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- Birth nameAlfred John Goulding
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Australian-born Alf Goulding was a former vaudevillian who became a director specializing in comedy shorts. He directed Harold Lloyd comedies for Hal Roach, and in the early 1920s joined Mack Sennett, then turned out two-reelers at RKO and Columbia, sometimes featuring Edgar Kennedy. In England after World War II, he directed a slew of "quota quickies", low-budget films made to fulfill a government requirement that a certain percentage of films shown in England be produced in England. He was a close friend of Stan Laurel, and directed one of Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best features, A Chump at Oxford (1940).
- IMDb mini biography by: A. Nonymous
- SpousesBetty Saunders(1952 - April 25, 1972) (his death)Diana Seaby(July 1934 - April 25, 1941) (divorced, 1 child)Audrey H Faught(December 8, 1925 - 1933) (divorced, 3 children)Hazel Marcella O'Brien(June 20, 1920 - 1925) (divorced)Gladys Watson(October 29, 1911 - April 19, 1920) (divorced, 1 child)
- Father of Alf Goulding Jr..
- Father with Marcella Desmond of daughter Aldra born 1926.
- Having originally introduced Stan Laurel to Hal Roach in 1918 Alfred returned to America especially to direct this film.
- It was probably due to the English setting that there were a number of English actors in the film along with Stan.These being Peter Cushing ,Charley Hall, James Finlayson and Forrester Harvey.
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