Oliver Hardy
Born: 1892-01-18 in Harlem, Georgia, USA
Died: 1957-08-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
- Laurel and Hardy's Yorkshire Adventures as Archive Footage
2020
- Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
2018
- Stan & Ollie ... (Thanks)
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Himself (archive footage)
- Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic as Self (archive footage)
- A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Dick & Doof - Best of as Schauspieler
2006
- Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche as Oliver
2005
- Laurel & Hardy - Best of III as Hardy
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Ollie (archive footage)
2002
- Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
2001
- Laurel & Hardy - Best of II as Ollie
1999
- Laurel & Hardy - Best of as Ollie
1996
- Chaplin's Goliath as Self (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1992
- Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys as Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)
1990
- The Laurel & Hardy Story: An Affectionate Rememberence as Self (archive footage)
1986
- Classic Comedy Teams as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Cocoon as Self - film clip from 'Flying Deuces' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
1979
- The Hollywood Clowns as (archive footage)
1978
- Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons as Ollie
1976
- Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy as Himself (archive footage)
1970
- Dick und Doof as Oliver
- 4 Clowns as (archive footage)
1968
- The Best of Laurel and Hardy as Ollie / Bert (archive footage)
1965
- Salute to Stan Laurel as Self (archive footage)
- Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's as Ollie (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
1963
- 30 Years of Fun as (archive footage)
1961
- Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)
1960
- When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
1957
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
1951
- Utopia as Ollie
- The Slappiest Days of Our Lives as (archive footage)
1950
- Riding High as Sucker (uncredited)
1949
- The Fighting Kentuckian as Willie Paine
1947
- Performers arrive in Hampshire as Self
1945
- The Bullfighters as Ollie
1944
- Nothing But Trouble as Oliver
- The Big Noise as Ollie
1943
- Jitterbugs as Ollie
- Air Raid Wardens as Ollie
- The Dancing Masters as Ollie
1942
- A-Haunting We Will Go as Ollie
- The Tree in a Test Tube as Ollie
1941
- Great Guns as Oliver
1940
- A Chump at Oxford as Ollie
- Saps at Sea as Ollie
1939
- The Flying Deuces as Ollie
- Zenobia as Dr. Henry Tibbett
1938
- Block-Heads as Ollie
- Swiss Miss as Ollie
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
1937
- Way Out West as Ollie
- Pick a Star as Oliver Hardy
- That's That! as Himself
1936
- Our Relations as Ollie / Bert Hardy
- The Bohemian Girl as Ollie
- On the Wrong Trek as Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
1935
- Bonnie Scotland as Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
- The Fixer Uppers as Ollie
- Tit for Tat as Ollie
- Thicker Than Water as Ollie
- MGM 1935 Promo Reel as Cleaner
- Their Night Out - Screen Test as Mr. Hardy
1934
- Hollywood Party as Ollie
- Oliver the Eighth as Ollie
- Babes in Toyland as Ollie Dee
- Them Thar Hills as Ollie
- Going Bye-Bye! as Mr. Hardy
- The Live Ghost as Ollie
1933
- Busy Bodies as Ollie
- Dirty Work as Ollie
- Twice Two as Ollie / Mrs. Laurel
- Sons of the Desert as Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
- The Midnight Patrol as Officer Oliver Hardy
- Me and My Pal as Ollie
- The Devil's Brother as Ollio
- Wild Poses as Baby
1932
- Scram! as Ollie
- County Hospital as Ollie
- The Chimp as Ollie
- Helpmates as Ollie
- Pack Up Your Troubles as Ollie
- The Music Box as Ollie
- Towed in a Hole as Ollie
- Any Old Port! as Ollie
- Their First Mistake as Ollie
- Hinter Schloss und Riegel as Ollie
- Stan and Olly as Himself
- Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh as Himself
- Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth as Himself
1931
- Pardon Us as Ollie
- Laughing Gravy as Ollie
- Be Big! as Ollie
- Our Wife as Ollie
- Haunted at Midnight as Ollie
- The Stolen Jools as Police Driver
- Come Clean as Ollie
- One Good Turn as Ollie
- Chickens Come Home as Mr. Oliver Hardy
- Beau Hunks as Ollie
- On the Loose as New Suitor (uncredited)
- Playing at Politics as Oliver
- The Chiselers as M. Hardy
- The Skulls as Señor Hardy
1930
- Night Owls as Ollie
- Below Zero as Ollie
- Hog Wild as Ollie
- Radiomanía as Ollie
- Blotto as Ollie
- Thieves
- The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case as Ollie
- Night of Goblins as Ollie
- Another Fine Mess as Ollie
- The Rogue Song as Murza-Bek
- The Night Life as Ollie
- Shivering and Shaking as Ollie
- Brats as Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.
1929
- Big Business as Ollie
- Liberty as Ollie
- Wrong Again as Ollie
- Berth Marks as Ollie
- Perfect Day as Ollie
- Bacon Grabbers as Oliver
- Angora Love as Ollie
- That's My Wife as Ollie
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
- Double Whoopee as Ollie
- Men O' War as Ollie
- Unaccustomed as We Are as Oliver Hardy
- The Hoose-Gow as Ollie
- They Go Boom! as Ollie
1928
- Galloping Ghosts as Meadows the Valet, a.k.a. Officer 13
- Two Tars as Ollie
- Habeas Corpus as Ollie
- Should Married Men Go Home? as Ollie
- We Faw Down as Ollie
- Their Purple Moment as Ollie
- Leave 'Em Laughing as Ollie
- The Finishing Touch as Ollie
- You're Darn Tootin' as Ollie, French horn player
- From Soup to Nuts as Hired butler
- Flying Elephants as Mighty Giant
- Early to Bed as Ollie
1927
- Sailors, Beware! as Purser Cryder
- Duck Soup as Maltravers
- Hats Off as Ollie
- The Battle of the Century as Manager
- With Love and Hisses as Top Sergeant Banner
- Fluttering Hearts as Big Bill
- The Second 100 Years as Big Goofy
- Sugar Daddies as Brittle's butler
- Why Girls Love Sailors as First Mate
- Putting Pants on Philip as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
- Should Men Walk Home? as Party Guest at Punch Bowl
- Do Detectives Think? as Sherlock Pinkham
- Slipping Wives as Butler
- Why Girls Say No as Policeman
- No Man's Law as Sharkey Nye
- Love 'em and Feed 'em as 'Happy' Hopey
- The Honorable Mr. Buggs as The Butler
- Call of the Cuckoo as Asylum Inmate
- Love 'Em and Weep as Judge Chigger
- Baby Brother as Ice Man
- Crazy to Act as Gordon Bagley
- Two-Time Mama as The Cop (as Babe Hardy)
- Now I'll Tell One as Policeman
1926
- Thundering Fleas as Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)
- Madame Mystery as Captain Schmaltz
- Wandering Papas as Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
- The Nickel-Hopper as Jazz band drummer
- The Gentle Cyclone as Sheriff Bill
- Along Came Auntie as Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Hotel Detective
- Be Your Age as Oswald Schwartzkopple
- Say It with Babies as Hector - the Floorwalker
- A Bankrupt Honeymoon as The Taxi Driver
- Long Fliv the King as The Prime Minister's Assistant
- Crazy Like a Fox as Charley's Victim (uncredited)
- Bromo and Juliet as Cab Driver
1925
- Laughing Ladies as Policeman
- The Wizard of Oz as Tin Woodsman / Farmhand
- Yes, Yes, Nanette as Her former sweetheart
- The Perfect Clown as Babe Mulligan
- Should Sailors Marry? as Doctor
- The Joke's on You as Wilbert Perkins
- They All Fall as The boss
- Rivals as The Rival
- Hey, Taxi! as A Rival Taxi Driver
- Hop to It! as A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)
- Fiddlin' Around as Theatre Manager
- Fiddlin' Around as Theatre manager
- Stick Around as Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)
- Isn't Life Terrible? as Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)
1924
- Kid Speed as Dangerous Dan McGraw
- The Girl in the Limousine as Freddie
- Roaring Lions at Home
- Her Boy Friend as Killer Kid
- Trouble Brewing as Bootlegger
- The Perfect Lady as (unconfirmed)
1923
- The Barnyard as Farm Hand
- Quicksands ... (Writer)
- The Midnight Cabaret as Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor
- Lightning Love as Oliver, the Other Suitor
- No Wedding Bells as The Girl's Father
- The Gown Shop as Store manager
- Horseshoes as Dynamite Duffy
1922
- The Show as Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)
- The Sawmill as The Foreman
- Golf as The neighbor
- A Pair of Kings as General Alarm
- Little Wildcat as 'Bull' Mulligan
- The Counter Jumper as Gaston Gilligan
1921
- The Bakery as Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
- The Lucky Dog as Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
- The Rent Collector as The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)
- The Fall Guy as Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)
- The Bell Hop as Hotel manager
1920
- Distilled Love as Mr. Pebble Ford (as Babe Hardy)
- The Backyard as Thug - The ruffian
- The Stage Hand as Audience member (uncredited)
- Married to Order as Her Father (as Babe Hardy)
- Squeaks and Squawks
- Springtime as The Commissioner
- The Decorator as Babe, a millionaire
- His Jonah Day as The Life Saver
- The Trouble Hunter as The Bouncer
1919
- Dull Care as A Janitor
- The Head Waiter as A cop (as Babe Hardy)
- Hop to It, Bellhop as Solomon Soop(as Babe Hardy)
- Bungs and Bunglers as Al K. Hall
1918
- The Scholar as The Superintendent
- Playmates
- He's In Again as Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)
- The Rogue as Cafe Owner
- The King of the Kitchen as A German customer
- Hello Trouble as A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)
- His Day Out as Ollie
- The Stranger as Oliver, the saloonkeeper
- Bright and Early as The Boss
1917
- The Pest
- The Hobo as Harold (as Babe Hardy)
- The Villain as Nell
- The Hero as The Hero's Rival (as Babe Hardy)
- Little Nell as Little Nell
- Back Stage as Babe
- Cupid's Rival as Poor Artist
- The Candy Kid as Rival Proprietor
- The Chief Cook as Babe (as Babe Hardy)
1916
- The Lottery Man as Maggie Murphy
- The Battle Royal as Plump
- The Serenade as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
- One Too Many as Plump
- Love and Duty as Pvt. Plump
- Hungry Hearts as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
- The Guilty Ones as Babe
- The Candy Trail as Plump (as Babe Hardy)
- Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
1915
- The Lilac Splash as Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)
- It May Be You as Paul Simmons
- Babe's School Days as Ikie Ikestein
- Ups and Downs as Shifty Mike
- An Expensive Visit as Jack
- Avenging Bill as Bill, the Grocer's Boy
- They Looked Alike as Pedestrian
- A Lucky Strike as Bill Myers
- The Haunted Hat
- Something in Her Eye as The Grocer
1914
- Magazine Cooking
- Mother's Baby Boy as Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)
- The Servant Girl's Legacy as Cy (as Babe Hardy)
- Making Auntie Welcome as Grocery Boy