Vivien Oakland

born: 20 May 1895 San Francisco, California, United States of America

died: 01 August 1958 Motion Picture Country Home, Woodland Hills, California, United States of America (carcinoma of the colon with liver metastases, age 63)

American actress who was sometimes seen as the wife of a man in authority, i.e. a judge or sheriff. A photograph of her appears briefly on the inside of a magazine in 45 Minutes From Hollywood (1926). She was one half of the vaudeville team "The Oakland Sisters" (formerly "The Anker Sisters") with her younger sister Edna (a.k.a. Dagmar Oakland (b.1897 - d.1965)).  Prior to her death she was a saleswoman at Neff's Toy Shop. She was married to actor John T. Murray (April 27, 1918 - Chicago, Illinois).  She was cremated on August 5th, 1958 and is interred at Chapel of the Pines.

Real name: Vivian Ruth Andersen Height: 5'6"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1926 Long Pants Widow 1926 Your Husband's Past Governor's daughter   1926 Mama Behave Miss D'Arcy 1926 Wife Tamers The fired waitress 1926 Ukulele Sheiks [unidentified character]   1926 Say It With Babies [?]   1926 Don Key (Son Of Burro) Vivien   1926 The Cow's Kimono Wife 1926 Mighty Like A Moose Mrs. Moose 1926 Never Too Old The new wife   1926 Along Came Auntie Mrs. Remington Chow 1926 Should Husbands Pay? Blonde in courtroom 1926 Tell 'Em Nothing The Galloping blonde 1926 45 Minutes From Hollywood Herself (in photograph) 1927 Two-Time Mama Mrs. Brown 1927 Love 'Em And Weep Mrs. Ricketts 1928 Galloping Ghosts Smith's first love 1928 Imagine My Embarrassment Smith's first love 1928 We Faw Down Mrs. Hardy 1929 Off To Buffalo [unknown character]   1929 When Money Comes [unknown character]   1929 Loud Soup [unknown character]   1929 That's My Wife Mrs. Hardy 1929 Thundering Toupees [unidentified character] 1932 Scram! Mrs. Beaumont 1937 Way Out West Sheriff's wife 1940 A Chump At Oxford Receptionist* (*extended version only) PUBLICITY (click any image to enlarge) Acknowledgements: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-39759-11707-5?cc=2185145 http://www.classicvideostreams.com/BCVS/docs/Oakland-V_de.jpg (death certificate) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9109805 (Find A Grave) Richard Finegan (information relating to her appearance in When Money Comes) Steve Wright (publicity material) Jesse Brisson (information relating to her middle name, height and marriage date) This page was last updated on: 25 September 2022