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
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