Oliver Hardy, rotund film comedian, died yesterday. He was 65. Death came to the portly half of the famed Laurel and Hardy comedy team from the effects of a paralytic stroke he suffered last Sept. 12.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one ...

T his week marks the 75th anniversary of the legendary John Wayne film The Fighting Kentuckian. The movie featured Wayne as a Kentucky militiaman returning from the War of 1812, with Oliver Hardy ...

In the classic movie, Duke played a Kentucky militiaman man returning home from the War of 1812, with Oliver Hardy as his comic sidekick Willie Paine.

The Fighting Kentuckian was one of just five times that Oliver Hardy worked without Stan Laurel, his comedy partner in Laurel and Hardy - and he was offered the chance to become John Wayne's ...