Charlie Hall
Acting
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.
The Live Ghost
as Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall) (uncredited)
Age 35 (now 60)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 125 (now 60)
Dance of the Cookoos
as Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
Age 82 (now 60)The Best of Laurel and Hardy
as Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 69 (now 60)
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Nightclub Waiter
Age 42 (now 60)
One Night in the Tropics
as Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Age 41 (now 60)
Millionaires in Prison
as Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
Age 40 (now 60)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Age 40 (now 60)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Mercury (uncredited)
Age 40 (now 60)
The Live Ghost
as Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall) (uncredited)
Age 35 (now 60)
Soup and Fish
as Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
Age 34 (now 60)
Million Dollar Legs
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
Age 32 (now 60)
Strictly Unreliable
as The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
Age 32 (now 60)
The Pip from Pittsburg
as Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Age 31 (now 60)
Should Married Men Go Home?
as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Age 29 (now 60)
The Battle of the Century
as Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
Age 28 (now 60)
Are Brunettes Safe?
as Villager at Train Station (uncredited)
Age 27 (now 60)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
Age 56 (now 60)
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Jake - Roofer
Age 53 (now 60)Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Charles Hall , Charley Hall , Charles Hill
IMDB
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