This list contains only the films that Laurel and Hardy made together. For their solo films see Stan Laurel filmography and Oliver Hardy filmography.
Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture comedy team whose official filmography consists of 106 films released between 1921 and 1951. Together they appeared in 34 silent shorts, 45 sound shorts, and 27 full-length sound feature films. In addition to these, Laurel and Hardy appeared in at least 20 foreign-language versions of their films and a promotional film, Galaxy of Stars (1936), produced for European film distributors.[1]
Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) were established as film comedians prior to their teaming, with Laurel appearing in over 50 silent films and Hardy in over 250. (Hardy also appeared in three sound features without Laurel.) Although they first worked together in the film The Lucky Dog (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926 when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio that they appeared in film shorts together. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year with their 11th silent short film, The Second Hundred Years (1927). The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. Between 1941 and 1945, they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After finishing their film commitments, Laurel and Hardy concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of Great Britain. In 1950, they appeared in their last film, Atoll K, a French/Italian coproduction.
In 1932, Laurel and Hardy's short The Music Box won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy).[2] [3] In 1960, Laurel was presented with an Academy Honorary Award "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy."[4] In 1992, 1997, 2012 and 2020 respectively, Big Business (1929), The Music Box, Sons of the Desert (1933) and The Battle of the Century (1927) were added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[5] [6] For their contributions to cinema, Laurel and Hardy have been awarded separate stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[7] [8]
The following is a list of Laurel and Hardy's official filmography as established in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies by Randy Skretvedt and Laurel and Hardy by John McCabe, Al Kilgore, and Richard W. Bann. Each book lists 105 films and Skredvedt's adds a 106th in its appendix, Now I'll Tell One, a previously lost film that was partly rediscovered.
Except where noted, all of these films were photographed in black and white, produced by Hal Roach, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Except where noted, all short films are two reels in length. All films produced prior to 1928 are silent and all films made after 1929 are sound. Releases from 1928 are silent except as noted. 1929 releases are identified as silent, all-talkie, or sound films with music and sound effects only.
| Release date | Title | Short / feature | Notes | |
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| Short | Produced by Shiller Productions Public Domain | |||
| Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Hardy in a supporting role and Laurel in a bit part Public Domain | |||
| Duck Soup | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Based on "Home from the Honeymoon", a sketch written by Arthur J. Jefferson (Stan Laurel's father) Public Domain | ||
| Slipping Wives | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Public Domain | ||
| Love 'em and Weep | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Public Domain | ||
| Why Girls Love Sailors | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Public Domain | ||
| With Love and Hisses | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange First Laurel and Hardy film where Hardy sports his iconic narrow mustache. Public Domain | ||
| Sugar Daddies | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Sailors, Beware! | Short | Released by Pathé Exchange Public Domain | ||
| Now I'll Tell One | Short | Partly lost film Public Domain | ||
| Short | The first "official" Laurel and Hardy film in which they are presented as a team Public Domain | |||
| Call of the Cuckoo | Short | Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in supporting roles Public Domain | ||
| Hats Off | Short | Lost film Public Domain | ||
| Do Detectives Think? | Short | First film in which the duo appear in their standard costumes Public Domain | ||
| Putting Pants on Philip | Short | Their first "official" film together as a team.[9] Public Domain | ||
| Short | Once partly lost film, but found in 2015.[10] Added to the National Film Registry in 2020. Public Domain | |||
| Leave 'Em Laughing | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Flying Elephants | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Short | Public Domain | |||
| From Soup to Nuts | Short | Public Domain | ||
| You're Darn Tootin' | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Their Purple Moment | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Should Married Men Go Home? | Short | The first Hal Roach film to bill Laurel and Hardy as a team. Previous appearances together were billed under the Roach "All-Star Comedy" banner. Public Domain | ||
| Early to Bed | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Two Tars | Short | Public Domain | ||
| Habeas Corpus | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) Public Domain | ||
| We Faw Down | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) Public Domain | ||
| Liberty | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | ||
| Wrong Again | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | ||
| That's My Wife | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | ||
| Big Business | Short | Silent Added to the National Film Registry in 1992. | ||
| Unaccustomed As We Are | Short | Sound (all-talking) | ||
| Double Whoopee | Short | Silent Features a notable early appearance by Jean Harlow | ||
| Berth Marks | Short | Sound (all-talking) | ||
| Men O' War | Short | Sound (all-talking) | ||
| Perfect Day | Short | Sound (all-talking) | ||
| They Go Boom | Short | Sound (all-talking) | ||
| Bacon Grabbers | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | ||
| Short | Sound (all-talking) | |||
| Feature | Sound (all-talking) All-star revue produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[11] Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture[12] | |||
| Angora Love | Short | Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) | ||
| Night Owls | Short | |||
| Feature | Operetta film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Laurel and Hardy in supporting roles Filmed in Technicolor Partially lost Public Domain | |||
| Blotto | Short | Three reels | ||
| Brats | Short | |||
| Below Zero | Short | |||
| Hog Wild | Short | |||
| Short | Three reels | |||
| Another Fine Mess | Short | Three reels Remake of Duck Soup | ||
| Be Big! | Short | Three reels | ||
| Chickens Come Home | Short | Three reels Remake of Love 'Em and Weep | ||
| Short | Presented by National Variety Artists and released by Paramount Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy Public Domain | |||
| Laughing Gravy | Short | |||
| Our Wife | Short | |||
| Pardon Us | Feature | |||
| Come Clean | Short | |||
| One Good Turn | Short | |||
| Beau Hunks | Short | Four reels | ||
| On the Loose | Short | Stars ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | ||
| Helpmates | Short | |||
| Any Old Port! | Short | |||
| Short | Three reels Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film[13] Added to the National Film Registry in 1997. | |||
| Short | Three reels | |||
| County Hospital | Short | |||
| Scram! | Short | |||
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Feature | |||
| Their First Mistake | Short | |||
| Towed in a Hole | Short | |||
| Twice Two | Short | |||
| Me and My Pal | Short | |||
| Feature | Based on the opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber | |||
| Short | ||||
| Busy Bodies | Short | |||
| Wild Poses | Short | Our Gang film with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | ||
| Dirty Work | Short | |||
| Sons of the Desert | Feature | Added to the National Film Registry in 2012. | ||
| Oliver the Eighth | Short | Three reels | ||
| Hollywood Party | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production Public Domain | ||
| Going Bye-Bye! | Short | |||
| Them Thar Hills | Short | |||
| Babes in Toyland | Feature | Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough Reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, March of the Toys, and Revenge Is Sweet Public Domain | ||
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| Tit for Tat | Short | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.[14] | ||
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| Thicker than Water | Short | |||
| Bonnie Scotland | Feature | |||
| Feature | Adapted from the opera by Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn With Darla Hood | |||
| On the Wrong Trek | Short | Charley Chase comedy with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | ||
| Our Relations | Feature | |||
| Way Out West | Feature | |||
| Pick a Star | Feature | Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy | ||
| Swiss Miss | Feature | |||
| Block-Heads | Feature | Cameo appearance of Tommy Bond. | ||
| Feature | An RKO Radio Pictures production Public Domain | |||
| Feature | Released by United Artists | |||
| Saps at Sea | Feature | Released by United Artists | ||
| Great Guns | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | ||
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | ||
| Air Raid Wardens | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | ||
| Short | One-reel film (in color) produced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Laurel and Hardy, appearing in cameos, made this during the filming of Jitterbugs. Public Domain | |||
| Jitterbugs | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | ||
| Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||
| Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | |||
| Nothing but Trouble | Feature | A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production | ||
| - | Feature | A 20th Century Fox production | ||
| Atoll K | Feature | A co-production of Les Films Sirius (France), Franco-London Films (France), and Fortezza Films (Italy); released in the United Kingdom as Escapade; reissued in the United States as Robinson Crusoe-Land and Utopia Public Domain |
During the early days of sound American motion picture companies often made foreign-language versions of their films. The following is a list of known foreign-language versions of Laurel and Hardy films.
| English! | French | German | Spanish | Italian | Esperanto | ||
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| 1930 | Night Owls | Ladrones | Ladroni | Ŝtelistoj | |||
| 1930 | Blotto | Une Nuit Extravagante | La Vida Nocturna | ||||
| 1930 | Brats | Les bons petits diables | Glückliche Kindheit | Dos Buenos Chicos | |||
| 1930 | Below Zero | Tiembla y Titubea | |||||
| 1930 | Hog Wild | Pêle-mêle | Radiomanía | ||||
| 1930 | Berth Marks and The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case | Feu mon oncle | Spuk um Mitternacht | Noche de Duendes | |||
| 1930 | Chickens Come Home | Politiquerias | |||||
| 1931 | Be Big! and Laughing Gravy | Les Carottiers | Los Calaveras |
| English! | French | German | Spanish | Italian | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Pardon Us | Sous Les Verrous | Hinter Schloss und Riegel | De Bote En Bote | Muraglie |
Note: A lost German-language version of The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Wir Schalten um auf Hollywood (We Switch to Hollywood), was made and released in 1931. Apparently Laurel and Hardy do not appear in it.
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| 1936 | Galaxy of Stars | A promotional short film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer only for MGM exhibitors in Europe and Africa, featuring Laurel and Hardy. Rediscovered in 2005. |
| Release date | Title | Notes | |
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| 1957 | The Golden Age of Comedy |
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| 1960 | When Comedy Was King |
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| 1961 | Days of Thrills and Laughter |
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| 1963 | 30 Years of Fun |
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| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy |
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| 1965 | Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's |
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| 1966 | The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy |
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| 1967 | The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy |
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| 1969 | The Best of Laurel and Hardy |
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| 1970 | 4 Clowns |
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