Charlie Hall

Acting

Born Aug 18, 1899

From Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK

Died Dec 07, 1959

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

Known For

King Kong

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Top Hat

Limelight

Dressed to Kill

Bachelor Mother

Illegal

Without Reservations

Shall We Dance

Man About Town

Filmography — Acting

King Kong

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Top Hat

Limelight

Dressed to Kill

Bachelor Mother

Illegal

Without Reservations

Shall We Dance

Man About Town

The Lodger

In Society

Babes in Toyland

The Falcon Takes Over

Hellzapoppin'

The Music Box

Morning Glory

Sister Kenny

Sons of the Desert

Our Relations

Come Clean

Bonnie Scotland

Busy Bodies

On the Loose

Pack Up Your Troubles

Five Came Back

The Big Street

Cynara

Duck Soup

A Chump at Oxford

So's Your Uncle

Blotto

One Night in the Tropics

Saps at Sea

Only Saps Work

Mexican Spitfire

Primrose Path

Any Old Port!

Let's Go Native

Captain Fury

Angora Love

College

Vigil in the Night

Tit for Tat

Diplomaniacs

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Wrong Again

Million Dollar Legs

Big Business

The Ape Man

The Second 100 Years

What Price Hollywood?

Them Thar Hills

Men O' War

Honeymoon Lodge

Double Whoopee

Sealskins

The Battle of the Century

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Be Big!

The Milkman

Curtain Call

Hi, Beautiful

Two Tars

Below Zero

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

The Night Life