Vivien Oakland
Born: 1895-05-19 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1958-08-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Anderson, May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 142 films between 1915 and 1951. She supported Laurel and Hardy on several occasions, and sometimes played the wife of Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol in their series of short films. She played mostly bit roles in feature films in the 1940s before making her last film (an Errol comedy) in 1951.
Filmography
2024
- Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1950
- The Secret Fury as Mrs. Brownley (uncredited)
- Bunco Squad as Annie Cobb
1947
- Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman as Woman at bar (uncredited)
- Borrowed Blonde as Boss's Wife
1946
- The Locket as Mrs. Donovan (uncredited)
- Sister Kenny as Dr. Gideon's Secretary (uncredited)
- Magnificent Doll as Mrs. Witherspoon (uncredited)
1945
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Mrs. Monroe
- Utah as Stella Mason
1944
- The Girl Who Dared as Chattie Richmond
1942
- USS VD: Ship of Shame as Health Department Woman (uncredited)
- A Tragedy at Midnight as First Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Mrs. Conklin
- The Man in the Trunk as Mrs. Tessie Sweeney Kohler
- Sappy Pappy as Mrs. Clyde
1941
- An Apple in His Eye as Vivien Kennedy
- The Ring and the Belle as Mrs. Clyde
- Mad About Moonshine as Vivian
1940
- A Chump at Oxford as Receptionist (uncredited)
- Sauce for the Gander as Mrs. Morton
- Mutiny in the County as Vivian Kennedy
- Pop Always Pays as Mrs. Violet Oberton
- Sunk by the Census as Vivien
- Drafted in the Depot as Vivien Kennedy
- A Trailer Tragedy as Vivien Kennedy
- 'Taint Legal as Vivien
1939
- Clock Wise as Vivien
- The Girl from Mexico as Mrs. Renner
- Maid to Order as Vivien
- Act Your Age as Vivian
- Kennedy the Great as Vivien Kennedy
- Baby Daze as Vivien Kennedy
1938
- Slander House as Mrs. Conway
- Crime Ring as Madame Jarman
- Condemned Women as Mrs. Walter Hempstead
- His Pest Friend as Mrs. Errol
- Double Danger as Mrs. Jerome Courtland (uncredited)
- Berth Quakes as Mrs. Errol
- Rebellious Daughters as Mrs. Webster
- A Clean Sweep as Mrs. Edgar (Vivian) Kennedy
- Beaux and Errors as Vivien Kennedy
1937
- Way Out West as Sheriff's Wife
- Tramp Trouble as Vivien
- Dumb's the Word as Vivien Kennedy
- Amateur Crook as Mrs. Flint, Landlady
- Mile a Minute Love as Marie
- Should Wives Work? as Mrs. Errol
- Knee Action as Florabelle
- Bad Housekeeping as Vivien Kennedy
1936
- Who's Looney Now as Mrs. Shirley Brown
- Lady Luck as Mrs. Cora Hemingway
- One Live Ghost as Ethel Morton
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Moll (uncredited)
- Star of Midnight as Jerry Classon
- Atlantic Adventure as Mrs. Julia Van Dieman
- Rendezvous at Midnight as Lillian Haskins
- Alimony Aches as May, Andy's Ex-wife
- Keystone Hotel as Mrs. Carmenchita Carson
1934
- The Defense Rests as Mrs. Monte Ballou
- In the Dog House as Tallulah Clyde
- I Believed in You as Russell's Sugar Mama
- The Fuller Gush Man as Mother
- Perfectly Mismated
- One Too Many
- Money Means Nothing as Helen Whitney
1933
- Only Yesterday as Ethel (Uncredited)
- Neighbors' Wives as Ann Rainey
1932
- Cock of the Air as Irate Woman in Restaurant
- Secrets of the French Police as Cohort of Moloff (uncredited)
- Scram! as Mrs. Beaumont
- Running Hollywood as Vivien
- The Tenderfoot as Miss Martin
1931
- A House Divided as Bess (uncredited)
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick' as Vivien - the Wife (uncredited)
- The Age for Love as Grace
- Many a Slip as Emily Coster
- Gold Dust Gertie as Lucille Harlan
- Lime Juice Nights as Karl's wife
1930
- The Florodora Girl as Maud
- The Matrimonial Bed as Susan Trebel
- A Lady Surrenders as Mrs. Lynchfield
- Oh, Sailor, Behave! as Kunegundi
- Back Pay as Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
- Their Wives' Vacation as Mae's sister
- Big Hearted as Mrs. Black
- Personality as Mrs. Keller
1929
- That's My Wife as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Mrs. Davis
- Thundering Toupees
- Off to Buffalo as Mrs. Chase
- Satires
- Loud Soup as Mrs. Chase
1928
- The Man in Hobbles as Mrs. Maynard
- We Faw Down as Mrs. Hardy
- Galloping Ghosts as Smith's First oOve
- Imagine My Embarrassment
1927
- Wedding Bills as Mademoiselle Mimi de Lyle
- Uncle Tom's Cabin as Mrs. Shelby
- Love 'Em and Weep as Mrs. Ricketts
- Two-Time Mama as Mrs. Brown
1926
- Wife Tamers as The Other Woman
- Mama Behave as Miss D'Arcy - Lolita's Friend
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself, in magazine (uncredited)
- Don Key (Son of Burro) as Vivien
- Mighty Like a Moose as Mrs. Moose - The Wife
- Say It with Babies as Mrs. Crum
- Along Came Auntie as Mrs. Remington Chow - the Wife
- Tony Runs Wild as Mrs. Johnson (as Vivian Oakland)
- Tell 'Em Nothing as The Galloping Blonde
- Long Pants as The Widow
- Redheads Preferred as Mrs. Bill Williams
1925
- The Rainbow Trail as Bessie Venters
- The Teaser as Lois Caswell(as Vivian Oakland)
1924
- Madonna of the Streets as Lady Sarah Joyce
1915
- Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman as Beauty