
Charlie Hall
Born August 18, 1899 · Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
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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King Kong

Limelight

Top Hat

Sweepstakes

Sons of the Desert

Dressed to Kill

Playing at Politics

Saps at Sea

Pack Up Your Troubles

Without Reservations

A Chump at Oxford

Babes in Toyland

His Butler's Sister

One Night in the Tropics

Hellzapoppin'

Bacon Grabbers

Five Came Back

Bonnie Scotland

The Lodger

Morning Glory

So's Your Uncle

You're Darn Tootin'

Primrose Path

The Falcon Takes Over

Bachelor Mother

Double Whoopee

Two Tars

The Battle of the Century

The Chiselers

The Big Street

They Met in Argentina

Cockeyed Cavaliers

Men of the North

College

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Me and My Pal

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Shall We Dance

Call of the Cuckoo

Sugar Daddies

Vigil in the Night

Abie's Irish Rose

Sister Kenny

Wrong Again

The Milkman

Kentucky Kernels

Let's Do Things

Them Thar Hills

Captain Swagger

What Fur

In Society

Angora Love

Should Married Men Go Home?

Our Relations

Unfriendly Enemies

The Second 100 Years

Illegal

Isn't Life Terrible?

Niagara Falls

What Price Hollywood?

With Love and Hisses

Duck Soup

Captain Fury

Laughing Gravy

Big Business

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy

Beauty and the Bus

Nature in the Wrong

Fluttering Hearts

The Panic Is On

Mexican Spitfire Out West

Let's Go Native

The Mexican Spitfire's Baby

Maids a la Mode

Movie Night

Eve's Love Letters

Only Saps Work

Twice Two

Tit for Tat

One of the Smiths

Police Bullets

Come Clean

Man About Town

Berth Marks

Curtain Call

Diplomaniacs

The Midnight Patrol

Crooks Can't Win

A Pair of Tights

Honeymoon Lodge

The Music Box

Dance of the Cookoos

Busy Bodies

Million Dollar Legs

Do Me a Favor

The Hoose-Gow

Below Zero

That's My Wife

Leave 'Em Laughing

A Ten-Minute Egg

Babes in the Goods

The Skulls

Too Many Women

Millionaires in Prison

Bromo and Juliet

The Live Ghost

They Go Boom!

Postage Due

Any Old Port!

Scratch-As-Catch-Can

Mighty Like a Moose

Thicker Than Water

Love 'Em and Weep

Skirt Shy

Father Steps Out

Men O' War

Top Sergeant Mulligan

Hey! Hey! USA

Maid in Hollywood

Cynara

Bear Shooters

The Undie-World

Mama Loves Papa

An Apple in His Eye

Leaping Love

Hi, Beautiful

The Pip from Pittsburg

Blotto

Thundering Fleas

Bridal Bail

On the Loose

Man From Headquarters

The Fighting Parson

Are Brunettes Safe?

Be Big!

The Ape Man

Mexican Spitfire

Seeing the World

Soup and Fish

The Pajama Party

On Stage Everybody

San Antonio Rose

Boxing Gloves

Show Business

Madame Sans Jane

War Mamas

Came the Dawn

Mother's Joy

Hot Money

The Soilers

Hold Your Temper

One Track Minds

Shivering and Shaking

Zeb vs. Paprika

Framing Father

Sneak Easily

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Strictly Unreliable

Little Mother

Air Fright

Smithy

Dollar Dizzy

Rough Necking

Must We Marry?

Near Dublin

Fifty Million Husbands

Mike Fright

Hi'–Neighbor!

Twin Triplets

Night of Goblins

Sealskins

Mr. Bride

The Real McCoy

The Cowboy Sheik

Snappy Sneezer

The Night Life

Forgotten Sweeties

Another Wild Idea

Haunted at Midnight

Backs to Nature

Treasure Blues

Sing Sister Sing






