Jack Hill

Nacimiento : 1887-09-12, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Muerte : 1963-11-22

Historia

Jack Hill was an American actor who appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies.

Películas

Marinos a la fuerza
Man Beneath Auto
El malogrado Oliver trabaja desde hace tiempo en una factoría de bocinas. Tal trabajo le está costando la salud, ya que padece una extraña excitación que se convierte en delirio cada vez que suena, junto a sus oídos, una trompa o algo parecido. El médico que ha visitado para acabar con su afección le ha recomendado dos cosas: realizar un viaje largo para relajar los nervios y beber leche de cabra para mejorar su estado. Al conocer el estado de Oliver, su inseparable amigo, Stan le comenta que no es necesario realizar una gran travesía para disfrutar del aire marino, y le propone alquilar una pequeña embarcación del muelle. Oli acepta y Stan consigue una cochambrosa barca por cuatro cuartos. Junto a la pareja de amigos, viajan una entrañable cabra que le proporcionará leche a Oliver y un inesperado polizonte, un peligroso asesino que se acaba de fugar de la cárcel
The Heckler
Baseball Spectator
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Mooching Through Georgia
as Soldier
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
General Spanky
Bit
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Stolen Harmony
Cop (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Ojo por Ojo
Passerby
Stan y Ollie han abierto su propia tienda de electrodomésticos pero, por desgracia para ellos, la tienda de comestibles de al lado está a cargo del hombre y la mujer que conocieron en "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan y Ollie van de visita para ofrecerle la mano de la amistad, pero el tendero nuevamente se convence de que Ollie y su esposa están bromeando.
Babes in the Goods
Spectator (uncredited)
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
Dos entrometidos
Shop Worker (uncredited)
Stan y Ollie trabajan en un aserradero. Pero debido a su incompetencia deben acabar huyendo del iracundo capataz.
Crook's Tour
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
A short film from Hal Roach Studios' All-Star series.
Beauty and the Bus
Pedestrian (uncredited)
The girls win a car in a raffle.
Asleep in the Feet
Dance Hall Patron (uncredited)
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
En cada puerto un terror
Spectator
Ya en puerto, tras una expedición ballenera, Stan y Ollie se hospedan en un hotelucho en el que salvan a una chica de tener que casarse con el rudo propietario del lugar. En su huida, olvidan el dinero ganado. Pronto, Stan se ve convertido en boxeador para conseguir de nuevo dinero.
On the Loose
Fun House Worker (uncredited)
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
The Stolen Jools
Policeman
Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Be Big!
Railway Station Passerby
Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
Below Zero
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
La vida nocturna
Bit Part (uncredited)
Stan le miente a su esposa acerca de ir a un club nocturno con Ollie, pero la Sra. Laurel escucha el complot y los engaña a ambos.
The Big Kick
Minor Role (uncredited)
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted fellow with a cheery and spunky girlfriend. A shootout between treasury agents and the gang - they transport the hooch in manikins seated in a touring car - takes place in front of Harry's filling station. While Harry's gal stays outside, Harry carries the liquor-filled dummies into the station. Will there be a reward for the heroics of Harry and his honey?
Blotto
Man in Rainbow Club
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
Cat, Dog & Co.
Pedestrian
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
Leaping Love
Reporter (uncredited)
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Railroadin'
Grocery truck driver
The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
Wrong Again
Man on buckboard
Los mozos de cuadra Stan y Ollie cuidan un pura sangre llamado "Blue Boy". Pero cuando escuchan a dos hombres hablar sobre una recompensa de $ 5000 por la devolución del "Blue Boy" robado, se pierden la parte de que es la pintura, no el caballo. Llevan el caballo a la casa del dueño para reclamar la recompensa. El propietario les indica que pongan "Blue Boy" en el piano y Ollie explica que "estos millonarios son peculiares".
Liberty
Officer
Mientras se cambiaban de ropa en un auto de fuga, los convictos fugados Stan y Ollie se pusieron los pantalones por error. Pasan el resto de la película tratando de intercambiar pantalones en varios escenarios poco probables.
Election Day
Gangster
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
Their Purple Moment
Doorman / Patron (uncredited)
The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
La Batalla del Siglo
Ringside spectator (uncredited)
El gerente de pelea contrata una póliza de seguro para su pugilista insignificante y luego procede a tratar de arreglar un accidente para que pueda cobrar.
Putting Pants on Philip
Extra
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
Sugar Daddies
Hotel extra
James Finlayson es un rico hombre de negocios que un día se despierta sin recordar que se ha casado la noche anterior. Su abogado (Laurel) y el mayordomo (Hardy) tratarán de ayudarle a salir de esta situación.
The Glorious Fourth
Man With Monocle
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
The Fighting Demon
Professor
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.