"left him confined to bed and unable to speak for several months. He remained at home in the care of his wife Lucille. He suffered two more strokes in early August 1957 and slipped into a coma, and he died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957 at age 65. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. Laurel was too ill to attend the funeral, but he said that ""Babe would understand."" Notes Citations Bibliography Oliver Hardy Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 –"
"That I Know"". He received honorary citizenship from Kansas City, Missouri, for his references to the city in the 1954 film """"Un americano a Roma"""". Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (; 15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel and Hardy films. Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. In the meantime he studied"
"a tribute to his father. He appeared as ""Oliver N. Hardy"" in the 1910 U.S. census, and he used ""Oliver"" as his first name in all subsequent legal records, marriage announcements, etc. Hardy was initiated into Freemasonry at Solomon Lodge No. 20 in Jacksonville, Florida. He was inducted into the Grand Order of Water Rats along with Stan Laurel. In 1910, a movie theater opened in Hardy's hometown of Milledgeville, and he became the projectionist, ticket taker, janitor, and manager. He soon became obsessed with the new motion picture industry and was convinced that he could do a better job"
"Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (; 15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel and Hardy films. Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. In the meantime he studied to be an opera singer, a bass. It was his accent and voice that would later prove to be his trademark. In a career that"
"Frank Hardy Francis Joseph Hardy, (21 March 1917 – 28 January 1994) publishing as Frank Hardy was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel ""Power Without Glory"". He previously wrote under the pseudonym Ross Franklyn. Later, he was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, ""The Unlucky Australians"", in 1968. He ran unsuccessfully for the Australian parliament twice. Frank Hardy, the fifth of the eight children of Thomas and Winifred Hardy, was born on 21 March 1917 at Southern Cross in Western Victoria and"
"Arthur Hardy (businessman) Arthur Hardy (1817 – 13 July 1909), British born Australian pastoralist, barrister, quarry-owner, businessman and politician, was a successful South Australian colonial settler who is also known for a number of other achievements, including building the mansions Birksgate and Mount Lofty House, and establishing (and funding) the Glen Osmond Institute. Hardy was born in Yorkshire and trained as a lawyer. On his doctor's advice to seek a warmer climate, he migrated to South Australia on the ""Platina"", arriving in February 1839, his brother Alfred Hardy (1813–1870) having migrated there in September 1836 on the ""Cygnet"" as one"
"Robert Hardy Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", Cornelius Fudge in the ""Harry Potter"" film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series """". He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for ""All Creatures Great and Small"" in 1980 and ""Winston Churchill: The Wilderness"
"a home for retired actors. Robert Hardy Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in the theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", Cornelius Fudge in the ""Harry Potter"" film series and Winston Churchill in several productions, beginning with the Southern Television series """". He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor for ""All Creatures Great and Small"" in 1980"
"Owen Hardy Owen Leslie Hardy DFC and Bar (30 July 1922 – 4 January 2018) was a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) pilot flew combat sorties during the Second World War. Hardy was born on 30 July 1922 in Auckland, New Zealand. Before joining the RNZAF in March 1941 he worked as a mechanical engineer. After completing training in Canada he was sent to the United Kingdom in October 1941. The following month he attended 61 OTU (Operational Training Unit) at RAF Heston. After acting as a Staff Pilot he was posted to 72 Squadron in March 1942. In"
"Theodore Hardy Theodore Bayley Hardy, (20 October 1863 – 18 October 1918) was a British Army chaplain and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. In addition to the VC, Hardy had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, making him one of the most decorated non-combatants of the First World War. Hardy was born 20 October 1863 to George and Sarah Richards Hardy of Exeter. Hardy was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers School, Pinner, Middlesex from 1872–1879,"
"the issue but the audition and interviews were never aired as part of the show. The Superpowerless live band has toured the UK multiple times, playing over 300 shows. Superpowerless Oliver Hindle (born 17 November 1988) is an English singer-Songwriter and Music Producer from Leeds, UK, best known for his solo project Superpowerless, and YouTube persona, Oliver Age 24. He occasionally releases music under the moniker Boots on Cats and was previously a member of the bands Tetrastar, Scared of Dinosaurs and Spacebars.Broken. He has been recording, producing, releasing and performing since he was 16 years old. As Superpowerless, he"
"of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Edward Thomas Hardy was born on 15 September 1977 in Hammersmith, London, the only child of artist and painter Anne (""née"" Barrett) and novelist and comedy writer Edward ""Chips"" Hardy. He is of Irish descent. Hardy was brought up in East Sheen, London. He studied at Tower House School, Reed's School, and Duff Miller Sixth Form College. He later studied at Richmond Drama School and the Drama Centre London, a part of Central Saint Martins. He has named Gary Oldman as his ""hero"","
"Dealer"" (Melbourne Theatre Company) 1976 ""Don Pasquale"" (Victorian Opera Company) 1998 ""Tannhauser"" (Opera Australia) 1974 ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" (Melbourne Theatre Company) Director 1976 T""he Italian Girl in Algiers"" (Victoria State Opera) Director 1979 ""The Marriage of Figaro"" (Canberra Opera Society) Producer 1980 ""Nine Little Australians! Season Two"" (Melbourne Theatre Company) Director 1976 ""The Diary of a Madman"" (Melbourne Theatre Company) also appeared as an actor Adaptor 1997 ""Jungfrau"" (Playbox Theatre Company) Writer Jonathan Hardy Jonathan Hardy (20 September 1940 – 30 July 2012) was a New Zealand actor, writer and director. Hardy was born in New Zealand in"
"Leonard W. Hardy Leonard Wilford Hardy (December 31, 1805 – July 31, 1884) was an early convert in the Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer and a member of the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1856 until his death. Hardy was born in Bradford, Massachusetts. On December 2, 1832, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, being baptized by missionary Orson Hyde. In December 1844, Hardy traveled to England as a church missionary with Wilford Woodruff, Dan Jones, and Hiram Clark. Hardy was stationed in Preston,"
"Robert Barcia Robert Barcia, also known as Hardy and Roger Girardot (22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil), was a French politician who was leader of the Union Communiste Internationaliste (UCI), a Trotskyist organisation better known by the name of its weekly paper, ""Lutte Ouvrière"" (Workers' Struggle). Barcia was only known by his cadre name, Hardy, even to the majority of LO members. Robert Barcia was born into a working-class family in Paris and was originally a member of the Communist Party. He began his activity as a militant in the Second World War. He then"
"Amory Nelson Hardy Amory Nelson Hardy or A.N. Hardy (1835–1911) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard. He also made ""electric-light portraits"" of roller skaters in 1883. Hardy was born in Carmel, Maine, son of schoolteacher Benjamin Hardy. He married Angeline S. Davis in 1857 and had three children:"
"A biopic called ""Stan & Ollie"" starring Steve Coogan as Laurel and John C. Reilly as Hardy debuted in October 2018 at the BFI London Film Festival. Notes Citations Bibliography Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. The duo's signature tune is known variously as"
"by Olly Lambert. Anthony Hardy Anthony John Hardy (born 31 May 1951) is an English serial killer who is known as the Camden Ripper for dismembering some of his victims. In November 2003, he was sentenced to three life terms for three murders, but he may have killed up to nine people. Born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, Hardy had an apparently uneventful childhood and excelled in school and college. He earned an engineer's degree from Imperial College London and subsequently became a manager of a large company. Hardy married and fathered three sons and one daughter; his wife"
"Evan Hardy Evan ""Michael"" Pearce Hardy (13 November 1927 – 13 January 1994) was an English rugby union player who represented the England national rugby union team. He also played for the Combined Services, the Army and Yorkshire County. He also played a first-class cricket match with the Combined Services and was a member of the MCC and I Zingari (IZ) clubs. Playing as a fly half, India born Hardy was capped three times for England, all in the 1951 Five Nations Championship. Those matches were against Ireland, France and Scotland. Hardy, a right-handed batsman, played some non first-class matches"
"Matthew Hardy Matthew Hardy is a Melbourne-based comedian and comedy writer who was the first Australian to cement himself full-time on the UK live stand-up circuit, - “In heaven, everyone will be as naturally funny as Matthew Hardy” (Time Out London) - spending eight years there in the 1990s, including regular headlining appearances at Jongleurs and The Comedy Store in Leicester Square. A regular at many international stand-up comedy events, he is the author of ""Saturday Afternoon Fever"" (Random House), the Best Selling childhood memoir - “Laugh out loud hilarious” (Liz Ellis, Australian Netball Champion) which became the basis for"
"Oliver the Eighth Oliver The Eighth is a 1934 American Pre-Code short film comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was directed by Lloyd French, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by MGM. Laurel and Hardy are partners in a barbershop. Stan reads a classified ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow (Mae Busch) looking for a new husband. Initially, only Stan plans to respond to the ad but after explaining his plans to Ollie (leading to the third use of the team's trademark ""Tell me that again"" routine, used previously in ""Towed in a Hole"", ""The Devil's Brother"", and"
"Oliver the Eighth Oliver The Eighth is a 1934 American Pre-Code short film comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was directed by Lloyd French, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by MGM. Laurel and Hardy are partners in a barbershop. Stan reads a classified ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow (Mae Busch) looking for a new husband. Initially, only Stan plans to respond to the ad but after explaining his plans to Ollie (leading to the third use of the team's trademark ""Tell me that again"" routine, used previously in ""Towed in a Hole"", ""The Devil's Brother"", and"
"Henry Ernest Hardy Henry Ernest Hardy (later known as Father Andrew) (7 January 1869 – 31 March 1946) was a British Anglican clergyman and friar, who co-founded the Society of Divine Compassion to work with the poor in the East End of London. Hardy was born in Kasauli, India; his father was a colonel in the Indian army. After growing up in India, he attended Clifton College and an art school in Bristol, before studying at Keble College, Oxford, where he obtained a fourth-class degree in theology in 1891. While he was at Oxford, Arthur Winnington-Ingram (a Keble graduate who"
"continued in league cricket, and went into the world of after dinner speaking, public appearances and radio commentary. However, on 28 February 1990, he collapsed with a heart attack in Newton Aycliffe and died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. His funeral was attended by hundreds, including ex-players and fans, with Ian Botham one of the pallbearers. Nicknamed ""Ollie"" in reference to Oliver Hardy. Milburn never married. He is buried at Burnopfield. He was a subject of the television programme ""This Is Your Life"" in April 1970 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In his cricket-themed autobiography"
"Tom Hardy Edward Thomas Hardy, (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor, producer, and former model. Hardy made his film debut in Ridley Scott's ""Black Hawk Down"" (2001) and has since played in such films as """" (2002), ""RocknRolla"" (2008), ""Bronson"" (2008), ""Warrior"" (2011), ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" (2011), ""Lawless"" (2012), ""Locke"" (2013), ""The Drop"" (2014), and ""The Revenant"" (2015), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, Hardy portrayed ""Mad"" Max Rockatansky in """" and both Kray twins in ""Legend"". He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: ""Inception"" (2010),"
"greyhound, turned directly to the camera and said """"To which bitch do I present this prize?"""" Mary Hardy (comedian) Mary Veronica Hardy (14 October 1931 – 7 January 1985) was an Australian television and radio presenter, actor and comedian. She was best known for her caustic wit, indifference to authority and tireless ability to ad lib. Mary Hardy was born in Warrnambool and brought up in Bacchus Marsh. She was the youngest of eight children; her parents were Winifred Mary (née Bourke) and Thomas John Hardy; the author Frank Hardy was her brother. Her professional acting career began in 1950,"
"three tests for the Australia national rugby league team in the 1928 season against a touring Great Britain side and was a representative of New South Wales on 15 occasions throughout his career. Hardy played out his career in England with the Warrington Wolves club. Hardy's sons Kevin and Don played first grade for Eastern Suburbs while his grandson, Steve, was an Australian schoolboy rugby league representative who played for both the Cronulla-Sutherland and Eastern Suburbs clubs. A glazier by trade Hardy was aged 86 at the time of his death in 1993. Nelson Hardy Nelson 'Bill' Hardy (1906–1993) was"
"into his 90th year, the oldest member of the South Australian Supreme Court, and was still attending the office every morning. Arthur Hardy (1817–1909) married Martha Price (c. 1821 – 18 June 1904) in England on 30 August 1849. Their children were: Arthur Hardy (businessman) Arthur Hardy (1817 – 13 July 1909), British born Australian pastoralist, barrister, quarry-owner, businessman and politician, was a successful South Australian colonial settler who is also known for a number of other achievements, including building the mansions Birksgate and Mount Lofty House, and establishing (and funding) the Glen Osmond Institute. Hardy was born in Yorkshire"
"Woodstock, Connecticut. His burial location is unknown. Arthur Sherburne Hardy Arthur Sherburne Hardy or Arthur S. Hardy (August 13, 1847 – March 14, 1930) was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet. Hardy was born in 1847 in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of Alpheus and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy. He received his elementary school education abroad and thus gained an exposure to languages. He attended Phillips Academy and completed one year at Amherst College before becoming a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1865, where he excelled in languages. He graduated tenth in"
"Helpful Henry Helpful Henry was the name of two comic strips by two cartoonists, from two countries, namely the UK and the US. ""Helpful Henry"" was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by cartoonist J. P. Arnot (Paul Arnot – Born: 16 September 1887 – Died: 2 December 1951). The series ran from 1925 until 1926 and was syndicated by King Features Syndicate in New York City. Despite its brief run actor Oliver Hardy, of ""Laurel and Hardy"" fame, said the character was an inspiration for his own screen character. He described ""Helpful Henry"" as being big, fussy and self-important,"
"Superpowerless Oliver Hindle (born 17 November 1988) is an English singer-Songwriter and Music Producer from Leeds, UK, best known for his solo project Superpowerless, and YouTube persona, Oliver Age 24. He occasionally releases music under the moniker Boots on Cats and was previously a member of the bands Tetrastar, Scared of Dinosaurs and Spacebars.Broken. He has been recording, producing, releasing and performing since he was 16 years old. As Superpowerless, he produces music combining pop/rock songs with electronic sounds created using synthesizers, Virtual Studio Technology and circuit bent video game consoles such as Nintendo Game Boy, Commodore 64 and the"
"George Hardy, an attractive English surgeon, amateur photographer and bisexual, leaves his affluent lifestyle in Liverpool, where he is heir to a fortune, to go to war at Inkerman in the Crimea. He believes ""that the war would at last provide him with the prop he needed."" His story is told by three other characters: Myrtle, a lovestruck foundling who bears Hardy's children, Dr. Potter, an intellectual and geologist and Pompey Jones, a one-time street performer who learns photography from Hardy. United by a sudden death in a Liverpool brothel in 1846, the four characters are undeniably linked by love,"
"shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack. A crowd in excess of a million gathered to pay their last respects at his funeral by the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of Pope John Paul II who died two years later. Sordi was also a big supporter of AS Roma football team. Sordi provided the voice of Oliver Hardy ('Ollio') in the Italian dubs of more than forty Laurel and Hardy films from 1939 to 1951. He also appeared as a voice actor in other Italian-language"