardy Forum Archived 2018-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
• The Laurel and Hardy Magazine
• The Official Laurel and Hardy website
• Stan Laurel on IMDb
• 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 Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
• The Charlie Hall Picture Archive
• The Nutty Nut News Network
• Information on his statue in North Shields Archived 2009-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
• The Stan Laurel Correspondence Archive Project
• Audio interview August, 1957
• Stan Laurel at Find a Grave
• Stan Laurel's Eulogy Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Stan's tempestuous love life
• Newsreel footage of Stan Laurel funeral