Actor · Acting

Oliver Hardy

Born 1892-01-18

Died 1957-08-07

📍 Harlem, Georgia, USA

Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In some of his early works, he was billed as "Babe Hardy".

Oliver Hardy died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957, at age 65. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.

Filmography 264

Laurel & Hardy: Year Three

Nash the Slash Rises Again!

as Self - Sherlock Pinkham(archive footage)

Laurel and Hardy's Yorkshire Adventures

as Archive Footage

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Real Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

as Self (archive footage)

A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy

as Self (archive footage)

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)

Dick & Doof - Best of

as Schauspieler

Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche

Laurel & Hardy - Best of III

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Ollie (archive footage)

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Laurel & Hardy - Highlights

Laurel & Hardy - Best of II

Laurel & Hardy - Best of

Chaplin's Goliath

as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

as Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)

Classic Comedy Teams

as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

Dance of the Cookoos

The Hollywood Clowns

as (archive footage)

Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

Hooray for Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

as (archive footage)

The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's

as Ollie (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)

30 Years of Fun

as (archive footage)

Days of Thrills and Laughter

as Self (archive footage)

When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)

The Golden Age of Comedy

as archive footage

This Is Your Life

Robinson Crusoeland

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

as (archive footage)

as Sucker (uncredited)

The Fighting Kentuckian

as Willie Paine

Performers Arrive in Hampshire

The Bullfighters

Nothing But Trouble

The Dancing Masters

Air Raid Wardens

The Tree in a Test Tube

A-Haunting We Will Go

A Chump at Oxford

The Flying Deuces

as Dr. Henry Tibbett

Hollywood Handicap

as Oliver Hardy

as Ollie / Bert Hardy

On the Wrong Trek

as Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)

The Bohemian Girl

Bonnie Scotland

as Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy

Thicker Than Water

The Fixer Uppers

Babes in Toyland

Them Thar Hills

Hollywood Party

Oliver the Eighth

Sons of the Desert

as Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy

The Midnight Patrol

as Officer Oliver Hardy

The Devil's Brother

as Ollie / Mrs. Laurel

Towed in a Hole

Their First Mistake

Pack Up Your Troubles

County Hospital

Laurel and Hardy in the UK

Hinter Schloss und Riegel

as New Suitor (uncredited)

Haunted at Midnight

Playing at Politics

as Señor Hardy

The Stolen Jools

as Police Driver

Chickens Come Home

as Mr. Oliver Hardy

Another Fine Mess

Night of Goblins

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

Shivering and Shaking

as Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Unaccustomed as We Are

as Oliver Hardy

Should Married Men Go Home?

Their Purple Moment

You're Darn Tootin'

as Ollie, French horn player

From Soup to Nuts

as Hired butler

Galloping Ghosts

as Meadows the Valet, a.k.a. Officer 13

The Finishing Touch

Flying Elephants

as Mighty Giant

Leave 'Em Laughing

The Battle of the Century

Putting Pants on Philip

as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder

Do Detectives Think?

as Sherlock Pinkham

Call of the Cuckoo

as Asylum Inmate

The Second 100 Years

Now I'll Tell One

Sailors, Beware!

as Purser Cryder

as Brittle's butler

With Love and Hisses

as Top Sergeant Banner

Why Girls Love Sailors

Fluttering Hearts

Love 'Em and Weep

as Judge Chigger

as Gordon Bagley

The Honorable Mr. Buggs

Why Girls Say No

Should Men Walk Home?

as Party Guest at Punch Bowl

as The Cop (as Babe Hardy)

45 Minutes from Hollywood

as Hotel Detective

The Nickel-Hopper

as Jazz band drummer

as Oswald Schwartzkopple

Bromo and Juliet

Crazy Like a Fox

as Charley's Victim (uncredited)

Along Came Auntie

as Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband

Thundering Fleas

as Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)

The Gentle Cyclone

as Sheriff Bill

Long Fliv the King

as The Prime Minister's Assistant

Say It with Babies

as Hector - the Floorwalker

as Captain Schmaltz

Wandering Papas

as Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)

The Perfect Clown

as Babe Mulligan

Should Sailors Marry?

Yes, Yes, Nanette

as Her former sweetheart

Isn't Life Terrible?

as Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)

as A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)

Fiddlin' Around

as Theatre manager

The Joke's on You

as Wilbert Perkins

Fiddlin' Around

as Theatre Manager

as Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)

The Wizard of Oz

as Tin Woodsman / Farmhand

Laughing Ladies

Roaring Lions at Home

as Dangerous Dan McGraw

The Girl in the Limousine

Trouble Brewing

as Dynamite Duffy

as Oliver, the Other Suitor

as Store manager

The Midnight Cabaret

as Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor

as 'Bull' Mulligan

as The neighbor

A Pair of Kings

as General Alarm

as Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)

as Masked bandit who confronts Laurel

as Hotel manager

as Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)

as Foreman (as Babe Hardy)

The Rent Collector

as The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)

as The Life Saver

as Thug - The ruffian

Married to Order

as Her Father (as Babe Hardy)

The Trouble Hunter

as Audience member (uncredited)

as Babe, a millionaire

as The Commissioner

Squeaks and Squawks

as Mr. Pebble Ford (as Babe Hardy)

The Head Waiter

as A cop (as Babe Hardy)

as Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)

as A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)

Bright and Early

as The Superintendent

as Oliver, the saloonkeeper

as Harold (as Babe Hardy)

as Rival Proprietor

as Babe (as Babe Hardy)

as The Hero's Rival (as Babe Hardy)

The Guilty Ones

The Lottery Man

as Maggie Murphy

as Plump (as Babe Hardy)

The Battle Royal

as Plump (as Babe Hardy)

Something in Her Eye

The Lilac Splash

as Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)

as Bill, the Grocer's Boy

The Haunted Hat

An Expensive Visit

They Looked Alike

Babe's School Days

as Ikie Ikestein

The Servant Girl's Legacy

as Cy (as Babe Hardy)

Mother's Baby Boy

as Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)

Making Auntie Welcome

The World of Laurel and Hardy

Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili