There was another connection among George Lucas’s cast. Laurel was like the de facto director and everyone would look to him for advice.” He said between takes Stan would talk to the director about the framing of the shot and specifics of the gags, while Oliver would sit quietly reading a newspaper and talking golf with the crew. Peter told me that Stan was very different from his screen persona. “‘Oh my dear boy, you have done your homework,’ he said.
“He was stunned that I knew he had appeared as one of the students in Laurel and Hardy’s 1939 movie A Chump at Oxford,” Hamill told The Ross Owen Radio Show. When he landed the part of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, he used to travel to the set on his days off just so he could talk to Peter Cushing. Hamill, though, would be hard to top as a passionate Stan and Ollie man.
I still watch them to this day and marvel at Stan’s quiet grace and Ollie’s perfect timing.”Īccess unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign up As a child who loved dance, I quickly realised that that is what Stan and Ollie did – a weird, beautiful ballet of physicality and humour. However, I swiftly fell in love and with a child’s optimism always thought eventually things would work out well for Ollie and he wouldn’t get pied in the face/smacked in the face/ poked in the eye.
I initially watched because it was all that was on. “It was that limbo time between the end of homework and beginning of dinner.
The Oscar-nominated actor Minnie Driver tells me: “When there were only three channels on TV in England, Laurel and Hardy or Harold Lloyd were the only things on BBC2 at six in the evening,” she says. Ricky Gervais, Frank Skinner, Stewart Lee, Al Murray, Jennifer Saunders, Paul Merton, Peter Kay, Matt Lucas and David Walliams were among those who became ardent fans after seeing them on television. Reilly are Laurel & Hardy in new trailerĪfter a long spell in separate acting careers, they made more than 100 short and full-length films together, many of which were shown regularly on the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s. Who plays the little orphan girl in "Pack Up Your Troubles" & what happened to her? She's great, & a natural actress! Thank you. Padron (Jackson Heights (Queens), NY, USA) Although I have their 10-disc DVD box set in my collection, it is great to see them back on the airwaves (and on cable here in NYC) once again for a much larger available audience. Well, the boys are back on TV, and it seems now on a regular basis for the time being. Yes, it is the same 90-minute show (with the same copies made in that year) that has been showcasing Stan and Ollie's Hal Roach Studios plus their bonus "Scrapbook" feature, and was originally distributed to local stations back then. Just to let you all know that Me-TV, a retro TV cable channel, has been showing the syndicated 1986 series "The Laurel & Hardy Show" on Sunday mornings at 6:30am Eastern. Hello, Laurel & Hardy - The Official Website and its devoted fans: Ever since then, Sun AM are devoted to L&H before we go to church. Here in Philly, we get ME-TV and being 70 yrs young, I gew-up with L&H.now, my grandchildren are watching after I had them wathc the "Piano". Their films shown at the festival in Iran are still interesting.