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person_profile-Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall Died at age: 60

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Charlie Hall

Date of Birth:

Aug 18, 1899

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Dec 07, 1959

Biography of

Charlie Hall

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor. He is best known as the "Little Nemesis" of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films.

    Hall was born in Ward End, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends; Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe.

    As an actor, Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase, but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts, but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy films, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall (billed as "Charley" Hall in the Roach comedies) was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight English accent allowed him to be convincingly cast as a college student, despite being 40 years old, in Laurel and Hardy's A Chump at Oxford.

    Hall almost never played starring roles; the exception was in 1941, when he was teamed with character comedian Frank Faylen by Monogram Pictures. Hall continued to play bits and supporting roles in short subjects and features through the 1940s and 1950s, occasionally on TV, appearing very briefly in Charlie Chaplin's final American film, Limelight (1952).

    In 1956 he played a small but important part in the TV show Cheyenne, season 1, episode 11, "Quicksand", starring Clint Walker, with Dennis Hopper, John Alderson, Wright King and Peggy Webber. His last role was in a Joe McDoakes short film starring George O'Hanlon, So You Want to Play the Piano, in 1956.

    Hall died in North Hollywood, California, on 7 December 1959. A J D Wetherspoon's public house in Erdington, is named The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.

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Charlie Hall

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Filmography of

Charlie Hall

Found 63 Movies in total

... 1967

Illegal

Bellhop (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

Limelight

Newsboy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1952

The Milkman

Ed (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1950

Abie's Irish Rose

Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall) ( Actor )

... 1946

Sister Kenny

Airport Attendant (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Dressed to Kill

Cab Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

Without Reservations

Window-Washer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

On Stage Everybody

Painter (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

In Society

Mugg (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Lodger

Comedian ( Actor )

... 1944

His Butler's Sister

Porter ( Actor )

... 1943

So's Your Uncle

Waiter ( Actor )

... 1943

Honeymoon Lodge

Hotel Handyman ( Actor )

... 1943

The Ape Man

Barney ( Actor )

... 1943

The Big Street

Caviar Waiter in New York (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

The Falcon Takes Over

Louie (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Man From Headquarters

Newspaper Photographer ( Actor )

... 1942

Hellzapoppin'

Taxi Driver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Nightclub Waiter ( Actor )

... 1941

Niagara Falls

Bellhop (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

Top Sergeant Mulligan

Budd Doolittle ( Actor )

... 1941

Father Steps Out

Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon ( Actor )

... 1941

San Antonio Rose

Waitress ( Actor )

... 1941

One Night in the Tropics

Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Elevator Boy ( Actor )

... 1940

Millionaires in Prison

Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy ( Actor )

... 1940

Saps at Sea

Desk Clerk (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Curtain Call

Second Waiter ( Actor )

... 1940

Primrose Path

Man in Diner ( Actor )

... 1940

Vigil in the Night

Courtroom Spectator ( Actor )

... 1940

A Chump at Oxford

Student ( Actor )

... 1940

Mexican Spitfire

Elevator Operator ( Actor )

... 1940

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Mercury (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Bachelor Mother

Dance Hall Official (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Man About Town

Bob's Assistant (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Five Came Back

Airport Worker (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Captain Fury

Gossiping Citizen ( Actor )

... 1939

Hey! Hey! USA

Leary's pal ( Actor )

... 1938

Shall We Dance

Bartender (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Our Relations

Man in Pawnshop (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Top Hat

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Bonnie Scotland

Native Henchman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Babes in Toyland

Townsman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Kentucky Kernels

Cigarette Stand Owner ( Actor )

... 1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Coach Driver ( Actor )

... 1934

Sons of the Desert

Waiter (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Morning Glory

Actor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Diplomaniacs

Shaffner the Valet (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

King Kong

Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Cynara

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Pack Up Your Troubles

Janitor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Million Dollar Legs

Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Sweepstakes

Little Cook ( Actor )

... 1931

Playing at Politics

Elevator Operator ( Actor )

... 1931

The Skulls

The Landlord ( Actor )

... 1931

The Chiselers

Bellboy / Landlord ( Actor )

... 1931

Only Saps Work

Waiter (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Night of Goblins

Passenger ( Actor )

... 1930

Let's Go Native

Mover (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Captain Swagger

Messenger ( Actor )

... 1928

College

Coxswain (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1927