What was Stan Laurel's real name?
Stan Laurel resident. In 2013, Gail Louw and Jeffrey Holland debuted a short one-man play "...And this is my friend Mr Laurel" at the Camden Fringe festival. The play, starring Holland as Laurel, was taken on tour of the UK in 2014 until June 2015. In a 2018 film, "Stan & Ollie", Laurel is played by English comedian Steve Coogan, and Hardy by American actor John C. Reilly. Developed by BBC Films, the film is set in the twilight of their careers, and focuses on their farewell tour of Britain's variety halls in 1953. Stan Laurel Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson,
Stan Laurel same time, he adopted the stage name of Laurel at Dahlberg's suggestion that his stage name Stan Jefferson was unlucky, due to it having thirteen letters. The pair were performing together when Laurel was offered $75 a week to star in two-reel comedies. After making his first film "Nuts in May", Universal offered him a contract. The contract was soon cancelled during a reorganisation at the studio. Among the films in which Dahlberg and Laurel appeared together was the 1922 parody "Mud and Sand". By 1924, Laurel had given up the stage for full-time film work, under contract with Joe