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Hal Roach

Producer, Writer, Director, Actor, Composer

13 January 1892 — 2 November 1992 (100 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Topper
    Topper1937
  • Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland1934
  • A Chump at Oxford
    A Chump at Oxford1940
  • Topper Returns
    Topper Returns1941
  • Topper Takes a Trip
    Topper Takes a Trip1938
  • Turnabout
    Turnabout1940
  • There Goes My Heart
    There Goes My Heart1938
  • Road Show
    Road Show1941
  • The Housekeeper's Daughter
    The Housekeeper's Daughter1939
  • School's Out
    School's Out1930
  • Broadway Limited
    Broadway Limited1941
  • Pups Is Pups
    Pups Is Pups1930
  • Tanks a Million
    Tanks a Million1941
  • Captain Caution
    Captain Caution1940
  • Fly My Kite
    Fly My Kite1931
  • Niagara Falls
    Niagara Falls1941
  • Teacher's Pet
    Teacher's Pet1930
  • Bear Shooters
    Bear Shooters1930
  • Love Business
    Love Business1931
  • Choo-Choo!
    Choo-Choo!1932

Known For

  • Safety Last!
    Safety Last!1923
  • The Music Box
    The Music Box1932
  • Sons of the Desert
    Sons of the Desert1933
  • Topper
    Topper1937
  • Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland1934
  • One Million Years B.C.
    One Million Years B.C.1966
  • Block-Heads
    Block-Heads1938
  • Way Out West
    Way Out West1937
  • Topper Returns
    Topper Returns1941
  • Big Business
    Big Business1929
  • Saps at Sea
    Saps at Sea1940
  • Busy Bodies
    Busy Bodies1933
  • Pardon Us
    Pardon Us1931
  • Tit for Tat
    Tit for Tat1935
  • Pack Up Your Troubles
    Pack Up Your Troubles1932
  • Another Fine Mess
    Another Fine Mess1930
  • Helpmates
    Helpmates1932
  • Towed in a Hole
    Towed in a Hole1932
  • Them Thar Hills
    Them Thar Hills1934
  • Swiss Miss
    Swiss Miss1938

Filmography

2011
The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
1966
The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
1966
One Million Years B.C. · as Associate Producer
1959
Little Rascals Varieties
1957
Code 3 · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1956
The Charles Farrell Show · as Executive Producer
1955
The Little Rascals · as Executive Producer
1955
Screen Directors Playhouse · as Executive Producer
1954
Passport to Danger · as Executive Producer
1949
Two Knights from Brooklyn · as Executive Producer
1948
Sadie and Sally · as Executive Producer
1943
Yanks Ahoy · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1943
Prairie Chickens · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1943
Calaboose · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1942
The McGuerins from Brooklyn · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1942
Fall In · as Associate ProducerOn Plex
1942
Flying with MusicOn Plex
1942
Brooklyn OrchidOn Plex
1941
Miss PollyOn Plex
1941
Niagara Falls · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1941
Tanks a MillionOn Plex
1941
Broadway LimitedOn Plex
1941
Road ShowOn Plex
1941
Topper ReturnsOn Plex
1940
Captain Caution · as Executive ProducerOn Plex
1940
TurnaboutOn Plex
1940
Saps at Sea
1940
One Million B.C.
1940
A Chump at OxfordOn Plex
1939
The Housekeeper's DaughterOn Plex
1939
Captain Fury
1938
Topper Takes a TripOn Plex
1938
There Goes My HeartOn Plex
1938
Block-Heads
1938
Hide and Shriek
1938
Swiss Miss
1938
Merrily We Live
1937
TopperOn Plex
1937
Pick a Star
1937
Nobody's Baby
1937
Way Out West
1936
General Spanky
1936
Our Relations
1936
Kelly the Second
1936
Neighborhood House
1936
On the Wrong Trek
1936
The Bohemian Girl
1935
Top Flat
1935
Bonnie Scotland
1935
Thicker Than Water
1935
The Fixer Uppers
1935
Tit for Tat
1934
March of the Wooden SoldiersOn Plex
1934
The Live Ghost
1934
Them Thar Hills
1934
Going Bye-Bye!
1934
Benny, from Panama
1934
A Duke for a Day
1934
Roamin' Vandals
1934
Apples to You!
1934
Four Parts
1934
Babes in the Goods
1934
The Cracked Ice Man
1934
Oliver the Eighth
1933
Sons of the Desert
1933
Air Fright
1933
Dirty Work
1933
Backs to Nature
1933
Busy Bodies
1933
Beauty and the Bus
1933
The Midnight Patrol
1933
One Track Minds
1933
The Devil's Brother
1933
Me and My Pal
1933
Forgotten Babies
1933
Twice Two
1933
Bring 'Em Back a Wife
1932
Towed in a Hole
1932
Les carottiers
1932
Birthday BluesOn Plex
1932
Their First Mistake
1932
Free WheelingOn Plex
1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
Scram!
1932
Hook and LadderOn Plex
1932
County Hospital
1932
The PoochOn Plex
1932
The Chimp
1932
Choo-Choo!On Plex
1932
You're Telling Me
1932
The Music Box
1932
SpankyOn Plex
1932
Any Old Port!
1932
Free EatsOn Plex
1932
Helpmates
1931
Readin' and Writin'On Plex
1931
On the Loose
1931
Hasty Marriage
1931
Beau Hunks
1931
Dogs Is DogsOn Plex
1931
One Good Turn
1931
Shiver My TimbersOn Plex
1931
Los presidiarios
1931
The Pajama Party
1931
Come Clean
1931
Skip the Maloo!
1931
Big EarsOn Plex
1931
Pardon Us
1931
Pardon Us
1931
Hinter Schloss und Riegel
1931
Fly My KiteOn Plex
1931
One of the Smiths
1931
Our Wife
1931
Bargain DayOn Plex
1931
Politiquerías
1931
Rough Seas · as Executive Producer
1931
Los calaveras
1931
Little DaddyOn Plex
1931
The Pip from Pittsburg
1931
Chickens Come Home
1931
Be Big!
1930
Laughing Gravy
1930
Love BusinessOn Plex
1930
Helping GrandmaOn Plex
1930
Another Fine Mess
1930
School's OutOn Plex
1930
Bigger and Better
1930
Noche de duendes
1930
Teacher's PetOn Plex
1930
Feu mon oncle
1930
Pups Is PupsOn Plex
1930
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930
A Tough WinterOn Plex
1930
Hog Wild
1930
Bear ShootersOn Plex
1930
Tiembla y Titubea
1930
Below Zero
1930
La vida nocturna
1930
All Teed Up
1930
When the Wind BlowsOn Plex
1930
Brats
1930
The First Seven YearsOn Plex
1930
Blotto
1930
Ladrones
1930
Night Owls
1929
Shivering ShakespeareOn Plex
1929
Angora Love
1929
Moan & Groan, Inc.On Plex
1929
The Hoose-Gow
1929
Bacon Grabbers
1929
Bouncing BabiesOn Plex
1929
They Go Boom!
1929
Boxing GlovesOn Plex
1929
Lazy DaysOn Plex
1929
Perfect Day
1929
Men O'War
1929
Railroadin'On Plex
1929
Berth Marks
1929
Double Whoopee
1929
Small TalkOn Plex
1929
Unaccustomed As We Are
1929
Big Business
1929
That's My Wife
1929
Wrong Again
1929
Liberty
1928
We Faw Down
1928
Habeas Corpus
1928
Two Tars
1928
Early to Bed
1928
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
Their Purple Moment
1928
You're Darn Tootin'
1928
Limousine Love
1928
From Soup to Nuts
1928
The Finishing Touch
1928
Flying Elephants
1928
Leave 'em Laughing
1928
All for Nothing
1927
The Battle of the Century
1927
Assistant Wives
1927
Putting Pants on Philip
1927
Do Detectives Think?
1927
Hats Off
1927
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
The Second 100 Years
1927
Sailors, Beware!
1927
Sugar Daddies
1927
With Love and Hisses
1927
Why Girls Love Sailors
1927
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
Eve's Love Letters
1927
Slipping Wives
1927
Duck Soup
1927
Why Girls Say No
1927
Bring Home the Turkey
1927
Anything Once!
1926
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926
On the Front Page
1926
Raggedy Rose
1926
The Fourth Alarm
1926
The Devil Horse
1926
Mighty Like a Moose
1926
Thundering Fleas
1926
Madame Mystery
1925
Should Sailors Marry?
1925
Black Cyclone
1925
Mary, Queen of Tots
1925
Innocent Husbands
1925
Looking for Sally
1925
Bad Boy
1924
The King of Wild Horses
1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
1923
The Soilers
1923
Save the Ship
1923
Derby Day
1923
Stage Fright
1923
Why Worry?
1923
Oranges and Lemons
1923
Dogs of War!
1923
Safety Last!
1922
Dr. Jack
1922
Our Gang
1922
Grandma's Boy
1921
A Sailor-Made Man
1921
Never Weaken
1921
I Do
1921
Among Those Present
1921
Now or Never
1920
Number, Please?
1920
Get Out and Get Under
1920
Nomads of the North
1920
High and Dizzy
1920
An Eastern Westerner
1920
Haunted Spooks
1920
His Royal Slyness
1919
From Hand to Mouth
1919
Captain Kidd's Kids
1919
Bumping Into Broadway
1919
Just Neighbors
1919
Billy Blazes, Esq.
1919
Spring Fever
1919
The Marathon
1919
Young Mr. Jazz
1919
A Sammy in Siberia
1919
Next Aisle Over
1919
Ask Father
1919
Hustling for Health
1918
Take a Chance
1918
Just Rambling Along
1918
That's Him
1918
Are Crooks Dishonest?
1918
Look Pleasant, Please
1918
A Gasoline Wedding
1917
The Big Idea
1917
Bashful
1917
Bliss
1917
By the Sad Sea Waves
1917
Over the Fence
1917
Lonesome Luke, Messenger