on his birthday, Arthur Stanley Jefferson (a.k.a. Stan Laurel) (Born: June 16, 1890; Died: Feb 23, 1965).

Together with actor Oliver Hardy he formed the comedy duo "Laurel and Hardy", starring in over a hundred short and feature comedy movies.

Some of the short movies are "The Lucky Dog (1921)", "Duck Soup (1927)", "Slipping Wives (1927)", "The Finishing Touch (1928)", "You're Darn Tootin' (1928)", "Two Tars (1928)", "Habeas Corpus (1928)", "We Faw Down (1928)", "Liberty (1929)", "Big Business (1929)", "Berth Marks (1929)", " Men O’ War (1929)", "Perfect Day (1929)", "Night Owls (1930)", "They Go Boom (1929)", "Brats (1930)", "Below Zero (1930)", "Hog Wild (1930)", "Another Fine Mess (1930)", "Chickens Come Home (1931)", "Laughing Gravy (1931)", "One Good Turn (1931)", "Beau Hunks (1931)", "Helpmates (1932)", "Any Old Port! (1932)", "The Music Box (1932)", "County Hospital (1932)", "Their First Mistake (1932)", "Twice Two (1933)", "Busy Bodies (1933)", "Dirty Work (1933)", "Them Thar Hills (1934)", "The Live Ghost (1934)", "Tit for Tat (1935)", "The Fixer-Uppers (1935)" and "Thicker than Water (1935)".

Some of the feature movies are "Pardon Us (1931)", "Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)", "The Devil's Brother (1933)", "Sons of the Desert (1933)", "Babes in Toyland (1934)", "Bonnie Scotland (1935)", "The Bohemian Girl (1936)", "Our Relations (1936)", "Way Out West (1937)", "Swiss Miss (1938)", "Block-Heads (1938)", "The Flying Deuces (1939)", "A Chump at Oxford (1940)", "Saps at Sea (1940)", "A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)", "Nothing but Trouble (1944)", "The Bullfighters (1945)" and "Atoll K (1951)".

The short movie "The Music Box (1932)" won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932.

In 1961 Stan Laurel received an Academy Honorary Award (a.k.a. Lifetime Achievement Academy Award) for "his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy".