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Laurel and Hardy, comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. Stan Laurel (original name Arthur Stanley Jefferson; b. June 16, 1890, Lancashire, England—d. February 23, 1965, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) and Oliver Hardy (original name Norvell Hardy; b. January 18, 1892, Harlem, Georgia, U.S.—d. August 7, 1957, North Hollywood, California) made more than 100 comedies together, with Laurel playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous Hardy. Stan Jefferson, the son of a theatrical manager and performer, became a music-hall comedian during his teenage years, and by 1910 he was understudying Charlie Chaplin in

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