Stanley Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous as Laurel of Laurel and Hardy?Hardy being Oliver Hardy. Laurel began his career in the British music hall, from where he took a number of his standard comic devices: the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. He was a member of Fred Karno's Army, where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. The two arrived in the US on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe. Laurel went...
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