Hal Roach

Production

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Hollywood Uncensored

5.4(0.0K)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.

The Squaw Man

6.0(0.0K)

Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.

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The Squaw Man

Townsman (uncredited)

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The Patchwork Girl of Oz

5.1(0.0K)

Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote.

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The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Cowardly Lion / Tottenhot

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Number, Please?

6.6(0.0K)

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.

Samson

10.0(0.0K)

Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.

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Samson

Bearded Philistine Extra (uncredited)

Hollywood's Hidden SecretsMOVIE

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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

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Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Self

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Sons of the Desert

7.1(0.3K)

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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Sons of the Desert

Bit Part (uncredited)

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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

7.0(0.0K)

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.

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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

Self (uncredited)

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The Magic Cloak of Oz

4.4(0.0K)

The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.

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The Magic Cloak of Oz

The Cowardly Lion (uncredited)

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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

7.0(0.0K)

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

Self

Production

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Kelly the Second

7.0(0.0K)

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

The Nickel-Hopper

7.5(0.0K)

Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.

One Million B.C.

5.9(0.0K)

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

One Million B.C.

Grandma's Boy

6.5(0.1K)

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

Topper

6.7(0.1K)

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

A Tough Winter

9.0(0.0K)

An ice-cold Snub adopts a gamin and her brother; A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters and the trio take a train to Florida. But by mistake the train goes to Iceland.

Babes in Toyland

6.3(0.2K)

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

The Ballad of Paducah Jail

9.0(0.0K)

Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.

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The Ballad of Paducah Jail

Producer

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An Eastern Westerner

6.9(0.0K)

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.

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An Eastern Westerner

Director