Hotmail
Oliver Hardy
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  18 RatingsRate this person:
Actor Born: January 18, 1892 in Harlem, GA Death: August 7, 1957 in North Hollywood, CA Biography:Unlike his future screen partner "Stan Laurel", American comedian "Oliver Hardy" did not come from a show business family. His father was a lawyer who died when Hardy was ten; his mother was a hotel owner in both his native Georgia and in Florida. The young Hardy became fascinated with show business through the stories spun by the performers who stayed at his mother's hotel, and at age eight he ran away to join a minstrel troupe. Possessing a beautiful singing voice, Hardy studied music for a while, but quickly became bored with the regimen; the same boredom applied to his years at Georgia Military College (late in life, Hardy claimed to have briefly studied law at the University of Georgia, but chances are that he never got any farther than filling out an application). Heavy-set and athletic, Hardy seemed more interested in sports than in anything else; while still a teenager, he umpired local... Full Biography
| |||||||||||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
