Alfred John "Alf" Goulding (January 26, 1885 – April 25, 1972) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film director and screenwriter.

[1] He was born on January 26, 1885, in Melbourne, Australia to Francis Thomas Goulding (1860–1940) and Margaret Davies Walsh.

Goulding came in for a lion's share of applause, and he certainly won it fairly in his comic pieces.

[8] According to Brent Walker, Goulding then travelled to Britain where he worked on stage with Stan Laurel, for several years, after which he returned to the US.

[13] Goulding directed one of Laurel and Hardy's final films at the Hal Roach Studios, A Chump at Oxford, released in 1940, and wrote and directed a wartime film made in Australia in 1942, A Yank in Australia, which was not a success.