Oliver Hardy
| January 18, 1892 |
Rotund actor Oliver Hardy, part of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team born in Harlem, Georgia
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| April 14, 1914 |
Oliver Hardy's first film, Outwitting Dad, is released. |
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| February 6, 1926 |
Oliver Hardy signs with Roach Studios |
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| December 29, 1933 |
Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy released. |
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| September 15, 1949 |
The Fighting Kentuckian, starring John Wayne and Oliver Hardy is released. |
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| December 1, 1954 |
This Is Your Life airs an episode featuring comic team Laurel and Hardy |
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| September 14, 1956 |
Oliver Hardy suffers a debilitating stroke |
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| August 7, 1957 |
Oliver Hardy, comedy actor who was born in Harlem and raised in Madison, dies from a cerebral thrombosis.
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| August 29, 1991 |
Five commemorative postage stamps go on sale celebrating comedians. Georgian Oliver Hardy (along with his partner, Stan Laurel) graces one of the stamps. |
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Born Norvell Hardy, but known as "Babe" to his friends, the rotund actor changed his name to Oliver to honor his father, who died before Hardy's first birthday.
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