Jack Hill
Also Known As: Lawrence Young Hill
Biography: Jack Hill was an American actor who appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 10, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 22, 1963
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Leaping Love
Overview: Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-22
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Dogs of War!
Overview: The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Railroadin'
Overview: The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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The Glorious Fourth
Overview: It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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Election Day
Overview: This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-12
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Overview: Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Movie Night
Overview: A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Matri-Phony
Overview: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Below Zero
Overview: Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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The Fighting Demon
Overview: Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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The Big Kick
Overview: Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Backfire
Overview: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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Asleep in the Feet
Overview: The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Babes in the Goods
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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On the Loose
Overview: Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Beauty and the Bus
Overview: The girls win a car in a raffle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Stolen Harmony
Overview: Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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The Heckler
Overview: An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Busy Bodies
Overview: In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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The Night Life
Overview: Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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Liberty
Overview: While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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Be Big!
Overview: Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Sugar Daddies
Overview: After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Mooching Through Georgia
Overview: Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-11
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The Battle of the Century
Overview: Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Their Purple Moment
Overview: The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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The Gas Station
Overview: Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Blotto
Overview: Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-08
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Tit for Tat
Overview: Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendship, but the grocer again becomes convinced that Ollie and his wife are fooling around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-05
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Wrong Again
Overview: Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
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Putting Pants on Philip
Overview: Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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General Spanky
Overview: Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Saps at Sea
Overview: Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-29
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Any Old Port!
Overview: Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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Crook's Tour
Overview: A down-and-out Englishman, mistaken for a duke, is invited (for $50.00) to meet the wife of a gangster who is a passenger on a boat chartered by gangsters. When he cannot initially find his wife, the gangster tells the "duke" to remain in his room with his daughter while he finds the wife. Crazy complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Shiver My Timbers
Overview: The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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