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
- The Man in the Trunk as Mrs. Tessie Sweeney Kohler
- A Tragedy at Midnight as First Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
- Sappy Pappy as Mrs. Clyde
- USS VD: Ship of Shame as Health Department Woman (uncredited)
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Mrs. Conklin
1941
- An Apple in His Eye as Vivien Kennedy
- The Ring and the Belle as Mrs. Clyde
1940
- A Chump at Oxford as Receptionist (uncredited)
- 'Taint Legal as Vivien
- Pop Always Pays as Mrs. Violet Oberton
- A Trailer Tragedy as Vivien Kennedy
- Sauce for the Gander as Mrs. Morton
- Mutiny in the County as Vivian Kennedy
- Sunk by the Census as Vivien
- Drafted in the Depot as Vivien Kennedy
1939
- Clock Wise as Vivien
- The Girl from Mexico as Mrs. Renner
- Act Your Age as Vivian
- Maid to Order as Vivien
- Baby Daze as Vivien Kennedy
- Kennedy the Great as Vivien Kennedy
1938
- Slander House as Mrs. Conway
- Double Danger as Mrs. Jerome Courtland (uncredited)
- Rebellious Daughters as Mrs. Webster
- Condemned Women as Mrs. Walter Hempstead
- His Pest Friend as Mrs. Errol
- Crime Ring as Madame Jarman
- A Clean Sweep as Mrs. Edgar (Vivian) Kennedy
- Beaux and Errors as Vivien Kennedy
- Berth Quakes as Mrs. Errol
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
- Bad Housekeeping as Vivien Kennedy
- Knee Action
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)
- Atlantic Adventure as Mrs. Julia Van Dieman
- Star of Midnight as Jerry Classon
- Rendezvous at Midnight as Lillian Haskins
- Keystone Hotel as Mrs. Carmenchita Carson
- Alimony Aches as May, Andy's Ex-wife
1934
- The Defense Rests as Mrs. Monte Ballou
- In the Dog House as Tallulah Clyde
- I Believed in You as Russell's Sugar Mama
- Money Means Nothing as Helen Whitney
- Perfectly Mismated
- The Fuller Gush Man as Mother
- One Too Many
1933
- Only Yesterday as Ethel (Uncredited)
- Neighbors' Wives as Ann Rainey
1932
- The Tenderfoot as Miss Martin
- Running Hollywood as Vivien
- Scram! as Mrs. Beaumont
- Secrets of the French Police as Cohort of Moloff (uncredited)
- Cock of the Air as Irate Woman in Restaurant
1931
- A House Divided as Bess (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
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick' as Vivien - the Wife (uncredited)
1930
- A Lady Surrenders as Mrs. Lynchfield
- The Florodora Girl as Maud
- The Matrimonial Bed as Susan Trebel
- Their Wives' Vacation
- Back Pay as Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
- Oh, Sailor, Behave! as Kunegundi
- Personality as Mrs. Keller
- Big Hearted
1929
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Mrs. Davis
- Off to Buffalo as Mrs. Chase
- That's My Wife as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
- Loud Soup as Mrs. Chase
- Satires
- Thundering Toupees
1928
- The Man in Hobbles as Mrs. Maynard
- We Faw Down as Mrs. Hardy
- Imagine My Embarrassment
- Galloping Ghosts as Smith's First oOve
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
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself, in magazine (uncredited)
- Redheads Preferred as Mrs. Bill Williams
- Along Came Auntie as Mrs. Remington Chow - the Wife
- Long Pants as The Widow
- Tony Runs Wild as Mrs. Johnson (as Vivian Oakland)
- Mama Behave as Miss D'Arcy - Lolita's Friend
- Mighty Like a Moose as Mrs. Moose - The Wife
- Don Key (Son of Burro) as Vivien
- Say It with Babies as Mrs. Crum
- Tell 'Em Nothing as The Galloping Blonde
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