Doug Dear farms 566ha (1,400 acres) of arable crops and runs a custom feedyard, contract-finishing about 4,000 cattle a year near Selby, North Yorkshire.

Oliver Hardy was part of the iconic pair Laurel and Hardy who made 106 films as a duo between 1921 and 1951 – including 34 silent short films, 45 sound shorts and 27 full-length films, winning ...

‘Collecting Laurel and Hardy’ By Danny Bacher and Bernie Hogya Schiffer Publishing. The music that we call jazz has always been welcoming to artists with senses of humor to match their senses of ...

He directed four shorts that featured Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at the beginning of their partnership and was a hired hand for Harold Lloyd. Bruckman helmed one of W.C. Fields’s finest features, ...

For decades, "March of the Wooden Soldiers," a.k.a. "Babes in Toyland," has been a Thanksgiving tradition on WPIX TV. The movie turns 90 this year ...

Though among the most successful film comedians of the early sound era, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s cinematic partnership had actually started in the early 1920s. It’s easy to overlook their silent ...

Chaos ensues. People — and bulls — pour onto the field. Laurel is terrified. Hardy is panicked. "Come on, let's get out of here," the latter yells.

Near the end of the episode, the Laurel and Hardy clip appears. Many character names used in the episode refer to real figures from the silent film era, which included early Laurel and Hardy shorts.

Ask Dean is a Journal Star column focusing on all things Peoria: its history, mysteries, quirks and culture.. Question: I was recently rewatching "The X-Files" and saw this interesting tidbit in ...

This week in Northlandia, the Busy Bodies has been showing Laurel and Hardy films to their members across the Twin Ports for nearly 40 years. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW Read Today's Paper ...

The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10 ...

This wacky two-reel comedy was produced by Hal Roach during the period when he was still looking for a star performer. In 1926 the Our Gang kids were the studio's biggest draw. Harold Lloyd had long ...