Charlie Hall
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
207
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-08-18
Day of death
1959-12-07 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Charlie Hall
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
Cheyenne
No Hiding Place
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Million Dollar Legs
Wild Babies!
College
Our Relations
Mike Fright
Thundering Fleas
Busy Bodies
The Abbott and Costello Show
Sneak Easily
Bachelor Mother
Framing Father
Morning Glory
King Kong
Duck Soup
The Lodger
Wrong Again
Kentucky Kernels
Bonnie Scotland
Below Zero
Limelight
Air Fright
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Blotto
Bear Shooters
The Falcon Takes Over
The Pip from Pittsburg
In Society
The Milkman
Berth Marks
Be Big!
Honeymoon Lodge
Niagara Falls
Boxing Gloves
Angora Love
Two Tars
Hellzapoppin'
Topper
Bacon Grabbers
Diplomaniacs
Unfriendly Enemies
Movie Night
Dollar Dizzy
Twice Two
Curtain Call
Illegal
Mr. Bride
Shall We Dance
Love Pains
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Leaping Love
Saps at Sea
Sealskins
Hot Money
Fluttering Hearts
Twin Triplets
Without Reservations
Radio Rampage
Laughing Gravy
The Big Street
Cynara
Captain Swagger
What Fur
Sweepstakes
Rough Necking
Pack Up Your Troubles
A Chump at Oxford
What Price Hollywood?
Sugar Daddies
Sons of the Desert
Five Came Back
Primrose Path
The Battle of the Century
The Midnight Patrol
Dance of the Cookoos
Bridal Bail
Mighty Like a Moose
Millionaires in Prison
The Second 100 Years
The Second 100 Years
That's My Wife
Leave 'Em Laughing
Postage Due
The Music Box
Cockeyed Cavaliers
One Night in the Tropics
Me and My Pal
Come Clean
With Love and Hisses
Too Many Women
Ocean Swells
On Stage Everybody
The Kick-Off!
Top Hat
Should Married Men Go Home?
Double Whoopee
An All American Toothache
Men O' War
Dressed to Kill
Maid in Hollywood
Babes in Toyland
Show Business
Mexican Spitfire
One Track Minds
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Seeing the World
One-Horse Farmers
Let's Go Native
Haunted at Midnight
Sister Kenny
Mexican Spitfire Out West
A Pair of Tights
An Apple in His Eye
In Love at 40
Soup and Fish
Beauty and the Bus
Hey! Hey! USA
Maids a la Mode
On the Loose
A Ten-Minute Egg
A Quiet Fourth
A Trailer Tragedy
Men of the North
So's Your Uncle
Zeb vs. Paprika
Night of Goblins
Fifty Million Husbands
Abie's Irish Rose
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Nature in the Wrong
The Real McCoy
His Butler's Sister
Any Old Port!
Came the Dawn
Keg o' My Heart
Let's Do Things
I'll Fix It
Bromo and Juliet
Tit for Tat
The Night Life
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Them Thar Hills
You're Darn Tootin'
The Undie-World
Rhapsody in Brew
Love on a Ladder
Vigil in the Night
You Can't Fool Your Wife
One of the Smiths
The Fighting Parson
Eve's Love Letters
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Isn't Life Terrible?
The Panic Is On
Mama Loves Papa
Skirt Shy
The Live Ghost
The Ape Man
Father Steps Out
Call of the Cuckoo
The Hoose-Gow
The Druggist's Dilemma
Another Wild Idea
Opened by Mistake
Forgotten Sweeties
Love 'Em and Weep
Thicker Than Water
Only Saps Work
The Janitor
Captain Fury
Girls! Girls! Girls!
The Cowboy Sheik
Playing at Politics
Man About Town
Babes in the Goods
They Go Boom!
The Pajama Party
Do Me a Favor
Shivering and Shaking
Little Mother
Strictly Unreliable
Laurel & Hardy: Year One
San Antonio Rose
Hi, Beautiful
Hi'–Neighbor!
A Slip at the Switch
Madame Sans Jane
War Mamas
The Soilers
Man From Headquarters
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
The Chiselers
Hold Your Temper
The Skulls
Mother's Joy
Smithy
So You Want to Play the Piano
Sing Sister Sing
Near Dublin
Snappy Sneezer
Backs to Nature
Must We Marry?
Los cazadores de osos
Treasure Blues
