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
- Utah as Stella Mason
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Mrs. Monroe
1944
- The Girl Who Dared as Chattie Richmond
1942
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Mrs. Conklin
- The Man in the Trunk as Mrs. Tessie Sweeney Kohler
- USS VD: Ship of Shame as Health Department Woman (uncredited)
- A Tragedy at Midnight as First Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
- Sappy Pappy as Mrs. Clyde
1941
- The Ring and the Belle as Mrs. Clyde
- An Apple in His Eye as Vivien Kennedy
1940
- A Chump at Oxford as Receptionist (uncredited)
- Sauce for the Gander as Mrs. Morton
- A Trailer Tragedy as Vivien Kennedy
- Pop Always Pays as Mrs. Violet Oberton
- Drafted in the Depot as Vivien Kennedy
- 'Taint Legal as Vivien
- Sunk by the Census as Vivien
- Mutiny in the County as Vivian Kennedy
1939
- The Girl from Mexico as Mrs. Renner
- Baby Daze as Vivien Kennedy
- Kennedy the Great as Vivien Kennedy
- Act Your Age as Vivian
- Maid to Order as Vivien
- Clock Wise as Vivien
1938
- Slander House as Mrs. Conway
- Condemned Women as Mrs. Walter Hempstead
- Crime Ring as Madame Jarman
- Rebellious Daughters as Mrs. Webster
- A Clean Sweep as Mrs. Edgar (Vivian) Kennedy
- Double Danger as Mrs. Jerome Courtland (uncredited)
- His Pest Friend as Mrs. Errol
- Berth Quakes as Mrs. Errol
- Beaux and Errors as Vivien Kennedy
1937
- Way Out West as Sheriff's Wife
- Amateur Crook as Mrs. Flint, Landlady
- Mile a Minute Love as Marie
- Dumb's the Word as Vivien Kennedy
- Knee Action
- Tramp Trouble as Vivien
- Should Wives Work? as Mrs. Errol
- Bad Housekeeping as Vivien Kennedy
1936
- Lady Luck as Mrs. Cora Hemingway
- Who's Looney Now as Mrs. Shirley Brown
- One Live Ghost as Ethel Morton
1935
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Moll (uncredited)
- Star of Midnight as Jerry Classon
- Rendezvous at Midnight as Lillian Haskins
- Keystone Hotel as Mrs. Carmenchita Carson
- Atlantic Adventure as Mrs. Julia Van Dieman
- Alimony Aches as May, Andy's Ex-wife
1934
- The Defense Rests as Mrs. Monte Ballou
- I Believed in You as Russell's Sugar Mama
- Money Means Nothing as Helen Whitney
- The Fuller Gush Man as Mother
- Perfectly Mismated
- One Too Many
- In the Dog House as Tallulah Clyde
1933
- Only Yesterday as Ethel (Uncredited)
- Neighbors' Wives as Ann Rainey
1932
- Scram! as Mrs. Beaumont
- Secrets of the French Police as Cohort of Moloff (uncredited)
- The Tenderfoot as Miss Martin
- Running Hollywood as Vivien
- Cock of the Air as Irate Woman in Restaurant
1931
- The Age for Love as Grace
- Gold Dust Gertie as Lucille Harlan
- Many a Slip as Emily Coster
- A House Divided as Bess (uncredited)
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick' as Vivien - the Wife (uncredited)
- Lime Juice Nights as Karl's wife
1930
- A Lady Surrenders as Mrs. Lynchfield
- The Florodora Girl as Maud
- Oh, Sailor, Behave! as Kunegundi
- Back Pay as Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
- The Matrimonial Bed as Susan Trebel
- Big Hearted
- Their Wives' Vacation
- 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
- Loud Soup as Mrs. Chase
- Satires
1928
- We Faw Down as Mrs. Hardy
- Galloping Ghosts as Smith's First oOve
- The Man in Hobbles as Mrs. Maynard
- Imagine My Embarrassment
1927
- Uncle Tom's Cabin as Mrs. Shelby
- Two-Time Mama as Mrs. Brown
- Love 'Em and Weep as Mrs. Ricketts
- Wedding Bills as Mademoiselle Mimi de Lyle
1926
- Don Key (Son of Burro) as Vivien
- Mama Behave as Miss D'Arcy - Lolita's Friend
- Say It with Babies as Mrs. Crum
- Redheads Preferred as Mrs. Bill Williams
- Along Came Auntie as Mrs. Remington Chow - the Wife
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself, in magazine (uncredited)
- Wife Tamers as The Other Woman
- Mighty Like a Moose as Mrs. Moose - The Wife
- Long Pants as The Widow
- Tony Runs Wild as Mrs. Johnson (as Vivian Oakland)
- Tell 'Em Nothing as The Galloping Blonde
1925
- The Teaser as Lois Caswell(as Vivian Oakland)
- The Rainbow Trail as Bessie Venters
1924
- Madonna of the Streets as Lady Sarah Joyce
1915
- Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman as Beauty