Oliver Hardy in north Georgia in the 1905 fall semester when he was 13. He had little interest in formal education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater. He joined a theatrical group and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta to sing with the group. His mother recognized his talent for singing and sent him to Atlanta to study music and voice with singing teacher Adolf Dahm-Petersen. He skipped some of his lessons to sing in the Alcazar Theater for $3.50 a week. Hardy began styling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy", adding the first name "Oliver" as
Hardy Krüger Jr. Hardy Krüger Jr. Hardy Krüger Jr. (born 9 May 1968 in Lugano, Switzerland) is a German actor. He is the son of the German actor-writer Hardy Krüger and the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi. Shortly after his birth, his father took his wife and son to Tanzania to live on the farm which had served as the backdrop for the film "Hatari!", in which Krüger senior had appeared. Krüger junior attended an international school in Germany and then, after training as a bartender, in 1989 he took acting classes in Los Angeles and acted in US television shows. In an interview