Baldwin Cooke
Birthday: 1888-03-09
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: COOKE, BALDY (Baldwin Gardiner Cooke, Jr.) Born March 10, 1888, New York, New York. Cooke and his wife Alice toured in vaudeville with Stan (as members of the Stan Jefferson Trio), remaining close friends over the years. He appeared in 31 L&H films, beginning with Two Tars and ending with Swiss Miss. Baldy also worked with Our Gang and Charley Chase and appeared in about 80 films between 1928 and 1942. Baldy and Alice were close friends of Stan, even moving in with Stan and new wife Ruth as chaperones while the Laurels were waiting for Stan’s divorce from Lois to become final. Died December 31, 1953, Los Angeles, age 65.
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Fish Hooky
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him....
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The Night of Nights
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...
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Election Day
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. The...
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Below Zero
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighbo...
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Alum and Eve
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and...
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One Track Minds
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there....
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Soup and Fish
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Pat...
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Babes in the Goods
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on t...
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Three Chumps Ahead
Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Ar...
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Dogs Is Dogs
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son....
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Twice Two
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a d...
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Shivering and Shaking
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighbo...
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Nazi Agent
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a ...
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Of Mice and Men
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc...
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned...
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The Night Life
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and o...
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Scram!
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who ...
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Going Bye-Bye!
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has he...
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Arabian Tights
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan....
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Blotto
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting w...
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Be Big!
Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from...
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The Panic Is On
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of ...
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Chickens Come Home
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo....
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Tit for Tat
Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the gro...
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Them Thar Hills
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into w...
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Call a Cop!
The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house....
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Any Old Port!
Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. T...
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts....
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Men O' War
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are sh...
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Another Wild Idea
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that ...
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The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...
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Let's Make a Million
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket....
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Manhattan Monkey Business
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter....
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Auto Antics
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound....
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their...
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