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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1899-08-18
- event Death Date 1959-12-07
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5.6
- info Birth Place Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Leaping Love
1929-06-22
0
Hold Your Temper
1933-12-15
0
Framing Father
1942-05-15
6.3
Without Reservations
1946-05-13
6
Unfriendly Enemies
1925-09-13
2
Madame Sans Jane
1925-08-09
3
Forgotten Sweeties
1927-04-10
6.5
The Midnight Patrol
1933-08-03
6
Sugar Daddies
1927-09-10
0
One of the Smiths
1931-05-23
6.9
Be Big!
1931-02-07
6.7
Double Whoopee
1929-05-18
6
Leave 'Em Laughing
1928-01-28
5
Fluttering Hearts
1927-06-19
7.1
The Live Ghost
1934-12-08
6.3
The Second Hundred Years
1927-10-08
6.9
They Go Boom!
1929-09-21
7.6
Them Thar Hills
1934-07-21
6.8
Tit for Tat
1935-01-05
5.6
Thundering Fleas
1926-07-18
6.5
Dressed to Kill
1946-05-24
7.9
Limelight
1952-10-23
6.1
Morning Glory
1933-08-18
8
The Milkman
1950-10-17
4
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956-05-05
7
San Antonio Rose
1941-06-20
6.6
Mighty Like a Moose
1926-07-18
6
Boxing Gloves
1929-09-09
5.8
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925-07-05
0
Nature in the Wrong
1933-03-18
6
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967-12-01
0
A Slip at the Switch
1932-08-08
3
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932-04-25
6.1
Seeing the World
1927-02-13
6.5
Little Mother
1929-06-01
6.4
Illegal
1955-10-09
7.3
Top Hat
1935-08-29
6
Man From Headquarters
1942-01-23
6.4
The Lodger
1944-01-19
6.9
Hey! Hey! USA
1938-10-01
4.2
The Ape Man
1943-03-05
5.2
Bear Shooters
1930-05-16
5.5
Sealskins
1932-02-06
6
Show Business
1932-08-20
7.6
A Pair of Tights
1929-02-03
6
Movie Night
1929-05-11
5.2
Mother's Joy
1923-12-23
0
Soup and Fish
1934-03-30
6
Sing Sister Sing
1935-03-02
6.5
The Real McCoy
1930-02-01
6.5
Came the Dawn
1928-03-03
6
Near Dublin
1924-05-10
6
Dollar Dizzy
1930-10-03
0
Hot Money
1935-11-16
0
Opened by Mistake
1934-10-05
0
Maids a la Mode
1933-03-04
0
One-Horse Farmers
1934-08-01
5.2
Smithy
1924-01-19
5.3
Postage Due
1924-02-17
6.6
Below Zero
1930-04-26
5
Backs to Nature
1933-11-14
0
The Fighting Parson
1930-02-06
7.6
The Music Box
1932-04-16
2
Skirt Shy
1929-11-30
5.8
Call of the Cuckoo
1927-10-15
0
War Mamas
1931-11-14
7
The Pajama Party
1931-10-03
6.2
The Soilers
1932-10-29
0
Treasure Blues
1935-01-26
5.5
Strictly Unreliable
1932-04-30
0
Twin Triplets
1935-10-12
0
Sneak Easily
1932-12-10
6.8
On the Loose
1931-12-26
0
Beauty and the Bus
1933-09-16
9
Babes in the Goods
1934-02-10
0
One Track Minds
1933-05-20
0
Maid in Hollywood
1934-05-19
0
An All American Toothache
1936-01-25
5
Air Fright
1933-12-23
0
Let's Do Things
1931-06-06
4.5
Sweepstakes
1931-07-10
0
Abie's Irish Rose
1946-12-27
7.4
Busy Bodies
1933-10-07
6.8
Berth Marks
1929-06-01
6.1
Kentucky Kernels
1934-11-02
7
Men O' War
1929-06-29
7.2
Laughing Gravy
1931-04-04
7.1
Sons of the Desert
1933-12-29
6.8
Saps at Sea
1940-04-29
6.9
Our Relations
1936-09-15
6.5
Me and My Pal
1933-04-22
7
Playing at Politics
1931-05-01
6.7
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932-09-16
6.1
The Skulls
1931-04-18
6.6
The Chiselers
1931-02-07
6.7
Twice Two
1933-02-25
6.8
Shivering and Shaking
1930-04-28
7.3
Thicker Than Water
1935-03-16
6.7
The Hoose-Gow
1929-11-16
5
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931-11-06
6.3
Five Came Back
1939-06-23
0
Ocean Swells
1934-08-08
4.5
Man About Town
1939-06-29
7.2
Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
6.5
The Pip from Pittsburg
1931-03-21
7.3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-12-29
5
The Cowboy Sheik
1924-02-03
6.5
Sister Kenny
1946-10-10
6.5
Angora Love
1929-12-14
6.7
Niagara Falls
1941-10-17
6.4
Babes in Toyland
1934-12-14
6.3
Bacon Grabbers
1929-10-19
8
The Night Life
1930-04-19
6.3
Duck Soup
1927-03-13
6.4
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928-09-08
5.7
Love 'Em and Weep
1927-06-12
6.8
The Battle of the Century
1927-12-31
6.8
That's My Wife
1929-03-23
6.7
Wrong Again
1929-02-23
6.3
The Second Hundred Years
1927-10-08
6.1
With Love and Hisses
1927-08-28
5.7
You're Darn Tootin'
1928-04-21
6.6
Bonnie Scotland
1935-08-23
6
Vigil in the Night
1940-02-05
4.6
Mexican Spitfire
1940-01-12
6.3
Eve's Love Letters
1927-05-28
6.8
College
1927-09-10
5
A Ten-Minute Egg
1924-07-19
2
The Panic Is On
1931-08-14
7.2
Blotto
1930-02-08
7.2
Come Clean
1931-09-02
7.5
Let's Go Native
1930-08-15
5
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941-10-16
10
Rough Necking
1934-04-24
6
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934-06-29
0
Rhapsody in Brew
1933-09-29
2
The Kick-Off!
1931-12-05
9
Too Many Women
1932-05-14
1
Wild Babies!
1932-06-17
6.8
A Chump at Oxford
1940-01-25
7
Any Old Port!
1932-03-05
0
Keg o' My Heart
1933-11-11
0
Love Pains
1932-02-13
9
Mama Loves Papa
1931-10-23
5.6
One Night in the Tropics
1940-11-15
3.3
Fifty Million Husbands
1930-05-23
0
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968-12-14
0
An Apple in His Eye
1941-06-06
6.5
Primrose Path
1940-03-22
6
Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12
0
Captain Swagger
1928-10-13
0
The Druggist's Dilemma
1933-05-22
0
In Love at 40
1935-08-29
7
Diplomaniacs
1933-04-28
4.8
Cynara
1932-12-24
6.5
Snappy Sneezer
1929-07-29
7.2
Shall We Dance
1937-05-07
4.8
Captain Fury
1939-05-26
5.5
Mr. Bride
1932-12-24
4
Another Wild Idea
1934-06-16
0
I'll Fix It
1941-10-07
5.6
Bromo and Juliet
1926-09-19
4.5
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940-05-21
7.3
Curtain Call
1940-04-18
3
Father Steps Out
1941-07-19
4.6
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940-10-29
4.3
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941-11-28
9
The Undie-World
1934-04-03
3
Bridal Bail
1934-02-09
1
Love on a Ladder
1934-03-18
0
A Quiet Fourth
1941-12-19
6.6
Million Dollar Legs
1932-07-08
0
A Trailer Tragedy
1940-10-17
5.8
Night of Goblins
1930-10-16
8.5
Haunted at Midnight
1931-05-21
7.2
His Butler's Sister
1943-11-26
5
So's Your Uncle
1943-09-01
0
Honeymoon Lodge
1943-07-23
0
Girls! Girls! Girls!
1944-06-09
0
Radio Rampage
1944-03-28
6.6
Two Tars
1928-11-03
7.1
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
7.6
King Kong
1933-03-15
5.8
In Society
1944-08-16
0
On Stage Everybody
1945-07-13
5
Do Me a Favor
1922-05-21
6
The Falcon Takes Over
1942-05-29
0
Dance of the Cookoos
1982-01-01
5.5
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924-03-16
0
The Janitor
1921-12-16
5.8
The Big Street
1942-08-13
0
What Fur
1933-11-03
7.9
Hi'–Neighbor!
1934-03-02
5.8
Mike Fright
1934-08-25
6.7
What Price Hollywood?
1932-06-24
5.5
Only Saps Work
1930-12-05
5
Men of the North
1930-09-27
5.8
Cheyenne
1955-09-20
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
3.7
No Hiding Place
1959-09-16
7.3
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952-12-05
6.3
Topper
1953-10-09
