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
1950
- Bunco Squad as Annie Cobb
- The Secret Fury as Mrs. Brownley (uncredited)
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)
- Magnificent Doll as Mrs. Witherspoon (uncredited)
- Sister Kenny as Dr. Gideon's Secretary (uncredited)
1945
- Utah as Stella Mason
- The Man Who Walked Alone as Mrs. Monroe
1944
- The Girl Who Dared as Chattie Richmond
1942
- Sappy Pappy as Mrs. Clyde
- Laugh Your Blues Away as Mrs. Conklin
- USS VD: Ship of Shame as Health Department Woman (uncredited)
- A Tragedy at Midnight as First Mrs. Charles Miller (uncredited)
- The Man in the Trunk as Mrs. Tessie Sweeney Kohler
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)
- Pop Always Pays as Mrs. Violet Oberton
- Mutiny in the County as Vivian Kennedy
- A Trailer Tragedy as Vivien Kennedy
- Sauce for the Gander as Mrs. Morton
- Sunk by the Census as Vivien
- 'Taint Legal as Vivien
- Drafted in the Depot as Vivien Kennedy
1939
- Baby Daze as Vivien Kennedy
- Clock Wise as Vivien
- The Girl from Mexico as Mrs. Renner
- Kennedy the Great as Vivien Kennedy
- Maid to Order as Vivien
1938
- Rebellious Daughters as Mrs. Webster
- Crime Ring as Madame Jarman
- Double Danger as Mrs. Jerome Courtland (uncredited)
- Slander House as Mrs. Conway
- His Pest Friend as Mrs. Errol
- Condemned Women as Mrs. Walter Hempstead
- Beaux and Errors as Vivien Kennedy
- A Clean Sweep as Mrs. Edgar (Vivian) Kennedy
- Berth Quakes as Mrs. Errol
1937
- Knee Action
- Tramp Trouble as Vivien
- Bad Housekeeping as Vivien Kennedy
- Way Out West as Sheriff's Wife
- Mile a Minute Love as Marie
- Should Wives Work? as Mrs. Errol
- Dumb's the Word as Vivien Kennedy
- Amateur Crook as Mrs. Flint, Landlady
1936
- One Live Ghost as Ethel Morton
- Who's Looney Now as Mrs. Shirley Brown
- Lady Luck as Mrs. Cora Hemingway
1935
- Keystone Hotel as Mrs. Carmenchita Carson
- Star of Midnight as Jerry Classon
- Rendezvous at Midnight as Lillian Haskins
- Mutiny on the Bounty as Moll (uncredited)
- Atlantic Adventure as Mrs. Julia Van Dieman
- Alimony Aches as May, Andy's Ex-wife
1934
- Money Means Nothing as Helen Whitney
- The Defense Rests as Mrs. Monte Ballou
- In the Dog House as Tallulah Clyde
- One Too Many
- I Believed in You as Russell's Sugar Mama
- The Fuller Gush Man as Mother
- Perfectly Mismated
1933
- Only Yesterday as Ethel (Uncredited)
1932
- Scram! as Mrs. Beaumont
- Running Hollywood as Vivien
- Secrets of the French Police as Cohort of Moloff (uncredited)
- Cock of the Air as Irate Woman in Restaurant
- The Tenderfoot as Miss Martin
1931
- Many a Slip as Emily Coster
- Gold Dust Gertie as Lucille Harlan
- The Age for Love as Grace
- A House Divided as Bess (uncredited)
- Lime Juice Nights as Karl's wife
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick' as Vivien - the Wife (uncredited)
1930
- Big Hearted
- Back Pay as Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
- The Matrimonial Bed as Susan Trebel
- A Lady Surrenders as Mrs. Lynchfield
- Their Wives' Vacation
- The Florodora Girl as Maud
- Oh, Sailor, Behave! as Kunegundi
1929
- That's My Wife as Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
- Off to Buffalo as Mrs. Chase
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Mrs. Davis
- Thundering Toupees
- Satires
- Loud Soup as Mrs. Chase
1928
- Galloping Ghosts as Smith's First oOve
- We Faw Down as Mrs. Hardy
- Imagine My Embarrassment
1927
- Uncle Tom's Cabin as Mrs. Shelby
- Love 'Em and Weep as Mrs. Ricketts
- Two-Time Mama as Mrs. Brown
1926
- Long Pants as The Widow
- Redheads Preferred as Mrs. Bill Williams
- Wife Tamers as The Other Woman
- Along Came Auntie as Mrs. Remington Chow - the Wife
- Mighty Like a Moose as Mrs. Moose - The Wife
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself, in magazine (uncredited)
- Mama Behave as Miss D'Arcy - Lolita's Friend
- Say It with Babies as Mrs. Crum
- Tony Runs Wild as Mrs. Johnson (as Vivian Oakland)
- Tell 'Em Nothing as The Galloping Blonde
- Don Key (Son of Burro) as Vivien
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