Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson)

  (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965)

Stan Laurel, a British born comic actor, writer and film director, is
most remembered as Laurel of the comedic duo Laurel and Hardy,
Hardy being Oliver Hardy. Laurel began his career in the British
music hall, from where he took a number of his standard comic
devices. He served as an understudy to Charlie Chaplin and
gave his debut professional performance in a stage play in
Glasgow.