Stan Laurel
Acting • Born 1890-06-16 – Died 1965-02-23
Biography
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. Laurel began his career in music hall, where he developed a number of his standard comic devices, including the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. His performances polished his skills at pantomime and music hall sketches. He was a member of "Fred Karno's Army", where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. He and Chaplin arrived in the United States on the same ship from the United Kingdom with the Karno troupe. Laurel began his film career in 1917 and made his final appearance in 1951. From 1928 onwards he appeared exclusively with Hardy, and Laurel officially retired from the screen following his comedy partner's death in 1957. In 1961 Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. In 2009, a bronze statue of the Laurel and Hardy duo was unveiled in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston, England.
Filmography
230 credits
Swim Meet
Movie • 1951
Self
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
Movie
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 2
Movie
The Flying Deuces
Movie • 1939
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie • 1929
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Way Out West
Movie • 1937
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Nothing But Trouble
Movie • 1944
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Babes in Toyland
Movie • 1934
Stannie Dum
A Chump at Oxford
Movie • 1940
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The Hollywood Clowns
Movie • 1979
Self (archive footage)
Busy Bodies
Movie • 1933
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Sons of the Desert
Movie • 1933
Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Block-Heads
Movie • 1938
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Movie • 1942
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Air Raid Wardens
Movie • 1943
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Bonnie Scotland
Movie • 1935
Stanley MacLaurel
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1932
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Any Old Port!
Movie • 1932
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The Music Box
Movie • 1932
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Our Relations
Movie • 1936
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Great Guns
Movie • 1941
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Saps at Sea
Movie • 1940
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Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
Movie • 2020
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1933
Officer Stanley Laurel
Men O' War
Movie • 1929
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Night Owls
Movie • 1930
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Oliver the Eighth
Movie • 1934
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On the Wrong Trek
Movie • 1936
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
One Good Turn
Movie • 1931
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Our Wife
Movie • 1931
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Sugar Daddies
Movie • 1927
Brittle's lawyer
The Golden Age of Comedy
Movie • 1957
archive footage
Going Bye-Bye!
Movie • 1934
Mr. Laurel
Below Zero
Movie • 1930
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Be Big!
Movie • 1931
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Big Business
Movie • 1929
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The Chimp
Movie • 1932
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County Hospital
Movie • 1932
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Dirty Work
Movie • 1933
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Their Purple Moment
Movie • 1928
Mr. Pincher
Liberty
Movie • 1929
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On the Loose
Movie • 1931
New Suitor (uncredited)
Perfect Day
Movie • 1929
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Movie • 1928
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Beau Hunks
Movie • 1931
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Come Clean
Movie • 1931
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Double Whoopee
Movie • 1929
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The Finishing Touch
Movie • 1928
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The Fixer Uppers
Movie • 1935
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Flying Elephants
Movie • 1928
Little Twinkle Star
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Movie • 1930
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Leave 'Em Laughing
Movie • 1928
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The Live Ghost
Movie • 1934
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Me and My Pal
Movie • 1933
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The World of Laurel and Hardy
Movie
Brats
Movie • 1930
Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
Scram!
Movie • 1932
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Laughing Gravy
Movie • 1931
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The Dancing Masters
Movie • 1943
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Movie • 1926
Hotel Guest
Angora Love
Movie • 1929
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Another Fine Mess
Movie • 1930
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of
Movie • 1999
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
Movie • 2001
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Bacon Grabbers
Movie • 1929
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The Battle of the Century
Movie • 1927
Prize Fighter
Berth Marks
Movie • 1929
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Blotto
Movie • 1930
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Call of the Cuckoo
Movie • 1927
Asylum Inmate
Chickens Come Home
Movie • 1931
Mr. Laurel
Do Detectives Think?
Movie • 1927
Ferdinand Finkleberry
Duck Soup
Movie • 1927
Hives
Early to Bed
Movie • 1928
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The Hoose-Gow
Movie • 1929
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Putting Pants on Philip
Movie • 1927
Philip
Sailors, Beware!
Movie • 1927
Chester Chaste, cabdriver
The Second 100 Years
Movie • 1927
Little Goofy
Slipping Wives
Movie • 1927
Handyman
That's My Wife
Movie • 1929
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Their First Mistake
Movie • 1932
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Them Thar Hills
Movie • 1934
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They Go Boom!
Movie • 1929
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Thicker Than Water
Movie • 1935
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Tit for Tat
Movie • 1935
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Towed in a Hole
Movie • 1932
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Twice Two
Movie • 1933
Stan / Mrs. Hardy
Two Tars
Movie • 1928
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Unaccustomed as We Are
Movie • 1929
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We Faw Down
Movie • 1928
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Why Girls Love Sailors
Movie • 1927
Willie Brisling
With Love and Hisses
Movie • 1927
Cuthbert Hope
Wrong Again
Movie • 1929
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You're Darn Tootin'
Movie • 1928
Stanley, clarinet player
Habeas Corpus
Movie • 1928
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Helpmates
Movie • 1932
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Hog Wild
Movie • 1930
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Love 'Em and Weep
Movie • 1927
Romaine Ricketts
Robinson Crusoeland
Movie • 1951
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The Bohemian Girl
Movie • 1936
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Movie • 2004
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The Lucky Dog
Movie • 1921
Brash young man accused of dognapping
Swiss Miss
Movie • 1938
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Jitterbugs
Movie • 1943
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From Soup to Nuts
Movie • 1928
Hired butler
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Policeman
The Big Noise
Movie • 1944
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Just Rambling Along
Movie • 1918
Nervy Young Man
The Devil's Brother
Movie • 1933
Stanlio
The Bullfighters
Movie • 1945
Stanley
The Tree in a Test Tube
Movie • 1942
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West of Hot Dog
Movie • 1924
Stan, a Tenderfoot
Oranges and Lemons
Movie • 1923
Sunkist
Mud and Sand
Movie • 1922
Rhubarb Vaselino
When Comedy Was King
Movie • 1960
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Wild Poses
Movie • 1933
Baby
Pick a Star
Movie • 1937
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4 Clowns
Movie • 1970
(archive footage)
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
Movie • 1925
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
Get 'Em Young
Movie • 1926
Summers, the butler
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie • 1924
Dippy Donawho
Night of Goblins
Movie • 1930
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Movie • 1951
(archive footage)
Thieves
Movie • 1930
The Pest
Movie • 1922
Jimmy Smith
Somewhere In Wrong
Movie • 1925
A tramp
Pie-Eyed
Movie • 1925
Drunk
Roughest Africa
Movie • 1923
Professor Stanilaus Laurello
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1967
Navy Blue Days
Movie • 1925
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Performers Arrive in Hampshire
Movie • 1947
Self
Short Kilts
Movie • 1924
McPherson's Son
Bears and Bad Men
Movie • 1918
Pete
Frauds and Frenzies
Movie • 1918
Simp, Second Prisoner
Huns and Hyphens
Movie • 1918
Gang member
Now I'll Tell One
Movie • 1927
Lawyer
Mixed Nuts
Movie • 1922
Book salesman
The Egg
Movie • 1922
Humpty Dumpty
Eve's Love Letters
Movie • 1927
Anatole, the butler
Save The Ship
Movie • 1923
Husband
Under Two Jags
Movie • 1923
The Soilers
Movie • 1923
Bob Canister
Collars and Cuffs
Movie • 1923
Laundry Worker
Pick and Shovel
Movie • 1923
Miner
The Noon Whistle
Movie • 1923
Scorching Sands
Movie • 1923
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A Man About Town
Movie • 1923
A Man About Town
White Wings
Movie • 1923
Street Cleaner
Short Orders
Movie • 1923
Waiter
Kill or Cure
Movie • 1923
Detained
Movie • 1924
A convict
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Movie • 1924
King / Rudolph Razz
Smithy
Movie • 1924
Smithy
Mandarin Mix-Up
Movie • 1924
Sum Sap
Hollywood Party
Movie • 1934
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Seeing the World
Movie • 1927
English pedestrian
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Movie • 2020
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sleuth
Movie • 1925
Webster Dingle
Frozen Hearts
Movie • 1923
Olaf - A peasant
The Whole Truth
Movie • 1923
The husband
Playing at Politics
Movie • 1931
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Should Tall Men Marry?
Movie • 1928
Texas Tommy
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Half a Man
Movie • 1925
Winchell McSweeney
The Rogue Song
Movie • 1930
Ali-Bek
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie • 2011
Himself (archive footage)
The Night Life
Movie • 1930
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The Skulls
Movie • 1931
Señor Laurel
The Chiselers
Movie • 1931
M. Laurel
Shivering and Shaking
Movie • 1930
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A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Do You Love Your Wife?
Movie • 1919
Toby - the janitor
Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
Movie • 2005
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Movie • 1992
Stan / Sandy / Alf / Lord Paddington (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Movie • 1961
Self (archive footage)
Gas and Air
Movie • 1923
Phillup McCann
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hustling for Health
Movie • 1919
The Man
What's the World Coming To?
Movie • 1926
The Man in the Window
Pardon Us
Movie • 1931
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The Weak-End Party
Movie • 1922
The Gardener
Stan Laurel : 32 courts métrages, 1918-1926
Movie • 1918
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
On the Front Page
Movie • 1926
Dangerfield
Near Dublin
Movie • 1924
Con
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1968
Stan / Alf (archive footage)
Radiomanía
Movie • 1930
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That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Hats Off
Movie • 1927
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That's That!
Movie • 1938
Himself
The Snow Hawk
Movie • 1925
Mountie
Mother's Joy
Movie • 1923
Basil Dippytack / Magnus Dippytack
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)
Twins
Movie • 1925
Stan / his twin
Wide Open Spaces
Movie • 1924
Gabriel Goober
Haunted at Midnight
Movie • 1931
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
Movie • 2006
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Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
Movie
Salute to Stan Laurel
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Movie • 1974
Self (archive footage)
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Movie • 1965
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Dick & Doof - Best of
Movie • 2010
Schauspieler
Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Movie • 1932
Himself
Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Movie • 1932
Himself
When Knights Were Cold
Movie • 1923
Lord Helpus, a Slippery Knight
Dance of the Cookoos
Movie • 1982
MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Movie • 1935
Cleaner
The Handy Man
Movie • 1923
The handy man
Brothers Under the Chin
Movie • 1924
Postage Due
Movie • 1924
Willy Worst
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1967
Stan and Olly
Movie • 1932
Himself
Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons
Movie • 1978
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Hooray for Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
Hinter Schloss und Riegel
Movie • 1932
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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 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 - Ferdinad Finkleberry(archive footage)
MGM Convention 1930 Announcement
Movie • 1930
Himself
Laurel & Hardy: Year Three
Movie • 2025
The Parrott Chase
Movie • 2009
Himself - archival footage
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie • 2020
archive footage
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
Dick und Doof
TV • 1970
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Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self