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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.
Most Popular Stan Laurel Trailers
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01 January 1976
A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.
15 January 1928
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowhand Stan bumble their way into a successful defense of her and the ranch.
01 September 1970
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse.
06 November 1926
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
25 March 1926
Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their neighborhood.
21 February 1927
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
01 December 1967
Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
19 January 1924
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
17 December 1927
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
05 April 1992
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians.
16 March 1924
Stan Laurel as a harness racing jockey who must win a big race.
25 July 1926
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
02 October 1926
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down.
21 March 1961
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
03 December 1922
Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates.
05 January 1919
Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
30 July 1925
Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.
09 December 1923
The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.
01 September 1923
Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
05 February 2002
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
03 April 2011
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
25 October 2011
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
19 July 1930
Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Hog Wild (1930).
21 February 1926
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake.
07 May 1938
Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner.
12 March 1923
A 1923 silent comedy.
01 October 1924
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place.
12 February 1923
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town.
30 April 1925
Stan works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends to be an officer.
24 November 1923
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
28 December 2018
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland.
05 May 1933
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
03 October 1925
Two burglars break into the home of an eccentric doctor. The doctor catches them, but offers to let them go free -- and give them a thousand dollars -- if they go to a cemetery and bring back the body of a man who he believes died of "water on the brain.
14 May 1938
Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father.
29 December 1933
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
29 August 1924
Stan Laurel plays a Chinese laundryman and he displays some good physical slapstick reminiscent of his days with the Karno troupe in England.
06 July 1924
Wide Open Spaces is a 1924 Western silent film starring Stan Laurel.
23 May 1926
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy.
07 October 1933
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
03 November 1939
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles.
08 February 1930
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
03 August 1924
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
07 February 1931
Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed.
14 December 1934
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby.
13 April 1924
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later.
27 May 1927
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
23 November 1929
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
16 October 1930
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
24 April 1927
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
03 November 1923
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who shows up very infrequently.
21 December 1967
A compilation of clips from various Laurel and Hardy films
30 August 1925
Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his own when they can no longer afford to keep supporting him.
19 August 1938
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator.
14 February 1936
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
