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Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson, 16 June 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.
Known For
The Music Box
(1932)
Stan
Utopia
(1951)
Stan
Sons of the Desert
(1933)
Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Brats
(1930)
Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976)
(archive footage)
Swiss Miss
(1938)
Stan
Babes in Toyland
(1934)
Stannie Dum
Helpmates
(1932)
Stan
Pardon Us
(1931)
Stan
The Flying Deuces
(1939)
Stan
The Chimp
(1932)
Stan
Los Angeles Plays Itself
(2004)
Stan (archive footage)
A Chump at Oxford
(1940)
Stan
Full Filmography
Acting
Just Rambling Along
(1918)
Nervy Young Man
Frauds and Frenzies
(1918)
Simp, Second Prisoner
Huns and Hyphens
(1918)
Gang member
Bears and Bad Men
(1918)
Pete
Stan Laurel : 32 courts métrages, 1918-1926
(1918)
Hustling for Health
(1919)
The Man
Do You Love Your Wife?
(1919)
Toby - the janitor
The Lucky Dog
(1921)
Brash young man accused of dognapping
Mixed Nuts
(1922)
Book salesman
Mud and Sand
(1922)
Rhubarb Vaselino
The Pest
(1922)
Jimmy Smith
The Egg
(1922)
Humpty Dumpty
The Weak-End Party
(1922)
The Gardener
Scorching Sands
(1923)
Stan
The Noon Whistle
(1923)
Save The Ship
(1923)
Husband
A Man About Town
(1923)
A Man About Town
Under Two Jags
(1923)
Collars and Cuffs
(1923)
Laundry Worker
Gas and Air
(1923)
Phillup McCann
Oranges and Lemons
(1923)
Sunkist
Pick and Shovel
(1923)
Miner
The Soilers
(1923)
Bob Canister
Mother's Joy
(1923)
Basil Dippytack / Magnus Dippytack
The Handy Man
(1923)
The handy man
The Whole Truth
(1923)
The husband
Frozen Hearts
(1923)
Olaf - A peasant
Roughest Africa
(1923)
Professor Stanilaus Laurello
Kill or Cure
(1923)
When Knights Were Cold
(1923)
Lord Helpus, a Slippery Knight
Short Orders
(1923)
Waiter
White Wings
(1923)
Street Cleaner
Zeb vs. Paprika
(1924)
Dippy Donawho
Postage Due
(1924)
Willy Worst
Detained
(1924)
A convict
Smithy
(1924)
Smithy
Near Dublin
(1924)
Con
Rupert of Hee-Haw
(1924)
King / Rudolph Razz
Short Kilts
(1924)
McPherson's Son
West of Hot Dog
(1924)
Stan, a Tenderfoot
Wide Open Spaces
(1924)
Gabriel Goober
Brothers Under the Chin
(1924)
Mandarin Mix-Up
(1924)
Sum Sap
Navy Blue Days
(1925)
Stan
Twins
(1925)
Stan / his twin
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride
(1925)
Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
Pie-Eyed
(1925)
Drunk
The Sleuth
(1925)
Webster Dingle
The Snow Hawk
(1925)
Mountie
Half a Man
(1925)
Winchell McSweeney
Somewhere In Wrong
(1925)
A tramp
On the Front Page
(1926)
Dangerfield
What's the World Coming To?
(1926)
The Man in the Window
45 Minutes from Hollywood
(1926)
Hotel Guest
Get 'Em Young
(1926)
Summers, the butler
Seeing the World
(1927)
English pedestrian
Eve's Love Letters
(1927)
Anatole, the butler
Sugar Daddies
(1927)
Brittle's lawyer
Love 'Em and Weep
(1927)
Romaine Ricketts
With Love and Hisses
(1927)
Cuthbert Hope
Call of the Cuckoo
(1927)
Asylum Inmate
The Battle of the Century
(1927)
Prize Fighter
Do Detectives Think?
(1927)
Ferdinand Finkleberry
Duck Soup
(1927)
Hives
Why Girls Love Sailors
(1927)
Willie Brisling
Slipping Wives
(1927)
Handyman
Hats Off
(1927)
Stan
Putting Pants on Philip
(1927)
Philip
Now I'll Tell One
(1927)
Lawyer
The Second Hundred Years
(1927)
Little Goofy
Sailors, Beware!
(1927)
Chester Chaste, cabdriver
Early to Bed
(1928)
Stan
Habeas Corpus
(1928)
Stan
Their Purple Moment
(1928)
Mr. Pincher
Should Tall Men Marry?
(1928)
Texas Tommy
Flying Elephants
(1928)
Little Twinkle Star
The Finishing Touch
(1928)
Stan
Leave 'Em Laughing
(1928)
Stan
From Soup to Nuts
(1928)
Hired butler
Should Married Men Go Home?
(1928)
Stan
We Faw Down
(1928)
Stan
You're Darn Tootin'
(1928)
Stanley, clarinet player
Two Tars
(1928)
Stan
Bacon Grabbers
(1929)
Stan
Berth Marks
(1929)
Stan
Angora Love
(1929)
Stan
The Hoose-Gow
(1929)
Stan
Men O'War
(1929)
Stan
Liberty
(1929)
Stan
Perfect Day
(1929)
Stan
Double Whoopee
(1929)
Stan
Big Business
(1929)
Stan
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
(1929)
Self
That's My Wife
(1929)
Stan
Wrong Again
(1929)
Stan
Unaccustomed as We Are
(1929)
Stan
They Go Boom!
(1929)
Stan
Blotto
(1930)
Stan
Brats
(1930)
Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
The Rogue Song
(1930)
Ali-Bek
Night Owls
(1930)
Stan
Another Fine Mess
(1930)
Stan
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
(1930)
Stan
The Night Life
(1930)
Stan
Below Zero
(1930)
Stan
Night of Goblins
(1930)
Stan
Shivering and Shaking
(1930)
Stan
Hog Wild
(1930)
Stan
Thieves
(1930)
The Stolen Jools
(1931)
Policeman
Haunted at Midnight
(1931)
Stan
Chickens Come Home
(1931)
Mr. Laurel
Laughing Gravy
(1931)
Stan
Our Wife
(1931)
Stan
One Good Turn
(1931)
Stan
Pardon Us
(1931)
Stan
Beau Hunks
(1931)
Stan
Come Clean
(1931)
Stan
On the Loose
(1931)
New Suitor (uncredited)
Be Big!
(1931)
Stan
The Chiselers
(1931)
M. Laurel
The Skulls
(1931)
Señor Laurel
Playing at Politics
(1931)
Stan
Helpmates
(1932)
Stan
Towed in a Hole
(1932)
Stan
Their First Mistake
(1932)
Stan
Scram!
(1932)
Stan
County Hospital
(1932)
Stan
The Chimp
(1932)
Stan
Pack Up Your Troubles
(1932)
Stan
Any Old Port!
(1932)
Stan
Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
(1932)
Himself
Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
(1932)
Himself
The Music Box
(1932)
Stan
The Devil's Brother
(1933)
Stanlio
Wild Poses
(1933)
Baby
Twice Two
(1933)
Stan / Mrs. Hardy
Dirty Work
(1933)
Stan
The Midnight Patrol
(1933)
Officer Stanley Laurel
Me and My Pal
(1933)
Stan
Busy Bodies
(1933)
Stan
Sons of the Desert
(1933)
Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Them Thar Hills
(1934)
Stan
Going Bye-Bye!
(1934)
Mr. Laurel
Oliver the Eighth
(1934)
Stan
The Live Ghost
(1934)
Stan
Babes in Toyland
(1934)
Stannie Dum
Hollywood Party
(1934)
Stan
Thicker Than Water
(1935)
Stan
Tit for Tat
(1935)
Stan
The Fixer Uppers
(1935)
Stan
MGM 1935 Promo Reel
(1935)
Cleaner
Bonnie Scotland
(1935)
Stanley MacLaurel
The Bohemian Girl
(1936)
Stan
On the Wrong Trek
(1936)
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
Our Relations
(1936)
Stan / Alf Laurel
Pick a Star
(1937)
Stan Laurel
That's That!
(1937)
Himself
Way Out West
(1937)
Stan
Swiss Miss
(1938)
Stan
Block-Heads
(1938)
Stan
The Flying Deuces
(1939)
Stan
Saps at Sea
(1940)
Stan
A Chump at Oxford
(1940)
Stan
Great Guns
(1941)
Stan
The Tree in a Test Tube
(1942)
Stan
A-Haunting We Will Go
(1942)
Stan
Jitterbugs
(1943)
Stan
The Dancing Masters
(1943)
Stan
Air Raid Wardens
(1943)
Stan
The Big Noise
(1944)
Stan
Nothing But Trouble
(1944)
Stan
The Bullfighters
(1945)
Stanley
Performers arrive in Hampshire
(1947)
Self
Utopia
(1951)
Stan
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
(1951)
(archive footage)
The Golden Age of Comedy
(1957)
archive footage
When Comedy Was King
(1960)
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
(1961)
Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
(1964)
Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
(1965)
Stan (archive footage)
Salute to Stan Laurel
(1965)
Self (archive footage)
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
(1967)
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
(1967)
4 Clowns
(1970)
(archive footage)
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
(1974)
Himself (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(1975)
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976)
(archive footage)
The Hollywood Clowns
(1979)
Self (archive footage)
Dance of the Cookoos
(1982)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(1984)
(archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(1985)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
(1992)
Stan / Sandy / Alf / Lord Paddington (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(1994)
(archive footage)
Laurel & Hardy - Best of
(1999)
Stan
Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
(2001)
Stan
Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
(2002)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
(2002)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
(2004)
Stan (archive footage)
Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
(2005)
Stan
Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
(2006)
Stan
Girl 27
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Dick & Doof - Best of
(2010)
Schauspieler
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
(2011)
Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
(2011)
Himself (archive footage)
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
(2011)
Self (archive footage)
Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection
(2011)
Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
(2020)
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
(2020)
Writing
Moonlight and Noses
(1925)
Writer
Unfriendly Enemies
(1925)
Writer
Chasing the Chaser
(1925)
Writer
On the Front Page
(1926)
Writer
Raggedy Rose
(1926)
Writer
Get 'Em Young
(1926)
Writer
Wandering Papas
(1926)
Writer
Along Came Auntie
(1926)
Writer
Madame Mystery
(1926)
Writer
Wife Tamers
(1926)
Writer
Charley My Boy!
(1926)
Writer
What's the World Coming To?
(1926)
Writer
The Nickel-Hopper
(1926)
Writer
Eve's Love Letters
(1927)
Screenplay
Jewish Prudence
(1927)
Writer
Why Girls Say No
(1927)
Writer
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
(1927)
Writer
Love 'Em and Weep
(1927)
Writer
The Finishing Touch
(1928)
Writer
Hog Wild
(1930)
Story
Blotto
(1930)
Writer
Brats
(1930)
Writer
Our Wife
(1931)
Writer
One Good Turn
(1931)
Writer
Come Clean
(1931)
Writer
Pardon Us
(1931)
Other
Scram!
(1932)
Writer
The Music Box
(1932)
Writer
Their First Mistake
(1932)
Writer
The Chimp
(1932)
Writer
Towed in a Hole
(1932)
Writer
Pack Up Your Troubles
(1932)
Writer
Helpmates
(1932)
Writer
County Hospital
(1932)
Writer
Sons of the Desert
(1933)
Writer
Twice Two
(1933)
Writer
The Midnight Patrol
(1933)
Writer
Busy Bodies
(1933)
Writer
Me and My Pal
(1933)
Writer
Them Thar Hills
(1934)
Writer
Going Bye-Bye!
(1934)
Writer
Tit for Tat
(1935)
Writer
Thicker Than Water
(1935)
Story
Way Out West
(1937)
Writer
The Bullfighters
(1945)
Writer
Directing
Book Bozo
(1925)
Director
Yes, Yes, Nanette
(1925)
Director
Moonlight and Noses
(1925)
Director
Unfriendly Enemies
(1925)
Director
Chasing the Chaser
(1925)
Director
Wandering Papas
(1926)
Director
Get 'Em Young
(1926)
Director
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
(1926)
Director
Madame Mystery
(1926)
Director
Seeing the World
(1927)
Assistant Director
Flaming Fathers
(1927)
Director
Production
The Bohemian Girl
(1936)
Producer
Our Relations
(1936)
Producer
Way Out West
(1937)
Producer
Knight of the Plains
(1938)
Executive Producer
Songs and Bullets
(1938)
Executive Producer
Swiss Miss
(1938)
Producer
Crew