What was Stan Laurel's real name?
"has an albedo between 0.09 and 0.22. The ""Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link"" agrees with IRAS and derives an albedo of 0.24 and a diameter 14.8 kilometers. This minor planet was named after English-born slapstick film comedian Stan Laurel (1890–1965). Together with Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), who was honored with the main-belt asteroid 2866 Hardy, they formed the first great comedy duo in Classical Hollywood cinema. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 (), based on a suggestion by Gareth V. Williams and others. 2865 Laurel 2865 Laurel, provisional designation , is a stony"
"in 1926. His grandson is actor Christopher Pate. Joe Rock Joe Rock (December 25, 1893 – December 5, 1984) was an American movie producer, director, actor, and screenwriter best remembered today for producing a series of 12 two reel comedies starring Stan Laurel in the 1920s. After infantry service in World War I, Rock began his film career as a comedian in silent films working under his real name, Joe Simburg — he had a broad grin and protruding ears, which gave him a comical appearance – but soon found greater success as a producer. Joe Rock began his career"
"again. She died in New York in 1969. Mae Dahlberg Mae Dahlberg, sometimes known as Mae Laurel, (24 May 1888, Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 1969, New York, U.S.) was an Australian-born music hall and vaudeville performer and actress, later active in Hollywood silent films. She was Stan Laurel's professional partner and common-law wife from 1917 to 1925. She was born May Charlotte Dahlberg on 24 May 1888, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, to Louis, a labourer, and Mary Jane (""nee"" Gundry). By 1905 she had begun to earn a reputation performing as a singer and"
"Mae Dahlberg Mae Dahlberg, sometimes known as Mae Laurel, (24 May 1888, Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 1969, New York, U.S.) was an Australian-born music hall and vaudeville performer and actress, later active in Hollywood silent films. She was Stan Laurel's professional partner and common-law wife from 1917 to 1925. She was born May Charlotte Dahlberg on 24 May 1888, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, to Louis, a labourer, and Mary Jane (""nee"" Gundry). By 1905 she had begun to earn a reputation performing as a singer and dancer on the Australian stage, with positive reviews."
"Lois Neilson Lois Neilson (September 7, 1895 – July 9, 1990) was an American silent movie actress who became actor and comedian Stan Laurel's wife. She was born in Tulare, California. She and Laurel both appeared in ""Do You Love Your Wife?"" in 1919. Neilson and Laurel began sharing her apartment in 1925, and married on August 13, 1926. Their daughter, also named Lois, was born on December 10, 1927. Their son, also named Stanley, was born two months premature in 1930, and lived for nine days. Neilson and Laurel divorced in December 1934. She died in Los Angeles at"
"Joe Rock Joe Rock (December 25, 1893 – December 5, 1984) was an American movie producer, director, actor, and screenwriter best remembered today for producing a series of 12 two reel comedies starring Stan Laurel in the 1920s. After infantry service in World War I, Rock began his film career as a comedian in silent films working under his real name, Joe Simburg — he had a broad grin and protruding ears, which gave him a comical appearance – but soon found greater success as a producer. Joe Rock began his career as a stunt double for Mary Pickford, A"
"film was based was written by Stan Laurel's father, Arthur J. Jefferson. ""Duck Soup"" was remade as ""Another Fine Mess"" (1930). Duck Soup (1927 film) Duck Soup is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, Laurel and Hardy take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends"
"same time, he adopted the stage name of Laurel at Dahlberg's suggestion that his stage name Stan Jefferson was unlucky, due to it having thirteen letters. The pair were performing together when Laurel was offered $75 a week to star in two-reel comedies. After making his first film ""Nuts in May"", Universal offered him a contract. The contract was soon cancelled during a reorganisation at the studio. Among the films in which Dahlberg and Laurel appeared together was the 1922 parody ""Mud and Sand"". By 1924, Laurel had given up the stage for full-time film work, under contract with Joe"
"and Stan singing the Notre Dame fight song together with the policemen. Buster Keaton, a close friend of Stan Laurel, worked as a gagman on ""Nothing but Trouble"". At Laurel's funeral in 1965, Keaton said that he felt Laurel was a greater comedian than Charlie Chaplin. Nothing but Trouble (1944 film) Nothing But Trouble is a 1944 Laurel and Hardy feature film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Sam Taylor Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel return to America after ten years of voluntary exile to find jobs. Oliver has worked as a mediocre cook and Stan has served as a"
"Duck Soup (1927 film) Duck Soup is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, Laurel and Hardy take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the"
"The Sons of the Desert The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 movie ""Sons of the Desert"". In 1964, a few years after the book, ""Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy,"" was published, author John McCabe formed a small group of Laurel and Hardy admirers, including Orson Bean, cartoonist Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann, and John Municino. McCabe created a mock-serious “constitution” that satirized the formalities of many"
"child members. The Sons of the Desert The Sons of the Desert is an international fraternal organization devoted to the lives and films of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 movie ""Sons of the Desert"". In 1964, a few years after the book, ""Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy,"" was published, author John McCabe formed a small group of Laurel and Hardy admirers, including Orson Bean, cartoonist Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann, and John Municino. McCabe created a mock-serious “constitution” that satirized the formalities"
"He is an Arsenal supporter and has two children, a daughter named Hannah born in 1997 and a son named Harry born in 2000. Matthew Cottle Matthew Cottle (born 16 February 1967) is an English film, stage, radio and television actor. Cottle was born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and studied drama at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Cottle appeared in Richard Attenborough's 1992 ""Chaplin"" (as Stan Laurel), and in David Jones' 1999 adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"". Cottle will also appear in ""The Personal History of David Copperfield"" in 2019. Cottle's recent theatre includes The Chalk Garden at Chichester Festival Theatre,"
"1991 at the age of 63. Franco Latini Franco Latini (September 12, 1927 - February 2, 1991) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Latini started out working in the theatre in the early 1950s, then he went on to star in the 1953 film ""The World Condemns Them"". Among Latini's most popular filmography includes the 1966 musical-comedy film """" starring Silvana Pampanini and """" (1976). Despite Latini's popularity working working as an actor, he was also heavily active as a voice actor. He dubbed Stan Laurel in several redubs of ""Laurel and Hardy"" shorts and films. He also dubbed"
"several of her films. Though Stan and Mae never married, as professional partners they lived together as common-law husband and wife from 1917 to 1925. Mae maintained that it was she who suggested Stan change his name to Laurel. By 1924, Laurel had given up the stage for full-time film work, under contract with Joe Rock for 12 two-reel comedies. The contract had one unusual stipulation, that Dahlberg was not to appear in any of the films; Rock thought her temperament was hindering Laurel's career. In 1925, when she started interfering with Laurel's work, Rock offered her a cash settlement"
"playing himself escorted by a large entourage. Milton Berle was in town performing at another hotel while Lewis was shooting the picture and agreed to make an appearance as himself and in a dual role as another bellboy. Comedian (and future co-writer with Lewis on many of Jerry's subsequent films) Bill Richmond does several cameos as Stan Laurel. Professional golfer Cary Middlecoff, the ""Golf Doctor,"" appeared as himself. Lewis also appears as a fictional version of himself (credited in the opening credits as ""Joe Levitch"", which is his birth name). Principal photography took place from February 8 to March 5,"
"would later write, ""He was Rip and Rip was he."" No man in his profession was more honored for his achievements or his character. He was the friend of many of the leading men in American politics, art and literature, including President Grover Cleveland. He was an ardent fisherman and lover of nature, and devoted to painting. It is erroneously believed that he was distantly related to British comedian Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson), but UK civil registration, census and church records suggest that Jefferson was not the real name of his father. Jefferson was a founding member and"
"Cholo Laurel Rafael Hidalgo Laurel (born July 26, 1961) is a Filipino filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the Star Cinema Classic ""Nasaan Ka Man"". The youngest son of Manuel Sosa Laurel (deceased) and Lilia Dayrit Hidalgo (deceased), He was born in the Laurel compound in San Juan on July 26, 1961. He has four siblings named Victor (deceased), Gina, Amy (deceased) and Rico. Educated at the University of the Philippines College of Broadcast Communications (1986), School of Continuing and Professional Studies - New York University (1995), and at the London Academy for Film and TV ( 2007), He"
"which he asserted he had once hoped to play football for Notre Dame), became his flightier, subservient Stan Laurel. (They told interviewers they had met while sitting out an avalanche in an Alpine hut with a goatherd and some lusty peasant girls.) They created an imaginary world of entertainment that hovered between 1880 and 1930. They came to inhabit this world in dress, conversation and manner so completely whether on stage or off, that they acquired a liveried chauffeur, who drove them about in a 1930 Model A. Their act opened with both men dressed in 1920's blue pin striped"
"the age of 94 from natural causes. Through her daughter, she was the mother-in-law of Western actor Rand Brooks, best known for his role of Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy ""B"" films. Lois Neilson Lois Neilson (September 7, 1895 – July 9, 1990) was an American silent movie actress who became actor and comedian Stan Laurel's wife. She was born in Tulare, California. She and Laurel both appeared in ""Do You Love Your Wife?"" in 1919. Neilson and Laurel began sharing her apartment in 1925, and married on August 13, 1926. Their daughter, also named Lois, was born on"
"Mandarin Mix-Up Mandarin Mix-Up is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Pembroke and starring Stan Laurel. Stan Laurel (an Englishman by birth) becomes an Asian in this Joe Rock comedy. As the new baby in the family, Laurel is shown in a high chair and playing with a ball. His big brother is jealous of all the attention his new baby brother is getting, so he drops him in a pile of dirty clothes, which is subsequently taken to a Chinese laundry shop. He is found among the dirty clothes by an employee, who takes him in"
"He was given the title locally of ""Shakespearean in Residence"" and gave readings annually at the Grand Hotel. John McCabe (writer) John McCabe (November 14, 1920 – September 27, 2005), born John Charles McCabe III, was an American Shakespearean scholar and author, whose first book was the authorized biography of the comedy team known as Laurel and Hardy. This joint biography, as well as his separate books on each man, has been reprinted. John Charles McCabe III (always called Jack) was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was an engineer; the son loved acting from an early age, and at"
"Time for Tears"" (2006) and ""The Sooner You Die"". Translation rights for ""Dalí & I: The Surreal Story"" have been sold in some 30 languages. The book is also out as an Amazon Kindle Edition and on CD, from Tantor Media. Lauryssens is currently working on a memoir tentatively titled ""A Curry at Night and Sex on Sunday"". This story will recount his seven years as an outcast in an Indian family in the London suburbs that ended with him living for a couple of days in ""cardboard city"" under Waterloo Bridge. Stan Lauryssens Stan Lauryssens (born 14 October 1946"
"film. Mud and Sand Mud and Sand is a silent film starring Stan Laurel, that was filmed in 1922. Laurel plays a matador who makes a fool of a famous Spanish dancer. The dancer demands revenge and, in the end, kills the matador by throwing a concealed brick at him after a fight with the fiercest bull in Spain. The moral of the story, shown in the last scene, is: ""If you want to live long — and be happy — cut out the bull!"" The title spoofs the Rudolph Valentino film ""Blood and Sand"", and many scenes directly parody"
"his place in the ring and fight bulls after all. On the day of the fight Stan, nervous about fighting bulls, gets drunk. But then, unbeknownst to anyone, the real Don Sebastian has somehow miraculously contrived to making it to Mexico City just in time for the big bullfight. Ollie mistakes him for Stan and forces him into the arena. Stan staggers up, and Hardy sends ""him"" into battle. With two Laurels in the ring, the outraged spectators cry foul, especially Muldoon, who now recognizes ""Don Sebastian"" as the Stan Laurel from Peoria who sent him up for twenty years"
"Laurel and Hardy provided a filmed insert in which they reminisce about their friends in British variety. They made their final appearance on camera in 1956 in a private home movie, shot by a family friend at the Reseda, CA home of Stan Laurel's daughter, Lois. It contains no audio and is three minutes in length. In 1956, while following his doctor's orders to improve his health due to a heart condition, Hardy lost over . However, he suffered several strokes that resulted in the loss of mobility and speech. Despite having a long and successful career, it was reported"
"""Slipping Wives"" was later reworked into the team's penultimate short film ""The Fixer Uppers"", made in 1935. Slipping Wives Slipping Wives is a silent comedy short film starring Priscilla Dean, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. Priscilla Dean was a popular silent film star. Priscilla is married to an artist called Leon. However Leon isn't showing much interest in his wife so she hatches a plot to win back his affections. Ollie plays the butler. Stan arrives"
"Nuts in May (film) Nuts in May (1917) is a silent comedy short, directed by Robin Williamson, produced by Isadore Bernstein, and featuring Stan Laurel, billed as Stan Jefferson, in his onscreen debut. The short was filmed at Bernstein Studios, in Hollywood, California. Very little of the film survives (a little over 60 seconds). Stan plays a resident of ""Home for the Weak-Minded"", apparently a lunatic asylum. Stan's particular delusion is that he thinks he's Napoleon. Stan walks the grounds of the cuckoo-hatch sticking his right hand into his shirt and wearing a Napoleon hat. He thinks he's Napoleon, but"
"2018. Detained (film) Detained is a 1924 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. In 2018, the Frisian Film Archive (Fries Film Archief) in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, was able to recover and restore a specific scene deemed lost. In ""The Hanging Scene"", Stan Laurel gets an extreme extended neck when he accidentally falls head first into the gallows, while trying to escape the prison. In 2017, a Dutch employee (Jurjen Enzing, 1987) found the footage in their archive and after restoration the entire movie including the scene was uploaded to YouTube. The scene will be shown at the Bristol Slapstick Festival in"
"the son so badly wants to see Hollywood that he convinces his mother to let him go too. 45 Minutes from Hollywood 45 Minutes From Hollywood (1926) is an American two-reel silent film released by Pathé Exchange. The runtime is 15 minutes. At the time, it was known as a Glenn Tryon vehicle, but today it is best remembered as the second instance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appearing in the same film together — although they do not share any scenes — at least half a decade after their first chance billing in ""The Lucky Dog"" (1921). Since"
"Mr Laurel"", based on the life of Stan Laurel, at the Camden Fringe festival. This was taken on tour of the UK in 2014-2015. The play was devised by Holland and written by Gail Louw. Holland is married to the actress Judy Buxton. They married in 2004. Jeffrey Holland Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in ""Hi-de-Hi!"", as well as BBC Radio comedy, including ""Week Ending"". Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, he was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School,"
"Mud and Sand Mud and Sand is a silent film starring Stan Laurel, that was filmed in 1922. Laurel plays a matador who makes a fool of a famous Spanish dancer. The dancer demands revenge and, in the end, kills the matador by throwing a concealed brick at him after a fight with the fiercest bull in Spain. The moral of the story, shown in the last scene, is: ""If you want to live long — and be happy — cut out the bull!"" The title spoofs the Rudolph Valentino film ""Blood and Sand"", and many scenes directly parody that"
"Detained (film) Detained is a 1924 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. In 2018, the Frisian Film Archive (Fries Film Archief) in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, was able to recover and restore a specific scene deemed lost. In ""The Hanging Scene"", Stan Laurel gets an extreme extended neck when he accidentally falls head first into the gallows, while trying to escape the prison. In 2017, a Dutch employee (Jurjen Enzing, 1987) found the footage in their archive and after restoration the entire movie including the scene was uploaded to YouTube. The scene will be shown at the Bristol Slapstick Festival in January"