Hal S Roach

Our Gang

…Under the supervision of Charley Chase, work began on the first two-reel shorts in the new "kids-and-pets" series, which was to be called Hal Roach's Rascals, later that year. Director Fred C. Newmeyer helmed the first version of the pilot film, entitled Our Gang, but Roach scrapped Newmeyer...

Cary Grant

…for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Paramount put Grant in a series of unsuccessful films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach's studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed ...

Jimmie Adams

…hristie's soft-pedal comedy style did find an audience. Star comedians Jimmie Adams, Bobby Vernon, Lige Conley, Neal Burns, and Billy Dooley constituted a lineup that was no threat to Hal Roach, but nevertheless entertained millions with a style than neither Roach or Mack Sennett could or wo...

Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer and director from the 1910s to the 1990s. ...

Hal Roach (comedian)

Hal Roach (born November 4, 1927 in Waterford), is a prominent Irish ...

Hal Roach's Joke Book for Men Only: (Women Welcome)