Cast & crew

Stan Laurel

Born June 16, 1890
Died February 23, 1965

Biography

English-born comedian Arthur Stanley Jefferson who shaped Laurel and Hardy’s gags and stories at Hal Roach Studios. The slighter, more childlike half of the team, he worked as much behind the camera as in front of it.

Filmography

Year	Films	Role	Character
1917	Nuts In May	Cast	—
1918	Bears and Bad Men	Cast	Pete
1918	Frauds and Frenzies	Cast	Simp, Second Prisoner
1918	Huns and Hyphens	Cast	Gang member
1918	Just Rambling Along	Cast	Nervy Young Man
1918	No Place Like Jail	Cast	—
1919	Do You Love Your Wife?	Cast	Toby - the janitor
1919	Hoot Mon!	Cast	—
1919	Hustling for Health	Cast	The Man
1921	The Lucky Dog	Cast	Brash young man accused of dognapping
1922	The Weak-End Party	Cast	The Gardener
1922	Mixed Nuts	Cast	Book salesman
1922	Mud and Sand	Cast	Rhubarb Vaselino
1922	The Egg	Cast	Humpty Dumpty
1922	The Pest	Cast	Jimmy Smith
1923	A Man About Town	Cast	A Man About Town
1923	Collars and Cuffs	Cast	Laundry Worker
1923	Frozen Hearts	Cast	Olaf - A peasant
1923	Gas and Air	Cast	Phillup McCann
1923	Kill or Cure	Cast	Stan Laurel
1923	A Man About Town	Cast	A Man About Town
1923	Mother's Joy	Cast	Basil Dippytack / Magnus Dippytack
1923	The Noon Whistle	Cast	Stan Laurel
1923	Oranges and Lemons	Cast	Sunkist
1923	Pick and Shovel	Cast	Miner
1923	Roughest Africa	Cast	Professor Stanilaus Laurello
1923	Save The Ship	Cast	Husband
1923	Scorching Sands	Cast	Stan
1923	Short Orders	Cast	Waiter
1923	The Soilers	Cast	Bob Canister
1923	The Handy Man	Cast	The handy man
1923	The Noon Whistle	Cast	Tanglefoot
1923	The Soilers	Cast	Bob Canister
1923	The Whole Truth	Cast	The husband
1923	Under Two Jags	Cast	Stan Laurel
1923	When Knights Were Cold	Cast	Lord Helpus, a Slippery Knight
1923	White Wings	Cast	Street Cleaner
1923	The Whole Truth	Cast	The husband
1924	A Mandarin Mix-Up	Cast	—
1924	Brothers Under the Chin	Cast	Stan Laurel
1924	Detained	Cast	A convict
1924	Monsieur Don't Care	Cast	Monsieur Beaucaire
1924	Near Dublin	Cast	Con
1924	Postage Due	Cast	Willy Worst
1924	Rupert of Hee-Haw	Cast	King / Rudolph Razz
1924	Short Kilts	Cast	McPherson's Son
1924	Smithy	Cast	Smithy
1924	West of Hot Dog	Cast	Stan, a Tenderfoot
1924	Wide Open Spaces	Cast	Gabriel Goober
1924	Zeb vs. Paprika	Cast	Dippy Donawho
1925	Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride	Cast	Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
1925	Half a Man	Cast	Winchell McSweeney
1925	Navy Blue Days	Cast	Stan
1925	Pie-Eyed	Cast	Drunk
1925	Somewhere In Wrong	Cast	A tramp
1925	The Sleuth	Cast	Webster Dingle
1925	The Snow Hawk	Cast	Mountie
1925	Twins	Cast	Stan / his twin
1925	Somewhere In Wrong	Cast	A tramp
1925	Chasing the Chaser	Director	Director
1925	Chasing the Chaser	Writer	Writer
1925	Moonlight and Noses	Director	Director
1925	Moonlight and Noses	Writer	Writer
1925	Unfriendly Enemies	Director	Director
1925	Unfriendly Enemies	Writer	Writer
1925	Yes, Yes, Nanette	Director	Stan Laurel
1926	45 Minutes from Hollywood	Cast	Hotel Guest
1926	45 Mins from Hollywood	Cast	—
1926	Edward Jefferson	Cast	British comedy actor, writer and occasional director. He is the skinny half of the Laurel and Hardy team.Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA.Stan's brother was Edward Jefferson.Married five times:Lois Neilson (1926-1934), with whom he had two children; Lois Laurel (1927-2017) and Stanley (b.1930).Virginia Ruth Rogers (1934-1937) and then again (1941-1946).Vera Ivanova Shuvalova (1938-1940).Ida Kitaeva Raphael (1946-1965) (his death).Mae Dahlberg (Laurel) was his common-law wife for several years, though they were never legally married.
1926	Get 'Em Young	Cast	Summers, the butler
1926	Lois Neilson	Cast	—
1926	On the Front Page	Cast	Dangerfield
1926	What's the World Coming To?	Cast	The Man in the Window
1926	Along Came Auntie	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	Charley My Boy!	Writer	Writer
1926	Don Key (Son of Burro)	Writer	Writer
1926	Get 'Em Young	Director	Stan Laurel
1926	Get 'Em Young	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	Madame Mystery	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	Madame Mystery	co-director	Co-Director
1926	Madame Mystery	assistant-director	Stan Laurel
1926	The Nickel-Hopper	Writer	Writer
1926	On the Front Page	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	Raggedy Rose	Writer	Writer
1926	The Nickel-Hopper	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	Wandering Papas	Director	Stan Laurel
1926	Wandering Papas	Writer	Stan Laurel
1926	What's the World Coming To?	Writer	Writer
1926	Wife Tamers	Writer	Writer
1926	Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes	Director	Director
1926	Merry Widower, The	Director	—
1926	Should Husbands Pay?	Director	—
1926	Madame Mystery	Director	—
1927	Duck Soup	Cast	Hives
1927	Slipping Wives	Cast	Handyman
1927	Love 'Em and Weep	Cast	Romaine Ricketts
1927	Why Girls Love Sailors	Cast	Willie Brisling
1927	With Love and Hisses	Cast	Cuthbert Hope
1927	Sugar Daddies	Cast	Brittle's lawyer
1927	Sailors, Beware!	Cast	Chester Chaste, cabdriver
1927	The Second 100 Years	Cast	Little Goofy
1927	Hats Off	Cast	Stan
1927	Do Detectives Think?	Cast	Ferdinand Finkleberry
1927	Putting Pants on Philip	Cast	Philip
1927	The Battle of the Century	Cast	Prize Fighter
1927	Call of the Cuckoo	Cast	Asylum Inmate
1927	The Battle of the Century	Cast	Prize Fighter
1927	Eve's Love Letters	Cast	Anatole, the butler
1927	Lois Laurel	Cast	—
1927	Now I'll Tell One	Cast	Lawyer
1927	The Second 100 Years	Cast	Little Goofy
1927	Seeing the World	Cast	English pedestrian
1927	The Second 100 Years	Cast	Little Goofy
1927	Love 'Em and Weep	Writer	Writer
1927	Eve's Love Letters	Writer	Stan Laurel
1927	Flaming Fathers	Director	Director
1927	The Honorable Mr. Buggs	Writer	Writer
1927	Jewish Prudence	Writer	Writer
1927	Seeing the World	assistant-director	Stan Laurel
1927	Why Girls Say No	Writer	Stan Laurel
1928	Leave 'Em Laughing	Cast	Stan
1928	Flying Elephants	Cast	Little Twinkle Star
1928	The Finishing Touch	Cast	Stan
1928	From Soup to Nuts	Cast	Hired butler
1928	You're Darn Tootin'	Cast	Stanley, clarinet player
1928	Their Purple Moment	Cast	Mr. Pincher
1928	Should Married Men Go Home?	Cast	Stan
1928	Early to Bed	Cast	Stan
1928	Two Tars	Cast	Stan
1928	Habeas Corpus	Cast	Stan
1928	We Faw Down	Cast	Stan
1928	The Finishing Touch	Cast	Stan
1928	Should Tall Men Marry?	Cast	Texas Tommy
1928	The Finishing Touch	Writer	Writer
1928	The Finishing Touch	Writer	Writer
1929	Liberty	Cast	Stan
1929	Wrong Again	Cast	Stan
1929	That's My Wife	Cast	Stan
1929	Big Business	Cast	Stan
1929	Double Whoopee	Cast	Stan
1929	Bacon Grabbers	Cast	Stan
1929	Angora Love	Cast	Stan
1929	Unaccustomed as We Are	Cast	Stan
1929	Berth Marks	Cast	Stan
1929	Men O' War	Cast	Stan
1929	Perfect Day	Cast	Stan
1929	They Go Boom!	Cast	Stan
1929	The Hoose-Gow	Cast	Stan
1929	The Hollywood Revue of 1929	Cast	Self
1929	A Perfect Day	Cast	—
1929	The Hoose-Gow	Cast	Stan
1929	The Hollywood Review of 1929	Cast	—
1929	The Hoose-Gow	Cast	Stan
1930	Night Owls	Cast	Stan
1930	Blotto	Cast	Stan
1930	Brats	Cast	Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
1930	Below Zero	Cast	Stan
1930	Hog Wild	Cast	Stan
1930	The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	Cast	Stan
1930	Another Fine Mess	Cast	Stan
1930	The Rogue Song	Cast	—
1930	Feu Mon Oncle	Cast	—
1930	Brats	Cast	Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
1930	The Night Life	Cast	Stan
1930	Thieves	Cast	Stan
1930	The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	Cast	Stan
1930	Brats	Cast	Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
1930	Night of Goblins	Cast	Stan
1930	Pêle-Mêle	Cast	—
1930	Radiomanía	Cast	Stan
1930	The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case	Cast	Stan
1930	Shivering and Shaking	Cast	Stan
1930	Blotto	Cast	Stan
1930	Une nuite extravagante	Cast	—
1930	Blotto	Writer	Writer
1930	Brats	Writer	Writer
1930	Hog Wild	Writer	Story
1930	Brats	Writer	Writer
1930	Brats	Writer	Writer
1930	Blotto	Writer	Stan Laurel
1931	Be Big!	Cast	Stan
1931	Chickens Come Home	Cast	Mr. Laurel
1931	Laughing Gravy	Cast	Stan
1931	Our Wife	Cast	Stan
1931	Come Clean	Cast	Stan
1931	One Good Turn	Cast	Stan
1931	Beau Hunks	Cast	Stan
1931	Pardon Us	Cast	Stan
1931	The Stolen Jools	Cast	—
1931	On the Loose	Cast	New Suitor (uncredited)
1931	Pardon Us	Cast	Stan
1931	The Chiselers	Cast	M. Laurel
1931	The Skulls	Cast	Señor Laurel
1931	De Bote en Bote	Cast	Stan
1931	De Bote en Bote	Cast	Stan
1931	Pardon Us	Cast	Stan
1931	Playing at Politics	Cast	Stan
1931	Pardon Us	Cast	—
1931	Our Wife	Writer	Writer
1931	Come Clean	Writer	Writer
1931	One Good Turn	Writer	Writer
1931	Pardon Us	Writer	Other
1931	Pardon Us	Writer	Other
1931	Pardon Us	Writer	Other
1932	Helpmates	Cast	Stan
1932	Any Old Port!	Cast	Stan
1932	The Music Box	Cast	Stan
1932	The Chimp	Cast	Stan
1932	County Hospital	Cast	Stan
1932	Scram!	Cast	Stan
1932	Their First Mistake	Cast	Stan
1932	Towed in a Hole	Cast	Stan
1932	Pack Up Your Troubles	Cast	Stan
1932	The Chimp	Cast	Stan
1932	The Music Box	Cast	Stan
1932	Helpmates	Writer	Writer
1932	The Music Box	Writer	Writer
1932	The Chimp	Writer	Writer
1932	County Hospital	Writer	Writer
1932	Scram!	Writer	Writer
1932	Their First Mistake	Writer	Writer
1932	Towed in a Hole	Writer	Writer
1932	Pack Up Your Troubles	Writer	Writer
1932	The Chimp	Writer	Writer
1932	The Music Box	Writer	Writer
1933	Twice Two	Cast	Stan / Mrs. Hardy
1933	Me and My Pal	Cast	Stan
1933	The Midnight Patrol	Cast	Officer Stanley Laurel
1933	Busy Bodies	Cast	Stan
1933	Dirty Work	Cast	Stan
1933	The Devil's Brother	Cast	Stanlio
1933	Sons of the Desert	Cast	Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
1933	Wild Poses	Cast	Baby
1933	The Devil's Brother	Cast	Stanlio
1933	The Midnight Patrol	Cast	Officer Stanley Laurel
1933	Twice Two	Writer	Writer
1933	Me and My Pal	Writer	Writer
1933	The Midnight Patrol	Writer	Writer
1933	Busy Bodies	Writer	Writer
1933	Sons of the Desert	Writer	Writer
1933	The Midnight Patrol	Writer	Writer
1934	Oliver the Eighth	Cast	Stan
1934	Going Bye-Bye!	Cast	Mr. Laurel
1934	Them Thar Hills	Cast	Stan
1934	The Live Ghost	Cast	Stan
1934	Babes in Toyland	Cast	Stannie Dum
1934	Hollywood Party	Cast	Stan
1934	The Live Ghost	Cast	Stan
1934	Going Bye-Bye!	Writer	Writer
1934	Them Thar Hills	Writer	Writer
1935	Tit for Tat	Cast	Stan
1935	The Fixer Uppers	Cast	Stan
1935	Thicker Than Water	Cast	Stan
1935	Bonnie Scotland	Cast	Stanley MacLaurel
1935	The Fixer Uppers	Cast	Stan
1935	Tit for Tat	Writer	Writer
1935	Thicker Than Water	Writer	Story
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Cast	Stan
1936	Our Relations	Cast	Stan / Alf Laurel
1936	Galaxy of Stars	Cast	—
1936	On the Wrong Trek	Cast	Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Cast	Stan
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Producer	Producer
1936	Our Relations	Producer	Producer
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Producer	Producer
1936	The Bohemian Girl	Writer	—
1937	Way Out West	Cast	Stan
1937	Pick a Star	Cast	Stan Laurel
1937	Way Out West	Writer	Writer
1937	Way Out West	Producer	Producer
1938	Swiss Miss	Cast	Stan
1938	Block-Heads	Cast	Stan
1938	Block-Heads	Cast	Stan
1938	Swiss Miss	Producer	Producer
1939	The Flying Deuces	Cast	Stan
1940	A Chump at Oxford	Cast	Stan
1940	Saps at Sea	Cast	Stan
1940	A Chump at Oxford	Cast	Stan
1941	Great Guns	Cast	Stan
1942	A-Haunting We Will Go	Cast	Stan
1943	Air Raid Wardens	Cast	Stan
1943	Jitterbugs	Cast	Stan
1943	The Dancing Masters	Cast	Stan
1943	The Tree in a Test Tube	Cast	—
1944	The Big Noise	Cast	Stan
1944	Nothing But Trouble	Cast	Stan
1945	The Bullfighters	Cast	Stanley
1945	The Bullfighters	Director	Director
1945	The Bullfighters	Writer	Writer
1951	Robinson Crusoeland	Cast	Stan
1957	The Golden Age of Comedy	Cast	archive footage
1960	When Comedy Was King	Cast	(archive footage) (uncredited)
1961	Days of Thrills and Laughter	Cast	Self (archive footage)
1963	30 Years of Fun	Cast	—
1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Cast	Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
1965	Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's	Cast	Stan (archive footage)
1966	The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy	Cast	—
1967	The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy	Cast	Stan Laurel
1969	The Best of Laurel and Hardy	Cast	—
1970	4 Clowns	Cast	(archive footage)