Hal Roach Studios was an American motion picture and, through its TV production subsidiary, Hal Roach Television Corporation, television production studio...
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director and screenwriter, who was the founder of the namesake Hal Roach Studios. Roach was active in the industry from the 1910s to the 1990s. He is known...
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producer Hal Roach and actress Marguerite Nichols. Roach Jr. co-directed One Million B.C. with his father. Roach was president of the Hal Roach Studios for...
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Our Gang (redirect from Hal Roach's Rascals)
Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood...
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executive. From 1985 to 1988, RHI began a slowly-executed takeover of Hal Roach Studios, which gave the company North American rights to a majority of the...
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Laurel and Hardy (redirect from Laurel and Hardy: Hal Roach years)
Hal Roach Studios lot. He wrote the simple and endearing "Ku-Ku" as a radio time signal. Bann, Richard W. "Film notes: BRATS (1930) Hal Roach Studios"...
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Charley Chase (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
director. He worked for many pioneering comedy studios but is chiefly associated with producer Hal Roach. Chase was the elder brother of comedian/director...
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Topper (film) (category Hal Roach Studios)
black-and-white film to be digitally colorized, re-released in 1985 by Hal Roach Studios. George and Marion Kerby are as irresponsible as they are rich. When...
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were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed to theaters by Pathé. These silent Our Gang shorts were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed...
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Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
sightseeing, they went to Hal Roach Studios. Following a public tour, eight-year-old Harold and six-year-old Carl entered the Hal Roach Studio's open-to-the-public...
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Oliver Hardy (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell...
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Hal Roach Studios produced films from 1914 until its bankruptcy in 1960. The company was reorganized in 1971. Its library was purchased by Hal Roach Studios...
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1907 – June 21, 1990) was a singer and character actress at the Hal Roach Studios in the early 1930s. Fans probably remember her best from the opening...
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James Finlayson (actor) (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
by Sennett's rival, Hal Roach, who gave him supporting roles in his studio's Snub Pollard and Stan Laurel comedies. With Roach's biggest short-subject...
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H. M. Walker (category Hal Roach Studios filmmakers)
Harley M. Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach Studios production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. The title...
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Spanky McFarland (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
was an American actor most famous for starring as a child as Spanky in Hal Roach's Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The...
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Peggy Ahern (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
career as a child actor in the 1923 Hal Roach film, The Call of the Wild, which was released by Universal Studios. She next appeared in small roles in...
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photographing the city and portraits of his mother.: 9:00 At the age of 17, Hal Roach Studios employed Stevens as an assistant cameraman filming Rex the Wonder...
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Hal Roach's Streamliners are a series of featurette comedy films created by Hal Roach that are longer than a short subject and shorter than a feature...
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Angel Studios, Inc. is an American independent media company and film distribution studio based in Provo, Utah. It operates the over-the-top video on-demand...
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Mae was her breakthrough role in film. The film, produced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by Lewis Milestone. It was...
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First Motion Picture Unit (category Lists of films by studio)
Crump came upon the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. According to writer Mark Betancourt, the facility was perfect: The studio had everything the motion...
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Pups Is Pups (category Hal Roach Studios short films)
Rascals) series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and originally released to theaters by MGM in 1930. It was the 100th...
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One Million B.C. (category Films directed by Hal Roach)
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...
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Stan Laurel (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
primarily as a writer and director. The same year, Hardy, a member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and hospitalised...
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Stymie Beard (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
Volume II, Roger L. Gordon, Dorrance Publishing Co., 2018, p. 25 "Hal Roach Studios Loan Out Agreement for Matthew "Stymie" Beard....", Heritage Auctions...
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Tommy Bond (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
when a talent scout for Hal Roach studios approached him as he was leaving a Dallas cinema. Bond was hired at Hal Roach Studios for the Our Gang series...
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by James W. Horne and Charles Rogers, and it was produced at the Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy, and Thelma Todd in her final film role...
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especially NBC. Its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Studios was formed in...
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Leroy Shield (category Hal Roach Studios filmmakers)
worked part-time for the Hal Roach film studio, composing countless background themes that became associated with such Roach comedy stars as Laurel and...
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