Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 18, 1899
Died
Dec 07, 1959
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Credits
211 titles
Charlie Hall
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.
Known For
Filmography
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Dance of the Cookoos
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
No Hiding Place
So You Want to Play the Piano
Illegal
Bellhop (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
Cheyenne
Kevin
Topper
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
The Abbott and Costello Show
Jake - Roofer
Limelight
Newsboy (uncredited)
The Milkman
Ed (uncredited)
Abie's Irish Rose
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Sister Kenny
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
Dressed to Kill
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Without Reservations
Window-Washer (uncredited)
On Stage Everybody
Painter (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
Milkman (uncredited)
In Society
Mugg (uncredited)
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Apartment House Waiter
Radio Rampage
Jack - Radio Repairman
The Lodger
Comedian
His Butler's Sister
Porter
So's Your Uncle
Waiter
Honeymoon Lodge
Hotel Handyman
The Ape Man
Barney
Police Bullets
Rabbit
The Big Street
Waiter in New York (uncredited)
The Falcon Takes Over
Louie (Uncredited)
Framing Father
Silver Slipper Waiter
Man From Headquarters
Newspaper Photographer
Hellzapoppin'
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A Quiet Fourth
Edgar's Neighbor
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Nightclub Waiter
Niagara Falls
Bellhop (uncredited)
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Budd Doolittle
I'll Fix It
The Laundry Man
Father Steps Out
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
San Antonio Rose
Waitress
An Apple in His Eye
Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
One Night in the Tropics
Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Elevator Boy
A Trailer Tragedy
Homeless Thief in Washroom
Millionaires in Prison
Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Saps at Sea
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Curtain Call
Second Waiter
Primrose Path
Man in Diner (uncredited)
Vigil in the Night
Courtroom Spectator