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Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall

Biography

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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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

211

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-08-18

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Charles Hall , Charley Hall , Charles Hill

Known For

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