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
Jeff Stevenson (comedian) Jeff Stevenson (comedian) Jeff Stevenson (born 3 March 1961, Hammersmith, England) is an English comedian and actor. Stevenson was born in 1961 in Hammersmith, London. He attended Barbara Speake Stage school in his teens and Phil Collins' mother June was his first agent. A comedian and actor, Stevenson appeared in the 1976 film "Bugsy Malone", playing the part of Louis (under his real name Jeffrey Stevens). He later played the Stag comedian at Rodney Trotter's stag night on "Only Fools and Horses", and also played PC Parker in "To Hull and Back", a Christmas Day film of "Only Fools and