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Click on the dates below to skip to the section listing the movies released that year and on the bowler hats between each year's movies to return to the top of the page:

 

1920 1926 1927 1928 1930 1931 1932 1933
1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941
1942 1943 1944 1945 1951      

 

 

Key:

(S) = Silent film

 

Dates = Date of Release

 

 

 

Circa 1920 — First appearance on film together.  In their first ever scene together Ollie tries to rob Stan at gunpoint. 

 

 

 

1

The Lucky Dog (S)

1922   

  

 

 

 

1926 — The boys’ second appearance together.

 

 

 

2

45 Minutes from Hollywood (S)               

26 Dec 1926 

  

 

 

 

 

1927 — 14 movies.  The Second Hundred Years is recognised as the first proper Laurel and Hardy film.

 

 

 

3

Duck Soup (S)

13 Mar 1927 

4

Slipping Wives (S)

3 Apr 1927

5

Love ‘Em and Weep (S)

12 Jun 1927

6

Why Girls Love Sailors (S)

17 Jul 1927

7

With Love and Hisses (S)

28 Aug 1927

8

Sugar Daddies (S)

10 Sep 1927

9

Sailors Beware (S)

25 Sep 1927

10

The Second Hundred Years (S)       

8 Oct 1927

11

Now I’ll Tell One (S)

9 Oct 1927

12

Call of the Cuckoos (S)

15 Oct 1927

13

Hats Off (S) (Lost)

5 Nov 1927

14

Do Detectives’ Think (S)

20 Nov 1927

15

Putting Pants on Philip (S)

3 Dec 1927

16

The Battle of the Century (S)

31 Dec 1927 

 

   

 

 

 

1928 — 11 movies.

 

 

 

17

Leave ‘Em Laughing (S)

28 Jan 1928

18

Flying Elephants (S)

12 Feb 1928

19

The Finishing Touch (S)

25 Feb 1928

20

From Soup to Nuts (S)

24 Mar 1928

21

You’re Darn Tootin (S)

21 Apr 1928

22

Their Purple Moment (S)

19 May 1928

23

Should Married Men Go Home (S) 

8 Sep 1928

24

Early to Bed (S)

6 Oct 1928

25

Two Tars (S)

3 Nov 1928

26

Habeas Corpus (S)

1 Dec 1928

27

We Faw Down (S)

29 Dec 1928 

 

  

     

1929 — 14 movies.  The boys appeared in their first sound movie ‘Unaccustomed As We Are’.  ‘Angora Love’ was their last silent film.

 

 

 

28

Liberty (S)

26 Jan 1929

29

Wrong Again (S)

23 Feb 1929

30

That’s My Wife (S)

23 Mar 1929

31

Big Business (S)

20 Apr 1929

32

Unaccustomed As We Are

4 May 1929

33

Double Whoopee (S)

18 May 1929

34

Berth Marks

1 Jun 1929 

35

Men O War

29 Jun 1929

36

Perfect Day

10 Aug 1929

37

They Go Boom

21 Sep 1929

38

Bacon Grabbers (S)

19 Oct 1929

39

The Hoose-Gow

16 Nov 1929

40

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

23 Nov 1929

41

Angora Love (S)

14 Dec 1929

  

 

 

 

 

1930 — 8 movies.  All ‘talkies’.  ‘The Rogue Song’ was their only ever colour movie (save for their 'silent' part in the 1 reel 'war effort' film 'A Tree In A Test Tube', released 1943).  Sadly only clips survive.

 

 

 

42

Night Owls

4 Jan 1930

43

The Rogue Song (Colour) (Lost)

10 May 1930

44

Blotto

8 Feb 1930

45

Brats

22 Mar 1930

46

Below Zero

26 Apr 1930

47

Hog Wild

31 May 1930

48

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

6 Sep 1930

49

Another Fine Mess

29 Nov 1930

  

 

 

 

 

1931 — 10 movies.  Two were cameo appearances.

 

 

 

50

Be Big

7 Feb 1931

51

Chickens Come Home

21 Feb 1931

52

The Stolen Jools (Cameo)

Apr 1931

53

Laughing Gravy

4 Apr 1931

54

Our Wife

16 May 1931

55

Pardon Us

15 Aug 1931

56

Come Clean

19 Sep 1931

57

One Good Turn

31 Oct 1931

58

Beau Hunks

12 Dec 1931

59

On the Loose (Cameo)

26 Dec 1931

  

 

 

 

 

1932 — 9 movies.  ‘The Music Box’ won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Comedy Subject. 

 

 

 

60

Helpmates

23 Jan 1932

61

Any Old Port

5 Mar 1932

62

The Music Box

16 Apr 1932

63

The Chimp

21 May 1932

64

County Hospital

25 Jun 1932

65

Scram

10 Sep 1932

66

Pack Up Your Troubles

17 Sep 1932

67

Their First Mistake

5 Nov 1932

68

Towed in a Hole

31 Dec 1932

  

 

 

 

 

1933 — 8 movies.  ‘Twice Two’ saw James Parrott in the Director’s chair for the last time.  ‘Me and My Pal’ was the only movie with 2 Directors!

 

 

 

69

Twice Two

25 Feb 1933

70

Me and My Pal

22 Apr 1933

71

Fra Diavolo (The Devil’s Brother)

5 May 1933

72

The Midnight Patrol

3 Aug 1933

73

Busy Bodies

7 Oct 1933

74

Wild Poses (Cameo)

28 Oct 1933

75

Dirty Work

25 Nov 1933

76

Sons of the Desert

29 Dec 1933

  

 

 

 

 

1934 — 6 movies.  ‘Babes In Toyland’ was probably the boys’ most extravagant venture with the small town created at enormous expense.

 

 

 

77

Oliver the Eighth

Feb 1934

78

Hollywood Party

1 Jun 1934

79

Going Bye Bye

23 Jun 1934

80

Them Thar Hills

21 Jul 1934

81

Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers)

30 Nov 1934

82

The Live Ghost

8 Dec 1934

  

 

 

 

 

1935 — 4 movies.  ‘Tit for Tat’ was the boys’ only sequel (to ‘Them Thar Hills’).  ‘Thicker Than Water’ became the last 2 reeler due to the industry’s demand for feature films.