Oliver Hardy

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About this star

  • Category: Motion pictures
  • Star rank: 640
  • Address:
    1500 Vine St
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
  • GPS location:
    34.098177, -118.326517

Biography

Oliver “Ollie” Hardy (born Norvell Hardy) January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.

Fact file

  • Born: Norvell Hardy January 18, 1892 Harlem, Georgia, U.S.
  • Died: August 7, 1957 (aged 65) North Hollywood, California, U.S.
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Years active: 1914–1951
  • Spouse: Madelyn Saloshin (1913–1921)“Marriage: Madelyn Saloshin to Oliver Hardy” Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hardy) Myrtle Reeves (1921–1937) «start: (1921)–end+1: (1938)»“Marriage: Myrtle Reeves to Oliver Hardy” Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hardy) Virginia Lucille Jones (1940–1957)“Marriage: Virginia Lucille Jones to Oliver Hardy” Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hardy)

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Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma