Oliver Hardy
Acting • Born 1892-01-18 – Died 1957-08-07
Biography
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.
Filmography
293 credits
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
Movie
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 2
Movie
The Flying Deuces
Movie • 1939
Ollie
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie • 1929
Self
Way Out West
Movie • 1937
Ollie
Nothing But Trouble
Movie • 1944
Oliver
Babes in Toyland
Movie • 1934
Ollie Dee
A Chump at Oxford
Movie • 1940
Ollie
The Hollywood Clowns
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)
Busy Bodies
Movie • 1933
Ollie
Sons of the Desert
Movie • 1933
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
The Fighting Kentuckian
Movie • 1949
Willie Paine
Block-Heads
Movie • 1938
Ollie
Air Raid Wardens
Movie • 1943
Ollie
A-Haunting We Will Go
Movie • 1942
Ollie
Bonnie Scotland
Movie • 1935
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1932
Ollie
The Music Box
Movie • 1932
Ollie
Any Old Port!
Movie • 1932
Ollie
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Movie • 1927
The Butler
Along Came Auntie
Movie • 1926
Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
Our Relations
Movie • 1936
Ollie / Bert Hardy
Great Guns
Movie • 1941
Oliver
Saps at Sea
Movie • 1940
Ollie
Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
Movie • 2020
The Perfect Lady
Movie • 1924
(unconfirmed)
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1933
Officer Oliver Hardy
The Wizard of Oz
Movie • 1925
Tin Woodsman / Farmhand
Night Owls
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Men O' War
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Oliver the Eighth
Movie • 1934
Ollie
On the Wrong Trek
Movie • 1936
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
Our Wife
Movie • 1931
Ollie
Sugar Daddies
Movie • 1927
Brittle's butler
One Good Turn
Movie • 1931
Ollie
The Golden Age of Comedy
Movie • 1957
archive footage
Going Bye-Bye!
Movie • 1934
Mr. Hardy
Playmates
Movie • 1918
Below Zero
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Be Big!
Movie • 1931
Ollie
Big Business
Movie • 1929
Ollie
The Chimp
Movie • 1932
Ollie
County Hospital
Movie • 1932
Ollie
Dirty Work
Movie • 1933
Ollie
Liberty
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Perfect Day
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Should Married Men Go Home?
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Their Purple Moment
Movie • 1928
Ollie
On the Loose
Movie • 1931
New Suitor (uncredited)
Beau Hunks
Movie • 1931
Ollie
Come Clean
Movie • 1931
Ollie
The Finishing Touch
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Fluttering Hearts
Movie • 1927
Big Bill
Flying Elephants
Movie • 1928
Mighty Giant
Leave 'Em Laughing
Movie • 1928
Ollie
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Double Whoopee
Movie • 1929
Ollie
The Fixer Uppers
Movie • 1935
Ollie
Me and My Pal
Movie • 1933
Ollie
The Live Ghost
Movie • 1934
Ollie
The World of Laurel and Hardy
Movie
Laughing Gravy
Movie • 1931
Ollie
Brats
Movie • 1930
Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.
Scram!
Movie • 1932
Ollie
The Dancing Masters
Movie • 1943
Ollie
Laurel & Hardy - Best of
Movie • 1999
Ollie
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Movie • 1926
Hotel Detective
Angora Love
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Another Fine Mess
Movie • 1930
Ollie
The Battle of the Century
Movie • 1927
Manager
Bacon Grabbers
Movie • 1929
Oliver
Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
Movie • 2001
Ollie
Berth Marks
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Early to Bed
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Duck Soup
Movie • 1927
Maltravers
Blotto
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Chickens Come Home
Movie • 1931
Mr. Oliver Hardy
The Hoose-Gow
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Do Detectives Think?
Movie • 1927
Sherlock Pinkham
Call of the Cuckoo
Movie • 1927
Asylum Inmate
Sailors, Beware!
Movie • 1927
Purser Cryder
Putting Pants on Philip
Movie • 1927
J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
The Second 100 Years
Movie • 1927
Big Goofy
Their First Mistake
Movie • 1932
Ollie
That's My Wife
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Love 'Em and Weep
Movie • 1927
Judge Chigger
You're Darn Tootin'
Movie • 1928
Ollie, French horn player
Hog Wild
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Twice Two
Movie • 1933
Ollie / Mrs. Laurel
Wrong Again
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Two Tars
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Them Thar Hills
Movie • 1934
Ollie
They Go Boom!
Movie • 1929
Ollie
Slipping Wives
Movie • 1927
Butler
Towed in a Hole
Movie • 1932
Ollie
Thicker Than Water
Movie • 1935
Ollie
Thundering Fleas
Movie • 1926
Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)
Tit for Tat
Movie • 1935
Ollie
Unaccustomed as We Are
Movie • 1929
Oliver Hardy
We Faw Down
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Helpmates
Movie • 1932
Ollie
With Love and Hisses
Movie • 1927
Top Sergeant Banner
Why Girls Love Sailors
Movie • 1927
First Mate
Habeas Corpus
Movie • 1928
Ollie
Hollywood Handicap
Movie • 1938
Himself
The Gentle Cyclone
Movie • 1926
Sheriff Bill
Robinson Crusoeland
Movie • 1951
Ollie
The Bohemian Girl
Movie • 1936
Ollie
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
Ollie (archive footage)
The Lucky Dog
Movie • 1921
Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
Swiss Miss
Movie • 1938
Ollie
Jitterbugs
Movie • 1943
Ollie
From Soup to Nuts
Movie • 1928
Hired butler
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Police Driver
The Big Noise
Movie • 1944
Ollie
Bromo and Juliet
Movie • 1926
Cab Driver
The Devil's Brother
Movie • 1933
Ollio
The Bullfighters
Movie • 1945
Ollie
Stick Around
Movie • 1925
Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)
Crazy to Act
Movie • 1927
Gordon Bagley
The Sawmill
Movie • 1922
The Foreman
Hop to It!
Movie • 1925
A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)
Golf
Movie • 1922
The neighbor
Making Auntie Welcome
Movie • 1914
Grocery Boy
The Guilty Ones
Movie • 1916
Babe
Wandering Papas
Movie • 1926
Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
Kid Speed
Movie • 1924
Dangerous Dan McGraw
The Tree in a Test Tube
Movie • 1942
Ollie
Yes, Yes, Nanette
Movie • 1925
Her former sweetheart
When Comedy Was King
Movie • 1960
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Pick a Star
Movie • 1937
Oliver Hardy
Wild Poses
Movie • 1933
Baby
Riding High
Movie • 1950
Sucker (uncredited)
Zenobia
Movie • 1939
Dr. Henry Tibbett
Avenging Bill
Movie • 1915
Bill, the Grocer's Boy
The Haunted Hat
Movie • 1915
4 Clowns
Movie • 1970
(archive footage)
Night of Goblins
Movie • 1930
Ollie
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Movie • 1951
(archive footage)
Thieves
Movie • 1930
They All Fall
Movie • 1925
The boss
The Perfect Clown
Movie • 1925
Babe Mulligan
Long Fliv the King
Movie • 1926
The Prime Minister's Assistant
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1967
The Nickel-Hopper
Movie • 1926
Jazz band drummer
Performers Arrive in Hampshire
Movie • 1947
Self
The Servant Girl's Legacy
Movie • 1914
Cy (as Babe Hardy)
Something in Her Eye
Movie • 1915
The Grocer
The Battle Royal
Movie • 1916
Plump
One Too Many
Movie • 1916
Plump
The Hobo
Movie • 1917
Harold (as Babe Hardy)
The Candy Kid
Movie • 1917
Rival Proprietor
The Hero
Movie • 1917
The Hero's Rival (as Babe Hardy)
Bright and Early
Movie • 1918
The Boss
The Rogue
Movie • 1918
Cafe Owner
His Day Out
Movie • 1918
Ollie
The Villain
Movie • 1917
Nell
Dull Care
Movie • 1919
A Janitor
The Lottery Man
Movie • 1916
Maggie Murphy
Be Your Age
Movie • 1926
Oswald Schwartzkopple
The Counter Jumper
Movie • 1922
Gaston Gilligan
A Pair of Kings
Movie • 1922
General Alarm
The Bell Hop
Movie • 1921
Hotel manager
Should Men Walk Home?
Movie • 1927
Party Guest at Punch Bowl
The Bakery
Movie • 1921
Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
The Fall Guy
Movie • 1921
Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)
Now I'll Tell One
Movie • 1927
Policeman
Lightning Love
Movie • 1923
Oliver, the Other Suitor
Horseshoes
Movie • 1923
Dynamite Duffy
No Wedding Bells
Movie • 1923
The Girl's Father
The Midnight Cabaret
Movie • 1923
Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor
The Gown Shop
Movie • 1923
Store manager
No Man's Law
Movie • 1927
Sharkey Nye
Her Boy Friend
Movie • 1924
Killer Kid
Hollywood Party
Movie • 1934
Ollie
A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Movie • 1926
The Taxi Driver
Say It with Babies
Movie • 1926
Hector - the Floorwalker
Baby Brother
Movie • 1927
Ice Man
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Movie • 2020
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Girls Say No
Movie • 1927
Policeman
Playing at Politics
Movie • 1931
Oliver
Their Night Out - Screen Test
Movie • 1935
Mr. Hardy
Roaring Lions at Home
Movie • 1924
He's In Again
Movie • 1918
Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Hungry Hearts
Movie • 1916
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Little Wildcat
Movie • 1922
'Bull' Mulligan
The Rogue Song
Movie • 1930
Murza-Bek
Cupid's Rival
Movie • 1917
Poor Artist
Isn't Life Terrible?
Movie • 1925
Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)
Hop to It, Bellhop
Movie • 1919
Solomon Soop(as Babe Hardy)
An Expensive Visit
Movie • 1915
Jack
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie • 2011
Himself (archive footage)
Chaplin's Goliath
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
The Night Life
Movie • 1930
Ollie
The Skulls
Movie • 1931
Señor Hardy
The Chiselers
Movie • 1931
M. Hardy
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Shivering and Shaking
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
Movie • 2005
Hardy
Fiddlin' Around
Movie • 1925
Theatre manager
The Joke's on You
Movie • 1925
Wilbert Perkins
Squeaks and Squawks
Movie • 1920
Two-Time Mama
Movie • 1927
The Cop (as Babe Hardy)
The King of the Kitchen
Movie • 1918
A German customer
The Chief Cook
Movie • 1917
Babe (as Babe Hardy)
They Looked Alike
Movie • 1915
Pedestrian
His Jonah Day
Movie • 1920
The Life Saver
The Decorator
Movie • 1920
Babe, a millionaire
The Barnyard
Movie • 1923
Farm Hand
Babe's School Days
Movie • 1915
Ikie Ikestein
The Rent Collector
Movie • 1921
The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Movie • 1992
Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)
The Head Waiter
Movie • 1919
A cop (as Babe Hardy)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie • 1961
Self (archive footage)
Bungs and Bunglers
Movie • 1919
Al K. Hall
It May Be You
Movie • 1915
Paul Simmons
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pardon Us
Movie • 1931
Ollie
Married to Order
Movie • 1920
Her Father (as Babe Hardy)
Love and Duty
Movie • 1916
Pvt. Plump
The Stranger
Movie • 1918
Oliver, the saloonkeeper
The Pest
Movie • 1917
Love 'em and Feed 'em
Movie • 1927
'Happy' Hopey
Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
Movie • 1916
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1968
Ollie / Bert (archive footage)
Radiomanía
Movie • 1930
Ollie
Madame Mystery
Movie • 1926
Captain Schmaltz
Laughing Ladies
Movie • 1925
Policeman
Ups and Downs
Movie • 1915
Shifty Mike
The Serenade
Movie • 1916
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Hey, Taxi!
Movie • 1925
A Rival Taxi Driver
Hats Off
Movie • 1927
Ollie
That's That!
Movie • 1938
Himself
Crazy Like a Fox
Movie • 1926
Charley's Victim (uncredited)
Little Nell
Movie • 1917
Little Nell
Fiddlin' Around
Movie • 1925
Theatre Manager
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Movie • 2002
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
The Scholar
Movie • 1918
The Superintendent
Haunted at Midnight
Movie • 1931
Ollie
The Backyard
Movie • 1920
Thug - The ruffian
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Mother's Baby Boy
Movie • 1914
Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)
Distilled Love
Movie • 1920
Mr. Pebble Ford (as Babe Hardy)
Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
Movie • 2006
Oliver
Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
Movie
Salute to Stan Laurel
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
Should Sailors Marry?
Movie • 1925
Doctor
The Show
Movie • 1922
Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage)
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Movie • 1965
Ollie (archive footage)
Dick & Doof - Best of
Movie • 2010
Schauspieler
Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Movie • 1932
Himself
Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Movie • 1932
Himself
30 Years of Fun
Movie • 1963
(archive footage)
Trouble Brewing
Movie • 1924
Bootlegger
The Stage Hand
Movie • 1920
Audience member (uncredited)
A Lucky Strike
Movie • 1915
Bill Myers
Dance of the Cookoos
Movie • 1982
MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Movie • 1935
Cleaner
The Candy Trail
Movie • 1916
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Rivals
Movie • 1925
The Rival
The Lilac Splash
Movie • 1915
Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)
Hello Trouble
Movie • 1918
A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1967
The Girl in the Limousine
Movie • 1924
Freddie
Galloping Ghosts
Movie • 1928
Meadows the Valet, a.k.a. Officer 13
Back Stage
Movie • 1917
Babe
Stan and Olly
Movie • 1932
Himself
Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons
Movie • 1978
Ollie
Hooray for Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
Hinter Schloss und Riegel
Movie • 1932
Ollie
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie • 2024
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurel and Hardy's Yorkshire Adventures
Movie • 2025
Archive Footage
The Trouble Hunter
Movie • 1920
The Bouncer
Springtime
Movie • 1920
The Commissioner
Magazine Cooking
Movie • 1914
The Laurel & Hardy Story: An Affectionate Rememberence
Movie • 1990
Self (archive footage)
Classic Comedy Teams
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
Nash the Slash Rises Again!
Movie • 2025
Self - Sherlock Pinkham(archive footage)
MGM Convention 1930 Announcement
Movie • 1930
Himself
Laurel & Hardy: Year Three
Movie • 2025
Aunt Bill
Movie • 1916
Plump
The Parrott Chase
Movie • 2009
Himself - archival footage
Painless Love
Movie • 1918
Dr. Hurts
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
Dick und Doof
TV • 1970
Oliver
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self