Oliver Hardy wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 and was a recruiting officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment. The elder Oliver Hardy assisted his father in running the vestiges of the family cotton plantation following the Civil War. He then bought a share in a retail business and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County, Georgia. Hardy's mother Emily Norvell was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia who arrived in Virginia before 1635. The elder Hardy and Norvell married March 12, 1890; it was her
Peter Hardy (actor) 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" in the Lyric Theatre in Sydney under the direction of Simon Phillips. Hardy began his filmcareer in 1986 with The Pursuit of Happiness. After which he played in a number of films, TV movies,