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Director, Producer, Screen Story Born: January 14, 1892 in Elmira, NY Death: November 2, 1992 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:American producer/director "Hal Roach" was overtaken by wanderlust early in life. Leaving his upstate New York home in his teens, Roach was an Alaskan gold prospector and mule skinner before he reached the age of twenty. In 1912, he spotted an ad placed by Hollywood's Universal Pictures offering a dollar a day for genuine cowboys to act as western technical advisers. Roach spent the next year making the rounds as an extra, in the company of his new friend "Harold Lloyd". As the result of a small inheritance, Roach bought an office in Los Angeles' Bradbury Mansion in 1914, set up a small film production unit, and hired Lloyd as his star comedian. Roach's initial "Willie Work" one-reelers found no buyers, and, when the funds ran out, Lloyd left briefly for Keystone while Roach signed on as a director with the Chaplin unit at Essanay. Teaming with Dan Lintchicum, Roach re-entered the production end with... Full Biography
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