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Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In some of his early works, he was billed as "Babe Hardy".
Oliver Hardy died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957, at age 65. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.
Movies
The Flying Deuces
Ollie
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
Way Out West
Ollie
Nothing But Trouble
Oliver
Babes in Toyland
Ollie Dee
A Chump at Oxford
Ollie
Busy Bodies
Ollie
Sons of the Desert
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
The Fighting Kentuckian
Willie Paine
A-Haunting We Will Go
Ollie
Air Raid Wardens
Ollie
Block-Heads
Ollie
Bonnie Scotland
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Pack Up Your Troubles
Ollie
Any Old Port!
Ollie
The Music Box
Ollie
Along Came Auntie
Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
Our Relations
Ollie / Bert Hardy
Great Guns
Oliver
Saps at Sea
Ollie
The Midnight Patrol
Officer Oliver Hardy
The Wizard of Oz
Farmhand
The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
Below Zero
Ollie
Be Big!
Ollie
Big Business
Ollie
The Chimp
Ollie
County Hospital
Ollie
Dirty Work
Ollie
Liberty
Ollie
On the Loose
New Suitor (uncredited)
Perfect Day
Ollie
Should Married Men Go Home?
Ollie
Beau Hunks
Ollie
Come Clean
Ollie
Double Whoopee
Ollie
The Finishing Touch
Ollie
The Fixer Uppers
Ollie
Fluttering Hearts
Big Bill
Flying Elephants
Mighty Giant
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Ollie
Leave 'Em Laughing
Ollie
The Live Ghost
Ollie
Me and My Pal
Ollie
Men O'War
Ollie
Night Owls
Ollie
Oliver the Eighth
Ollie
On the Wrong Trek
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
One Good Turn
Ollie
Our Wife
Ollie
Sugar Daddies
Brittle's butler
Their Purple Moment
Ollie
The Dancing Masters
Ollie
Brats
Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.
Scram!
Ollie
Laughing Gravy
Ollie
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Hotel Detective
Angora Love
Ollie
Another Fine Mess
Ollie
Bacon Grabbers
Oliver
The Battle of the Century
Manager
Berth Marks
Ollie
Blotto
Ollie
Call of the Cuckoo
Asylum Inmate
Chickens Come Home
Mr. Oliver Hardy
Do Detectives Think?
Sherlock Pinkham
Duck Soup
Maltravers
Early to Bed
Ollie
The Hoose-Gow
Ollie
Putting Pants on Philip
J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
Sailors, Beware!
Purser Cryder
The Second Hundred Years
Big Goofy
Slipping Wives
Butler
That's My Wife
Ollie
Their First Mistake
Ollie
Them Thar Hills
Ollie
They Go Boom!
Ollie
Thicker Than Water
Ollie
Thundering Fleas
Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)
Tit for Tat
Ollie
Towed in a Hole
Ollie
Twice Two
Ollie / Mrs. Laurel
Two Tars
Ollie
Unaccustomed as We Are
Oliver Hardy
We Faw Down
Ollie
Why Girls Love Sailors
First Mate
With Love and Hisses
Top Sergeant Banner
Wrong Again
Ollie
You're Darn Tootin'
Ollie, French horn player
Habeas Corpus
Ollie
Helpmates
Ollie
Hog Wild
Ollie
Love 'Em and Weep
Judge Chigger
Utopia
Ollie
The Lucky Dog
Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
Jitterbugs
Ollie
The Bohemian Girl
Ollie
Swiss Miss
Ollie
From Soup to Nuts
Hired butler
The Stolen Jools
Police Driver
The Big Noise
Ollie
Bromo and Juliet
Cab Driver
The Devil's Brother
Ollio
The Bullfighters
Ollie
Stick Around
Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)
Crazy to Act
Gordon Bagley
The Sawmill
The Foreman
Hop to It!
A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)
Golf
The neighbor
When Comedy Was King
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
He's In Again
Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)
The Tree in a Test Tube
Ollie
Kid Speed
Dangerous Dan McGraw
Wandering Papas
Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
Yes, Yes, Nanette
Her former sweetheart
Wild Poses
Baby
Pick a Star
Oliver Hardy
Riding High
Sucker (uncredited)
Zenobia
Dr. Henry Tibbett
4 Clowns
(archive footage)
Night of Goblins
Ollie
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
(archive footage)
Thieves
They All Fall
The Perfect Clown
Babe Mulligan
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
The Nickel-Hopper
Jazz band drummer
Long Fliv the King
The Prime Minister's Assistant
The Servant Girl's Legacy
Cy (as Babe Hardy)
Something in Her Eye
The Grocer
The Battle Royal
Plump
One Too Many
Plump
The Candy Kid
Rival Proprietor
The Hero
Bright and Early
The Boss
The Rogue
Cafe Owner
Dull Care
A Janitor
The Lottery Man
Maggie Murphy
The Villain
Nell
His Day Out
Ollie
The Bakery
Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
The Bell Hop
Hotel manager
The Fall Guy
Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)
Now I'll Tell One
Policeman
The Counter Jumper
Gaston Gilligan
A Pair of Kings
General Alarm
Should Men Walk Home?
Party Guest at Punch Bowl
Lightning Love
Oliver, the Other Suitor
The Midnight Cabaret
Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor
No Wedding Bells
The Girl's Father
Horseshoes
Dynamite Duffy
The Gown Shop
Store manager
No Man's Law
Sharkey Nye
Her Boy Friend
Killer Kid
Hollywood Party
Ollie
Say It with Babies
Hector - the Floorwalker
A Bankrupt Honeymoon
The Taxi Driver
Baby Brother
Ice Man
Why Girls Say No
Policeman
Playing at Politics
Oliver
The Rent Collector
The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)
Hungry Hearts
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
The Rogue Song
Murza-Bek
Cupid's Rival
Poor Artist
Isn't Life Terrible?
Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Himself (archive footage)
An Expensive Visit
Jack
Chaplin's Goliath
Self (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
The Night Life
Ollie
The Skulls
Señor Hardy
The Chiselers
M. Hardy
Shivering and Shaking
Ollie
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Self (archive footage)
They Looked Alike
Pedestrian
The Chief Cook
Babe (as Babe Hardy)
The Decorator
Babe, a millionaire
His Jonah Day
The Life Saver
The Barnyard
Farm Hand
Fiddlin' Around
Theatre manager
The Joke's on You
Wilbert Perkins
Squeaks and Squawks
Two-Time Mama
The Cop (as Babe Hardy)
The King of the Kitchen
A German customer
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
Bungs and Bunglers
Al K. Hall
It May Be You
Paul Simmons
Be Your Age
Oswald Schwartzkopple
Married to Order
Her Father (as Babe Hardy)
Love and Duty
Pvt. Plump
The Pest
The Stranger
Oliver, the saloonkeeper
Love 'em and Feed 'em
'Happy' Hopey
Going Bye-Bye!
Mr. Hardy
The Big Parade of Comedy
Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Madame Mystery
Captain Schmaltz
The Serenade
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Hey, Taxi!
A Rival Taxi Driver
Hats Off
Ollie
That's That!
Himself
Crazy Like a Fox
Charley's Victim (uncredited)
Pardon Us
Ollie
The Hobo
Harold (as Babe Hardy)
Little Nell
Little Nell
Fiddlin' Around
Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
The Scholar
The Superintendent
Haunted at Midnight
Ollie
The Backyard
Thug
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Self (archive footage)
Mother's Baby Boy
Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)
Distilled Love
Mr. Peeble Ford (as Babe Hardy)
Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
Oliver
Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
Salute to Stan Laurel
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Show
Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)
Should Sailors Marry?
Doctor
Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Himself (archive footage)
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Ollie (archive footage)
Dick & Doof - Best of
Schauspieler
Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Himself
Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Himself
30 Years of Fun
(archive footage)
Trouble Brewing
Bootlegger
The Stage Hand
Audience member (uncredited)
A Lucky Strike
Bill Myers
Dance of the Cookoos
The Lilac Splash
Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)
The Candy Trail
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Hello Trouble
A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)
Rivals
The Rival
MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Cleaner
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
The Hollywood Clowns
(archive footage)
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
The Butler
Playmates
The Perfect Lady
(unconfirmed)
The World of Laurel and Hardy
The Gentle Cyclone
Sheriff Bill
Laurel & Hardy - Best of
Ollie
Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
Ollie
Hollywood Handicap
Himself
The Guilty Ones
Babe
The Haunted Hat
Avenging Bill
Bill, the Grocer's Boy
Girl 27
Self (archive footage)
Roaring Lions at Home
Their Night Out - Screen Test
Mr. Hardy
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Little Wildcat
'Bull' Mulligan
Hop To It, Bellhop
Solomon Soop(as Babe Hardy)
Babe's School Days
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 3
Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Ollie (archive footage)
Making Auntie Welcome
Grocery Boy
Performers arrive in Hampshire
Self
Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
Hardy
The Head Waiter
A cop (as Babe Hardy)
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shows
This Is Your Life
Self
Dick und Doof
Oliver