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Hal Roach

Birth Name:Harold Eugene Roach

Birth Place:Elmira, New York, United States

Profession Producer, Writer, Director, Actor, Assistant director, Composer

Director

74 Credits
Road Show
Turnabout
One Million B.C.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Captain Fury
The Bohemian Girl
The Devil's Brother
On the Loose
The Pajama Party
Monsieur Le Fox
Men of the North
The Rogue Song
Unaccustomed As We Are
Flying Elephants
Love 'em and Feed 'em
Sailors Beware
White Sheep
Smithy
Scorching Sands
Number, Please
Get Out and Get Under
High and Dizzy
An Eastern Westerner
His Royal Slyness
From Hand to Mouth
Captain Kidd's Kids
Bumping into Broadway
Pay Your Dues
Count the Votes
Soft Money
He Leads, Others Follow
Be My Wife
Chop Suey & Co.
Spring Fever
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Back to the Woods
Before Breakfast
Young Mr. Jazz
A Sammy in Siberia
Next Aisle Over
Look out Below
Ask Father
Do You Love Your Wife?
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Stop! Luke! Listen!
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Luke's Trolley Troubles
Luke's Lost Liberty
Luke Locates the Loot
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Luke, Rank Impersonator
Luke, Patient Provider
Luke and the Bang-Tails
Luke's Speedy Club Life
Luke and the Mermaids
Luke Does the Midway
Luke, Crystal Gazer
Luke Rides Roughshod
Luke's Fatal Flivver
Luke Laughs Last
Them Was the Happy Days!
Luke's Double
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
Luke Foils the Villain
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Bughouse Bellhops

fill-in director

1 Credit
Swiss Miss

Writer

22 Credits
The Little Rascals
Swiss Miss
Pass the Gravy
Flaming Fathers
The Battle of the Century
Should Second Husbands Come First?
Call of the Cuckoo
Sailors Beware
With Love and Hisses
Why Girls Love Sailors
Don't Tell Everything
Love 'em and Weep
Why Girls Say No
The Nickel Hopper
Baby Clothes
Madame Mystery
Long Pants
Just a Good Guy
Finger Prints
Jailed and Bailed
Bumping into Broadway
Billy Blazes, Esq.

contributor to screenplay

1 Credit
The Bohemian Girl

screenplay

1 Credit
Mike Fright

story

68 Credits
Hook and Ladder
Choo Choo!
Spanky
On the Loose
Laurel & Hardy: Chickens Come Home
Brats
Perfect Day
Boxing Gloves
Unaccustomed As We Are
The Smile Wins
Flying Elephants
Leave 'Em Laughing
Love 'em and Feed 'em
Chicken Feed
Do Detectives Think?
Olympic Games
The Glorious Fourth
Baby Brother
Slipping Wives
Ten Years Old
Seeing the World
Bring Home the Turkey
Telling Whoppers
War Feathers
The Devil Horse
Buried Treasure
Good Cheer
There Goes the Bride
Your Own Back Yard
Madame Sans Jane
Boys Will Be Joys
Official Officers
Ask Grandma
Black Cyclone
The Love Bug
Circus Fever
The Big Town
White Sheep
Every Man for Himself
Battling Orioles
Jubilo Jr.
Cradle Robbers
Commencement Day
The King of the Wild Horses
Big Business
Tire Trouble
Sunday Calm
Derby Day
Stage Fright
Lodge Night
Dogs of War!
Back Stage
Giants vs. Yanks
Boys to Board
Safety Last
A Pleasant Journey
A Quiet Street
Young Sherlocks
Our Gang
Dr. Jack
Fire Fighters
One Terrible Day
Grandma's Boy
A Sailor-Made Man
Trolley Troubles
Never Weaken
What a Whopper!
Among Those Present

scenario

2 Credits
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Going! Going! Gone!

writer

3 Credits
Better Movies
Short Orders
Big Show

Actor

9 Credits
Sons of the Desert
Wild Poses
Pardon Us
Number, Please
Damon and Pythias
The Magic Cloak of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Samson
The Squaw Man

associate producer

1 Credit
One Million Years B.C.

executive producer

15 Credits
Code 3
Screen Directors Playhouse
The Charlie Farrell Show
The Little Rascals
Passport to Danger
Magnavox Theater
Two Knights from Brooklyn
Yanks Ahoy
Prairie Chickens
Calaboose
Niagara Falls
Captain Caution
Wandering Papas
Our Congressman
Big Moments from Little Pictures

producer

502 Credits
Flying with Music
About Face
Dudes Are Pretty People
Brooklyn Orchid
Miss Polly
Topper Returns
Road Show
Turnabout
Saps at Sea
One Million B.C.
A Chump at Oxford
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Captain Fury
Topper Takes a Trip
There Goes My Heart
Block-Heads
Hide and Shriek
The Awful Tooth
Swiss Miss
Came the Brawn
Bear Facts
Merrily We Live
Canned Fishing
Our Gang Follies of 1938
Mail and Female
Framing Youth
Fishy Tales
Topper
Pick a Star
Rushin' Ballet
Nobody's Baby
Way Out West
Hearts Are Thumps
Reunion in Rhythm
Pan Handlers
General Spanky
Pay As You Exit
Two Too Young
Our Relations
Bored of Education
Kelly the Second
Neighborhood House
Arbor Day
Second Childhood
At Sea Ashore
Vamp Till Ready
The Lucky Corner
The Count Takes the Count
The Bohemian Girl
Divot Diggers
Life Hesitates at 40
Manhattan Monkey Business
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Little Sinner
Bonnie Scotland
Sprucin' Up
Teacher's Beau
Southern Exposure
Anniversary Trouble
Beginner's Luck
Okay Toots!
Bum Voyage
Shrimps for a Day
The Live Ghost
You Bring the Ducks
Done in Oil
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Mama's Little Pirate
You Said a Hatful!
Washee Ironee
Mike Fright
Them Thar Hills
Going Bye Bye
Another Wild Idea
Benny From Panama
Honky Donkey
Duke for a Day
I'll Take Vanilla
The First Round-Up
Roamin' Vandals
For Pete's Sake
Apples to You
Four Parts
Hi'–Neighbor!
Mixed Nuts
Babes in the Goods
The Private Life Of Oliver the Eighth
Sons of the Desert
Luncheon at Twelve
Dirty Work
Backs to Nature
Wild Poses
Midsummer Mush
Busy Bodies
Rhapsody in Brew
Crook's Tour
Beauty and the Bus
Bedtime Worries
Sherman Said It
Arabian Tights
One Track Minds
Call Her Sausage
The Devil's Brother
His Silent Racket
Me and My Pal
Mush and Milk
Bargain of the Century
The Kid From Borneo
Twice Two
Forgotten Babies
Fallen Arches
Fish Hooky
Asleep in the Feet
Bring 'Em Back a Wife
Towed in a Hole
A Lad an' a Lamp
Les Carottiers
Now We'll Tell One
Birthday Blues
Alum and Eve
Pack Up Your Troubles
Hook and Ladder
Show Business
County Hospital
First in War
Strictly Unreliable
Choo Choo!
In Walked Charley
The Music Box
Spanky
Any Old Port!
Sealskins
Free Eats
Helpmates
On the Loose
The Hasty Marriage
Beau Hunks
War Mamas
What A Bozo!
Dogs is Dogs
The Pajama Party
Shiver My Timbers
Come Clean
Call a Cop!
Catch as Catch Can
Pardon Us
Big Ears
One of the Smiths
Our Wife
Air Tight
Fly My Kite
Polítiquerias
Los Calaveras
Pardon Us
Laurel & Hardy: Chickens Come Home
Be Big
Blood and Thunder
Little Daddy
Laughing Gravy
Another Fine Mess
Love Business
Bigger and Better
Noche de Duendes
Helping Grandma
Dollar Dizzy
Doctor's Orders
School's Out
Teacher's Pet
Fast Work
The King
Hog Wild
Tiembla Y Titubea
Below Zero
La vida nocturna
All Teed Up
A Tough Winter
Brats
Bear Shooters
Blotto
The First Seven Years
Ladrones
Night Owls
Angora Love
Shivering Shakespeare
Moan & Groan, Inc.
The Hoose-Gow
Saturday's Lesson
Bacon Grabbers
Sky Boy
Bouncing Babies
Cat, Dog & Co.
Crazy Feet
Lazy Days
Perfect Day
Boxing Gloves
Leaping Love
Little Mother
Berth Marks
Railroadin'
Small Talk
Double Whoopee
Fast Freight
Unaccustomed As We Are
Big Business
Wiggle Your Ears
That's My Wife
The Holy Terror
Wrong Again
Noisy Noises
Election Day
We Faw Down
Chasing Husbands
The Spanking Age
Habeas Corpus
The Boy Friend
Two Tars
Old Gray Hoss
Early to Bed
Growing Pains
School Begins
Laurel & Hardy - Should Married Men Go Home?
Crazy House
Fair and Muddy
You're Darn Tootin'
Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
From Soup to Nuts
Edison, Marconi & Co.
The Smile Wins
The Finishing Touch
Rainy Days
Flying Elephants
Leave 'Em Laughing
Should Tall Men Marry?
Spook Spoofing
Pass the Gravy
Playin' Hookey
Never the Dames Shall Meet
Flaming Fathers
Dog Heaven
The Battle of the Century
Assistant Wives
Putting Pants on Philip
Love 'em and Feed 'em
Chicken Feed
Hats Off
Do Detectives Think?
The Way of All Pants
Should Second Husbands Come First?
The Old Wallop
Now I'll Tell One
Yale vs. Harvard
Call of the Cuckoo
The Second Hundred Years
Olympic Games
Sailors Beware
What Women Did for Me
Sugar Daddies
With Love and Hisses
Why Girls Love Sailors
Don't Tell Everything
The Glorious Fourth
Baby Brother
Fluttering Hearts
Love 'em and Weep
Eve's Love Letters
Bigger and Better Blondes
Honorable Mr. Buggs
Forgotten Sweeties
Slipping Wives
Ten Years Old
Duck Soup
One Hour Married
Why Girls Say No
Seeing the World
Are Brunettes Safe?
Should Men Walk Home?
Bring Home the Turkey
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Telling Whoppers
There Ain't No Santa Claus
The Nickel Hopper
On the Front Page
War Feathers
Be Your Age
Get 'Em Young
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
Bromo and Juliet
Should Husbands Pay?
Crazy Like a Fox
The Merry Widower
Along Came Auntie
The Devil Horse
Raggedy Rose
Say It With Babies
Baby Clothes
Dog Shy
Wife Tamers
Dizzy Daddies
Madame Mystery
Buried Treasure
Your Husband's Past
Long Pants
Charley My Boy!
What's the World Coming To?
Good Cheer
His Wooden Wedding
Starvation Blues
Laughing Ladies
Should Sailors Marry?
Better Movies
There Goes the Bride
Moonlight and Noses
Your Own Back Yard
No Father to Guide Him
Madame Sans Jane
Yes, Yes, Nanette
Sherlock Sleuth
Thundering Landlords
Official Officers
Ask Grandma
Black Cyclone
Wild Papa
Bad Boy
The Love Bug
Is Marriage the Bunk?
Should Husbands Be Watched
Circus Fever
The Big Town
Just a Good Guy
White Sheep
All Wet
Every Man for Himself
Battling Orioles
Short Kilts
A Ten-Minute Egg
Jubilo Jr.
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Cradle Robbers
Going to Congress
April Fool
Near Dublin
Commencement Day
Brothers Under the Chin
The King of the Wild Horses
Zeb Vs. Paprika
Postage Due
Big Business
Smithy
Tire Trouble
Two Wagons: Both Covered
Mother's Joy
Sunday Calm
Scorching Sands
The Soilers
Save the Ship
Derby Day
The Whole Truth
Frozen Hearts
Stage Fright
Roughest Africa
Finger Prints
Call of the Wild
A Man About Town
Why Worry?
Short Orders
Her Dangerous Path
Oranges And Lemons
Lodge Night
Gas and Air
Kill or Cure
Collars and Cuffs
Pick and Shovel
Dogs of War!
Back Stage
Under Two Jags
White Wings
Giants vs. Yanks
The Noon Whistle
Boys to Board
Safety Last
A Pleasant Journey
Before the Public
Big Show
Jailed and Bailed
A Quiet Street
Fruits of Faith
Young Sherlocks
Shine 'Em Up
Our Gang
Dr. Jack
Fire Fighters
365 Days
One Terrible Day
The Sleuth
Strictly Modern
Grandma's Boy
Full o' Pep
Try, Try Again
A Sailor-Made Man
Trolley Troubles
Never Weaken
What a Whopper!
Blue Sunday
Big Game
Among Those Present
Prince Pistachio
Whirl o' the West
Number, Please
Nomads of the North
Get Out and Get Under
A London Bobby
High and Dizzy
An Eastern Westerner
His Royal Slyness
From Hand to Mouth
Captain Kidd's Kids
Bumping into Broadway
Pay Your Dues
Count the Votes
Soft Money
He Leads, Others Follow
Be My Wife
Don't Shove
Chop Suey & Co.
Count Your Change
Just Neighbors
Spring Fever
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Off the Trolley
Swat the Crook
Pistols for Breakfast
Back to the Woods
The Marathon
Before Breakfast
Ring Up the Curtain
Young Mr. Jazz
A Sammy in Siberia
Next Aisle Over
Look out Below
Hustling for Health
Going! Going! Gone!
Ask Father
Do You Love Your Wife?
Take a Chance
Hear 'em Rave
Swing Your Partners
Two Scrambled
Bride and Gloom
That's Him
Kicking the Germ out of Germany
Are Crooks Dishonest?
Somewhere in Turkey
Sic 'em, Towser
Hey There!
It's a Wild Life
On the Jump
Let's Go
Look Pleasant, Please
A Gasoline Wedding
Beat It
The Big Idea
Bashful
Move On
We Never Sleep
All Aboard
Rainbow Island
Birds of a Feather
By the Sad Sea Waves
Pinched
Lonesome Luke Loses Patients
Over the Fence
Lonesome Luke's Wild Women
Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Stop! Luke! Listen!
Lonesome Luke, Plumber
Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon
Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Lonesome Luke's Lively Life
Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Luke's Trolley Troubles
Luke's Lost Liberty
Luke Locates the Loot
Luke's Fireworks Fizzle
Luke, Rank Impersonator
Luke, Patient Provider
Luke and the Bang-Tails
Luke's Speedy Club Life
Luke and the Mermaids
Luke Does the Midway
Luke, Crystal Gazer
Luke Rides Roughshod
Luke's Fatal Flivver
Luke Laughs Last
Them Was the Happy Days!
Luke's Double
Lonesome Luke, Circus King
Luke Foils the Villain
Luke, the Candy Cut-Up
Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury
Lonesome Luke Leans to the Literary
Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster
Bughouse Bellhops

supervising producer

1 Credit
Boys Will Be Joys

Composer

1 Credit
Hog Wild

assistant director

2 Credits
Hoosier Schoolmaster
Hoosier Schoolmaster

Self

12 Credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The South Bank Show
American Masters
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Late Night with David Letterman
Rascal Dazzle
Hollywood
Hollywood Greats
Omnibus
The Ed Sullivan Show
Today
This Is Your Life

presenter

175 Credits
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Here Comes Trouble
The Fabulous Joe
Curley
Nazty Nuisance
Taxi, Mister
Prairie Chickens
Calaboose
Two Mugs from Brooklyn
Fall In
The Devil with Hitler
Hay Foot
Fiesta
All-American Co-Ed
Niagara Falls
Tanks a Million
Broadway Limited
Topper Returns
Road Show
Captain Caution
Turnabout
Saps at Sea
One Million B.C.
A Chump at Oxford
Of Mice and Men
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Captain Fury
Zenobia
Topper Takes a Trip
There Goes My Heart
Block-Heads
Hide and Shriek
The Awful Tooth
Swiss Miss
Came the Brawn
Bear Facts
Merrily We Live
Canned Fishing
Mail and Female
Framing Youth
Fishy Tales
Topper
Pick a Star
Rushin' Ballet
Nobody's Baby
Way Out West
Hearts Are Thumps
Reunion in Rhythm
General Spanky
Pay As You Exit
Mister Cinderella
Two Too Young
Bored of Education
Kelly the Second
Arbor Day
Second Childhood
Vamp Till Ready
The Lucky Corner
The Bohemian Girl
Divot Diggers
Our Gang Follies of 1936
Little Sinner
Bonnie Scotland
Sprucin' Up
Vagabond Lady
Teacher's Beau
Anniversary Trouble
Beginner's Luck
Shrimps for a Day
The Live Ghost
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Mama's Little Pirate
Washee Ironee
Mike Fright
Them Thar Hills
Going Bye Bye
Honky Donkey
Duke for a Day
The First Round-Up
For Pete's Sake
Hi'–Neighbor!
Mixed Nuts
The Private Life Of Oliver the Eighth
Luncheon at Twelve
Dirty Work
Wild Poses
Midsummer Mush
Busy Bodies
Bedtime Worries
One Track Minds
Me and My Pal
Mush and Milk
Bargain of the Century
The Kid From Borneo
Twice Two
Forgotten Babies
Fish Hooky
Asleep in the Feet
Towed in a Hole
A Lad an' a Lamp
Birthday Blues
Alum and Eve
Pack Up Your Troubles
Hook and Ladder
Show Business
County Hospital
Strictly Unreliable
Choo Choo!
The Music Box
Spanky
Free Eats
Helpmates
Beau Hunks
Dogs is Dogs
Shiver My Timbers
Come Clean
Call a Cop!
Catch as Catch Can
Big Ears
Our Wife
Air Tight
Fly My Kite
Pardon Us
Laurel & Hardy: Chickens Come Home
Be Big
Blood and Thunder
Little Daddy
Laughing Gravy
Another Fine Mess
Love Business
Bigger and Better
Helping Grandma
School's Out
Teacher's Pet
Hog Wild
Below Zero
A Tough Winter
Brats
Bear Shooters
Blotto
The First Seven Years
Night Owls
Shivering Shakespeare
Moan & Groan, Inc.
The Hoose-Gow
Bouncing Babies
Lazy Days
Boxing Gloves
Berth Marks
Railroadin'
Small Talk
The Finishing Touch
Dog Heaven
No Man's Law
The Nickel Hopper
Be Your Age
Bromo and Juliet
Crazy Like a Fox
Dog Shy
All Wet
Battling Orioles
April Fool
Why Worry?
Dogs of War!
Safety Last
Grandma's Boy
A Sailor-Made Man
Never Weaken
Among Those Present
Number, Please
Get Out and Get Under
High and Dizzy
An Eastern Westerner
From Hand to Mouth
Captain Kidd's Kids

comedy gag writer

2 Credits
Sons of the Desert
The Devil's Brother

prescribes

1 Credit
Dr. Jack