Alan Hale

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be an opera singer and also had success as an inventor. Among his innovations were a sliding theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips. His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. He played "Little John" in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring in a pivotal confrontation with the Earl of Essex, portrayed by Flynn. His other films include the 1922 epic The Trap with Lon Chaney, 1928's Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; all released in 1934; the 1937 film Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Fighting 69th with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien; They Drive By Night with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; Virginia City with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the 1943 movie This Is the Army with Irving Berlin. He also co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the successful western film Dodge City (1939) where he played the slightly dimwitted but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies. Hale directed eight movies during the 1920s and 1930s and acted in 235 theatrical films.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1892-02-09
  • event Death Date 1950-01-22
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 4.7
  • info Birth Place Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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East Lynne

1915-08-18

7.8

It Happened One Night

1934-02-22

5.6

Santa Fe Trail

1940-12-20

7.5

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938-05-13

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She Got What She Wanted

1930-11-09

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Sold Out

1916-06-05

6.7

Destination Tokyo

1943-12-31

7

Action in the North Atlantic

1943-06-12

6.7

Manpower

1941-08-09

6.6

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1921-03-06

6.4

Algiers

1938-01-16

3

Main Street

1923-04-25

6.1

Dust Be My Destiny

1939-09-16

5.9

The Man I Love

1946-12-26

6.5

Captains of the Clouds

1942-02-12

6.5

Pursued

1947-03-02

7.2

The Sea Hawk

1940-08-10

4.5

The House Across the Street

1949-09-10

6.4

Adventures of Don Juan

1948-12-24

7

Hollywood

1923-08-19

6.4

The Inspector General

1949-12-31

6.8

The Prince and the Pauper

1937-04-30

5.7

Night and Day

1946-07-02

6.1

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943-09-25

5.7

This Is the Army

1943-08-14

7.2

Gentleman Jim

1942-11-14

7.1

The Man in the Iron Mask

1939-07-13

4.9

The Scarlet Letter

1934-09-18

6.9

Stella Dallas

1937-08-06

6.8

Thin Ice

1937-09-03

5.9

The Little Minister

1934-12-28

6.5

Of Human Bondage

1934-07-20

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The Fox

1921-07-24

5

Quicksands

1923-02-28

6.9

Footsteps in the Dark

1941-03-08

7.3

Hollywood Canteen

1944-12-15

6.9

Our Relations

1936-09-15

6.3

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939-11-11

6.9

They Drive by Night

1940-07-26

7

Imitation of Life

1934-11-23

6.9

Dodge City

1939-04-08

6.5

The Lost Patrol

1934-02-16

6.9

The Good Fairy

1935-02-18

10

Showbiz Goes to War

1982-12-31

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1932-07-03

5.4

The Fighting 69th

1940-01-27

6.3

Listen, Darling

1938-10-21

5.9

Desperate Journey

1942-09-26

4.9

Whiplash

1948-12-24

5.7

Colt .45

1950-05-27

6.5

The Smiling Ghost

1941-09-06

5.8

Make Your Own Bed

1944-06-10

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The Americano

1915-03-30

6.8

The Strawberry Blonde

1941-02-21

6

Broadway Bill

1934-11-30

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A Voice in the Dark

1921-06-05

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A Wise Fool

1921-06-26

7

God Is My Co-Pilot

1945-04-07

6.5

Juke Girl

1942-05-30

4.3

Always Leave Them Laughing

1949-11-26

5.8

So Big!

1932-04-30

6.6

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944-07-20

3.9

On Your Toes

1939-10-14

4.8

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

1950-06-21

7.8

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005-04-05

6.1

Union Depot

1932-01-14

6.9

Stars in My Crown

1950-05-11

5.3

Dick Turpin

1925-02-01

4.2

God's Country and the Woman

1937-01-16

6.4

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

1931-10-10

6.6

The Match King

1932-12-31

5

The Younger Brothers

1949-05-03

5

A Message to Garcia

1936-04-10

6.8

Roughly Speaking

1945-01-31

5.9

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938-04-07

6

That Way with Women

1947-02-14

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Destination Unknown

1933-04-01

5

When Thief Meets Thief

1937-01-01

5.3

The Great Mr. Nobody

1941-02-15

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Woman Against Woman

1914-06-27

0

The Cop

1928-08-28

4

Green Hell

1940-01-26

0

The Power of the Press

1914-10-01

0

Dora Thorne

1915-11-03

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Escape in the Desert

1945-05-01

6.1

Hotel Berlin

1945-03-02

5.6

South of St. Louis

1949-03-06

5.7

Two in the Dark

1936-01-10

5.6

The Last Days of Pompeii

1935-10-18

6.2

Great Expectations

1934-10-22

5

Strongheart

1914-03-08

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Sal of Singapore

1928-11-04

6.5

Grand Old Girl

1935-01-15

6

Valley of the Giants

1938-09-17

6.8

Cheyenne

1947-06-06

8

There's Always Tomorrow

1934-11-01

5.2

Yellowstone

1936-09-01

4.5

Picture Brides

1934-04-23

0

The Eleventh Commandment

1933-03-25

5.5

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

1940-10-26

5.5

Janie

1944-09-02

6

My Wild Irish Rose

1947-12-24

5.5

Thieves Fall Out

1941-05-03

1

Moral Suicide

1918-03-12

0

The Beast

1916-07-24

5

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

1934-01-12

4.2

Another Face

1935-12-20

6.4

Little Man, What Now?

1934-06-04

8.2

The Spieler

1928-12-20

5.2

The Sea Ghost

1931-11-28

5.2

Black Oxen

1923-12-29

6.1

The Covered Wagon

1923-03-15

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By Man's Law

1913-11-22

0

The Great Impersonation

1921-10-09

0

The Love Thief

1916-12-17

0

The Eternal Temptress

1917-12-09

5.5

Cameo Kirby

1923-10-20

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The Scarlet Oath

1916-10-23

6.3

Alice in Movieland

1940-03-03

0

Vanity

1927-05-09

0

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1927-10-31

0

The Country Beyond

1936-04-24

5.4

Skyscraper

1928-04-08

6.3

Four Men and a Prayer

1938-04-29

6

High, Wide and Handsome

1937-07-21

5

One Night in Rome

1924-09-29

0

A Doll's House

1922-02-12

5.2

Sailor's Holiday

1929-09-14

6.3

Three Cheers for the Irish

1940-03-16

5.9

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1931-10-23

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The Sap

1929-11-09

6.1

Fog Over Frisco

1934-06-02

0

The Leopard Lady

1928-02-22

6.1

Virginia City

1940-03-23

5.2

Pacific Liner

1939-01-06

0

The Eleventh Hour

1923-07-19

6.2

The Crusades

1935-08-21

6.4

Robin Hood

1922-10-18

0

Life's Whirlpool

1917-11-08

6.1

The Sisters

1938-10-14

6

Parole!

1936-06-14

5.2

The Trap

1922-05-08

0

Aloha

1931-04-26

0

Perilous Holiday

1946-03-20

0

The Barbarian

1921-04-29

5.8

The Americano

1916-12-23

1

What Price Decency

1933-03-07

0

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

1968-12-14

0

The Little Widow

1914-07-24

5.4

The Time, The Place and The Girl

1946-12-26

6

Babbitt

1934-12-08

5

Music for Madame

1937-10-08

6

Breakdowns of 1937

1937-12-31

0

My Girl Tisa

1948-02-07

6

Power

1928-09-23

0

Red Hot Rhythm

1929-11-23

0

Oh Kay!

1928-08-26

0

Long Live the King

1923-11-26

0

The Night Angel

1931-07-18

5

The Leatherneck

1929-02-24

6

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935-08-22

5

The Woman in Black

1914-11-30

0

Dick's Turning

1913-07-02

0

The Dictator

1922-06-25

0

One Glorious Day

1922-01-29

0

Pudd'nhead Wilson

1916-01-31

5.4

The Londoners

2008-10-23

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