Laurel and Hardy filmography
Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture comedy team whose official filmography consists of 106 films released from 1921 and 1951. Together they appeared in 34 silent shorts, 45 sound shorts, and 27 full-length sound feature films. In addition to these, Laurel and Hardy appeared in at least 20 foreign-language versions of their films and a promotional film, Galaxy of Stars, made for European film distributors.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were established as film comedians prior to their teaming, with Laurel appearing in over 50 silent films and Hardy in over 250. Although they first worked together in the film The Lucky Dog, this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926 when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio that they appeared in movie shorts together. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year, in their eleventh silent short film The Second Hundred Years. and in 1934 produced their most popular holiday classic, Babes In Toyland. The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. Between 1941 and 1945 they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After finishing their movie commitments Laurel and Hardy concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of Great Britain. In 1950, they made their last film Atoll K, a French/Italian co-production.
In 1932 Laurel and Hardy's short The Music Box won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. In 1960, Laurel was presented with an Honorary Academy Award "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy." In 1992, 1997 and 2012, respectively, Big Business, The Music Box and Sons of the Desert'' were added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". For their contributions to cinema, Laurel and Hardy have been awarded separate stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
Official films
The following is a list of Laurel and Hardy's official filmography as established in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies by Randy Skretvedt and Laurel and Hardy by John McCabe, Al Kilgore, and Richard R. Bann. Each book lists 105 films while, in its appendix, Skredvedt's adds a 106th, Now I'll Tell One, a previously lost film that was partly rediscovered.Except where noted all of these films were photographed in black and white, produced by Hal Roach, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Also, except where noted, all short films are two reels in length.
All films made prior to 1928 are silent and all films made after 1929 are sound. Releases from 1928 are silent except as noted. 1929 releases are identified as silent, all-talkie, or sound films with music and sound effects only.
| Release date | Title | Short / feature | Notes |
| ' | Short | Produced by Shiller Productions Available for :File:Laurel and Hardy - The Lucky Dog.ogv|viewing online | |
| ' | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Hardy in a supporting role and Laurel in a bit part | |
| Duck Soup | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Based on "Home From the Honeymoon", a sketch written by Arthur J. Jefferson | |
| Slipping Wives | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |
| Love 'em and Weep | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |
| Why Girls Love Sailors | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |
| With Love and Hisses | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |
| Sugar Daddies | Short | ||
| Sailors, Beware! | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange | |
| Now I'll Tell One | Short | Partly lost film | |
| ' | Short | The first "official" Laurel and Hardy film where they are presented as a team | |
| Call of the Cuckoo | Short | Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in supporting roles | |
| Hats Off | Short | Lost film | |
| Do Detectives Think? | Short | ||
| Putting Pants on Philip | Short | ||
| ' | Short | Once partly lost film, but later found, in 2015. | |
| Leave 'Em Laughing | Short | ||
| Flying Elephants | Short | ||
| ' | Short | ||
| From Soup to Nuts | Short | ||
| You're Darn Tootin | Short | ||
| Their Purple Moment | Short | ||
| Should Married Men Go Home? | Short | ||
| Early to Bed | Short | ||
| Two Tars | Short | ||
| Habeas Corpus | Short | Sound | |
| We Faw Down | Short | Sound | |
| Liberty | Short | Sound | |
| Wrong Again | Short | Sound | |
| That's My Wife | Short | Sound | |
| Big Business | Short | Silent Added to the National Film Registry in 1992. | |
| Unaccustomed As We Are | Short | Sound | |
| Double Whoopee | Short | Silent Features a notable early appearance by Jean Harlow | |
| Berth Marks | Short | Sound | |
| Men O' War | Short | Sound | |
| Perfect Day | Short | Sound | |
| They Go Boom | Short | Sound | |
| Bacon Grabbers | Short | Sound | |
| ' | Short | Sound | |
| ' | Feature | Sound All-star revue produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture | |
| Angora Love | Short | Sound | |
| Night Owls | Short | ||
| ' | Feature | Operetta film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Laurel and Hardy in supporting roles Filmed in Technicolor partially lost | |
| Blotto | Short | Three reels | |
| Brats | Short | ||
| Below Zero | Short | ||
| Hog Wild | Short | ||
| ' | Short | Three reels | |
| Another Fine Mess | Short | Three reels Remake of Duck Soup | |
| Be Big! | Short | Three reels | |
| Chickens Come Home | Short | Three reels Remake of Love 'Em and Weep | |
| ' | Short | Presented by National Variety Artists and released by Paramount Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |
| Laughing Gravy | Short | ||
| Our Wife | Short | ||
| Pardon Us | Feature | ||
| Come Clean | Short | ||
| One Good Turn | Short | ||
| Beau Hunks | Short | Four reels | |
| On the Loose | Short | Stars ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |
| Helpmates | Short | ||
| Any Old Port! | Short | ||
| ' | Short | Three reels Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Added to the National Film Registry in 1997. | |
| ' | Short | Three reels | |
| County Hospital | Short | ||
| Scram! | Short | ||
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Feature | ||
| Their First Mistake | Short | ||
| Towed in a Hole | Short | ||
| Twice Two | Short | ||
| Me and My Pal | Short | ||
| ' | Feature | Based on the opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber | |
| ' | Short | ||
| Busy Bodies | Short | ||
| Wild Poses | Short | Our Gang film with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |
| Dirty Work | Short | ||
| Sons of the Desert | Feature | Added to the National Film Registry in 2012. | |
| Oliver the Eighth | Short | Three reels | |
| Hollywood Party | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |
| Going Bye-Bye! | Short | ||
| Them Thar Hills | Short | ||
| Babes in Toyland | Feature | Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough Reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, March of the Toys, and Revenge is Sweet | |
| ' | Short | ||
| Tit for Tat | Short | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. | |
| ' | Short | ||
| Thicker than Water | Short | ||
| Bonnie Scotland | Feature | ||
| ' | Feature | Adapted from the opera by Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn With Darla Hood | |
| On the Wrong Trek | Short | Charley Chase comedy with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |
| Our Relations | Feature | ||
| Way Out West | Feature | ||
| Pick a Star | Feature | Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | |
| Swiss Miss | Feature | ||
| Block-Heads | Feature | Cameo appearance of Tommy Bond. | |
| ' | Feature | An RKO Radio Pictures production | |
| ' | Feature | Released by United Artists | |
| Saps at Sea | Feature | Released by United Artists | |
| Great Guns | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| ' | Short | One reel film produced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Laurel and Hardy, appearing in cameos, made this during the filming of Jitterbugs. Available for online viewing :File:The Tree in a Test Tube, 1942.ogv|here. | |
| Air Raid Wardens | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |
| Jitterbugs | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| ' | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| ' | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| Nothing but Trouble | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | |
| ' | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |
| Atoll K | Feature | A co-production of Les Films Sirius, Franco-London Films, and Fortezza Films ; released in the United Kingdom as Escapade; re-issued in the United States as Robinson Crusoe-Land and Utopia'' |
Foreign-language versions
During the early days of sound American motion picture companies often made foreign-language versions of their films. The following is a list of known foreign-language versions of Laurel and Hardy films.| Year | English | French | German | Spanish | Italian | Esperanto |
| 1930 | Night Owls | Ladrones | Ladroni Currently lost | Ŝtelistoj Currently lost | ||
| 1930 | Blotto | Une Nuit Extravagante | La Vida Nocturna | |||
| 1930 | Brats | Les bons petits diables Currently lost | Glückliche Kindheit Currently lost | Dos Buenos Chicos | ||
| 1930 | Below Zero | Tiembla y Titubea | ||||
| 1930 | Hog Wild | Pêle-mêle Currently lost | Radiomanía Currently lost | |||
| 1930 | Berth Marks and The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case | Feu mon oncle Currently lost | Spuk um Mitternacht | Noche de Duendes | ||
| 1930 | Chickens Come Home | Politiquerias | ||||
| 1931 | Be Big! and Laughing Gravy | Les Carottiers | Los Calaveras |
Note: A lost German-language version of The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Wir Schalten um auf Hollywood, was made and released in 1931. Apparently Laurel and Hardy do not appear in it.