Stan Laurel

(Arthur Stanley Jefferson) was born in his grandparents’ house on 16 June 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, Cumbria. He had two brothers and a sister. Laurel first appeared with his future partner, Oliver Hardy, in The Lucky Dog (1921), which was filmed in 1919, but not released until 1921. He visited Ulverston in 1947 when he appeared on the Coronation Hall Balcony with Oliver Hardy. He died in America on 23 February 1965, aged 74.