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 (1939). IMDb Mini Biography By: A.
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