Alan Hale

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

134

Movies

174

Born: February 9, 1892 – January 22, 1950
From: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be an opera singer and also had success as an inventor. Among his innovations were a sliding theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips. His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. He played "Little John" in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring in a pivotal confrontation with the Earl of Essex, portrayed by Flynn. His other films include the 1922 epic The Trap with Lon Chaney, 1928's Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; all released in 1934; the 1937 film Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Fighting 69th with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien; They Drive By Night with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; Virginia City with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the 1943 movie This Is the Army with Irving Berlin. He also co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the successful western film Dodge City (1939) where he played the slightly dimwitted but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies. Hale directed eight movies during the 1920s and 1930s and acted in 235 theatrical films.

Works

174 films

The Adventures of Robin Hood

19387.5

It Happened One Night

19347.8

The Sea Hawk

19407.2

One Hour

19172.0

Susan Lenox

19316.1

Robin Hood

19226.4

Dodge City

19396.9

Night and Day

19466.1

Santa Fe Trail

19405.8

Adventures of Don Juan

19486.8

Of Human Bondage

19346.5

The Prince and the Pauper

19376.8

Action in the North Atlantic

19437.1

The Lost Patrol

19346.5

Colt .45

19506.6

The Cop

19286.7

The Man I Love

19466.1

The Man in the Iron Mask

19397.1

Destination Tokyo

19436.9

The Inspector General

19496.6

Imitation of Life

19347.0

Vanity

192710.0

The Adventures of Marco Polo

19386.2

Dora Thorne

1915

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

19216.6

Rolling Stones

1916

Stella Dallas

19376.8

The Beast

1916

This Is the Army

19435.7

Pursued

19476.5

They Drive by Night

19406.9

The Good Fairy

19357.1

The Adventures of Mark Twain

19447.0

God Is My Co-Pilot

19457.1

Broadway Bill

19346.0

The Crusades

19356.4

Power

19288.0

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

20057.7

Virginia City

19406.3

Algiers

19386.4

The Fighting 69th

19405.8

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

19396.3

Hollywood Canteen

19447.3

Gentleman Jim

19427.2

Stars in My Crown

19507.0

The Strawberry Blonde

19417.0

Manpower

19416.5

Green Hell

19404.5

Desperate Journey

19426.1

Parole!

19367.0

The Little Minister

19345.8

So Big!

19325.7

Four Men and a Prayer

19386.5

South of St. Louis

19495.8

The Last Days of Pompeii

19355.8

Whiplash

19485.0

Cheyenne

19477.0

The Americano

19158.0

Our Relations

19367.0

Valley of the Giants

19386.7

Oh Kay!

19287.0

Thank Your Lucky Stars

19436.2

Dust Be My Destiny

19396.5

The Trap

19225.8

There's Always Tomorrow

19348.0

The Great Mr. Nobody

19416.0

The Night Angel

19314.9

For Another Woman

19247.0

Juke Girl

19427.2

Listen, Darling

19386.7

The Sisters

19386.0

My Wild Irish Rose

19476.0

Make Your Own Bed

19446.0

Jump for Glory

19375.7

Showbiz Goes to War

198210.0

A Doll's House

192210.0

My Girl Tisa

19489.0

Breakdowns of 1937

19376.0

Hotel Berlin

19456.2

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

19315.9

Hollywood

19239.0

Black Oxen

19235.8

Hollywood Extra Girl

19357.5

A Message to Garcia

19365.0

Alice in Movieland

19406.4

Always Leave Them Laughing

19494.4

Red Hot Rhythm

19299.0

Union Depot

19326.1

Great Expectations

19347.0

The Younger Brothers

19497.5

Strongheart

19145.0

One Night in Rome

19246.0

That Way with Women

19476.7

Music for Madame

19376.3

Janie

19446.0

Little Man, What Now?

19346.3

The Leopard Lady

19287.0

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

19406.0

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

19505.3

The Sea Ghost

19315.7

Thin Ice

19376.8

Another Face

19354.8

The Eleventh Hour

19237.0

Skyscraper

19285.8

Captains of the Clouds

19426.4

Shirley of the Circus

19229.0

The Match King

19326.7

Footsteps in the Dark

19417.0

Pacific Liner

19395.5

The Leatherneck

19295.7

Grand Old Girl

19357.0

Fog Over Frisco

19346.4

Thieves Fall Out

19416.0

Sal of Singapore

19285.7

The Time, The Place and The Girl

19465.7

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

19688.0

The Fox

19219.0

Dick Turpin

19255.8

The Woman in Black

19145.0

Glued

1912

High, Wide and Handsome

19376.2

The Spieler

19287.8

The Covered Wagon

19236.4

Over the Wire

1921

Picture Brides

19345.1

Quicksands

19237.0

Cameo Kirby

19236.0

On Your Toes

19394.5

The House Across the Street

19494.8

The Little Widow

1914

God's Country and the Woman

19375.2

The Smiling Ghost

19416.7

Roughly Speaking

19456.8

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

193210.0

Two in the Dark

19366.1

The Scarlet Oath

1916

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

19346.0

Long Live the King

19237.0

Dick's Turning

19139.0

Yellowstone

19365.3

Three Cheers for the Irish

19407.0

Escape in the Desert

19459.0

Troubles of a Bride

19248.0

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

A Wise Fool

19219.0

Destination Unknown

19337.0

Main Street

19236.0

The Americano

19165.8

The Eleventh Commandment

19338.0

The Sap

192910.0

Babbitt

19346.3

The Country Beyond

19367.0

The Price She Paid

1917

The Great Impersonation

19217.0

Perilous Holiday

19468.0

Sailor's Holiday

19296.1

The Dictator

19228.0

Aloha

19318.0

One Glorious Day

19229.0

The Wreck of the Hesperus

192710.0

A Voice in the Dark

19218.0

Moral Suicide

19181.0

Pudd'nhead Wilson

1916

Woman Against Woman

191410.0

She Got What She Wanted

193010.0

The Power of the Press

1914

The Barbarian

192110.0

Life's Whirlpool

1917

By Man's Law

1913

The Love Thief

1916

The Eternal Temptress

1917

East Lynne

1915

Sold Out

19168.0

What Price Decency

19333.0