Cast: Stan Laurel

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Stan Laurel. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Music Box

1932 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Billy Gilbert · William Gillespie

Synopsis Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.

7.0

290 votes

7.0

290 votes

Big Business (S)

1929 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne · Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · James Finlayson · Charlie Hall

Synopsis Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California. Business is slow and a simple argument with one grumpy prospective customer (James Finlayson) escalates from a simple argument into full scale mutual destruction with Stan & Ollie destroying the customers...

7.0

295 votes

7.0

295 votes

Laughing Gravy

1931 · Movie · 29 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Harry Bernard · Charles Dorety

Synopsis Stanley and Oliver try unsuccessfully to keep their pet dog, "Laughing Gravy" hidden from their grumpy landlord, who throws the pooch out into the snow. The rescue and further attempts to hide the dog result in mayhem, which is interrupted...

7.0

36 votes

7.0

36 votes

Liberty (S)

1929 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Tom Kennedy · Sam Lufkin

Synopsis Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants. The rest of the film involves their trying to exchange pants, in alleys, in cabs and finally high above the street...

6.9

366 votes

6.9

366 votes

Block-Heads

1938 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Patricia Ellis · Minna Gombell

Synopsis It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan at the Soldier's...

6.8

159 votes

6.8

159 votes

Huns and Hyphens (S)

1918 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Larry Semon

Cast Larry Semon · Madge Kirby · Stan Laurel · Mae Laurel

Synopsis Larry, apparently a wealthy young man-about-town, romances Vera, who has developed a new invention, a gas mask, for use in the war. Larry leaves Vera's house unaware that German spies are attempting to steal the plans for her invention. At...

6.8

39 votes

6.8

39 votes

Wrong Again (S)

1929 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Harry Bernard · Sam Lufkin

Synopsis Among the horses stable hands Stanley and Oliver are tending is a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a 5000 US dollars reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the...

6.8

250 votes

6.8

250 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

You're Darn Tootin' (S)

1928 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Edgar Kennedy

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wilson Benge · Chet Brandenburg

Synopsis Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've...

6.7

51 votes

6.7

51 votes

Scram! (S)

1932 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey · Lloyd French · Jack Lloyd

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Richard Cramer · Arthur Housman

Synopsis Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the...

6.7

61 votes

6.7

61 votes

Unaccustomed As We Are (S)

1929 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster · Hal Roach

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Mae Busch

Synopsis Oliver surprises his wife by bringing his pal, Stanley, home for dinner. After exploding at both men, Mrs. Hardy leaves them to fend for themselves. Mrs. Kennedy from across the hall tries to help them, which ends up being misunderstood...

6.7

72 votes

6.7

72 votes

Laurel & Hardy: Way Out West

1937 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sharon Lynn · James Finlayson

Synopsis Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold...

6.7

812 votes

6.7

812 votes

Me and My Pal (S)

1933 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Charley Rogers · Lloyd French

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · James Finlayson · Marion Bardell

Synopsis It's the morning of Oliver's wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter. While waiting for the taxi to take them to the ceremony, Oliver and his best man Stanley become absorbed in a jigsaw puzzle, Stanley's wedding present. Eventually the...

6.7

66 votes

6.7

66 votes

Dirty Work (S)

1933 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd French

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Sam Adams · Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis Chimney sweeps Stanley and Oliver go about their job, reducing Professor Noodle's living room to a shambles in the process, while the mad doctor works in his laboratory perfecting his "rejuvination formula."

6.7

99 votes

6.7

99 votes

Air Raid Wardens

1943 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Edward Sedgwick

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jacqueline White

Synopsis Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

6.7

43 votes

6.7

43 votes

Our Relations

1936 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Alan Hale · Sidney Toler

Synopsis Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken...

6.7

306 votes

6.7

306 votes

Busy Bodies (S)

1933 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd French

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Dick Gilbert · Charlie Hall

Synopsis Stan and Ollie do battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at the sawmill.

6.7

105 votes

6.7

105 votes

Oliver the Eighth

1934 · Movie · 27 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd French

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Mae Busch · Jack Barty

Synopsis Barbershop owners Stanley and Oliver both answer a personal ad from a rich widow seeking a husband. Oliver hides Stanley's reply and mails just his own. When Oliver receives a proposal of marriage from the widow, he sets off to...

6.7

43 votes

6.7

43 votes

The Midnight Patrol (S)

1933 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd French

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Harry Bernard · Frank Brownlee

Synopsis Novice policemen Stanley and Oliver, eating lunch in their patrol car, nearly have their spare tire stolen by a thief and his sassy partner. They then miss the broadcast address of a burglary in progress, and Stanley borrows the phone...

6.7

92 votes

6.7

92 votes

Helpmates (S)

1932 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Bobby Burns · Robert Callahan

Synopsis Oliver's house is in a shambles after a wild party, and his wife is due home at noon. He calls Stanley to help him fix the place up, and the typical catastrophies ensue. Somehow, however, Stanley manages to complete the...

6.7

109 votes

6.7

109 votes