Charlie Hall

🎂 Data nașterii: 1899-08-18 (Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK)

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.

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Leaping Love

Hold Your Temper

Framing Father

Without Reservations

Unfriendly Enemies

Madame Sans Jane

Forgotten Sweeties

The Midnight Patrol

Sugar Daddies

One of the Smiths

Be Big!

Double Whoopee

Leave 'Em Laughing

Fluttering Hearts

The Live Ghost

The Second 100 Years

They Go Boom!

Them Thar Hills

Tit for Tat

Thundering Fleas

Dressed to Kill

Luminile rampei

Morning Glory

The Milkman

So You Want to Play the Piano

San Antonio Rose

Mighty Like a Moose

Boxing Gloves

Isn't Life Terrible?

Nature in the Wrong

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

A Slip at the Switch

Just a Pain in the Parlor

Seeing the World

Little Mother

Illegal

Top Hat

Man From Headquarters

The Lodger

Hey! Hey! USA

The Ape Man

Bear Shooters

Sealskins

Show Business

A Pair of Tights

Movie Night

Mother's Joy

Soup and Fish

Sing Sister Sing

The Real McCoy

Came the Dawn

Near Dublin

Dollar Dizzy

Hot Money

Opened by Mistake

Maids a la Mode

One-Horse Farmers

Smithy

Postage Due

Below Zero

Backs to Nature

The Fighting Parson

The Music Box

Skirt Shy

Call of the Cuckoo

War Mamas

The Pajama Party

The Soilers

Treasure Blues

Strictly Unreliable

Twin Triplets

Sneak Easily

On the Loose

Beauty and the Bus

Babes in the Goods

One Track Minds

Maid in Hollywood

An All American Toothache