Oliver Hardy Biography (1892-1957)

Full name, Oliver Nowell Hardy; born January 18, 1892, in Atlanta, GA; died August 7, 1957, in North Hollywood, CA.

Famous Works

Credits; Film Appearances
Murza-Bek, The Rogue Song, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1930.
Pardon Us (also known as Jail Birds and Gaol Birds), MGM, 1931.
Pack Up Your Troubles, MGM, 1932.
Sons of the Desert (also known as Sons of the Legion), MGM, 1933.
Olio, The Devil's Brother (also known as The Virtuous Tramps and Fra Diavolo), MGM, 1933.
Hollywood Party, MGM, 1934.
Oliver Dee, Babes in Toyland (also known as March of the Wooden Soldiers), MGM, 1934.
Bonnie Scotland, MGM, 1935.
Himself and Bert Hardy, Our Relations, MGM, 1936.
The Bohemian Girl, MGM, 1936.
Way Out West, MGM, 1937.
Pick a Star (also known as Movie Struck), MGM, 1937.
Swiss Miss, MGM, 1938.
Block-Heads, MGM, 1938.

Dr. Tibbitt, Zenobia (also known as Elephants Never Forget), United Artists (UA), 1939.
Ollie, The Flying Deuces, RKO Radio Pictures, 1939.
Saps at Sea, UA, 1940.
A Chump at Oxford, UA, 1940.
Great Guns, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941.
A-Haunting We Will Go, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942.
Jitterbugs, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943.
The Dancing Masters, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943.
Air Raid Wardens, MGM, 1943.
Nothing But Trouble, MGM, 1944.
The Big Noise, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944.
The Bullfighters, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945.
Willie Paine, The Fighting Kentuckian, Republic, 1949.
Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Escapade), Exploitation, 1950.
Riding High, Paramount, 1950.
Appeared in about two hundred short films, beginning in 1913, including Putting Pants on Philip, 1926; From Soup to Nuts and Two Tars, 1928; Double Whoopee and Big Business, 1929; and The Music Box, 1932; also appeared in the compilation The Best of Laurel and Hardy, 1971.
Credits; Television Appearances; Series
Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons, syndicated, 1979.
Credits; Television Appearances; Episodic
Silents Please, ABC, 1960, 1961.

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