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Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter, who was the founder of the namesake Hal Roach Studios. Roach was active in the industry from the 1910s to the 1990s.
Hal Roach was an American motion-picture producer, director, and writer best known for his production of comedies of the 1920s and ’30s featuring Harold Lloyd, Will Rogers, Snub Pollard, and Charley Chase, and for the enduringly popular films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and those of the.
Hal Roach was born in 1892 in Elmira, New York. After working as a mule skinner, wrangler and gold prospector, among other things, he wound up in Hollywood and began picking up jobs as an extra in comedies, where he met comedian Harold Lloyd in 1913 in San Diego.
Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 -- November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing...
Nov 3, 1992 · Hal Roach, the writer, producer and director who was a leading pioneer in shaping American film comedy, died yesterday at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
With each passing year, the effortless Hal Roach style and finesse of films starring Charley Chase, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang and Harold Lloyd make them look better and better. Together with the brilliant work of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, these are the films and filmmakers who defined Hollywood's Golden Age of Comedy.
Hal Roach was born in 1892 in Elmira, New York. After working as a mule skinner, wrangler and gold prospector, among other things, he wound up in Hollywood and began picking up jobs as an extra in comedies, where he met comedian Harold Lloyd in 1913 in San Diego.
