Stan Laurel
Entertainer, Film actor
1890 – 1965
Who was Stan Laurel?
Stanley "Stan" Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous as Laurel of Laurel and Hardy–Hardy being Oliver Hardy. Laurel began his career in the British music hall, from where he took a number of his standard comic devices: the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. He was a member of "Fred Karno's Army," where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. The two arrived in the US on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe. Laurel went into films in the United States, with his acting career stretching between 1917 and 1951, and from "silents" to "talkies." It included a starring role in the film The Music Box, which won an Academy Award.
In 1961, Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. In a 2005 UK poll to find The Comedians' Comedian, Laurel and Hardy ranked top among best double acts and seventh overall. In 2009, a bronze statue of the duo was unveiled in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston, Cumbria.
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- Born
- Jun 16, 1890
Ulverston - Also known as
- Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson
- Arthur Stanley Jefferson
- Laurel
- Laurel & Hardy
- Laurel, Stan
- Mr. Laurel
- Stan Jefferson
- Stanley Laurel
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Mae Dahlberg
(1919 - 1925) - Lois Neilson
(1926/08/13 - 1934/10/11) - Virginia Ruth Rogers
(1934/04/02 - 1937/12/31) - Vera Ivanova Shuvalova
(1938/01/01 - 1940/02/01) - Virginia Ruth Rogers
(1941/01/11 - 1946/04/30) - Ida Kitaeva Raphael
(1946/05/06 - 1965/02/23)
- Mae Dahlberg
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- The King's School, Tynemouth
- Lived in
- Ulverston
- Glasgow
- Died
- Feb 23, 1965
Santa Monica - Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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on July 23, 2013
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