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Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall

Actor · Writer
60 years (Aug 18, 1899 – Dec 7, 1959)Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Known for
  1. 1929 Landlordin They Go Boom!
  2. 1935 Mr. Hallin Tit for Tat
  3. 1930 Cabdriverin Blotto
Charlie Hall belongs to the acting trade in British film and television with a public record that stays short. The best-known entry is 'A Chump at Oxford', with him as Student. 'The Lodger' counts among his credits. The debut came at 22. His credits cluster in comedy. The credit count is respectable at 173, even if the titles are not widely known.
Known for
  1. 1929 Landlordin They Go Boom!
  2. 1935 Mr. Hallin Tit for Tat
  3. 1930 Cabdriverin Blotto
Charlie Hall belongs to the acting trade in British film and television with a public record that stays short. The best-known entry is 'A Chump at Oxford', with him as Student. 'The Lodger' counts among his credits. The debut came at 22. His credits cluster in comedy. The credit count is respectable at 173, even if the titles are not widely known.
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Bellhop (uncredited)
★ 6.5
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
★ 7.8
1955Season 1
Cheyenne
Kevin
★ 6.2
1955Season 1
The Abbott and Costello Show
Jake - Roofer
★ 7.2
1953Season 2
Topper
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
★ 6.1
1953Season 1
Limelight
Newsboy (uncredited)
★ 7.9
1952
The Milkman
Ed (uncredited)
★ 7.0
1950
Abie's Irish Rose
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
★ 7.0
1946
Sister Kenny
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
★ 6.9
1946
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 for roles in King Kong, Limelight, Top Hat.
How many movies has Charlie Hall been in?
Over a 38-year career (since 1921), Charlie Hall has appeared in 169 movies and 4 TV shows.
What was Charlie Hall's first movie?
The career of Charlie Hall began with The Janitor (1921).
What is Charlie Hall's most recent movie or series?
Charlie Hall's most recent release is No Hiding Place, which premiered on September 16, 1959.
What TV shows has Charlie Hall appeared in?
On television, Charlie Hall has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cheyenne, The Abbott and Costello Show, Topper.
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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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