Baldwin Cooke
Also Known As: Baldwin Cook, Baldy, Baldwin Gardiner Cooke, Baldy Cooke
Biography: COOKE, BALDY (Baldwin Gardiner Cooke, Jr.) Born March 10, 1888, New York, New York. Cooke and his wife Alice toured in vaudeville with Stan (as members of the Stan Jefferson Trio), remaining close friends over the years. He appeared in 31 L&H films, beginning with Two Tars and ending with Swiss Miss. Baldy also worked with Our Gang and Charley Chase and appeared in about 80 films between 1928 and 1942. Baldy and Alice were close friends of Stan, even moving in with Stan and new wife Ruth as chaperones while the Laurels were waiting for Stan’s divorce from Lois to become final. Died December 31, 1953, Los Angeles, age 65.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 09, 1888
Deathday: December 31, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fish Hooky
Overview: A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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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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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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One-Horse Farmers
Overview: The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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Let's Do Things
Overview: Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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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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Alum and Eve
Overview: When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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One Track Minds
Overview: Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-20
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Soup and Fish
Overview: At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Three Chumps Ahead
Overview: Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie comes calling. She does her best to sink the romance, making noise while the lovers talk and offering Limburger cheese sandwiches. In desperation, Archie calls his brother Benny, who's a sailor, and asks him to keep Patsy company. After a series of mishaps, they end up at a saloon where Patsy orders everything on the menu. Who's going to have to pay?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-14
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Dogs Is Dogs
Overview: Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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Twice Two
Overview: A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-25
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Shivering and Shaking
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: es
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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Nazi Agent
Overview: Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Of Mice and Men
Overview: An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Overview: Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-21
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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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Scram!
Overview: Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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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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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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Arabian Tights
Overview: Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-02
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Chickens Come Home
Overview: Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-21
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The Panic Is On
Overview: Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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Going Bye-Bye!
Overview: In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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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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Them Thar Hills
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-11
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Call a Cop!
Overview: The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-29
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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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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Men O' War
Overview: Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-29
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Mr. Bride
Overview: Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Another Wild Idea
Overview: Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-16
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The Pooch
Overview: The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-11
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Night of Goblins
Overview: Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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The Chaser
Overview: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Berth Marks
Overview: Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Let's Make a Million
Overview: A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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It Happened One Day
Overview: Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-07
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Manhattan Monkey Business
Overview: When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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Choo-Choo!
Overview: The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-07
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Auto Antics
Overview: The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-22
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