Cast

Charlie Hall

Acting

Cast

Charlie Hall

Known for

Acting

Born

1899-08-18

From

Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

Died

1959-12-07

Also known as Charles Hall , Charley Hall , Charles Hill

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.

Charlie Hall

Charlie Hall

Biography

King Kong

Bonnie Scotland

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Bacon Grabbers

The Chiselers

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Two Tars

Playing at Politics

Captain Swagger

Do Me a Favor

What Fur

Laughing Gravy

Diplomaniacs

Double Whoopee

Sweepstakes

Babes in Toyland

Limelight

Them Thar Hills

Fluttering Hearts

Police Bullets

Unfriendly Enemies

Movie Night

Radio Rampage

Angora Love

The Skulls

Call of the Cuckoo

The Janitor

Top Hat

Sugar Daddies

Mama Loves Papa

Sister Kenny

Eve's Love Letters

Thicker Than Water

Tit for Tat

Hellzapoppin'

Illegal

Shivering and Shaking

Opened by Mistake

Sons of the Desert

Dressed to Kill

Pack Up Your Troubles

So You Want to Play the Piano

The Midnight Patrol

A Slip at the Switch

Isn't Life Terrible?

The Big Street

One Night in the Tropics

Shall We Dance

You're Darn Tootin'

The Hoose-Gow

The Music Box

Skirt Shy

Abie's Irish Rose

Love on a Ladder

Five Came Back

The Live Ghost

So's Your Uncle

The Fighting Parson

Morning Glory

The Battle of the Century

Maid in Hollywood

Came the Dawn

Without Reservations

They Go Boom!

Madame Sans Jane

Primrose Path

What Price Hollywood?

Next Week-End

The Panic Is On

Our Relations

College

Crooks Can't Win

Busy Bodies

The Lodger

I'll Fix It

The Pajama Party

With Love and Hisses