Oliver Hardy

born: 18 January 1892 Harlem, Georgia, United States of America

died: 07 August 1957 North Hollywood, California, United States of America (cerebral thrombosis, age 65)

American comedian actor, who started out playing heavies and supporting roles as 'Babe' Hardy. He is the fat half of the Laurel and Hardy team. Interred at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, California, USA. Married three times: Madelyn Saloshin (1913-1921); Myrtle Reeves (1921-1937); Virginia Lucille Jones (1940-1957) (his death). See also Stan Laurel.

Real name: Norvell Hardy Height: 6'1"

Films listed on this page: complete filmography.

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1925 Wild Papa Model's brother 1925 Isn't Life Terrible? Remington, the brother-in-law 1925 Yes, Yes, Nanette Nanette's former sweetheart 1925 Should Sailors Marry? Doctor 1925 Laughing Ladies Policeman 1926 Wandering Papas Foreman 1926 Madame Mystery Captain Schmaltz 1926 Say It With Babies Arlington Kimmel, the floorwalker 1926 Long Fliv The King The Prime Minister's assistant 1926 Thundering Fleas Policeman 1926 Along Came Auntie Mr. Vincent Belcjer (the first husband) 1926 Crazy Like A Fox Charley's victim 1926 Bromo And Juliet Cab driver 1926 Be Your Age Osward Schwartzkopple 1926 The Nickel-Hopper Jazz band drummer 1926 45 Minutes From Hollywood Hotel detective 1927 Two-Time Mama Policeman 1927 Should Men Walk Home? Party guest at punch bowl 1927 Why Girls Say No Policeman   1927 Duck Soup Marmaduke Maltravers/ fake Colonel Blood 1927 The Honorable Mr. Buggs Butler 1927 Slipping Wives Jarvis, the butler 1927 No Man's Law Sharkey Nye 1927 Love 'Em And Weep Judge Chigger 1927 Fluttering Hearts Big Bill 1927 Baby Brother Nursemaid's boyfriend 1927 Why Girls Love Sailors First mate 1927 With Love And Hisses Top sergeant Banner 1927 Sugar Daddies Brittle's butler 1927 Sailors, Beware! Purser Cryder 1927 Now I'll Tell One Policeman 1927 The Second 100 Years Big Goofy 1927 Call Of The Cuckoo Asylum inmate 1927 Hats Off! Ollie 1927 Do Detectives Think? Sherlock Pinkham 1927 Putting Pants On Philip Piedmont J. Mumblethunder 1927 The Battle Of The Century Manager 1928 Leave 'Em Laughing Ollie 1928 Flying Elephants Mighty giant 1928 The Finishing Touch Ollie 1928 Galloping Ghosts Meadows/Officer 13 1928 From Soup To Nuts Ollie 1928 Barnum & Ringling, Inc. Startled drunk 1928 You're Darn Tootin' Ollie 1928 Their Purple Moment Ollie 1928 Should Married Men Go Home? Ollie 1928 Early To Bed Ollie 1928 Two Tars Ollie 1928 Habeas Corpus Ollie 1928 We Faw Down Ollie 1929 Liberty Ollie 1929 Wrong Again Ollie 1929 That's My Wife Ollie 1929 Big Business Ollie 1929 Unaccustomed As We Are Ollie 1929 Double Whoopee Ollie 1929 Berth Marks Ollie 1929 Men O' War Ollie 1929 Perfect Day Ollie 1929 They Go Boom! Ollie 1929 Bacon Grabbers Ollie 1929 The Hoose-Gow Ollie 1929 Angora Love Ollie 1930 Night Owls Ollie 1930 Ladrones Ollie 1930 Blotto Ollie 1930 Une Nuit Extravagante Ollie 1930 La Vida Nocturna Ollie 1930 Brats Ollie 1930 Les Bons Petits Diables Ollie 1930 Glückliche Kindheit Ollie 1930 Below Zero Ollie 1930 Tiembla y Titubea Ollie 1930 Hog Wild Ollie 1930 Pêle-Mêle Ollie 1930 Radiomanía Ollie 1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case Ollie 1930 Noche de Duendes Ollie 1930 Spuk um Mitternacht Ollie 1930 Feu Mon Oncle  Ollie 1930 Another Fine Mess Ollie 1931 Be Big! Ollie 1931 Chickens Come Home Ollie 1931 Politiquerias Ollie 1931 Laughing Gravy Ollie 1931 Los Calaveras Ollie 1931 Les Carottiers Ollie 1931 Our Wife Ollie 1931 Pardon Us Ollie 1931 Los Presidiarios (De Bote En Bote) Ollie 1931 Hinter Schloss Und Riegel Ollie 1931 Sous Les Verrous Ollie 1931 Muraglie Ollie 1931 Come Clean Ollie 1931 One Good Turn Ollie 1931 Beau Hunks Ollie 1931 On The Loose Ollie 1932 Helpmates Ollie 1932 Any Old Port! Ollie 1932 The Music Box Ollie 1932 The Chimp Ollie 1932 County Hospital Ollie 1932 Scram! Ollie 1932 Pack Up Your Troubles Ollie 1932 Their First Mistake Ollie 1932 Towed In A Hole Ollie 1933 Twice Two Ollie/Mrs. Fanny Laurel 1933 Me And My Pal Ollie 1933 The Devil's Brother Ollio 1933 The Midnight Patrol Ollie 1933 Busy Bodies Ollie 1933 Wild Poses Brat Ollie 1933 Dirty Work Ollie 1933 Sons Of The Desert Ollie 1934 Oliver The Eighth Ollie 1934 Going Bye-Bye! Ollie 1934 Them Thar Hills Ollie 1934 Babes In Toyland Ollie 1934 The Live Ghost Ollie 1935 Tit For Tat Ollie 1935 The Fixer Uppers Ollie 1935 Thicker Than Water Ollie 1935 Bonnie Scotland Ollie 1936 The Bohemian Girl Ollie 1936 On The Wrong Trek Hitchhiker 1936 Our Relations Ollie/Alf Laurel 1937 Way Out West Ollie 1937 Pick A Star Ollie 1938 Swiss Miss Ollie 1938 Block-Heads Ollie 1939 Zenobia Dr. Henry Tibbett M.D. 1940 A Chump At Oxford Ollie/Lord Paddington's servant 1940 Saps At Sea Ollie

▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS

1920

1914	Outwitting Dad Reggie Kewp
1914	Casey's Birthday Policeman
1914	Building A Fire Policeman
1914	He Won A Ranch Cowboy
1914	The Particular Cowboys Cowboy
1914	For Two Pins Policeman
1914	A Tango Tragedy Man at dance
1914	A Brewerytown Romance Cassidy/ The cop
1914	The Female Cop Boob cop
1914	Good Cider Hiram
1914	Long May It Wave The King
1914	His Sudden Recovery Mrs. Jones
1914	Who's Boss
1914	The Rise Of The Johnsons Grocery man
1914	He Wanted Work Foreman
1914	The Kidnapped Bride Daniel Cassidy [*this film title is not listed by Rob Stone]
1914	Worms Will Turn Policeman [*this film title is not listed by Rob Stone]
1914	They Bought A Boat Cabin boy
1914	Back To The Farm Tom
1914	Making Auntie Welcome Grocery boy
1914	The Green Alarm Mike
1914	Never Too Old Phil
1914	A Fool There Was Traffic cop
1914	Pins Are Lucky Peter Pelton
1914	Jealous James Grocery boy
1914	When The Ham Turned Bartender
1914	The Smuggler's Daughter Gwendolyn's father
1914	She Married For Love Onlooker
1914	The Soubrette And The Simp Fred, the simp
1914	The Honor Of The Force Fattie
1914	Kidnapping The Kid Willie Gold
1914	Magazine Cooking Grocer
1914	She Was The Other Cutie
1914	The Daddy Of Them All Peitzheimer
1914	Mother's Baby Boy Percival Pilkins
1914	The Servant Girl's Legacy Cy
1914	He Wanted His Pants Cop
1914	Dobs At The Shore Meggie Heckla
1914	The Fresh Air Cure Morris Silverstein
1914	Weary Willie's Rags Hotel clerk
1915	The Tramps [unidentified character]
1915	What He Forgot [unidentified character]
1915	They Looked Alike Pedestrian
1915	Spaghetti And Lottery Cook
1915	Gus And The Anarchists Tom Dreck
1915	Cupid's Target Bob
1915	Shoddy The Tailor Policeman
1915	The Prize Baby Bill, the prize baby
1915	An Expensive Visit Jack
1915	Cleaning Time John Herringbone
1915	Mixed Flats Bob White
1915	Safety Worst Bill Jones
1915	The Twin Sister Bill Bolt
1915	Who Stole The Doggies? Murphy, the cop
1915	A Lucky Strike Bill Myers
1915	Matilda's Legacy Fatty Waite
1915	Capturing Bad Bill Member of the posse
1915	Her Choice [unidentified character]
1915	The Cannibal King Willie
1915	It May Be You Paul Simmons
1915	What A Cinch Police chief Myers
1915	Poor Baby Matilda's sweetheart
1915	Not Much Force City councilman
1915	Food For Kings And Riley Servant
1915	The Dead Letter Mateo
1915	Clothes Make The Man Rastus
1915	The Haunted Hat [unidentified character]
1915	Avenging Bill Bill, the grocer's boy
1915	The Simp And The Sophomores Professor Arm. Strong
1915	Babe's School Days Ikie Ikestein
1915	The New Adventures Of J. Rufus Wallingford [unidentified character]
1915	Ethel's Romeos Jake Stimpson
1915	Fatty's Fatal Fun Fatty
1915	The Lilac Splash Burglar
1915	The Crazy Clock Maker [unidentified character]
1915	Something In Her Eye Grocer
1915	The Midnight Prowlers [unidentified character]
1915	Love, Pepper And Sweets [unidentified character]
1915	A Janitor's Joyful Job Melinda Rousseau
1915	Strangled Harmony [unidentified character]
1915	Speed Kings [unidentified character]
1915	Mixed And Fixed [unidentified character]
1915	Ups And Downs Shifty Mike
1916	This Way Out Plump [*image is from a still]
1916	Chickens [?] [*image is from a still]
1916	Frenzied Finance [unidentified character]
1916	A Special Delivery Plump
1916	Busted Hearts [unidentified character]
1916	A Sticky Affair Plump
1916	Bungle's Rainy Day [unidentified character]
1916	One Too Many Plump
1916	Bungles Enforces The Law [unidentified character]
1916	The Serenade Plump
1916	Bungles' Elopement [unidentified character]
1916	Nerve And Gasoline Plump
1916	Bungles Lands A Job [unidentified character]
1916	Their Vacation Plump
1916	Mamma's Boys Plump
1916	A Battle Royal Plump
1916	All For A Girl Plump
1916	Hired And Fired [unidentified character]
1916	What's Sauce For The Goose Mr. Boob Plump
1916	The Brave Ones Plump
1916	The Water Cure Plump
1916	Thirty Days Plump
1916	Baby Doll Plump
1916	The Schemers Plump
1916	Sea Dogs Plump
1916	Hungry Hearts Plump
1916	Never Again Plump
1916	The Lottery Man Maggie Murphy
1916	Better Halves Plump
1916	Edison Bugg's Invention Chief
1916	A Day At School Plump
1916	A Terrible Tragedy Markoff
1916	Spaghetti Plump
1916	Aunt Bill Plump
1916	The Heroes Plump
1916	It Happened In Pikesville Jiggs
1916	Human Hounds Plump
1916	Dreamy Knights Plump
1916	Life Savers Plump
1916	Their Honeymoon Plump
1916	The Try Out [unidentified character]
1916	An Aerial Joyride Plump
1916	Sidetracked Plump
1916	Stranded Plump
1916	Love And Duty Private Plump
1916	The Reformers Plump
1916	Royal Blood Plump
1916	The Candy Trail Plump
1916	The Precious Parcel Plump
1916	A Maid To Order Plump
1916	Twin Flats Babe
1916	A Warm Reception Babe
1916	Pipe Dreams Babe
1916	Mother's Child Babe
1916	Prize Winners Babe
1916	Ambitious Ethel [unidentified character]
1916	The Guilty Ones Babe
1916	He Winked And Won Babe
1916	He Went And Won [unidentified character]
1916	Fat And Fickle Babe
1917	The Modiste [unidentified character]
1917	The Boycotted Baby Babe
1917	The Love Bugs Babe
1917	The Other Girl [unidentified character]
1917	A Mix Up In Hearts [unidentified character]
1917	Wanted - A Bad Man [unidentified character]
1917	Back Stage [unidentified character]
1917	The Hero The hero's rival
1917	Dough-Nuts The hero's rival
1917	Cupid's Rival Poor artist
1917	The Villain Babe
1917	The Millionaire The mother-in- law
1917	The Goat Neighbor
1917	The Fly Cop Proprietor
1917	The Chief Cook Babe
1917	The Candy Kid Rival proprietor
1917	The Hobo Harold
1917	The Pest Newlywed
1917	The Band Master [unidentified character]
1917	The Slave The Sultan of Bacteria
1918	The Stranger Oliver, the saloon keeper
1918	Bright And Early The boss
1918	The Rogue Cafe owner
1918	His Day Out Oliver
1918	The Orderly [?]
1918	The Scholar Superintendent
1918	The Messenger [?]
1918	The Handy Man [?]
1918	The Straight And Narrow [?]
1918	Playmates Kid
1918	Beauties In Distress [?]
1918	He's In Again Head waiter
1918	Business Before Honesty Blind man
1918	Hello Trouble Devoted husband
1918	Painless Love Dr. Hurts
1918	The King Of The Kitchen German customer
1919	The Freckled Fish Solomon Soopmeat
1919	Hop, The Bellhop Solomon Soop
1919	Soapsuds And Sapheads Foreman
1919	Jazz And Jailbirds I.M. Ruff
1919	Mules And Mortgages Strongarm
1919	Tootsies And Tomales Murderous Mexican
1919	Healthy And Happy Doctor
1919	Flips And Flops Mr. Jipper
1919	Yaps And Yokels Hired hand
1919	Mates And Models Nutty artist
1919	Squabs And Squabbles The boss
1919	Bungs And Bunglers Landlord
1919	Switches And Sweeties [?]
1919	Lions And Ladies [?]
1919	Hearts In Hock [?]
1919	Dull Care Janitor
1919	The Head Waiter Cop
1920	Dames_And_Dentists Bob
1920	Maids And Muslin Mr. Yards, manager
1920	Squeaks And Squawks [?]
1920	Distilled Love Mr. Peeble Ford
1920	Fists And Fodder Father
1920	Pals And Pugs Bully
1920	He Laughs Last Handsome Hal
1920	Springtime The Commissioner
1920	The Decorator Babe, the millionaire
1920	The Stage Hand Audience member
1920	The Trouble Hunter The bouncer
1920	Married To Order Rose's father
1920	His Jonah Day Life saver
1920	The Backyard Ruffian
1920	The Mysterious Stranger Toreador
1921	The Nuisance The walrus
1921	The Blizzard Janitor
1921	The Bakery Foreman
1921	The Rent Collector Big boss
1921	The Tourist Leader of the outlaws
1921	The Fall Guy Gentleman Joe (a.k.a. Black Bart)
1921	The Bell Hop Hotel manager
1921	The Lucky Dog Bandit
1922	The Sawmill Foreman
1922	The Show Foreman
1922	A Pair Of Kings General Alarm
1922	Golf The neighbor
1922	Fortune's Mask Chief of Police
1922	Little Wildcat 'Bull' Mulligan
1922	The Agent Don Fusiloil
1922	The Counter Jumper Gaston Gilligan
1923	No Wedding Bells The girl's father
1923	The Barnyard Farm hand
1923	The Midnight Cabaret Oliver, an impetuous suitor
1923	The Gown Shop The store manager
1923	Lightning Love Oliver, the other suitor
1923	Horseshoes Dynamite Duffy
1924	Trouble Brewing Bootlegger
1924	The Girl In The Limousine Freddie
1924	Her Boy Friend Killer Kid
1924	Kid Speed Dangerous Dan McGraw
1925	Stick Around Paperhanger
1925	Hey, Taxi! Rival taxi driver
1925	Neptune's Daughter [?]
1925	The Wizard Of Oz Woodsman/Knight of the Garter/Farmhand
1925	Rivals Rival
1925	Fiddlin' Around Theater manager
1925	Hop To It! Bellhop
1925	A Day's Vacation Wilbert Perkins
1925	They All Fall Theater manager
1925	The Perfect Clown Babe Mulligan
1926	Stop, Look And Listen Show manager
1926	A Bankrupt Honeymoon Taxi driver
1926	The Gentle Cyclone Sheriff Bill
1927	Crazy To Act Gordon Bagley
1929	The Hollywood Revue Of 1929 Ollie
1930	The Rogue Song Ali-Bek
1931	The Stolen Jools Ollie
1934	Hollywood Party Ollie
1936	Galaxy Of Stars Ollie
1938	Hollywood Handicap Himself
1939	The Flying Deuces Ollie
1941	Great Guns Ollie
1942	The Tree In The Test Tube Ollie
1942	A-Haunting We Will Go Ollie
1943	Air Raid Wardens Ollie
1943	Jitterbugs Ollie
1943	The Dancing Masters Ollie
1944	The Big Noise Ollie
1944	Nothing But Trouble Ollie
1945	The Bullfighters Ollie
1949	The Fighting Kentuckian Willie Paine
1950	Riding High Sucker
1951	Atoll K Ollie

Acknowledgements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hardy_filmography (Wikipedia) Laurel OR Hardy by Rob Stone (book) Rob Stone identified him in "Magazine Cooking" (1914) Babe - The Life Of Oliver Hardy by John McCabe (book) Jim Phillips (screenshot from The Simp And The Sophomores) This page was last updated on: 19 January 2024