Acting
Charlie Hall
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.
Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Film · 2024
Dance of the Cookoos
Film · 1982
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Film · 1968
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Film · 1967
No Hiding Place
Series · 1959
So You Want to Play the Piano
Film · 1956
Illegal
Film · 1955
Cheyenne
Series · 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Series · 1955
Topper
Series · 1953
Limelight
Film · 1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
Series · 1952
The Milkman
Film · 1950
Without Reservations
Film · 1946
Dressed to Kill
Film · 1946
Abie's Irish Rose
Film · 1946
Sister Kenny
Film · 1946
On Stage Everybody
Film · 1945
The Lodger
Film · 1944
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Film · 1944
Radio Rampage
Film · 1944
In Society
Film · 1944
Hi, Beautiful
Film · 1944
The Ape Man
Film · 1943
His Butler's Sister
Film · 1943
So's Your Uncle
Film · 1943
Honeymoon Lodge
Film · 1943
Framing Father
Film · 1942
Man From Headquarters
Film · 1942
The Falcon Takes Over
Film · 1942
The Big Street
Film · 1942
Police Bullets
Film · 1942
San Antonio Rose
Film · 1941
Niagara Falls
Film · 1941
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Film · 1941
An Apple in His Eye
Film · 1941
I'll Fix It
Film · 1941
Father Steps Out
Film · 1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Film · 1941
A Quiet Fourth
Film · 1941
Hellzapoppin'
Film · 1941
They Met in Argentina
Film · 1941
Saps at Sea
Film · 1940
Vigil in the Night
Film · 1940
Mexican Spitfire
Film · 1940
A Chump at Oxford
Film · 1940
One Night in the Tropics
Film · 1940
Primrose Path
Film · 1940
Millionaires in Prison
Film · 1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Film · 1940
Curtain Call
Film · 1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Film · 1940
A Trailer Tragedy
Film · 1940
Five Came Back
Film · 1939
Man About Town
Film · 1939
Bachelor Mother
Film · 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Film · 1939
Captain Fury
Film · 1939
Hey! Hey! USA
Film · 1938
Shall We Dance
Film · 1937
An All American Toothache
Film · 1936
Our Relations
Film · 1936
Tit for Tat
Film · 1935
Top Hat
Film · 1935
Sing Sister Sing
Film · 1935
Hot Money
Film · 1935
Treasure Blues
Film · 1935
Twin Triplets
Film · 1935
Thicker Than Water
Film · 1935
Bonnie Scotland
Film · 1935
In Love at 40
Film · 1935
The Live Ghost
Film · 1934
Them Thar Hills
Film · 1934
Soup and Fish
Film · 1934
Opened by Mistake
Film · 1934
One-Horse Farmers
Film · 1934
Babes in the Goods
Film · 1934
Maid in Hollywood
Film · 1934
Kentucky Kernels
Film · 1934
Ocean Swells
Film · 1934
Babes in Toyland
Film · 1934
Rough Necking
Film · 1934
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Film · 1934
Another Wild Idea
Film · 1934
The Undie-World
Film · 1934
Bridal Bail
Film · 1934
Love on a Ladder
Film · 1934
Hi'–Neighbor!
Film · 1934
Mike Fright
Film · 1934
Next Week-End
Film · 1934
Hold Your Temper
Film · 1933
The Midnight Patrol
Film · 1933
Morning Glory
Film · 1933
Nature in the Wrong
Film · 1933
Maids a la Mode
Film · 1933
Backs to Nature
Film · 1933
Beauty and the Bus
Film · 1933
One Track Minds
Film · 1933
Air Fright
Film · 1933
Busy Bodies
Film · 1933
Sons of the Desert
Film · 1933
Me and My Pal
Film · 1933
Twice Two
Film · 1933
Rhapsody in Brew
Film · 1933
Keg o' My Heart
Film · 1933
The Druggist's Dilemma
Film · 1933
Diplomaniacs
Film · 1933
King Kong
Film · 1933
What Fur
Film · 1933
A Slip at the Switch
Film · 1932
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Film · 1932
Sealskins
Film · 1932
Show Business
Film · 1932
The Music Box
Film · 1932
The Soilers
Film · 1932
Strictly Unreliable
Film · 1932
Sneak Easily
Film · 1932
Pack Up Your Troubles
Film · 1932
Too Many Women
Film · 1932
Wild Babies!
Film · 1932
Any Old Port!
Film · 1932
Love Pains
Film · 1932
Cynara
Film · 1932
Mr. Bride
Film · 1932
Million Dollar Legs
Film · 1932
What Price Hollywood?
Film · 1932
One of the Smiths
Film · 1931
Be Big!
Film · 1931
War Mamas
Film · 1931
The Pajama Party
Film · 1931
On the Loose
Film · 1931
Let's Do Things
Film · 1931
Sweepstakes
Film · 1931
Laughing Gravy
Film · 1931
Playing at Politics
Film · 1931
The Skulls
Film · 1931
The Chiselers
Film · 1931
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Film · 1931
The Pip from Pittsburg
Film · 1931
The Panic Is On
Film · 1931
Come Clean
Film · 1931
The Kick-Off!
Film · 1931
Mama Loves Papa
Film · 1931
Haunted at Midnight
Film · 1931
Bear Shooters
Film · 1930
The Real McCoy
Film · 1930
Dollar Dizzy
Film · 1930
Below Zero
Film · 1930
The Fighting Parson
Film · 1930
Shivering and Shaking
Film · 1930
The Night Life
Film · 1930
Blotto
Film · 1930
Fifty Million Husbands
Film · 1930
Night of Goblins
Film · 1930
Only Saps Work
Film · 1930
Men of the North
Film · 1930
Los cazadores de osos
Film · 1930
Let's Go Native
Film · 1930
Leaping Love
Film · 1929
Double Whoopee
Film · 1929
They Go Boom!
Film · 1929
Boxing Gloves
Film · 1929
Little Mother
Film · 1929
A Pair of Tights
Film · 1929
Movie Night
Film · 1929
Skirt Shy
Film · 1929
Berth Marks
Film · 1929
Men O' War
Film · 1929
The Hoose-Gow
Film · 1929
Angora Love
Film · 1929
Bacon Grabbers
Film · 1929
That's My Wife
Film · 1929
Wrong Again
Film · 1929
Snappy Sneezer
Film · 1929
Big Business
Film · 1929
Leave 'Em Laughing
Film · 1928
Came the Dawn
Film · 1928
Should Married Men Go Home?
Film · 1928
You're Darn Tootin'
Film · 1928
Captain Swagger
Film · 1928
Two Tars
Film · 1928
Must We Marry?
Film · 1928
Crooks Can't Win
Film · 1928
Forgotten Sweeties
Film · 1927
Sugar Daddies
Film · 1927
Fluttering Hearts
Film · 1927
The Second 100 Years
Film · 1927
Seeing the World
Film · 1927
Call of the Cuckoo
Film · 1927
Duck Soup
Film · 1927
Love 'Em and Weep
Film · 1927
The Battle of the Century
Film · 1927
The Second 100 Years
Film · 1927
With Love and Hisses
Film · 1927
Eve's Love Letters
Film · 1927
College
Film · 1927
Are Brunettes Safe?
Film · 1927
Thundering Fleas
Film · 1926
Mighty Like a Moose
Film · 1926
Bromo and Juliet
Film · 1926
Unfriendly Enemies
Film · 1925
Madame Sans Jane
Film · 1925
Isn't Life Terrible?
Film · 1925
Near Dublin
Film · 1924
Smithy
Film · 1924
Postage Due
Film · 1924
The Cowboy Sheik
Film · 1924
A Ten-Minute Egg
Film · 1924
Zeb vs. Paprika
Film · 1924
Mother's Joy
Film · 1923
Do Me a Favor
Film · 1922
The Janitor
Film · 1921