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Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall

🎂 Aug 18, 1899 — 🕯️ Dec 7, 1959 (60 years) Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Charlie Hall is an actor whose career stretches back to the 1920s. King Kong remains one of their most celebrated performances, playing Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited). They have also starred in Limelight and Top Hat. Their filmography spans 206 films and 5 TV productions across 105 years, working mainly across genres like comedy, romance, drama.
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They Go Boom!
They Go Boom!
as Landlord
 Leave 'Em Laughing
Leave 'Em Laughing
as The Landlord
 The Second 100 Years
The Second 100 Years
as Convict
 Sealskins
Sealskins
as Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Film Dance of the Cookoos
Dance of the Cookoos
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
1982
Film Illegal
Illegal
Bellhop (uncredited)
1955
Film Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
1955–
TV Cheyenne
Cheyenne
Kevin
1955–
TV Topper
Topper
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
1953–
TV The Abbott and Costello Show
The Abbott and Costello Show
Jake - Roofer
1952–
TV Limelight
Limelight
Newsboy (uncredited)
1952
Film The Milkman
The Milkman
Ed (uncredited)
1950
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Charlie Hall still alive?
Charlie Hall passed away on December 7, 1959 at age 60.
What are the most famous roles of Charlie Hall?
Charlie Hall is best known as an actor for King Kong, Limelight, Top Hat.
How many movies has Charlie Hall been in?
Charlie Hall has appeared in 205 movies and 5 TV shows.
What was Charlie Hall's first movie?
Charlie Hall's first credited film was The Janitor (1921).
What is Charlie Hall's most recent movie?
Charlie Hall's most recent movie is Laurel & Hardy: Year Two (2024).
What are Charlie Hall's best movies?
Charlie Hall's most acclaimed films include: King Kong (1933), Limelight (1952), Top Hat (1935), Sons of the Desert (1933), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
What TV shows has Charlie Hall appeared in?
Charlie Hall is known for TV work including: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cheyenne, The Abbott and Costello Show, Topper.
How long has Charlie Hall been working in film?
Charlie Hall has been active since 1921 — a career spanning 38 years.
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Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall
1899-08-18 · Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

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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