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Arthur Stanley "Stan" Jefferson (16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965), known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film The Music Box (1932). In 1961, Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, then in Lancashire. He had two brothers and a sister.
His parents, Arthur and Margaret ("Madge") Jefferson, were both active in the theatre and always very busy. In his early years, he spent much time living with his grandmother Sarah Metcalfe. Stan Jefferson attended school at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, County Durham and the King's School, Tynemouth, before moving with his parents to Glasgow, where he completed his education at Rutherglen Academy. His father managed Glasgow's Metropole Theatre where he began work. At the age of 16, with a natural affinity for the theatre, Jefferson gave his first professional performance on stage at the Panopticon in Glasgow.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Buster Keaton (his lifelong stage name) was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."
Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made."
A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
Actors: Daniel Ferguson (actor), Daniel Ferguson (editor), Daniel Ferguson (producer), Matthew Ferguson (director), Colin Matthews (actor), Mike Motrici (actor), Kevin Dodds (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Arno Paulsen (actor), Hal Roach (actor), Chuck McCann (actor), Walter Bluhm (actor), Stan Laurel (actor), Léo Joannon (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Oliver Hardy (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Ottfried Fischer (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Booth Colman (actor), Larry Semon (actor), Michael Habeck (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Arno Paulsen (actor), Hal Roach (actor), Chuck McCann (actor), Walter Bluhm (actor), Stan Laurel (actor), Léo Joannon (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Oliver Hardy (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Ottfried Fischer (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Booth Colman (actor), Larry Semon (actor), Michael Habeck (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Jean Darling (actress), René Riva (actor), Willie McIntyre (editor), Willie McIntyre (producer), Willie McIntyre (writer), Willie McIntyre (director), Jamie McKenna (actor), Bill Leavy (actor), Nico Cartenstadt (actor),
Genres: Family, Short,Actors: Jean Darling (actress), René Riva (actor), Willie McIntyre (actor), Willie McIntyre (producer), Willie McIntyre (director), Jamie McKenna (actor), Bill Leavy (actor),
Genres: Family, Short,Actors: Anthony Hopkins (actor), David Gant (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Michael A. Goorjian (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Robert Downey Jr. (actor), David Duchovny (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Jack Lemmon (actor), Kevin Kline (actor),
Plot: The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie's life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind "The Little Tramp" was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.
Keywords: 1800s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, actor, actor-plays-their-own-ancestor, actressActors: Elvis Costello (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Ian Hart (actor), Kevin Brownlow (editor), Tristan Whalley (miscellaneous crew), Joanne Whalley (actress), Linus Roache (actor), Emma Porteous (costume designer), Michael Angelis (actor), Andrew Schofield (actor), Tony Rohr (actor), James Ellis (actor), Ray McAnally (actor), Tom Georgeson (actor),
Plot: A scheduling mixup means two groups of old-timers have reserved the same bar for a party on the same night. The situation is trickier than expected since the bar is in Liverpool, and one group are Protestant die-hards while the other consists of Catholics hard-liners.
Keywords: alcoholism, britain, independent-film, magician, protestant, pubActors: Sumner Getchell (actor), Otto Fries (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Jack Egan (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), James Burke (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Wesley Barry (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Robert Gleckler (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Ray Cooke (actor), Jack Cooper (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Tony Campanaro (actor), Jay Belasco (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Joe Bordeaux (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Jay Belasco (actor), Sammy Brooks (actor), Nick Copeland (actor),
Plot: 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 identity as a gang of hoodlums try to steal the ring Stanley and Oliver wind up with their feet in cement, about to be dumped into the harbor.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, attempted-murder, bartender, beer, beer-garden, brother, captain, clothing, drunkenness, falling-into-waterActors: Eddie Baker (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Bobby Dunn (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Oliver Hardy (actor), Stan Laurel (actor), Charles McMurphy (actor), James C. Morton (actor), Stan Laurel (writer), Lloyd French (director), Charley Rogers (director), Bert Jordan (editor), Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: 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 taxi driver, the butler, a policeman and a messenger boy all get involved with the puzzle, while Cucumber fumes as he awaits the long-overdue groom.
Keywords: automobile, bicycle, jigsaw-puzzle, laurel-and-hardy, piano, policeman, postman, radio, riot, taxi