Alfred J. Goulding
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Alfred John Goulding
- Born:
- 1884-01-26, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Died:
- 1972-04-25, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
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).
