laurel was born in lancashire, england. he began his career in the late 1910s, to work with charles chaplin. among his first works in this silent comedy short, "nuts in may" (1917), "phoney photos" (1918), "just rambling along" (1918) and "do you love your wife?" (1919), by hal roach, "mud and sand" (1922), "when knights were cold" (1923), "smithy" (1924), "postage due" (1924), "monsieur don't care" (1924), and many more.