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Stan Laurel (1890–1965)


Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on the 16th of June in Ulverston, Cumbria in England, 1890. His father was a vaudeville performer and this led Arthur to being a stage performer too. He didn't get much schooling and this led to the joining of Fred Karno's Troupe where Arthur understudied the future star... See full bio »

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Filmography

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1951 Utopia
Stan
 
1945 The Bullfighters
Stan / Don Sebastian
 
1943 Jitterbugs
Stan
 
1942 A-Haunting We Will Go
Stan (as Laurel)
 
1941 Great Guns
Stan
 
1940 Saps at Sea
Stan
 
1940 A Chump at Oxford
Stan / Lord Paddington
 
1938 Block-Heads
Stan
 
1938 Swiss Miss
Stan
 
1937 Way Out West
Stanley
 
1936 On the Wrong Trek (short)
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
 
1935 Thicker Than Water (short)
Stanley
 
1935 The Fixer Uppers (short)
Stan
 
1935 Tit for Tat (short)
Stan
 
1934 The Live Ghost (short)
Stan
 
1934 Them Thar Hills (short)
Stan
 
1934 Going Bye-Bye! (short)
Mr. Laurel
 
1934 Oliver the Eighth (short)
Stan
 
1933 Dirty Work (short)
Stan
 
1933 Wild Poses (short)
Baby
 
1933 Busy Bodies (short)
Stan
 
1933 Me and My Pal (short)
Stan Laurel
 
1933 Twice Two (short)
Mr. Stan Laurel / Mrs. Sandy Hardy
 
1932 Towed in a Hole (short)
Stan
 
1932 Their First Mistake (short)
Stan
 
1932 Scram! (short)
Mr. Laurel
 
1932 County Hospital (short)
Stan
 
1932 The Chimp (short)
Mr. Laurel
 
1932 The Music Box (short)
Stan
 
1932 Any Old Port! (short)
Stan
 
1932 Helpmates (short)
Stan
 
1931 On the Loose (short)
New Suitor (uncredited)
 
1931 Beau Hunks (short)
Stan
 
1931 One Good Turn (short)
Stan
 
1931 Come Clean (short)
Stan
 
1931 Spuk um Mitternacht (short)
Stan
 
1931 Our Wife (short)
Stan
 
1931 Laughing Gravy (short)
Stan
 
1931 The Stolen Jools (short)
Policeman
 
1931 Glückliche Kindheit (short)
Stan / Stan jr.
 
1931 Be Big! (short)
Stan
 
1931 Muraglie
 
1930 Another Fine Mess (short)
Stan
 
1930 Hog Wild (short)
Stan
 
1930 The Rogue Song
Ali-Bek
 
1930 Below Zero (short)
Stan
 
1930 La vida nocturna (short)
Stan
 
1930 Brats (short)
Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
 
1930 Blotto (short)
Stan
 
1930 Night Owls (short)
Mr. Laurel
 
1930 Ladrones (short)
Stan
 
1930 Radiomanía (short)
Stan
 
1930 Tiembla y Titubea (short)
Stan
 
1930 Une nuit extravagante (short)
Stan
 
1929 Angora Love (short)
Stan
 
1929 The Hoose-Gow (short)
Stan
 
1929 Bacon Grabbers (short)
Stan (process server)
 
1929 They Go Boom! (short)
Stan
 
1929 Perfect Day (short)
Stan
 
1929 Men O'War (short)
Stan
 
1929 Berth Marks (short)
Stan
 
1929 Double Whoopee (short)
Stan
 
1929 Unaccustomed As We Are (short)
Stan
 
1929 Big Business (short)
Stan
 
1929 That's My Wife (short)
Stan
 
1929 Wrong Again (short)
Stan
 
1929 Liberty (short)
Stan
 
1928 We Faw Down (short)
Stan
 
1928 Habeas Corpus (short)
Stan
 
1928 Two Tars (short)
Stan
 
1928 Early to Bed (short)
Stan
 
1928 Their Purple Moment (short)
Mr. Pincher
 
1928 You're Darn Tootin' (short)
Stanley, clarinet player
 
1928 From Soup to Nuts (short)
Mr. Laurel
 
1928 The Finishing Touch (short)
Stan
 
1928 Flying Elephants (short)
Little Twinkle Star
 
1928 Leave 'Em Laughing (short)
Stan
 
1928 Should Tall Men Marry? (short)
Texas Tommy
 
1927 The Battle of the Century (short)
Prize fighter
 
1927 Putting Pants on Philip (short)
Philip
 
1927 Do Detectives Think? (short)
Ferdinand Finkleberry
 
1927 Hats Off (short)
Stan
 
1927 Call of the Cuckoo (short)
Asylum inmate
 
1927 The Second 100 Years (short)
Little Goofy
 
1927 Now I'll Tell One (short)
Lawyer
 
1927 Sailors Beware (short)
Chester Chaste, cabdriver
 
1927 Sugar Daddies (short)
Brittle's lawyer
 
1927 With Love and Hisses (short)
Cuthbert Hope
 
1927 Why Girls Love Sailors (short)
Willie Brisling
 
1927 Love 'Em and Weep (short)
Romaine Ricketts
 
1927 Eve's Love Letters (short)
Anatole, the butler
 
1927 Slipping Wives (short)
Ferdinand Flamingo aka Lionel Ironsides
 
1927 Seeing the World (short)
English pedestrian
 
1926 45 Minutes from Hollywood (short)
Starving Actor - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
 
1926 On the Front Page (short)
Dangerfield
 
1926 Get 'Em Young (short)
Summers, the butler
 
1926 What's the World Coming To? (short)
The Man in the Window (uncredited)
 
1925 Half a Man (short)
Winchell McSweeney
 
1925 Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (short)
Dr. Pyckle / Mr. Pryde
 
1925 The Sleuth (short)
Webster Dingle
 
1925 Navy Blue Days (short)
Stan
 
1925 The Snow Hawk (short)
Mountie
 
1925 Pie-Eyed (short)
Drunk
 
1925 Twins (short)
Stan / his twin
 
1925 Somewhere in Wrong (short)
A tramp
 
1925 Cowboys Cry for It (short)
 
1924 West of Hot Dog (short)
Stan, a tenderfoot
 
1924 Detained (short)
A convict
 
1924 Mandarin Mix-Up (short)
Sum Sap
 
1924 Short Kilts (short)
McPherson's son
 
1924 Wide Open Spaces (short)
Gabriel Goober
 
1924 Rupert of Hee Haw (short)
The King/Rudolph Razz
 
1924 Near Dublin (short)
Con
 
1924 Brothers Under the Chin (short)
 
1924 Zeb vs. Paprika (short)
Dippy Donawho
 
1924 Postage Due (short)
Stan
 
1924 Smithy (short)
Smithy
 
1923 Mother's Joy (short)
Magnus Dippytack/Basil Dippytack, his son
 
1923 Scorching Sands (short)
Stan
 
1923 The Soilers (short)
Bob Canister
 
1923 Save the Ship (short)
Husband
 
1923 The Whole Truth (short)
The husband
 
1923 Frozen Hearts (short)
Olaf - A peasant
 
1923 Roughest Africa (short)
Prof. Stanislaus Laurello (Big Boss)
 
1923 A Man About Town (short)
A Man About Town
 
1923 Short Orders (short)
Waiter
 
1923 Oranges and Lemons (short)
Sunkist
 
1923 Gas and Air (short)
Phillup McCann
 
1923 Kill or Cure (short)
Door to door salesman
 
1923 Collars and Cuffs (short)
Laundry worker
 
1923 Pick and Shovel (short)
Miner
 
1923 Under Two Jags (short)
The Stranger
 
1923 White Wings (short)
Street cleaner
 
1923 The Noon Whistle (short)
Tanglefoot
 
1923 The Handy Man (short)
The handy man
 
1923 When Knights Were Cold (short)
Lord Helpus, a Slippery Knight
 
1923 The Garage
 
1922 The Pest (short)
Jimmy Smith
 
1922 Mud and Sand (short)
Rhubarb Vaselino
 
1922 The Weak-End Party (short)
The gardener
 
1922 The Egg (short)
Humpty Dumpty
 
1922 Mixed Nuts (short)
Book salesman
 
1921 The Lucky Dog (short)
Brash young man accused of dognapping
 
1919 Hoot Mon! (short)
 
1919 Hustling for Health (short)
The Man
 
1919 Do You Love Your Wife?
Toby - the janitor
 
1918 O, It's Great to Be Crazy (short)
Sam Squirrel (as Stanley Laurel)
 
1918 Frauds and Frenzies (short)
Simp, Second Prisoner
 
1918 Just Rambling Along (short)
Nervy Young Man
 
1918 Bears and Bad Men (short)
Pete
 
1918 No Place Like Jail (short)
Convict
 
1918 Huns and Hyphens (short)
Gang member
 
1918 Phoney Photos (short) (as Stanley Laurel)
 
1918 Who's Zoo? (short)
Stanley (as Stanley Laurel)
 
1918 Hickory Hiram (short)
Hiram (as Stanley Laurel)
 
1917 Nuts in May (short) (as Stan Jefferson)
 
Show ShowWriter (59 titles)
1945 The Bullfighters (uncredited)
 
1940 Saps at Sea (uncredited)
 
1940 A Chump at Oxford (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1938 Swiss Miss (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1936 Our Relations (contributor to screenplay - uncredited)
 
1936 The Bohemian Girl (uncredited)
 
1935 Bonnie Scotland (contributor to screenplay - uncredited)
 
1935 Thicker Than Water (short) (story - uncredited)
 
1935 Tit for Tat (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Babes in Toyland (uncredited)
 
1934 Them Thar Hills (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Going Bye-Bye! (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Sons of the Desert (uncredited)
 
1933 Busy Bodies (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 The Midnight Patrol (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Me and My Pal (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Twice Two (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Towed in a Hole (short) (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1932 Their First Mistake (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Pack Up Your Troubles (uncredited)
 
1931 Come Clean (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Pardon Us (uncredited)
 
1931 Our Wife (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Laughing Gravy (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Be Big! (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Brats (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Blotto (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Night Owls (short) (uncredited)
 
1928 Their Purple Moment (short) (uncredited)
 
1928 Galloping Ghosts (short) (writer)
 
1928 The Finishing Touch (short) (uncredited)
 
1927 Love 'Em and Weep (short) (uncredited)
 
1927 Eve's Love Letters (short) (story & screenplay)
 
1927 The Honorable Mr. Buggs (short)
 
1927 Why Girls Say No (short)
 
1926 The Nickel-Hopper (short)
 
1926 On the Front Page (short)
 
1926 Raggedy Rose
 
1926 Get 'Em Young (short)
 
1926 Should Husbands Pay? (short)
 
1926 Along Came Auntie (short)
 
1926 The Devil Horse (additional material)
 
1926 Never Too Old (short)
 
1926 Don Key (Son of Burro) (short)
 
1926 Scared Stiff (short)
 
1926 Wife Tamers (short)
 
1926 Dizzy Daddies (short)
 
1926 Madame Mystery (short)
 
1926 Wandering Papas (short)
 
1926 Your Husband's Past (short)
 
1926 Charley My Boy (short) (additional material)
 
1926 What's the World Coming To? (short)
 
1925 Starvation Blues (short) (story)
 
1925 Moonlight and Noses (short)
 
1925 Unfriendly Enemies (short)
 
1925 Chasing the Chaser (short)
 
1923 The Noon Whistle (short) (writer)
 
1923 The Garage (writer)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (14 titles)
1988 It Came from Somewhere Else (performer: "Trail of the Lonesome Pine")
 
1976 Top of the Pops (TV series)
Episode dated 25 December 1976 (1976) (performer: "Trail of the Lonesome Pine")
 
1944 Nothing But Trouble (performer: "The Notre Dame Victory March" 1908 - uncredited)
 
1944 The Big Noise (performer: "Mairzy Doats" 1943 - uncredited)
 
1940 Saps at Sea (performer: "Home, Sweet Home" - uncredited)
 
1939 The Flying Deuces (performer: "Shine On, Harvest Moon" 1908 - uncredited, "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" 1919 - uncredited)
 
1938 Swiss Miss (performer: "The Mousetrap Song" 1938 - uncredited, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" 1910 - uncredited)
 
1937 Pick a Star (performer: "Old Black Joe" 1860 - uncredited, "Reuben, Reuben, I've Been Thinking" - uncredited, "Listen to the Mockingbird" 1855 - uncredited)
 
1937 Way Out West (performer: "At the Ball, That's All" 1913 - uncredited, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" 1913 - uncredited, "I Want to Be in Dixie" 1912 - uncredited)
 
1935 Tit for Tat (short) (performer: "Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" - uncredited / "The Old Spinning Wheel" 1933 - uncredited)
 
1934 Them Thar Hills (short) ("The Old Spinning Wheel" 1933 - uncredited)
 
1933 Sons of the Desert (performer: "Honolulu Baby" - uncredited)
 
1930 Below Zero (short) (performer: "In the Good Old Summertime" 1902 - uncredited)
 
1930 Brats (short) (performer: "Go to Sleep, My Baby" - uncredited)
 
Show ShowDirector (12 titles)
1945 The Bullfighters (uncredited)
 
1927 Flaming Fathers (short)
 
1926 Get 'Em Young (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1926 Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (short)
 
1926 Should Husbands Pay? (short)
 
1926 Madame Mystery (short) (co-director)
 
1926 Wandering Papas (short)
 
1925 Moonlight and Noses (short)
 
1925 Unfriendly Enemies (short)
 
1925 Book Bozo (short)
 
1925 Yes, Yes, Nanette (short)
 
1925 Chasing the Chaser (short)
 
Show ShowProducer (6 titles)
1939 Two Gun Troubador (executive producer)
 
1938 Songs and Bullets (executive producer)
 
1938 Knight of the Plains (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1938 The Rangers' Round-Up (executive producer)
 
1937 Way Out West (producer - uncredited)
 
1936 Our Relations (producer)
 
1927 Seeing the World (short) (assistant director)
 
1926 Raggedy Rose (assistant director)
 
1926 The Merry Widower (short) (assistant director)
 
1926 Never Too Old (short) (assistant director)
 
1926 Madame Mystery (short) (assistant director)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (3 titles)
1927 Jewish Prudence (short) (gag writer)
 
1927 One Hour Married (short) (gag writer)
 
1926 Good Cheer (short) (gag writer)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2009 The New Bike (short) (acknowledgment)
 
1965 The Great Race (dedicatee - as Mr. Laurel)
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
1956 One Moment Please (documentary short)
Himself
 
1955 This Is Music Hall (TV movie)
Himself
 
1954 This Is Your Life (TV series)
Himself
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1954) … Himself
 
1943 The Tree in a Test Tube (documentary short)
Stan
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (78 titles)
2012 Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer (TV documentary)
Stanley (uncredited)
 
2011 Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2011 On Location with the Boys (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 My Favourite Joke (TV series)
 
2011 Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Special Collector's Edition (TV series)
 
2010 100 Years of the London Palladium (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2008 Nova (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Hart Van Nederland (TV series)
 
2008 50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases (TV documentary)
Stan (uncredited)
 
2007 Hoge bomen: Pioniers (TV series documentary)
 
2006 Laurel & Hardy: The Fox Years (video short)
Himself
 
2006 Silent Clowns (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2005 Laurel & Hardy: Hat's Off (TV documentary)
Himself/Various roles
 
2005 Bruce Forsyth's Comedy Heroes (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The Comedians' Comedian (TV documentary)
 
2003 Room 101 (TV series)
 
2003 Living Famously (TV series)
 
2001 Slaphappy (TV series)
Himself (2001)
 
1999 The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Laurel (uncredited)
 
1999 The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1995 Laurel & Hardy U.K. Tours (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1994 That's Entertainment! III (documentary)
Performer in Clip from 'Hollywood Party' (uncredited)
 
1994 Hal Roach: King of Laughter (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Before the Bowler: Stan's Early Life (video documentary short)
(as Stan Jefferson)
 
1992 Funny Business
 
1992 A Tribute to the Boys: Laurel and Hardy (TV movie)
Stan
 
1992 Legends of Comedy (TV documentary)
 
1988 Moonlighting (TV series)
 
1988 Muppet Babies (TV series)
 
1987 Tango Bar
Himself (uncredited)
 
1987 The Revenge of the Sons of the Desert (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1986 The Laurel and Hardy Show (TV series)
Stan (1986)
 
1986 Classic Comedy Teams (video documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Cocoon
Himself, film clip from 'Flying Deuces' (uncredited)
 
1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s (documentary)
 
1983 Historia del cine: Epoca muda (video documentary)
 
1982 Dance of the Cookoos
Himself
 
1981 Brooklyn Bridge (documentary)
Himself (clip from "Way Out West") (uncredited)
 
1975-1980 Lachen Sie mit Stan & Ollie (TV series documentary)
 
1979 The Hollywood Clowns (video documentary)
Stan
 
1978 Funny Business (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1976 Top of the Pops (TV series)
 
1976 Clapper Board (TV series)
 
1976 America at the Movies (documentary)
Stan (as Laurel)
 
1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (documentary)
Various Film Clips (as Laurel)
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
Himself
 
1975 Hooray for Hollywood (documentary)
Himself
 
1974 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
 
1972 Another Nice Mess
Stan
 
1970 4 Clowns
 
1967 The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (documentary)
 
1965 Salute to Stan Laurel (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
1965 Zebra in the Kitchen
Himself (uncredited)
 
1964 The Big Parade of Comedy (documentary)
Stan in 'Hollywood Party'
 
1963 Fractured Flickers (TV series)
 
1963 30 Years of Fun
 
1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (documentary)
Himself
 
1962 Nickelodeon Days (documentary)
 
1961 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV series)
 
1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter (documentary)
Himself
 
1960 When Comedy Was King (documentary)
edited from 'Big Business' (as Laurel)
 
1957 The Golden Age of Comedy (documentary)
Stan (as Laurel)
 
1957 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV series)
 
1953 Double Trouble (short)
The Twin Laurels
 
1952 Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (documentary short)
Himself
 
1951 ¡Qué tiempos aquéllos! (documentary)
 
1943 The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (documentary short)
Himself - in a Jeep in Parade (uncredited)
 

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Personal Details


Publicity Listings:

23 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 5 Articles  | 4 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »


Alternate Names:

Laurel & Hardy | Stan Jefferson | Mr. Laurel | Stanley Laurel | Laurel

Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[on a comic he refused to name]: Very funny when he's not being dirty. I can't stand him. See more »

Trivia:

Stan Laurel was an avid Western fan. His son-in-law, Rand Brooks, is best known for doing Westerns. See more »

Trademark:

Completely vacant stare into the camera, accentuated by white pancake makeup. See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini