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Eddie Laughton (20 June 1903 – 21 March 1952) was a British-American film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1952, and is best known for his work with The Three Stooges .
Eddie Laughton (1903-1952) was a British-born actor who appeared in 224 films and TV shows, including Highway Patrol, Girls of the Road and My Son Is a Criminal. He was married three times and died of pneumonia in Hollywood.
- Actor
- June 20, 1903
- Eddie Laughton
- March 21, 1952
Eddie Laughton was an actor who appeared in several films and was the Stooges' straight-man for their live shows. He was born and died in 1903 and 1952, respectively, and was married three times.
- June 20, 1903
- March 21, 1952
- Overview
- Career
- Death
- Sources
Eddie Laughton (June 20, 1903 – March 21, 1952) was a British-born American film actor. Born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Laughton appeared in over 200 films between 1935 and 1952.
Laughton left his native England to pursue a Hollywood film career. He started in vaudeville, and, according to a biography of Larry Fine of the Three Stooges, managed a vaudeville theatre where Fine once played.
The pencil-mustached Laughton was placed under contract by Columbia Pictures in 1935. He appeared in many Columbia features, short subjects, and serials throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
Modern viewers will remember Laughton for his role as "Percy Pomeroy, convict 41144" in the Stooge comedies So Long Mr. Chumps and Beer Barrel Polecats, or as the happy drunk in Loco Boy Makes Good. Laughton was an excellent utility player, useful in good-guy and bad-guy roles alike. (He and Columbia actor John Tyrrell shared many scenes.) Laughton was also a convincing dialect comedian, playing a French nobleman in Buster Keaton's She's Oil Mine, and an English big-game hunter plastered with pies in the Stooges' In the Sweet Pie and Pie.
In addition to his roles in the Stooge shorts, Laughton sometimes joined the team during their personal appearances between filming schedules, acting as their straight man.
Two months after Former Stooge, Curly Howard, died earlier of a massive cerebral hemorrhage, 48-year-old Eddie Laughton died of pneumonia on March 21, 1952. Both Laughton and Curly were born in the same year; 1903, and died in the same year; 1952, in which they both lived to be 48 years old. Laughton was married to actress Mary Eaton until her deat...
•Eddie Laughton at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
•Cox, Steve; Jim Terry (2006). One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures. Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN 1581823630.
•Okuda, Ted; Edward Watz (1986). The Columbia Comedy Shorts. McFarland & Company, Inc.,Publishers. pp. 222. ISBN 0899501818.
•Eddie Laughton at the Internet Movie Database
Nov 10, 2016 · Eddie Laughton appeared in over 200 films, mainly in uncredited bit parts. Cash and Carry (1937) as Bank Teller (uncredited) Eddie Laughton is on the left, with Moe Howard , Larry Fine and Curly Howard in a Three Stooges comedy short.
Eddie Laughton (born June 20, 1903 - March 21, 1952) (age 48) was a British actor, known for 29 Three Stooges episodes from 1935 to 1946. He also appeared in 2 Three Stooges recycled footage episodes in 1951 and 1959; Pest Man Wins and Sappy Bull Fighters, though his physical appearance was not...
Eddie Laughton, IDLE ROOMERS. Born. 1903-06-20. Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK. (Edgar Hugh Loughton) Died. 1952-03-21 (48) Los Angeles, CA. (Pneumonia) Eddie was the Stooges' straightman for their live appearances thru the late 1930s. He accompanied them on their 1939 tour of the British Isles.
