Hollywood was the new frontier in 1914. With the film industry in its growing stages, even a former mule skinner by the name of Hal Roach could quickly become a major player. Roach arrived in ...

Hal Roach, who held forth on piano at Eli’s The Place for Steak for 36 years, was as smooth as the jazz he played. In 1994, President Bill Clinton, fresh off a fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton ...

The King of Blarney” is dead. Irish comic Hal Roach, who entertained audiences for more than 60 years, died on Feb. 28 at the age of 84, according to Irish Central, the online home of Irish ...

Harold “Hal” Roach was an Elmira boy, born the son of Charles and Mabel Roach, of Columbia Street, on Jan. 14, 1892. Although others called him “Hal,” his mother called him “Harry.” ...

HOLLYWOOD — Movie producer Hal Roach, who teamed Laurel with Hardy and turned a talented yet unaffected group of child actors into “Our Gang” during a career that spanned silent one-reelers ...

The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator’s Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of ...

Richard DeNeut, who appeared in Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” comedies but eventually became West Coast bureau chief for Globe Photos, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday ...

No matter where he was, he was never there. It turned out that little Hal Roach was one of the finest potential world champions this country ever produced. What finished his career was his eyesight.