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
Oliver (given name) Oliver (given name) Oliver is a masculine given name of Old French origin; "Oliver" is one of Charlemagne's retainers in the 11th-century "Song of Roland". The name was generally associated with the Latin term/name "olivarius" "olive tree planter", but may have been connected with the Germanic names "*wulfa-" "wolf" and "*χarja-" "army", or the Old Norse" Óleifr" (Ólaf); or a genuinely West Germanic name, perhaps from "ala-" "all" and "wēra" "true", or from "alf" "elf" and "hari" "army, warrior" (in both cases possibly cognate with Álvaro) and Greek name Eleutherios Modern variants include French "Olivier", Hungarian "Olivér", Irish "Oilibhéar" or