What is Oliver Hardy?
{{Infobox person | image = Oliver Hardy reading The New Movie.jpg | imagesize = | name = Oliver Hardy | birthname = Oliver Norvell Hardy | birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|1|18}} | birth_place = [[Harlem, Georgia|Harlem]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[United States|U.S.]] | occupation = {{hlist|Actor|comedian|director}} | death_date = {{Death date|1957|8|7}} | death_place = [[Hollywood, California]], U.S. | othername = | yearsactive = 1914 - 1951 | spouse = | homepage = }} '''Oliver Hardy''' (January 18, [[1892]] - August 7, 1957) was an [[Americans|American]] [[actor]], [[comedian]] and [[Director of photography|director]]. His father was [[veteran]] of [[American Civil War|American civil war]], he died on November 22 1892. In fall semester of 1912, he signed up for a course or two at University of Georgia as a law major just to play football. He never missed a game. He is most famous for his 1926 - 1957 partnership with comedy legend [[Stan Laurel]]. Before Laurel he partnered with comedian [[Bobby Ray]]. == Career == Born in [[Harlem, Georgia|Harlem]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], U.S.. His solo career includes the short films Outwitting Dad (1914), Cupid's Target (1915), A Maid to Order (1916), The Fly Cop (1917), The Midnight Cabaret (1923), They All Fall (1925). He leaps to fame when he formed a duo with [[Stan Laurel]], they formed the most successful comedy groups of all time. Laurel and Hardy shot many short films and feature much success Hats Off (1927), They Go Boom! (1929). One of his best films was The Midnight Patrol (1934), where two police officers. And the classics of comedy as Sons of the Desert (1933), Way Out West (1937), The Flying Deuces (1939), Saps at Sea (1940), are of the best comedy of all time. Oliver Hardy also worked with [[John Wayne]] in [[Western (genre)|Western]] movies, The Fighting Kentuckian (1949), and [[Bing Crosby]] in [[Frank Capra]] fil