" The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe — which also included Stan Laurel of later Laurel and Hardy fame — returned to England in June 1912.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

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* 1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian ( d. 1965 )

Rumors abounded that Sennett would be returning to film production ( a 1938 publicity release indicated that he would be working with Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy ), but apart from Sennett reissuing a couple of his Bing Crosby two-reelers to theaters, nothing happened.

Highlights of the film are a comedy routine starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as inept magicians, and a variety of musical performances.

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

* Stan Laurel ( 1890 – 1965 ), half of the comic duo Laurel and Hardy

* Oliver Hardy ( 1892-1957 ), American comic actor best known for his partnership with Stan Laurel

* Stan Laurel as Stan Laurel

Ray Bradbury's short story The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair from the collection The Toynbee Convector features the stairs prominently as the catalyst for the beginning of a love affair between a couple who affectionately refer to each other as ' Stan ' and ' Ollie '.

While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Statue

Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

* Stan Laurel

* Stan Laurel often used malapropisms in the Laurel and Hardy films:

Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

Stan Ogden and Hilda Ogden were introduced in 1964, with Hilda ( Jean Alexander ) becoming one of the most famous British soap characters of all time.

He added, " an attempt was made in later years to re-record that solo, using Stan Roderick, but it sounded too good, and they reverted to the old one.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

The show, which lasted for 871 performances during its initial run, featured sketches written by Mad regulars Stan Hart and Larry Siegel interspersed with comedic songs ( one of which was written by an uncredited Stephen Sondheim ).

Nate Colbert is one of two major-league baseball players ( Stan Musial is the other ) to have hit five home runs in a doubleheader, a feat he accomplished as a Padre.

Her first foray into the music field didn't come until she met two friends, Stan Webb and Andy Silvester in a pub one night.

The effect is one that Associate Professor Stan Link likens to " vertical time ", described by the composer and music theorist Jonathan Kramer as music that imparts " a single present stretched out into an enormous duration, a potentially infinite ' now ' that nonetheless feels like an instant ".

Heels such as Ivan Koloff and Stan Stasiak were used to transition the title from one babyface to another ; " Superstar " Billy Graham enjoyed a nine and a half month reign as a heel champion, as McMahon felt he would need this much time to build up Bob Backlund as championship material.

Brett is one of four players in MLB history to accumulate 3, 000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career. 300 batting average ( the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial ).

Parker and Stone, despite being the basis for Stan and Kyle, insist that Cartman is their favorite character, and the one with whom they identify the most.

Waugh is regarded as one of the most elegant and gifted stroke makers to ever play the game, and his stylish strokeplay was likened to that of Stan McCabe, Alan Kippax, Victor Trumper, Charlie Macartney and Greg Chappell.

The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical psychedelic fairy tale on side two relating the adventures of " Happiness Stan " and his need to find out where the moon went when it waned.

Because Usagi Yojimbo is a creator-owned comic and Stan Sakai has complete and sole ownership of the character, Miyamoto Usagi has been able to appear in occasional short stories published by companies other than the one currently publishing his series.

Following the success of " My Friend Stan ", Slade released the album Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, in February 1974 which went to number one in the UK.

* Murder, She Wrote ( 1992, one episode " The Dead File ") – Stan Hatter

: In Speed Racer: The Next Generation, Zile Zazic was seen wearing a racing outfit similar to Captain Terror's during the " Comet Run " episodes, implying that Zile was Captain Terror ; Stan, Zile's main henchman, also noted that Speed Racer had raced against Zile's racing team at one point.

After developing a storyline together, one of them ( usually Stan ) would develop a first draft, which the other would then refine into a 1100-word manuscript.

In his 1984 album From Fresh Water, the late Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers immortalised one of Brock's aides-de-camp, John Macdonell, in the song MacDonnell on the Heights.

Kyle is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman.

Stan is one of the show's four central characters, along with his friends Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman.

Stan also shares a close friendship with Kenny, while Kenny professes that Stan is one of " the best friends a guy could have ".

" One of those awed drummers, Stan Levey, summed up Roach's importance: " I came to realize that, because of him, drumming no longer was just time, it was music.