Alfred J. Goulding(1884-1972)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
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).
