Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 18, 1899
Died
May 20, 1985
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
77 titles
Ben Hall
Biography
Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Filmography
Cover Up
Printer (Uncredited)
The Noose Hangs High
Messenger (uncredited)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Barber (uncredited)
Traffic with the Devil
Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
Young Widow
Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Townsman (Uncredited)
Movie Pests
Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
It Happened Tomorrow
Du Barry Was a Lady
Waiter (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
The Incredible Stranger
Lou Coon (uncredited)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Attendant
Hellzapoppin'
Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
Second Chorus
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Pride and Prejudice
Poet
One Million B.C.
Shell Person
The Grapes of Wrath
Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
My Little Chickadee
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Dad for a Day
Leonard's Father
Marie Antoinette
Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Held For Ransom
Hillbilly
Riders of the Black Hills
Reporter Ethelbert
Music for Madame
Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
Smoke Tree Range
Pete
You Only Live Once
Messenger with Package (uncredited)
A Million to One
Joe
Postal Inspector
Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Fury
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
An All American Toothache
Dental Student (uncredited)
Strike Me Pink
Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
Racing Luck
'Knapsack'
The Live Wire
Steve
Steamboat Round the Bend
Fleety Belle's brother
Men Without Names
Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
Naughty Marietta
Mama's Boy (uncredited)
Life Begins at Forty
Square Dance Participant
Sequoia
Joe
Hollywood Trouble
Counsel on De Fence
Langdon's Assistant
Love Past Thirty
Junior Burt
The Stranger's Return
Farmhand
Lilly Turner
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Strictly Personal
Holbrook (uncredited)
Girl Missing
Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Parole Girl
Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Blondie Johnson
Newsboy (uncredited)
Face in the Sky
Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
The Sport Parade
Newsboy (uncredited)