
Hal Roach
Biography
Harry Eugene Roach Sr. professionally known as Hal Roach, was an American film and television producer, director, and actor who was active from the 1910s to the 1990s. He is remembered today for producing a number of successes including the Laurel and Hardy franchise, the films of entertainer Charley Chase, and the Our Gang film comedy series.
Acting (13 movies)

Hollywood Uncensored
1987

The Squaw Man
1914

The Patchwork Girl of Oz
1914

Number, Please?
1920

Samson
1914

Sons of the Desert
1933

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
2002

The Magic Cloak of Oz
1914

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
1989

Wild Poses
1933

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
2011

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Directing (127 movies)

One Million B.C.
1940

An Eastern Westerner
1920

From Hand to Mouth
1919

Number, Please?
1920

On the Loose
1931

Just Rambling Along
1918

Bumping Into Broadway
1919

Now or Never
1921

Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919

High and Dizzy
1920

Get Out and Get Under
1920

Ask Father
1919

Haunted Spooks
1920

Captain Kidd's Kids
1919

His Royal Slyness
1920

I Do
1921

Pay Your Dues
1919

Spring Fever
1919

Clubs Are Trump
1917

Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
1917

Luke's Trolley Troubles
1917

Lonesome Luke, Messenger
1917

Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
1917

Luke, Rank Impersonator
1916

Luke's Speedy Club Life
1916

Luke and the Mermaids
1916

Luke Does the Midway
1916

Luke Locates the Loot
1916

Luke, Patient Provider
1916

Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
1916

Luke and the Bang-Tails
1916

Luke's Lost Lamb
1916

Luke, Crystal Gazer
1916

Luke Rides Roughshod
1916

The Devil's Brother
1933

The Hungry Actors
1915

Close-Cropped Clippings
1915
Beyond His Fondest Hopes
1915

Turnabout
1940
Willie Runs the Park
1915
Pete, the Pedal Polisher
1915

Captain Fury
1939

Spit-ball Sadie
1915

Road Show
1941

Some Baby
1915
Fresh from the Farm
1915

A Mixup for Mazie
1915

Luke's Movie Muddle
1916

Luke Joins the Navy
1916

Men of the North
1930

A Sammy in Siberia
1919

A Jazzed Honeymoon
1919

On the Fire
1919
Looking for Trouble
1919

Young Mr. Jazz
1919

Scorching Sands
1923

Smithy
1924

Sailors, Beware!
1927

The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939

Chop Suey & Co.
1919
Just Nuts
1915

Back to the Woods
1919

The Pajama Party
1931

Let's Do Things
1931

Do You Love Your Wife?
1919

Hurdy Gurdy
1929

Luke's Shattered Sleep
1916
Be My Wife
1919

Giving Them Fits
1915

Look Out Below
1919

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
1916

Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
1917

Peculiar Patients' Pranks
1915

Luke and the Rural Roughnecks
1916

Flying Elephants
1928

Unaccustomed as We Are
1929
Dad's Day
1929

Just Dropped In
1919

At the Old Stage Door
1919

I'm on My Way
1919

Just a Real Good Car
1924
Monsieur Le Fox
1930

The Rajah
1919

His Busy Day
1918
Monsieur Le Fox
1931

His Only Father
1919

Next Aisle Over
1919

Luke's Society Mixup
1916
Giving the Bride Away
1919

Ragtime Snap Shots
1915

Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
1916

Great While It Lasted
1915

Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
1915

A Foozle at the Tee Party
1915

Ruses, Rhymes and Roughnecks
1915

Tinkering with Trouble
1915

Bughouse Bellhops
1915

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
1916

Luke Lugs Luggage
1916

Lonesome Luke, Circus King
1916