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
Peter Hardy (actor) TV series and shorts. Since 2006 to 2009 he played in 44 episodes of McLeod's Daughters as Phil Rakich. More recently in 2012 he played in a TV movie, Dangerous Remedy, as Robbie McGregor. Peter Hardy (actor) Peter Hardy is an Australian actor, theatre performer and musician. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia on January 11, 1957. He began his music career in 1969 with the French Horn in the CCGS Orchestra. Hardy began his career on stage on the show "Revue - The Other Opening". More recently he played and sang in "An Officer And A Gentleman"