Laurel and Hardy "nutty burglar" or as a Charlie Chaplin imitator. Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. By his late teens, Hardy was a popular stage singer and he operated a movie house in Milledgeville, Georgia, the Palace Theater, financed in part by his mother. For his stage name, he took his father's first name calling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy" while offscreen his nicknames were "Ollie" and "Babe". The nickname "Babe" originated from an Italian barber near the Lubin Studios in Jacksonville, Florida who would rub Hardy's face with talcum powder and say
Stephen Oliver (actor) Stephen Oliver (actor) Stephen Oliver (November 29, 1941 – March 5, 2008), also known as Steve Oliver, was an American actor. Born in Philadelphia, Oliver portrayed the character of Lee Webber in the TV series "Peyton Place" from 1966 to 1968. He later portrayed the character Tom Hudson in early episodes of "Bracken's World" (1970). He made guest appearances in such other TV series as "Starsky and Hutch", "CHiPs", "The Streets of San Francisco", and appeared in biker movies such as "Motorpsycho" (1965), "Angels from Hell" (1968), "Werewolves on Wheels" (1971) and "Cycle Psycho" (1973). In addition, Oliver co-starred in