1950-1959
April
12, 1950 - Oliver Hardy appears in Riding
High without Stan.
1951
- Roach releases L&H films to television.
November
12, 1951 - Atoll
K is released in Europe. This was to be the
teams'
last film together.
February
19, 1952 - Sam Lufkin, who appeared in 39 L&H
comedies
dies
at the age of 59.
February
25, 1952 - Laurel and Hardy begin their second British
tour, with
the
sketch "A Spot of Trouble."
July
5, 1952 - Tough guy Walter Long, who worked with the
boys in
Pardon
Us and Going
Bye-Bye, passes away in Los Angeles, California.
September
29, 1952 - The second British tour
ends.
October
9, 1953 - James Finlayson, a veteran of 33 comedies
with the boys,
dies
of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, at the age of
66.
October
11, 1953 - Laurel and Hardy go on the third and final
British tour,
with
the sketch "Birds of a Feather."
November
30, 1953 - John McCabe meets Stan & Babe while
they tour
England.
May
18, 1954 - Oliver Hardy has a mild heart attack
while on tour in England.
The
tour ends.
May
30, 1954 - The Laurels and the Hardys leave England
for the last time,
bound
for Los Angeles.
December
1, 1954 - Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are featured
on television's
This
is Your Life.
December
1954 - Atoll
K is released in the United States under the title
Utopia.
October
9, 1955 - The BBC program "This is Music Hall"
presents a recorded
sequence
with the boys sending their best from America.
September
15, 1956 - Oliver Hardy suffers a massive
stroke.
August
7, 1957 - Oliver Hardy passes away in North
Hollywood, California,
at
the age of 65.
August
1, 1958 - Vivien Oakland, best remembered as the judge's
wife in
Scram and the
sheriff's wife in Way
Out West, dies in Hollywood, California.
January
21, 1959 - Our Gang's Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer is shot to
death in an
argument
with his ex-partner over $50.
December
7, 1959 - Charlie Hall, the little tough guy who
appeared in 47
films
with the boys, dies in Hollywood at the age of 60.
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