Charlie Hall

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

126

Movies

205

Born: August 18, 1899 – December 7, 1959
From: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

Biography

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.

Works

205 films

King Kong

19337.6

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

19397.3

Limelight

19527.9

Top Hat

19357.3

Babes in Toyland

19346.3

Bonnie Scotland

19356.6

Playing at Politics

19317.0

The Chiselers

19316.8

Bacon Grabbers

19296.4

Dressed to Kill

19466.6

Mama Loves Papa

19319.5

The Lodger

19446.5

Sons of the Desert

19337.1

Eve's Love Letters

19276.6

Fluttering Hearts

19275.6

Cockeyed Cavaliers

19345.8

Do Me a Favor

19226.0

Hellzapoppin'

19417.2

Two Tars

19286.8

Shall We Dance

19377.3

Angora Love

19296.5

Saps at Sea

19406.8

Morning Glory

19336.2

Them Thar Hills

19347.5

The Big Street

19425.8

Radio Rampage

194410.0

Laughing Gravy

19317.2

Pack Up Your Troubles

19326.8

Unfriendly Enemies

19256.5

Diplomaniacs

19337.5

Sugar Daddies

19276.0

Sister Kenny

19466.9

Illegal

19556.5

Tit for Tat

19356.9

Without Reservations

19466.2

A Chump at Oxford

19406.9

What Price Hollywood?

19326.8

One Night in the Tropics

19405.8

Police Bullets

19427.0

Skirt Shy

19294.5

Movie Night

19296.7

The Battle of the Century

19276.9

Captain Swagger

19287.0

So You Want to Play the Piano

19566.3

What Fur

19338.0

Double Whoopee

19296.8

The Hoose-Gow

19296.7

Shivering and Shaking

19306.9

The Midnight Patrol

19336.6

Million Dollar Legs

19326.8

Our Relations

19367.0

Primrose Path

19406.7

So's Your Uncle

19436.0

The Falcon Takes Over

19426.3

Man From Headquarters

19426.3

College

19276.7

In Society

19445.8

Sweepstakes

19315.7

Love on a Ladder

19343.7

Come Clean

19317.2

The Fighting Parson

19307.0

Father Steps Out

19416.5

Big Business

19296.6

Opened by Mistake

19348.0

Isn't Life Terrible?

19256.1

The Skulls

19316.2

Below Zero

19306.6

Bachelor Mother

19397.2

Should Married Men Go Home?

19286.5

Abie's Irish Rose

19467.0

Maid in Hollywood

19349.0

Twice Two

19336.7

Captain Fury

19395.6

They Go Boom!

19296.9

You Can't Fool Your Wife

19405.5

You're Darn Tootin'

19285.8

Wrong Again

19296.8

The Music Box

19327.5

Came the Dawn

19287.8

The Live Ghost

19347.2

Madame Sans Jane

19254.3

Kentucky Kernels

19346.4

Men O' War

19296.8

Thicker Than Water

19357.3

Call of the Cuckoo

19275.8

Berth Marks

19296.8

His Butler's Sister

19437.2

The Pajama Party

19317.0

Five Came Back

19396.3

The Janitor

19217.0

Zeb vs. Paprika

19245.8

Curtain Call

19407.3

The Milkman

19507.0

Ocean Swells

19348.0

Millionaires in Prison

19406.1

I'll Fix It

194110.0

The Night Life

19307.5

Leaping Love

19299.0

Duck Soup

19276.4

One of the Smiths

19318.0

The Cowboy Sheik

19246.5

Any Old Port!

19327.0

Vigil in the Night

19405.9

On the Loose

19316.8

Cynara

19325.1

Only Saps Work

19306.0

A Slip at the Switch

1932

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

19688.0

The Second 100 Years

19276.3

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

202410.0

Hey! Hey! USA

19387.2

On Stage Everybody

19458.0

Another Wild Idea

19344.4

Top Sergeant Mulligan

19416.5

The Real McCoy

19306.4

Hold Your Temper

1933

Mother's Joy

19235.7

One Track Minds

19337.0

The Kick-Off!

19314.5

Rhapsody in Brew

19339.0

Man About Town

19394.5

Hi'–Neighbor!

19347.5

A Pair of Tights

19297.8

Blotto

19307.2

Be Big!

19316.8

Let's Do Things

19318.0

The Undie-World

19349.5

With Love and Hisses

19276.1

Keg o' My Heart

1933

The Pip from Pittsburg

19316.6

Mexican Spitfire Out West

19405.0

Busy Bodies

19337.3

That's My Wife

19296.6

Night of Goblins

19306.1

Honeymoon Lodge

19436.5

Next Week-End

19349.0

Leave 'Em Laughing

19286.0

Are Brunettes Safe?

19278.0

Just a Pain in the Parlor

19325.5

Soup and Fish

193410.0

Must We Marry?

19288.0

Bridal Bail

19343.0

Crooks Can't Win

192810.0

Niagara Falls

19416.7

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

19414.6

Love Pains

19329.0

Haunted at Midnight

19318.0

San Antonio Rose

19417.0

Postage Due

19246.3

Wild Babies!

19324.5

Too Many Women

19328.0

Seeing the World

19277.1

Me and My Pal

19336.5

War Mamas

19318.0

Mike Fright

19346.1

One-Horse Farmers

19348.0

Love 'Em and Weep

19275.7

Bear Shooters

19305.6

Scratch-As-Catch-Can

19316.0

Mr. Bride

19325.8

The Panic Is On

19313.7

The Ape Man

19434.4

Treasure Blues

19359.0

Maids a la Mode

19333.7

Mighty Like a Moose

19266.8

Girls! Girls! Girls!

19447.0

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

19677.0

Hi, Beautiful

19449.8

Men of the North

19305.7

Hot Money

193510.0

Little Mother

19296.8

Bromo and Juliet

19265.8

Thundering Fleas

19266.0

Babes in the Goods

19348.0

Mexican Spitfire

19405.0

An All American Toothache

19368.0

Smithy

19245.8

Boxing Gloves

19296.2

The Soilers

19326.8

Sneak Easily

19328.0

Forgotten Sweeties

19275.3

Let's Go Native

19307.7

Strictly Unreliable

19326.0

Sealskins

19326.7

Sing Sister Sing

19357.3

In Love at 40

19357.0

Twin Triplets

19358.0

Beauty and the Bus

19338.0

Fifty Million Husbands

19305.6

Near Dublin

19246.7

Air Fright

19336.3

A Ten-Minute Egg

19246.0

Show Business

19326.5

Framing Father

19428.0

Backs to Nature

19336.3

Dollar Dizzy

19306.8

Dance of the Cookoos

198210.0

Snappy Sneezer

19296.8

Rough Necking

193410.0

An Apple in His Eye

19419.0

A Trailer Tragedy

19407.0

A Quiet Fourth

19418.0

Los cazadores de osos

1930

Nature in the Wrong

19336.5

The Druggist's Dilemma

19337.0