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Laurel and Hardy filmography
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:This list contains only the films that Laurel and Hardy made together. For their solo films see Stan Laurel filmography and Oliver Hardy filmography.
Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture comedy team whose official filmography consists of 106 films released between 1921 and 1951. Together they appeared in 34 silent shorts, 45 sound shorts, and 27 full-length sound feature films. In addition to these, Laurel and Hardy appeared in at least 20 foreign-language versions of their films and a promotional film, Galaxy of Stars (1936), produced for European film distributors.
Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) were established as film comedians prior to their teaming, with Laurel appearing in over 50 silent films and Hardy in over 250. (Hardy also appeared in three sound features without Laurel.) Although they first worked together in the film The Lucky Dog (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926 when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio that they appeared in film shorts together. Wes D. Gehring identifies their first "official" film together as Putting Pants on Philip, William K. Everson identifies The Second Hundred Years as the first "official" Laurel and Hardy film in which they are presented as a team. Should Married Men Go Home? was the first Hal Roach film to bill Laurel and Hardy as a team. Previous appearances together were billed under the Roach "All-Star Comedy" banner. The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. Between 1941 and 1945, they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After finishing their film commitments, Laurel and Hardy concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of Great Britain. In 1950, they appeared in their last film, Atoll K, a French/Italian co-production.
In 1932, Laurel and Hardy's short The Music Box won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy). In 1960, Laurel was presented with an Academy Honorary Award "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy." In 1992, 1997, 2012 and 2020 respectively, Big Business (1929), The Music Box, Sons of the Desert (1933) and The Battle of the Century (1927) were added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." For their contributions to cinema, Laurel and Hardy have been awarded separate stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
Official films
The following is a list of Laurel and Hardy's official filmography as established in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies by Randy Skretvedt and Laurel and Hardy by John McCabe, Al Kilgore, and Richard W. Bann. Each book lists 105 films and Skredvedt's adds a 106th in its appendix, Now I'll Tell One, a previously lost film that was partly rediscovered.
Except where noted, all of these films were photographed in black and white, produced by Hal Roach, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Except where noted, all short films are two reels in length. All films produced prior to 1928 are silent and all films made after 1929 are sound. Releases from 1928 are silent except as noted. 1929 releases are identified as silent, all-talkie, or sound films with music and sound effects only.
| Release date | Title | Short / feature | Notes | Public Domain Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** | Short | Produced by Shiller Productions | |||||
| ** | Short | McCabe | Kilgore | Bann | 1975 | p=23}} | |
| Duck Soup | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| Based on "Home from the Honeymoon", a sketch written by Arthur J. Jefferson (Stan Laurel's father) | |||||||
| Slipping Wives | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| Love 'em and Weep | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| Why Girls Love Sailors | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| With Love and Hisses | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| First Laurel and Hardy film where Hardy sports his iconic narrow mustache. | |||||||
| Sugar Daddies | Short | ||||||
| Sailors, Beware! | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |||||
| Now I'll Tell One | Short | Partly lost film | |||||
| ** | Short | William K. Everson identifies this as the first "official" Laurel and Hardy film in which they are presented as a team | |||||
| Call of the Cuckoo | Short | Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in supporting roles | |||||
| Hats Off | Short | Lost film | |||||
| Do Detectives Think? | Short | First film in which the duo appear in their standard costumes | |||||
| Putting Pants on Philip | Short | Wes D. Gehring identifies this as their first "official" film together as a team | |||||
| ** | Short | Once partly lost film, but found in 2015. | |||||
| Added to the National Film Registry in 2020. | |||||||
| Leave 'Em Laughing | Short | ||||||
| Flying Elephants | Short | ||||||
| ** | Short | ||||||
| From Soup to Nuts | Short | ||||||
| You're Darn Tootin' | Short | ||||||
| Their Purple Moment | Short | ||||||
| Should Married Men Go Home? | Short | The first Hal Roach film to bill Laurel and Hardy as a team. Previous appearances together were billed under the Roach "All-Star Comedy" banner. | |||||
| Early to Bed | Short | ||||||
| Two Tars | Short | ||||||
| Habeas Corpus | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| We Faw Down | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| Liberty | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| Wrong Again | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| That's My Wife | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| Big Business | Short | Silent | |||||
| Added to the National Film Registry in 1992. | |||||||
| Unaccustomed As We Are | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| Double Whoopee | Short | Silent Features a notable early appearance by Jean Harlow | |||||
| Berth Marks | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| Men O' War | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| Perfect Day | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| They Go Boom! | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| Bacon Grabbers | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| ** | Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| ** | Feature | Sound (all-talking) | |||||
| All-star revue produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |||||||
| Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture | |||||||
| Angora Love | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | |||||
| Night Owls | Short | ||||||
| ** | Feature | Operetta film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Laurel and Hardy in supporting roles | |||||
| Filmed in Technicolor | |||||||
| Partially lost | |||||||
| Blotto | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Brats | Short | ||||||
| Below Zero | Short | ||||||
| Hog Wild | Short | ||||||
| ** | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Another Fine Mess | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Remake of Duck Soup | |||||||
| Be Big! | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Chickens Come Home | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Remake of Love 'Em and Weep | |||||||
| ** | Short | Presented by National Variety Artists and released by Paramount | |||||
| Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |||||||
| Laughing Gravy | Short | ||||||
| Our Wife | Short | ||||||
| Pardon Us | Feature | ||||||
| Come Clean | Short | ||||||
| One Good Turn | Short | ||||||
| Beau Hunks | Short | Four reels | |||||
| On the Loose | Short | Stars ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd | |||||
| Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |||||||
| Helpmates | Short | ||||||
| Any Old Port! | Short | ||||||
| ** | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | |||||||
| Added to the National Film Registry in 1997. | |||||||
| ** | Short | Three reels | |||||
| County Hospital | Short | ||||||
| Scram! | Short | ||||||
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Feature | ||||||
| Their First Mistake | Short | ||||||
| Towed in a Hole | Short | ||||||
| Twice Two | Short | ||||||
| Me and My Pal | Short | ||||||
| ** | Feature | Based on the opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber | |||||
| ** | Short | ||||||
| Busy Bodies | Short | ||||||
| Wild Poses | Short | Our Gang film with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |||||
| Dirty Work | Short | ||||||
| Sons of the Desert | Feature | Added to the National Film Registry in 2012. | |||||
| Oliver the Eighth | Short | Three reels | |||||
| Hollywood Party | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |||||
| Going Bye-Bye! | Short | ||||||
| Them Thar Hills | Short | ||||||
| Babes in Toyland | Feature | Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough | |||||
| Reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, March of the Toys, and Revenge Is Sweet | |||||||
| ** | Short | ||||||
| Tit for Tat | Short | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. | |||||
| ** | Short | ||||||
| Thicker than Water | Short | ||||||
| Bonnie Scotland | Feature | ||||||
| ** | Feature | Adapted from the opera by Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn | |||||
| With Darla Hood | |||||||
| On the Wrong Trek | Short | Charley Chase comedy with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |||||
| Our Relations | Feature | ||||||
| Way Out West | Feature | ||||||
| Pick a Star | Feature | Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |||||
| Swiss Miss | Feature | ||||||
| Block-Heads | Feature | Cameo appearance of Tommy Bond. | |||||
| ** | Feature | An RKO Radio Pictures production | |||||
| ** | Feature | Released by United Artists | |||||
| Saps at Sea | Feature | Released by United Artists | |||||
| Great Guns | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| Air Raid Wardens | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |||||
| ** | Short | One-reel film (in color) produced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Laurel and Hardy, appearing in cameos, made this during the filming of Jitterbugs. | |||||
| Jitterbugs | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| ** | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| ** | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| Nothing but Trouble | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |||||
| ** | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||||
| Atoll K | Feature | A co-production of Les Films Sirius (France), Franco-London Films (France), and Fortezza Films (Italy); released in the United Kingdom as Escapade; reissued in the United States as Robinson Crusoe-Land and Utopia | |||||
Foreign-language versions
During the early days of sound American motion picture companies often made foreign-language versions of their films. The following is a list of known foreign-language versions of Laurel and Hardy films.
| Year | English | French | German | Spanish | Italian | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Night Owls | Ladrones | ||||
| (Thieves) | Ladroni | |||||
| (Thieves) | ||||||
| Currently lost | Ŝtelistoj | |||||
| (Thieves) | ||||||
| Currently lost | ||||||
| 1930 | Blotto | Une Nuit Extravagante | ||||
| (An Extravagant Night) | La Vida Nocturna | |||||
| (The Night Life) | ||||||
| 1930 | Brats | Les bons petits diables | ||||
| (Good Little Devils) | ||||||
| Currently lost | Glückliche Kindheit | |||||
| (Happy Childhood) | ||||||
| Currently lost | Dos Buenos Chicos | |||||
| (Two Good Boys) | ||||||
| Currently lost | ||||||
| 1930 | Below Zero | Tiembla y Titubea | ||||
| (Shivering and Shaking) | ||||||
| 1930 | Hog Wild | Pêle-mêle | ||||
| (Pell-Mell) | ||||||
| Currently lost | Radiomanía | |||||
| (Radio Mania) | ||||||
| Currently lost | ||||||
| 1930 | Berth Marks and The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case | Feu mon oncle | ||||
| (My Late Uncle) | ||||||
| Currently lost | Spuk um Mitternacht (in Germany) Drei Millionen Dollar (lost version in Austria) | |||||
| (Haunting at Midnight) | Noche de Duendes | |||||
| (Night of the Goblins) | ||||||
| 1931 | Be Big! and Laughing Gravy | Les Carottiers | ||||
| (The Chiselers) | Los Calaveras | |||||
| (The Skulls) | ||||||
| 1931 | Chickens Come Home | Politiquerias | ||||
| (Playing at Politics) |
| Year | English | French | German | Spanish | Italian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Pardon Us | Sous Les Verrous | |||
| (Under the Locks) | |||||
| Currently lost | Hinter Schloss und Riegel | ||||
| (Under Lock and Key) | |||||
| Only a handful of clips survive | De Bote En Bote | ||||
| (From Cell to Cell) | Muraglie | ||||
| (Walls) | |||||
| Currently lost |
Note: A lost German-language version of The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Wir Schalten um auf Hollywood (We Switch to Hollywood), was made and released in 1931. Apparently Laurel and Hardy do not appear in it.
Promotional film
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Galaxy of Stars | A promotional short film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer only for MGM exhibitors in Europe and Africa, featuring Laurel and Hardy. Rediscovered in 2005. |
Compilation films
| Release date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | The Golden Age of Comedy | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Dwight Weist and Ward Wilson. | ||
| Features clips from The Second Hundred Years (1927), The Battle of the Century (1927), You're Darn Tootin' (1928), Two Tars (1928), We Faw Down (1928), and Double Whoopee* (1929). | ||
| 1960 | When Comedy Was King | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Dwight Weist. | ||
| Features clips from Big Business* (1929). | ||
| 1961 | Days of Thrills and Laughter | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Jay Jackson. | ||
| 1963 | 30 Years of Fun | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| Features clips from The Lucky Dog* (1921). | ||
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Les Tremayne. | ||
| Features clips from Hollywood Party (1934) and Bonnie Scotland* (1935). | ||
| Also known as M.G.M.'s Big Parade of Comedy.* | ||
| 1965 | Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Jay Jackson. | ||
| Features clips from Thicker than Water (1935), 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926), Sugar Daddies (1927), The Second Hundred Years (1927), Call of the Cuckoo (1927), Putting Pants on Philip (1927), The Battle of the Century (1927), Leave 'Em Laughing (1928), The Finishing Touch (1928), From Soup to Nuts (1928), You're Darn Tootin' (1928), Two Tars (1928), Habeas Corpus (1928), We Faw Down (1928), Liberty (1929), Wrong Again (1929), and Double Whoopee* (1929). | ||
| 1966 | The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy | * Written by Bill Scott. |
| * Produced by Hal Roach, Jr., Raymond Rohauer, and Jay Ward. | ||
| * Narrated by Garry Moore. | ||
| Features clips from Perfect Day (1929), Bacon Grabbers (1929), The Hoose-Gow (1929), Blotto (1930), Hog Wild (1930), Chickens Come Home (1931), Come Clean (1931), Beau Hunks (1931), Helpmates (1932), Any Old Port! (1932), The Music Box (1932), Towed in a Hole (1932), Me and My Pal (1933), Busy Bodies (1933), Dirty Work (1933), Sons of the Desert (1933), Going Bye-Bye! (1934), Thicker than Water (1935), The Bohemian Girl (1936), Way Out West (1937), Swiss Miss (1938), and Block-Heads* (1938). | ||
| 1967 | The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Jay Jackson. | ||
| Features clips from Sugar Daddies (1927), The Second Hundred Years (1927), Do Detectives Think? (1927), Leave 'Em Laughing (1928), Flying Elephants (1928), You're Darn Tootin' (1928), Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), Early to Bed (1928), Habeas Corpus (1928), That's My Wife (1929), and Angora Love* (1929). | ||
| 1969 | The Best of Laurel and Hardy | * Produced and directed by James L. Wolcott. |
| Features clips from Night Owls (1930), Below Zero (1930), Be Big! (1931), Laughing Gravy (1931), Our Wife (1931), Pardon Us (1931), One Good Turn (1931), County Hospital (1932), Their First Mistake (1932), The Live Ghost (1934), and Our Relations* (1936). | ||
| 1970 | 4 Clowns | * Written, produced, and directed by Robert Youngson. |
| * Narrated by Jay Jackson. | ||
| Features clips from The Second Hundred Years (1927), Putting Pants on Philip (1927), Big Business (1929), Double Whoopee (1929), Two Tars (1928), and Their Purple Moment* (1928). |
References
Notes
A. "A short film is defined as an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits."
B. "Under the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format."
Footnotes
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