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
The Abbott and Costello Show
Saps at Sea
Topper
Pack Up Your Troubles
Seeing the World
Thundering Fleas
Mighty Like a Moose
In Love at 40
In Society
The Druggist's Dilemma
Kentucky Kernels
College
His Butler's Sister
Our Relations
King Kong
Mike Fright
On Stage Everybody
The Milkman
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Millionaires in Prison
Primrose Path
Shall We Dance
Let's Go Native
The Lodger
Mexican Spitfire
Twice Two
Haunted at Midnight
Honeymoon Lodge
Too Many Women
Night of Goblins
An Apple in His Eye
Eve's Love Letters
The Music Box
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Should Married Men Go Home?
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Bear Shooters
Captain Fury
The Big Street
Below Zero
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hellzapoppin'
Illegal
Shivering and Shaking
Keg o' My Heart
The Panic Is On
Wrong Again
A Trailer Tragedy
Bachelor Mother
Framing Father
The Falcon Takes Over
Curtain Call
An All American Toothache
War Mamas
A Ten-Minute Egg
Limelight
Laurel & Hardy: Year One
Morning Glory
Me and My Pal
Them Thar Hills
The Kick-Off!
Sealskins
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Leaping Love
Wild Babies!
Another Wild Idea
Dollar Dizzy
The Real McCoy
The Undie-World
Sneak Easily
Nature in the Wrong
The Midnight Patrol
Bromo and Juliet
Five Came Back
Air Fright
Blotto
Hot Money
Dance of the Cookoos
What Price Hollywood?
The Ape Man
Soup and Fish
The Battle of the Century
Duck Soup
Fluttering Hearts
Fifty Million Husbands
Boxing Gloves
A Chump at Oxford
The Second 100 Years
The Second 100 Years
Bridal Bail
Berth Marks
One Track Minds
On the Loose
Dressed to Kill
The Night Life
Cynara
Abie's Irish Rose
A Pair of Tights
So's Your Uncle
Forgotten Sweeties
Strictly Unreliable
Man About Town
With Love and Hisses
The Chiselers
Men O' War
The Pajama Party
Rough Necking
Niagara Falls
Postage Due
Isn't Life Terrible?
Babes in Toyland
A Quiet Fourth
The Pip from Pittsburg
Without Reservations
Vigil in the Night
Sweepstakes
One-Horse Farmers
Movie Night
Unfriendly Enemies
Zeb vs. Paprika
Sing Sister Sing
Top Hat
Sister Kenny
Bacon Grabbers
Came the Dawn
Maid in Hollywood
Men of the North
Be Big!
I'll Fix It
Leave 'Em Laughing
That's My Wife
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Hi, Beautiful
Mr. Bride
Maids a la Mode
Beauty and the Bus
The Cowboy Sheik
The Skulls
Hey! Hey! USA
The Fighting Parson
Come Clean
Double Whoopee
Diplomaniacs
Any Old Port!
Show Business
Love Pains
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Sons of the Desert
Twin Triplets
Million Dollar Legs
Ocean Swells
Opened by Mistake
Do Me a Favor
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Bonnie Scotland
Mama Loves Papa
Captain Swagger
Call of the Cuckoo
Tit for Tat
One of the Smiths
You're Darn Tootin'
Hi'–Neighbor!
They Go Boom!
Let's Do Things
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
The Hoose-Gow
Laughing Gravy
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Sugar Daddies
Playing at Politics
A Slip at the Switch
One Night in the Tropics
The Live Ghost
Busy Bodies
Rhapsody in Brew
Two Tars
What Fur
So You Want to Play the Piano
Only Saps Work
Thicker Than Water
Must We Marry?
Angora Love
Love 'Em and Weep
Love on a Ladder
The Soilers
Babes in the Goods
Madame Sans Jane
Little Mother
Mother's Joy
San Antonio Rose
The Janitor
Father Steps Out
Radio Rampage
Hold Your Temper
Backs to Nature
Skirt Shy
Man From Headquarters
Smithy
Snappy Sneezer
Los cazadores de osos
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Near Dublin
Treasure Blues
