Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter, who was the...
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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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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...
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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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Hal Roach (4 November 1927 – 28 February 2012) was a prominent Irish comedian. He spent over 60 years in show business as a live performer, having also...
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Laurel and Hardy (redirect from Laurel and Hardy: Hal Roach years)
Hal Roach film studio. They officially became a team in 1927 when they appeared in the silent short Putting Pants on Philip. They remained with Roach...
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Hal Roach (1892–1992) was an American film producer. Hal Roach can also refer to: Hal Roach Jr. (1918–1972), film and television producer, and son of...
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Angeles, California, the daughter of Hal Roach and Marguerite Nichols, and her brother was Hal Roach Jr. Roach gained early acting experience with a...
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Victor Mature (section Hal Roach)
miniature Johnny Weissmuller". Roach next put him in a swashbuckler set during the War of 1812, Captain Caution (1940). As Hal Roach only made a handful of movies...
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following is a complete list of the 220 Our Gang short films produced by Hal Roach Studios and/or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1922 and 1944, numbered by...
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Charley Chase (category Hal Roach Studios actors)
many pioneering comedy studios but is chiefly associated with producer Hal Roach. Chase was the elder brother of comedian/director James Parrott. Born...
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originally created and produced by Hal Roach which ran in movie theaters from 1922 to 1944. The series was produced by Hal Roach Studio's from 1922 until 1938...
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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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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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rights were originally optioned by Hal Roach Studios, and Stephen King wrote a script based on his own short story. Hal Roach executives did not want to use...
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Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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Topper (film) (category Hal Roach Studios)
and Eddie Moran from the 1926 novel by Thorne Smith. It was produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The supporting cast includes Billie...
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The Beau Hunks (section Hal Roach Film Music projects)
was originally a quintet organized to perform soundtrack themes from Hal Roach film studio comedies of the 1930s, including those of Laurel & Hardy,...
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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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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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photographing the city and portraits of his mother.: 9:00 At the age of 17, Hal Roach Studios employed him as an assistant cameraman filming Rex the Wonder...
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Gordon Douglas (director) (category Hal Roach Studios filmmakers)
teenager, Douglas got a job at the Hal Roach Studios, working in the office and appearing in bit parts in various Hal Roach films. He made walk-on appearances...
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First Motion Picture Unit (section Life at Fort Roach)
of buildings ... In October the unit moved into Hal Roach Studios, which the men nicknamed "Fort Roach." Warner returned to running his company,: 110 ...
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producer Hal Roach (1892–1992), American film producer Hal Roach (comedian) (1927–2012), Irish Hal Robson-Kanu (born 1989), Welsh footballer Hal Rogers (born...
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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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by Universal Pictures on August 5, 1994. The film is an adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang, a series of short films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s (many...
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Blystone and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was produced by Hal Roach Studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, a reworking of elements from...
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created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California, at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach Jr., and Roland D. Reed. My Little Margie premiered on CBS as...
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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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Infidelity" by H.C. Bunner, which was originally purchased by producer Hal Roach as a vehicle for Roland Young. In 1870, Dr. Henry Tibbett, a Mississippi...
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