A complete cast listing for the movie can be found at the Internet Movie Database (listed in our links section). However, many familiar L&H actors/actresses appeared in Way Out West, some of them unbilled. They are worth noting here.
Click here to read our tribute to one of Laurel & Hardy's most ubiquitous and scowling villains.
Oakland was a supporting actress in several Laurel & Hardy shorts, perhaps most memorably as the judge's wife whom Stan and Ollie inadvertently get drunk in Scram! (1932).
Lawrence is best known to Hal Roach aficionados as Miss Jones, the teacher of Our Gang (a/k/a The Little Rascals). She also co-starred in the Charley Chase short On the Wrong Trek (1936) and the Roach musical Pick a Star (1937), both of which featured cameo appearances from Laurel & Hardy. The widowed Lawrence met L&H biographer John McCabe at a Sons of the Desert convention and married him in 1987, a union that lasted until her death ten years later.
Frequent supporting actor for Laurel & Hardy (he also appeared as a bartender in Our Relations), as well as The Three Stooges and W.C. Fields. Morton played a harried instructor trying to help Ollie get his driver's license in the live L&H stage show The Laurel & Hardy Revue.
Appeared with The Boys as their assertive landlady in Bonnie Scotland and as a fellow apartment dweller in Saps at Sea.
Supporting actor in several L&H films, usually as a bartender or a police officer. Addressed by his actual name in Any Old Port (1932).
Though Dinah's only other L&H film appearance was in Swiss Miss (1938), she was no stranger to the Hal Roach Studios. Click here for her complete filmography.
Vetoed Villains
Two members of Laurel & Hardy's "stock company" were hired to be in the film but did not make it to the final version. Rychard Cramer's scenes as a sneering villain were deleted. And veteran Tiny Sandford was originally hired to play the sheriff but was replaced by Stanley Fields shortly after shooting began.
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