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
Ben Hardy (actor) Taylor in the 2018 biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody", which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. !scope="row"|2013 !scope="row"|2014 !scope="row"|2017 !scope="row"|2019 Ben Hardy (actor) Ben Jones (born 2 January 1991), known professionally as Ben Hardy, is an English actor known for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" (2013–2015). Hardy made his film debut as Archangel in the superhero film "" (2016), and played Roger Taylor in the biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018). Hardy was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, and grew up in Sherborne. He