Name
Charlie Hall
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1899-08-18
Deathday
1959-12-07 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by...
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Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation....
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Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the moth...
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Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard...
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Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay of...
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The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in ...
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The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends...
- 1929 Leaping Love as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
- 1933 Hold Your Temper
- 1942 Framing Father as Silver Slipper Waiter
- 1946 Without Reservations as Window-Washer (uncredited)
- 1925 Madame Sans Jane as Steward
- 1925 Unfriendly Enemies as First Soldier Over the Top
- 1927 Forgotten Sweeties
- 1933 The Midnight Patrol as Tire thief's partner
- 1927 Sugar Daddies as Hotel extra
- 1931 One of the Smiths as Dancer (uncredited)
- 1931 Be Big! as Bellboy (uncredited)
- 1929 Double Whoopee as Cabdriver
- 1928 Leave 'Em Laughing as The Landlord
- 1927 Fluttering Hearts as Man under car
- 1934 The Live Ghost as Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall) (uncredited)
- 1927 The Second 100 Years as Convict
- 1934 Them Thar Hills as Mr. Hall
- 1935 Tit for Tat as Mr. Hall
- 1929 They Go Boom! as Landlord
- 1926 Thundering Fleas as Musician
- 1946 Dressed to Kill as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- 1952 Limelight as Newsboy (uncredited)
- 1950 The Milkman as Ed (uncredited)
- 1933 Morning Glory as Actor (uncredited)
- 1956 So You Want to Play the Piano
- 1941 San Antonio Rose as Waitress
- 1926 Mighty Like a Moose as Shoe Shine Man
- 1929 Boxing Gloves as Sidewalk diner attendant
- 1925 Isn't Life Terrible? as Steward Who Drops Plates
- 1933 Nature in the Wrong as Organ Grinder
- 1967 The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
- 1932 A Slip at the Switch as Second Tramp
- 1932 Just a Pain in the Parlor as Servant
- 1927 Seeing the World as English chauffeur
- 1929 Little Mother as Taxi driver
- 1955 Illegal as Bellhop (uncredited)
- 1935 Top Hat as (uncredited)
- 1942 Man From Headquarters as Newspaper Photographer
- 1944 The Lodger as Comedian
- 1938 Hey! Hey! USA as Leary's pal
- 1943 The Ape Man as Barney
- 1930 Bear Shooters as Charlie
- 1932 Show Business as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- 1932 Sealskins as Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
- 1929 A Pair of Tights as Man in Fender-Bender (uncredited)
- 1929 Movie Night as Audience Member (uncredited)
- 1923 Mother's Joy
- 1935 Sing Sister Sing as Porter (uncredited)
- 1934 Soup and Fish as Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
- 1930 The Real McCoy as Mountain Man (uncredited)
- 1928 Came the Dawn as Little Moving Man (uncredited)
- 1924 Near Dublin as Villager
- 1930 Dollar Dizzy as Bellhop
- 1935 Hot Money as Tenant (uncredited)
- 1934 One-Horse Farmers as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- 1934 Opened by Mistake as Intern (uncredited)
- 1933 Maids a la Mode as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1924 Smithy as Worker
- 1924 Postage Due as Customer
- 1930 Below Zero
- 1933 Backs to Nature as Hunter (uncredited)
- 1930 The Fighting Parson as The Waiter (uncredited)
- 1932 The Music Box as Postman (uncredited)
- 1929 Skirt Shy as Postman (uncredited)
- 1927 Call of the Cuckoo as Asylum Inmate
- 1931 War Mamas as Doughboy (uncredited)
- 1932 Strictly Unreliable as The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
- 1935 Twin Triplets as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
- 1935 Treasure Blues as Moving Man (uncredited)
- 1932 The Soilers as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- 1931 The Pajama Party as Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1933 One Track Minds as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- 1936 An All American Toothache as (uncredited)
- 1931 Let's Do Things as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1932 Sneak Easily as Page
- 1934 Maid in Hollywood as Cameraman (uncredited)
- 1934 Babes in the Goods as Spectator (uncredited)
- 1931 On the Loose as Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
- 1933 Air Fright as Pilot (uncredited)
- 1933 Beauty and the Bus as Theatre Usher (uncredited)
- 1931 Sweepstakes as Little Cook
- 1946 Abie's Irish Rose as Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
- 1933 Busy Bodies as Shop Worker (uncredited)
- 1929 Berth Marks as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- 1934 Kentucky Kernels as Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
- 1931 The Skulls as The Landlord
- 1931 The Chiselers as Bellboy / Landlord
- 1933 Me and My Pal as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1929 Men O' War as Boater (uncredited)
- 1931 Laughing Gravy as Landlord (uncredited)
- 1936 Our Relations as Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
- 1933 Sons of the Desert as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1931 Playing at Politics as Elevator Operator
- 1932 Pack Up Your Troubles as Janitor (uncredited)
- 1930 Shivering and Shaking as Street Cleaner (uncredited)
- 1935 Thicker Than Water as Bank Teller (uncredited)
- 1933 Twice Two as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1940 Saps at Sea as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- 1929 The Hoose-Gow as Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
- 1931 Scratch-As-Catch-Can
- 1934 Ocean Swells as Sailor
- 1939 Five Came Back as Airport Worker (uncredited)
- 1939 Bachelor Mother as Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
- 1939 Man About Town as Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
- 1931 The Pip from Pittsburg as Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
- 1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Mercury (uncredited)
- 1924 The Cowboy Sheik as Party guest
- 1946 Sister Kenny as Airport Attendant (uncredited)
- 1929 Angora Love as Neighbor
- 1941 Niagara Falls as Bellhop (uncredited)
- 1934 Babes in Toyland as Townsman (uncredited)
- 1927 Love 'Em and Weep as Tillsbury's Butler
- 1929 Bacon Grabbers as Truck Driver
- 1929 That's My Wife as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1927 Duck Soup as Moving man (uncredited)
- 1927 The Battle of the Century as Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
- 1930 The Night Life as Cabdriver (uncredited)
- 1927 With Love and Hisses as Soldier (uncredited)
- 1929 Wrong Again as Neighbor
- 1928 Should Married Men Go Home? as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
- 1927 The Second 100 Years as Convict (uncredited)
- 1928 You're Darn Tootin' as Musician
- 1935 Bonnie Scotland as Native Henchman (uncredited)
- 1940 Vigil in the Night as Courtroom Spectator
- 1940 Mexican Spitfire as Elevator Operator
- 1927 Eve's Love Letters as Cab driver (uncredited)
- 1927 College as Coxswain (uncredited)
- 1930 Blotto as Cabdriver
- 1924 A Ten-Minute Egg as First Bellhop (uncredited)
- 1931 Come Clean as Ice Cream Attendant
- 1931 The Panic Is On as Man on the Street (uncredited)
- 1941 Top Sergeant Mulligan as Budd Doolittle
- 1934 Rough Necking as Postman
- 1934 Cockeyed Cavaliers as Coach Driver
- 1933 Rhapsody in Brew as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1932 Wild Babies! as Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
- 1931 The Kick-Off! as Man on the Street (uncredited)
- 1932 Too Many Women as Man on Street (uncredited)
- 1940 A Chump at Oxford as Student
- 1932 Any Old Port! as Stan's Second (uncredited)
- 1932 Love Pains as Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1931 Mama Loves Papa as Milkman (uncredited)
- 1933 Keg o' My Heart as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1940 One Night in the Tropics as Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
- 1930 Fifty Million Husbands as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1968 The Best of Laurel and Hardy as Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1941 An Apple in His Eye as Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
- 1940 Primrose Path as Man in Diner (uncredited)
- 1940 Millionaires in Prison as Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
- 1928 Captain Swagger as Messenger
- 1933 The Druggist's Dilemma as Charlie Zeno
- 1935 In Love at 40 as Man Getting Shave
- 1933 Diplomaniacs as Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
- 1932 Cynara as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- 1929 Snappy Sneezer as Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
- 1937 Shall We Dance as Bartender (uncredited)
- 1939 Captain Fury as Gossiping Citizen
- 1934 Another Wild Idea as Man Pushed into Fountain
- 1932 Mr. Bride as Tipsy Ship Passenger
- 1941 I'll Fix It as The Laundry Man
- 1926 Bromo and Juliet as Stagehand (uncredited)
- 1940 You Can't Fool Your Wife as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
- 1940 Curtain Call as Second Waiter
- 1941 Father Steps Out as Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
- 1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West as Elevator Boy
- 1941 The Mexican Spitfire's Baby as Nightclub Waiter
- 1934 Bridal Bail as Irate Movie Patron
- 1934 Love on a Ladder as Pool Hall Patron
- 1934 The Undie-World as T.N.T. Room Busboy
- 1941 A Quiet Fourth as Edgar's Neighbor
- 1932 Million Dollar Legs as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
- 1940 A Trailer Tragedy as Homeless Thief in Washroom
- 1930 Night of Goblins as Passenger
- 1931 Haunted at Midnight as Man on Train
- 1943 So's Your Uncle as Waiter
- 1943 His Butler's Sister as Porter
- 1943 Honeymoon Lodge as Hotel Handyman
- 1944 Girls! Girls! Girls! as Apartment House Waiter
- 1944 Radio Rampage as Jack - Radio Repairman
- 1928 Two Tars as Shopkeeper
- 1941 Hellzapoppin' as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- 1933 King Kong as Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
- 1944 In Society as Mugg (uncredited)
- 1945 On Stage Everybody as Painter (uncredited)
- 1922 Do Me a Favor as A Fireman
- 1942 The Falcon Takes Over as Louie (Uncredited)
- 1982 Dance of the Cookoos as Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
- 1924 Zeb vs. Paprika
- 1921 The Janitor
- 1942 The Big Street as Waiter in New York (uncredited)
- 1933 What Fur
- 1934 Hi'–Neighbor! as Window Washer
- 1934 Mike Fright as Elevator Operator
- 1932 What Price Hollywood? as Reporter (uncredited)
- 1930 Only Saps Work as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1930 Men of the North as Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
- 2024 Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1944 Hi, Beautiful as Milkman (uncredited)
- 1928 Must We Marry?
- 1930 Los cazadores de osos as Bootlegger
- 1928 Crooks Can't Win as 'Bull' Savage
- 1934 Next Week-End
- 1929 Big Business as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1942 Police Bullets as Rabbit
- 1927 Are Brunettes Safe? as Villager at Train Station (uncredited)
- 1941 They Met in Argentina as Sailor in Cantina Brawl (uncredited)
- 1930 Let's Go Native as Mover (uncredited)
- 1955 Cheyenne ( 1 episode ) as Kevin
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
- 1959 No Hiding Place ( 2 episodes )
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Jake - Roofer
- 1953 Topper ( 1 episode ) as Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
