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lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hal Roach" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach" title="Hal Roach – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Hal Roach" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86" title="هال روچ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هال روچ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach" title="Hal Roach – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Hal Roach" 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href="/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Elmira,_New_York)" title="Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York)">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Elmira, New York</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Lucille Prin</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1942; died 1981)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6, including <a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach_Jr." title="Hal Roach Jr.">Hal Roach Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Roach" title="Margaret Roach">Margaret Roach</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Livingston_(actor)" title="Robert Livingston (actor)">Robert Livingston</a> (former-son-in-law)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Harold Eugene</b> "<b>Hal</b>" <b>Roach Sr.</b><sup id="cite_ref-skretvedt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skretvedt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter, who was the founder of the namesake <a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach_Studios" title="Hal Roach Studios">Hal Roach Studios</a>. </p><p>Roach was active in the industry from the 1910s to the 1990s. He is known for producing a number of early <a href="/wiki/Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">Media franchise</a> successes, including the <a href="/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy" title="Laurel and Hardy">Laurel and Hardy</a> franchise, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a>'s early films, the films of entertainer <a href="/wiki/Charley_Chase" title="Charley Chase">Charley Chase</a>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/Our_Gang" title="Our Gang">Our Gang</a></i> short film comedy series. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach was born in <a href="/wiki/Elmira,_New_York" title="Elmira, New York">Elmira, New York</a>, to Charles Henry Roach, whose father was born in <a href="/wiki/Wicklow" title="Wicklow">Wicklow</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Wicklow" title="County Wicklow">County Wicklow</a>, Ireland, and Mabel Gertrude Bally, her father John Bally being from Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-skretvedt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skretvedt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A presentation by the American humorist <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> impressed Roach as a young <a href="/wiki/Primary_education" title="Primary education">grade school</a> student.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <blockquote><p>"Hal's first job was as a newspaper deliverer. One of his customers lived at Quarry Farm - Samuel Clemens, more widely known as <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-chemung/Roach_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chemung/Roach-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After an adventurous<sup id="cite_ref-chemung/Roach_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chemung/Roach-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> youth that took him to <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, Roach arrived in <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood</a> in 1912 and began working as an <a href="/wiki/Extra_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Extra (actor)">extra</a> in silent films. </p> <blockquote><p>"When Hal Roach came to Southern California at the age of 20, he had reached the tail end of a four-year trek across America, which took him from his hometown of Elmira, New York to Alaska, and down the Pacific Coast. Along the way, he picked up the know-how necessary to land work as an extra in a <a href="/wiki/J._Warren_Kerrigan" title="J. Warren Kerrigan">J. Warren Kerrigan</a> western, which was being filmed on location in the desert. It was here that he first met fellow player <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a>, the first of many talents whom Hal Roach would nurture and build a fortune on. During the filming of a roulette sequence, Roach got himself promoted to the position of technical advisor by pointing out that the ball has to travel in the opposite direction of the wheel – knowledge he had gained in <a href="/wiki/Barbary_Coast,_San_Francisco" title="Barbary Coast, San Francisco">San Francisco's Barbary Coast</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-silentfilm/HR_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silentfilm/HR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach_Studios#History" title="Hal Roach Studios">Hal Roach Studios § History</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pathé_Exchange"><span id="Path.C3.A9_Exchange"></span>Pathé Exchange</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pathé Exchange"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 23 July 1914, Roach incorporated <i><a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach_Studios" title="Hal Roach Studios">Rolin Film Company</a></i> with Dan Linthicum and I.H. Nance.<sup id="cite_ref-Rolin_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rolin-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1914, the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_L._Bradbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis L. Bradbury">Lewis Leonard Bradbury (November 6, 1823 – July 15, 1892)</a> mansion, on the corner of Court Street and Hill Street, <a href="/wiki/Bunker_Hill,_Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California">Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California</a>, was Roach's film studio.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon coming into an inheritance,<sup id="cite_ref-latimes/1992-11-03-mn-1245_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes/1992-11-03-mn-1245-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1915 he began producing <a href="/wiki/Short_film" title="Short film">short film comedies</a> with his friend <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a>, who portrayed a character known as Willie Work, as in <a href="/wiki/Willie_Runs_the_Park" title="Willie Runs the Park">Willie Runs the Park</a> and Lonesome Luke, as in <a href="/wiki/Lonesome_Luke,_Social_Gangster" title="Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster">Lonesome Luke, Social Gangster</a>. </p><p>In 1915, his first success, <i><a href="/wiki/Just_Nuts" title="Just Nuts">Just Nuts</a></i> (1915), landed a long-standing distribution deal with <a href="/wiki/Path%C3%A9_Exchange" title="Pathé Exchange">Pathé Exchange</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-se/HR_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-se/HR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_(1959).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg/220px-Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg/330px-Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg/440px-Hal_Roach_Laugh_Factory_%281959%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The Hal Roach Studios (1919–1963) in 1959</figcaption></figure> <p>Unable to expand his studios in <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Los_Angeles" title="Downtown Los Angeles">Downtown Los Angeles</a> because of <a href="/wiki/Zoning" title="Zoning">zoning</a>, Roach leased<sup id="cite_ref-ccHS/hrs_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ccHS/hrs-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> several studio sites in the Los Angeles area until he purchased what became the Hal Roach Studios from <a href="/wiki/Harry_Culver" title="Harry Culver">Harry Culver</a> in <a href="/wiki/Culver_City,_California" title="Culver City, California">Culver City, California</a>, at 8822 Washington Boulevard, and built by 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-DoAhr/HRS_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoAhr/HRS-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the 1920s and 1930s, he employed <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Lloyd</a> (his top money-maker until his departure in 1923), <a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Davidson" title="Max Davidson">Max Davidson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Our_Gang" title="Our Gang">Our Gang</a> children, <a href="/wiki/Charley_Chase" title="Charley Chase">Charley Chase</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Langdon" title="Harry Langdon">Harry Langdon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thelma_Todd" title="Thelma Todd">Thelma Todd</a>, <a href="/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts" title="ZaSu Pitts">ZaSu Pitts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patsy_Kelly" title="Patsy Kelly">Patsy Kelly</a> and, most famously, <a href="/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy" title="Laurel and Hardy">Laurel and Hardy</a>. During the 1920s, Roach's biggest rival was producer <a href="/wiki/Mack_Sennett" title="Mack Sennett">Mack Sennett</a>. In 1925, Roach <a href="/wiki/Recruitment" title="Recruitment">hired away</a> Sennett's supervising director, <a href="/wiki/F._Richard_Jones" title="F. Richard Jones">F. Richard Jones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HwoF/HR_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HwoF/HR-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Roach released his films through <a href="/wiki/Path%C3%A9_Exchange" title="Pathé Exchange">Pathé Exchange</a> until 1927, when he struck a distribution deal with <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a>. He converted his silent-movie studio to sound in late 1928 and began releasing talking shorts in early 1929. In the days before <a href="/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dubbing (filmmaking)">dubbing</a>, foreign-language versions of the Roach comedies were created by reshooting each film in Spanish, French, and occasionally Italian and German. Laurel & Hardy, Charley Chase, and the Our Gang kids (some of whom had barely begun school) were required to recite the foreign dialogue <a href="/wiki/Phonetically" class="mw-redirect" title="Phonetically">phonetically</a>, often working from blackboards hidden off-camera.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1931, with the release of the Laurel & Hardy film <i><a href="/wiki/Pardon_Us" title="Pardon Us">Pardon Us</a></i>, Roach began producing occasional full-length features alongside the short subjects. Two-reel comedies were less profitable than features, and Roach phased most of them out by 1936. When the <i>Our Gang</i> feature film <i><a href="/wiki/General_Spanky" title="General Spanky">General Spanky</a></i> did not do as well as expected, Roach intended to disband Our Gang entirely. MGM still wanted the Our Gang short subjects, so Roach agreed to supply them in single-reel (10-minute) form. </p><p>Roach was also a good friend to <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, who was a fan of Laurel and Hardy at the time. A monkey dressed in a <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mouse" title="Mickey Mouse">Mickey Mouse</a> costume as well as actors in <a href="/wiki/Three_Little_Pigs_(film)" title="Three Little Pigs (film)">Three Little Pigs</a> costumes appeared in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy film <i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_Toyland_(1934_film)" title="Babes in Toyland (1934 film)">March of the Wooden Soldiers</a></i>. Mickey Mouse also appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Party_(1934_film)" title="Hollywood Party (1934 film)">Hollywood Party</a></i>, also from 1934 and featuring Laurel and Hardy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mussolini">Mussolini</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mussolini"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1937, Renato Senise,<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes/Senise_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes/Senise-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-time/mussolini-roach_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time/mussolini-roach-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nephew of <a href="/wiki/Carmine_Senise" title="Carmine Senise">Carmine Senise</a>, the then deputy chief of the Italian police,<sup id="cite_ref-Bonsaver/Senise_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bonsaver/Senise-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> conceived a joint business venture of Roach partnering with <a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Mussolini" title="Vittorio Mussolini">Vittorio Mussolini</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters/Vittorio/NYC_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters/Vittorio/NYC-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of fascist Italian dictator <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>, to form a production company called "R.A.M." (Roach and Mussolini).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 September 1937, Roach and Vittorio Mussolini formed R.A.M. Productions.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach claimed the scheme involved Italian bankers providing US$6 million that would enable Roach's studio to produce a series of 12 films. Eight would be for Italian screening only while the remaining four would receive world distribution. The first film for Italy was to be a feature film of the opera <i><a href="/wiki/Rigoletto" title="Rigoletto">Rigoletto</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Anti-Nazi_League" title="Hollywood Anti-Nazi League">Hollywood Anti-Nazi League</a> for the Defense of American Democracy<sup id="cite_ref-978-0-292-75013-5_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-978-0-292-75013-5-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> resented Mussolini's presence and placed notices in various trade magazines: "He asked for - and received - the privilege of being the first aviator to bomb helpless Ethiopians . . . his presence here is not an occasion for celebration or social fetes. Those who welcome him are opening their arms to a friend of Hitler and an enemy of democracy."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>"<a href="/wiki/Loews_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Loews Inc.">Loews</a> chairman <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Schenck" title="Nicholas Schenck">Nicholas Schenck</a> was so upset he canceled Roach's <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a> deal."<sup id="cite_ref-hollywoodreporter/167559_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hollywoodreporter/167559-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This proposed business alliance with Mussolini alarmed MGM, which intervened and forced Roach to buy his way out of the venture. This embarrassment, coupled with the underperformance of much of Roach's latest feature-film output (except Laurel & Hardy titles and the 1937 hit <i><a href="/wiki/Topper_(film)" title="Topper (film)">Topper</a></i>), led to the end of Roach's distribution contract with MGM.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_Artists">United Artists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: United Artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 1938, Roach sold MGM the production rights and actors contracts to the <i>Our Gang</i> shorts. Roach signed a distribution deal with <a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a> at this time.<sup id="cite_ref-MGMsale_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MGMsale-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1937 to 1940, Roach concentrated on producing glossy features, abandoning low comedy almost completely. Most of his new films were either sophisticated farces (like <i>Topper</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Housekeeper%27s_Daughter" title="The Housekeeper's Daughter">The Housekeeper's Daughter</a></i>, 1939) or rugged action fare (like <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Fury" title="Captain Fury">Captain Fury</a></i>, 1939, and <i><a href="/wiki/One_Million_B.C." title="One Million B.C.">One Million B.C.</a></i>, 1940). Roach's one venture into heavy drama was the acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men_(1939_film)" title="Of Mice and Men (1939 film)">Of Mice and Men</a></i> (1939), in which actors <a href="/wiki/Burgess_Meredith" title="Burgess Meredith">Burgess Meredith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Jr." title="Lon Chaney Jr.">Lon Chaney Jr.</a> played the leading roles. The Laurel and Hardy comedies, once the Roach studio's biggest drawing cards, were now the studio's least important product and were phased out altogether in 1940. </p><p>In 1940, Roach experimented with medium-length <a href="/wiki/Featurette" title="Featurette">featurettes</a>, running 40 to 50 minutes each. He contended that these "<a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach%27s_Streamliners" title="Hal Roach's Streamliners">streamliners</a>", as he called them, would be useful in <a href="/wiki/Double-feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Double-feature">double-feature</a> situations where the main attraction was a longer-length epic. Exhibitors agreed with him and used Roach's mini-features to balance top-heavy double bills. He had intended to introduce the new format with a series of four Laurel and Hardy featurettes, but was overruled by United Artists, which insisted on two Laurel & Hardy feature films instead.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> United Artists continued to release Roach's streamliners through 1943. By this time, Roach no longer had a resident company of comedy stars and cast his films with familiar featured players (<a href="/wiki/William_Tracy" title="William Tracy">William Tracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sawyer" title="Joe Sawyer">Joe Sawyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Downs" title="Johnny Downs">Johnny Downs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jean_Porter_(actress)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Porter (actress)">Jean Porter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Faylen" title="Frank Faylen">Frank Faylen</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Bendix" title="William Bendix">William Bendix</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_E._Stone" title="George E. Stone">George E. Stone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Watson_(actor)" title="Bobby Watson (actor)">Bobby Watson</a>, etc.). </p><p>Recognizing the value of his film library, in 1943 Roach began licensing revivals of his older productions for theatrical distribution through Film Classics, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and home-movie distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hal Roach Sr., commissioned in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Reserve" title="United States Army Reserve">U.S. Army Signal Reserve Corps</a> in 1927,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was called back to active military duty in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Signal_Corps" title="United States Army Signal Corps">Signal Corps</a> in June 1942, at age 50. The studio output he oversaw in uniform was converted from entertainment featurettes to military <a href="/wiki/Training_film" title="Training film">training films</a>. The studios were leased to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">U.S. Army Air Forces</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/First_Motion_Picture_Unit" title="First Motion Picture Unit">First Motion Picture Unit</a> made 400 training, morale and <a href="/wiki/Propaganda_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Propaganda films">propaganda films</a> at "Fort Roach." Members of the unit included <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Ladd" title="Alan Ladd">Alan Ladd</a>. After the war the government returned the studio to Roach, with millions of dollars of improvements.<sup id="cite_ref-betancourt201203_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-betancourt201203-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1946, Hal Roach resumed motion picture production, with former Harold Lloyd co-star <a href="/wiki/Bebe_Daniels" title="Bebe Daniels">Bebe Daniels</a> as an associate producer. Roach was the first Hollywood producer to adopt an all-color production schedule, making four streamliners in <a href="/wiki/Cinecolor" title="Cinecolor">Cinecolor</a>, although the increased production costs did not result in increased revenue. In 1948, with his studio deeply in debt, Roach re-established his studio for television production, with Hal Roach Jr., producing series such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stu_Erwin_Show" title="The Stu Erwin Show">The Stu Erwin Show</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Steve_Donovan,_Western_Marshal" title="Steve Donovan, Western Marshal">Steve Donovan, Western Marshal</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Racket_Squad" title="Racket Squad">Racket Squad</a></i>, <i>The Public Defender</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gale_Storm_Show" title="The Gale Storm Show">The Gale Storm Show</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Jones,_Space_Ranger" title="Rocky Jones, Space Ranger">Rocky Jones, Space Ranger</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/My_Little_Margie" title="My Little Margie">My Little Margie</a></i>, and independent producers leasing the facilities for such programs as <i><a href="/wiki/Amos_%27n%27_Andy" title="Amos 'n' Andy">Amos 'n' Andy</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_of_Riley" title="The Life of Riley">The Life of Riley</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Abbott_and_Costello_Show" title="The Abbott and Costello Show">The Abbott and Costello Show</a></i>. By 1951, the studio was producing 1,500 hours of television programs a year, nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach's old theatrical films were also early arrivals on television. His Laurel and Hardy comedies were successful in <a href="/wiki/Television_syndication" class="mw-redirect" title="Television syndication">television syndication</a>, as were the <i>Our Gang</i> comedies he produced from 1929 to 1938. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_years">Later years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1955, Roach sold his interests in the production company to his son, Hal Roach Jr., and retired from active production. The younger Roach lacked much of his father's business acumen and was forced to sell the studio in 1958 to The Scranton Corporation, a division of the automobile-parts conglomerate F. L. Jacobs Co.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Roach studio finally shut down in 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For two more decades, Roach Sr. occasionally worked as a consultant on projects related to his past work. In 1983 the "Hal Roach Studios" name was reactivated as a video concern, pioneering the new field of colorizing movies. Roach lent his film library to the cause but was otherwise not involved in the new video productions. Extremely vigorous into an advanced age, Roach contemplated a comedy comeback at 96.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, 92-year-old Roach was presented with an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Academy Award">honorary Academy Award</a>. Former <i>Our Gang</i> members <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Cooper" title="Jackie Cooper">Jackie Cooper</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_McFarland" class="mw-redirect" title="George McFarland">George "Spanky" McFarland</a> made the presentation to a flattered Roach, with McFarland thanking the producer for hiring him 53 years prior. An additional <i>Our Gang</i> member, <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Morrison" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernie Morrison">Ernie Morrison</a>, was in the crowd and started the standing ovation for Roach. Years earlier Cooper had been the youngest Academy Award nominee ever for his performance in <i><a href="/wiki/Skippy_(film)" title="Skippy (film)">Skippy</a></i> when he had been under contract with Roach. Although Paramount had paid Roach $25,000 for Cooper's services in that film, Roach paid Cooper only his standard salary of $50 per week.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 21, 1992, Roach was a guest on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_with_Johnny_Carson" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson">The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson</a></i>, guest-hosted by <a href="/wiki/Jay_Leno" title="Jay Leno">Jay Leno</a>, one week after his 100th birthday. During the interview, Roach recounted experiences with such stars as Stan Laurel and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Harlow" title="Jean Harlow">Jean Harlow</a>; he even did a brief, energetic demonstration of the "humble hula" dance.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1992, Roach traveled to <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> to receive the honorary award of the <i>Berlinale Kamera</i> for Lifetime Achievement at the <a href="/wiki/42nd_Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="42nd Berlin International Film Festival">42nd Berlin International Film Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berlinale_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berlinale-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 30, 1992, Roach appeared at the <a href="/wiki/64th_Academy_Awards" title="64th Academy Awards">64th Academy Awards</a> ceremony, hosted by <a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a>. When Roach rose from the audience to a standing ovation, he decided to give a speech without a microphone, causing Crystal to quip "I think that's appropriate because Mr. Roach started in silent films."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1916, Roach's mother and father moved into Roach's studio in Culver City, living there until their death.<sup id="cite_ref-chemung/Roach_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chemung/Roach-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1916, Roach married actress <a href="/wiki/Marguerite_Nichols" title="Marguerite Nichols">Marguerite Nichols</a>, who worked as an actress in the 1930s and 1940s, and died in March 1941. They had two children, <a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach_Jr." title="Hal Roach Jr.">Hal Roach Jr.</a>, who followed his father as a producer and director, and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Roach" title="Margaret Roach">Margaret Roach</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_Sentinel_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun_Sentinel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roach married a second time, on September 1, 1942, to Lucille Prin, a Los Angeles secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-WedsPrin_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WedsPrin-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were married at the on-base home of <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">Colonel</a> Franklin C. Wolfe and his wife at <a href="/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base" title="Wright-Patterson Air Force Base">Wright-Patterson Airfield</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio" title="Dayton, Ohio">Dayton, Ohio</a>, where Roach was stationed at the time while serving as a major in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps">United States Army Air Corps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WedsPrin_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WedsPrin-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach and Lucille had four children, Elizabeth Carson Roach (December 26, 1945 – September 5, 1946), Maria May Roach (born April 14, 1947),<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Jeanne Alice Roach (born October 7, 1949), and Kathleen Bridget Roach (born January 29, 1951).<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_Sentinel_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun_Sentinel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hal Roach died in his home in <a href="/wiki/Bel_Air,_Los_Angeles" title="Bel Air, Los Angeles">Bel Air, Los Angeles</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Pneumonia" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>, on November 2, 1992, at the age of 100. He had married twice, and had six children, eight grandchildren, and a number of great-grandchildren. Roach outlived three of his children by more than 20 years: Hal Jr. (died in 1972), Margaret (died in 1964), and Elizabeth (died in 1946). He also outlived many of the children who starred in his films.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_Sentinel_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun_Sentinel-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roach is buried in <a href="/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Elmira,_New_York)" title="Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York)">Woodlawn Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Elmira,_New_York" title="Elmira, New York">Elmira, New York</a>, where he grew up.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 2018 <a href="/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy" title="Laurel and Hardy">Laurel and Hardy</a> <a href="/wiki/Biopic" class="mw-redirect" title="Biopic">biopic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Stan_%26_Ollie" title="Stan & Ollie">Stan & Ollie</a></i>, Roach was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Danny_Huston" title="Danny Huston">Danny Huston</a>. </p><p>In 2020, <a href="/wiki/Rose_McGowan" title="Rose McGowan">Rose McGowan</a> alleged that, in 1937, Roach was responsible for a case of large-scale <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse" title="Sexual abuse">sexual abuse</a> of actresses. The closest link to such accusations against him is that an infamous sex party was held by MGM at the Hal Roach Ranch, which was used by the company as a <a href="/wiki/Film_studio" title="Film studio">studio</a>. This is also in relation to one of the earliest reports of rape in Hollywood, filed by blacklisted dancer and extra <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Douglas" title="Patricia Douglas">Patricia Douglas</a>, which was later covered in the documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_27" title="Girl 27">Girl 27</a></i>, a production McGowan herself has praised for educating on <a href="/wiki/Sexual_abuse_in_the_American_film_industry" title="Sexual abuse in the American film industry">sexual abuse in Hollywood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hal_Roach&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>A Tribute to Hal Roach</i>. <a href="/wiki/Gallery_of_Modern_Art_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallery of Modern Art (New York City)">Gallery of Modern Art</a>. 1965.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Tribute+to+Hal+Roach&rft.pub=Gallery+of+Modern+Art&rft.date=1965&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHal+Roach" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEverson1971" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_K._Everson" title="William K. Everson">Everson, William K.</a> (1971). <i>The Films of Hal Roach</i>. <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87070-559-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87070-559-5"><bdi>978-0-87070-559-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Films+of+Hal+Roach&rft.pub=Museum+of+Modern+Art&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0-87070-559-5&rft.aulast=Everson&rft.aufirst=William+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHal+Roach" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWard2006" class="citation book cs1">Ward, Richard Lewis (August 15, 2006). <i>A History of the Hal Roach Studios</i>. 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Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1928–1950</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> (1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Temple" title="Shirley Temple">Shirley Temple</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_March_of_Time" title="The March of Time">The March of Time</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Rosson" title="Harold Rosson">Harold Rosson</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Bergen" title="Edgar Bergen">Edgar Bergen</a> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art_Department_of_Film" title="Museum of Modern Art Department of Film">Museum of Modern Art Film Library</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mack_Sennett" title="Mack Sennett">Mack Sennett</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Ball_(inventor)" title="Joseph A. Ball (inventor)">J. Arthur Ball</a> / <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Durbin" title="Deanna Durbin">Deanna Durbin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jennings" title="Gordon Jennings">Gordon Jennings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Domela" title="Jan Domela">Jan Domela</a>, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, <a href="/wiki/Farciot_Edouart" title="Farciot Edouart">Farciot Edouart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loyal_Griggs" title="Loyal Griggs">Loyal Griggs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loren_L._Ryder" title="Loren L. Ryder">Loren L. Ryder</a>, Harry D. Mills, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Mesenkop" title="Louis Mesenkop">Louis Mesenkop</a>, Walter Oberst / <a href="/wiki/Oliver_T._Marsh" title="Oliver T. Marsh">Oliver T. Marsh</a> and Allen Davey / <a href="/wiki/Harry_Warner" title="Harry Warner">Harry Warner</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" title="Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Cameron_Menzies" title="William Cameron Menzies">William Cameron Menzies</a> / <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_%26_Television_Fund" title="Motion Picture & Television Fund">Motion Picture Relief Fund</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan" title="Ralph Morgan">Ralph Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Block" title="Ralph Block">Ralph Block</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Nagel" title="Conrad Nagel">Conrad Nagel</a>) / <a href="/wiki/Vantiva" title="Vantiva">Technicolor SA</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Levinson" title="Nathan Levinson">Nathan Levinson</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Garity" title="William Garity">William Garity</a>, John N. A. Hawkins, and the <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA Manufacturing Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski" title="Leopold Stokowski">Leopold Stokowski</a> and his associates / Rey Scott / <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)">British Ministry of Information</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Boyer" title="Charles Boyer">Charles Boyer</a> / <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> / <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pal" title="George Pal">George Pal</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Margaret_O%27Brien" title="Margaret O'Brien">Margaret O'Brien</a> (1944)</li> <li>Republic Studio, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_J._Bloomberg" title="Daniel J. Bloomberg">Daniel J. Bloomberg</a>, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / <a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In_(1945_film)" title="The House I Live In (1945 film)">The House I Live In</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ann_Garner" title="Peggy Ann Garner">Peggy Ann Garner</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Russell" title="Harold Russell">Harold Russell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch" title="Ernst Lubitsch">Ernst Lubitsch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Claude_Jarman_Jr." title="Claude Jarman Jr.">Claude Jarman Jr.</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Baskett" title="James Baskett">James Baskett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Armat" title="Thomas Armat">Thomas Armat</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Selig" title="William Selig">William Nicholas Selig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albert_E._Smith_(producer)" title="Albert E. Smith (producer)">Albert E. Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Kirke_Spoor" title="George Kirke Spoor">George Kirke Spoor</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Bill_and_Coo" title="Bill and Coo">Bill and Coo</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Shoeshine_(film)" title="Shoeshine (film)">Shoeshine</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Vincent" title="Monsieur Vincent">Monsieur Vincent</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Sid_Grauman" title="Sid Grauman">Sid Grauman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Zukor" title="Adolph Zukor">Adolph Zukor</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves" title="Bicycle Thieves">The Bicycle Thief</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer" title="Louis B. Mayer">Louis B. Mayer</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Murphy" title="George Murphy">George Murphy</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Walls_of_Malapaga" title="The Walls of Malapaga">The Walls of Malapaga</a></i> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Kelly" title="Gene Kelly">Gene Kelly</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Rashomon" title="Rashomon">Rashomon</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper" title="Merian C. Cooper">Merian C. Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a> / George Mitchell / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Schenck" title="Joseph M. Schenck">Joseph M. Schenck</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Forbidden_Games" title="Forbidden Games">Forbidden Games</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century-Fox Film Corporation</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bell_%26_Howell" title="Bell & Howell">Bell & Howell Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Breen" title="Joseph Breen">Joseph Breen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pete_Smith_(film_producer)" title="Pete Smith (film producer)">Pete Smith</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bausch_%26_Lomb" title="Bausch & Lomb">Bausch & Lomb Optical Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> / Kemp Niver / <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Greta Garbo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jon_Whiteley" title="Jon Whiteley">Jon Whiteley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Winter" title="Vincent Winter">Vincent Winter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gate_of_Hell_(film)" title="Gate of Hell (film)"><i>Gate of Hell</i></a> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_I:_Musashi_Miyamoto" title="Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto">Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" title="Eddie Cantor">Eddie Cantor</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers" title="Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers">Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson" title="Broncho Billy Anderson">Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> / <a href="/wiki/B._B._Kahane" title="B. B. Kahane">B. B. Kahane</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier" title="Maurice Chevalier">Maurice Chevalier</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buster_Keaton" title="Buster Keaton">Buster Keaton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hayley_Mills" title="Hayley Mills">Hayley Mills</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Hendricks" title="William L. Hendricks">William L. Hendricks</a> / Fred L. Metzler / <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Robbins" title="Jerome Robbins">Jerome Robbins</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Tuttle" title="William J. Tuttle">William J. Tuttle</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakima_Canutt" title="Yakima Canutt">Yakima Canutt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Y._Frank_Freeman" title="Y. Frank Freeman">Y. Frank Freeman</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Freed" title="Arthur Freed">Arthur Freed</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chambers_(make-up_artist)" title="John Chambers (make-up artist)">John Chambers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Onna_White" title="Onna White">Onna White</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lillian_Gish" title="Lillian Gish">Lillian Gish</a> / <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1971)</li> <li>Charles S. Boren / <a href="/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson" title="Edward G. Robinson">Edward G. Robinson</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Langlois" title="Henri Langlois">Henri Langlois</a> / <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jean_Renoir" title="Jean Renoir">Jean Renoir</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Booth" title="Margaret Booth">Margaret Booth</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Lantz" title="Walter Lantz">Walter Lantz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art Department of Film</a> (1978)</li> <li>Hal Elias / <a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck" title="Barbara Stanwyck">Barbara Stanwyck</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> (1982)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Hal Roach</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alex_North" title="Alex North">Alex North</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodak" title="Kodak">Eastman Kodak Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a> / <a href="/wiki/Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Kerr" title="Deborah Kerr">Deborah Kerr</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> / <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Jones" title="Chuck Jones">Chuck Jones</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kidd" title="Michael Kidd">Michael Kidd</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda" title="Andrzej Wajda">Andrzej Wajda</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Cardiff" title="Jack Cardiff">Jack Cardiff</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney Poitier">Sidney Poitier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Boyle" title="Robert F. Boyle">Robert F. Boyle</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Bacall" title="Lauren Bacall">Lauren Bacall</a> / <a href="/wiki/Roger_Corman" title="Roger Corman">Roger Corman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Willis" title="Gordon Willis">Gordon Willis</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Brownlow" title="Kevin Brownlow">Kevin Brownlow</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard" title="Jean-Luc Godard">Jean-Luc Godard</a> / <a href="/wiki/Eli_Wallach" title="Eli Wallach">Eli Wallach</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Earl_Jones" title="James Earl Jones">James Earl Jones</a> / <a href="/wiki/Dick_Smith_(make-up_artist)" title="Dick Smith (make-up artist)">Dick Smith</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Pennebaker" title="D. A. Pennebaker">D. A. Pennebaker</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hal_Needham" title="Hal Needham">Hal Needham</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Stevens_Jr." title="George Stevens Jr.">George Stevens Jr.</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Lansbury" title="Angela Lansbury">Angela Lansbury</a> / <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Piero_Tosi" title="Piero Tosi">Piero Tosi</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Carri%C3%A8re" title="Jean-Claude Carrière">Jean-Claude Carrière</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki" title="Hayao Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a> / <a href="/wiki/Maureen_O%27Hara" title="Maureen O'Hara">Maureen O'Hara</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gena_Rowlands" title="Gena Rowlands">Gena Rowlands</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Chan" title="Jackie Chan">Jackie Chan</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Stalmaster" title="Lynn Stalmaster">Lynn Stalmaster</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anne_V._Coates" title="Anne V. 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