Charlie Hall

    Charlie Hall

    18. august 1899 (126 aastat), 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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    Cheyenne plakat 6.2

    Cheyenne

    1955
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents plakat 7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955
    No Hiding Place plakat 4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959
    The Abbott and Costello Show plakat 7.2

    The Abbott and Costello Show

    1952
    King Kong plakat 7.6

    King Kong

    1933
    Topper plakat 6.1

    Topper

    1953
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame plakat 7.3

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    1939
    Limelight plakat 7.9

    Limelight

    1952
    Babes in Toyland plakat 6.3

    Babes in Toyland

    1934
    Les Carottiers plakat 6.8

    Les Carottiers

    1931
    Politiquerías plakat 7.0

    Politiquerías

    1931
    Top Hat plakat 7.3

    Top Hat

    1935

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