Laurel and Hardy and Jesus

I was at a most enjoyable Laurel and Hardy day yesterday here in Birmingham at the MAC. I noticed on repeated films that the cinematographer was one George Stevens. Could it be the same George Stevens who over thirty years later directed The Greatest Story Ever Told? I looked it up on the IMDb and indeed it was. It seems that he did the cinematography on a run of Laurel and Hardy shorts from 1927 to 1930.