Charlie Hall
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 18, 1899
Day of Death: December 7, 1959 (60 years old)
Place of Birth: 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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Actor Waitress
San Antonio Rose
Actor Bellhop (uncredited)
Niagara Falls
Actor Budd Doolittle
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Actor Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
An Apple in His Eye
Actor The Laundry Man
I'll Fix It
Actor Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
Father Steps Out
Actor Nightclub Waiter
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Actor Edgar's Neighbor
A Quiet Fourth
Actor Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin'
1940
Actor Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Saps at Sea
Actor Courtroom Spectator
Vigil in the Night
Actor Elevator Operator
Mexican Spitfire
Actor Student
A Chump at Oxford
Actor Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
Actor Man in Diner (uncredited)
Primrose Path
Actor Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
Millionaires in Prison
Actor Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Actor Second Waiter
Curtain Call
Actor Elevator Boy
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Actor Homeless Thief in Washroom
A Trailer Tragedy
1939
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1935
Actor Mr. Hall
Tit for Tat
Actor (uncredited)
Top Hat
Actor Porter (uncredited)
Sing Sister Sing
Actor Tenant (uncredited)
Hot Money
Actor Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Twin Triplets
Actor Moving Man (uncredited)
Treasure Blues
Actor Bank Teller (uncredited)
Thicker Than Water
Actor Native Henchman (uncredited)
Bonnie Scotland
Actor Man Getting Shave
In Love at 40
1934
Actor Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall)
The Live Ghost
Actor Mr. Hall
Them Thar Hills
Actor Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
Soup and Fish
Actor Subway Passenger (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers
Actor Intern (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
Actor Cameraman (uncredited)
Maid in Hollywood
Actor Spectator (uncredited)
Babes in the Goods
Actor Cigarette Stand Owner
Kentucky Kernels
Actor Sailor
Ocean Swells
Actor Townsman (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland
Actor Postman
Rough Necking
Actor Coach Driver
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Actor Man Pushed into Fountain
Another Wild Idea
Actor Irate Movie Patron
Bridal Bail
Actor Pool Hall Patron
Love on a Ladder
Actor T.N.T. Room Busboy
The Undie-World
Actor Window Washer
Hi'–Neighbor!
Actor Elevator Operator
Mike Fright
1933
Actor
Hold Your Temper
Actor Tire thief's partner
The Midnight Patrol
Actor Actor (uncredited)
Morning Glory
Actor Organ Grinder
Nature in the Wrong
Actor Party Guest (uncredited)
Maids a la Mode
Actor Hunter (uncredited)
Backs to Nature
Actor Train Passenger (uncredited)
One Track Minds
Actor Pilot (uncredited)
Air Fright
Actor Theatre Usher (uncredited)
Beauty and the Bus
Actor Shop Worker (uncredited)
Busy Bodies
Actor Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Me and My Pal
Actor Waiter (uncredited)
Sons of the Desert
Actor Delivery Boy
Twice Two
Actor Waiter (uncredited)
Rhapsody in Brew
Actor Waiter (uncredited)
Keg o' My Heart
Actor Charlie Zeno
The Druggist's Dilemma
Actor Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
Diplomaniacs
Actor Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
King Kong
Actor
What Fur
Writer
Twice Two
Writer
Busy Bodies
1932
Actor Second Tramp
A Slip at the Switch
Actor Servant
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Actor Train Passenger (uncredited)
Show Business
Actor Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
Sealskins
Actor Postman (uncredited)
The Music Box
Actor The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
Strictly Unreliable
Actor Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Soilers
Actor Page
Sneak Easily
Actor Janitor (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Actor Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
Wild Babies!
Actor Man on Street (uncredited)
Too Many Women
Actor Stan's Second
Any Old Port!
Actor Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
Love Pains
Actor Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Cynara
Actor Tipsy Ship Passenger
Mr. Bride
Actor Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
1931
Actor Dancer (uncredited)
One of the Smiths
Actor Bellboy
Be Big!
Actor Doughboy (uncredited)
War Mamas
Actor Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pajama Party
Actor Waiter (uncredited)
Let's Do Things
Actor Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
On the Loose
Actor Little Cook
Sweepstakes
Actor The Landlord
The Skulls
Actor Bellboy / Landlord
The Chiselers
Actor Landlord (uncredited)
Laughing Gravy
Actor Elevator Operator
Playing at Politics
Actor
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Actor Kay's Dancing Partner
The Pip from Pittsburg
Actor Ice Cream Attendant
Come Clean
Actor Man on the Street (uncredited)
The Panic Is On
Actor Man on the Street (uncredited)
The Kick-Off!
Actor Milkman (uncredited)
Mama Loves Papa
Actor Man on Train
Haunted at Midnight
Writer
Come Clean
1930
Actor Charlie
Bear Shooters
Actor Mountain Man (uncredited)
The Real McCoy
Actor Bellhop
Dollar Dizzy
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Below Zero
Actor The Waiter (uncredited)
The Fighting Parson
Actor Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Shivering and Shaking
Actor Cabdriver (uncredited)
The Night Life
Actor Cabdriver
Blotto
Actor Mover (uncredited)
Let's Go Native
Actor Neighbor
Fifty Million Husbands
Actor Passenger
Night of Goblins
Story
Hog Wild
1929
Actor Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Leaping Love
Actor Cabdriver
Double Whoopee
Actor Landlord
They Go Boom!
Actor Sidewalk diner attendant
Boxing Gloves
Actor Taxi driver
Little Mother
Actor Man in fender bender
A Pair of Tights
Actor Audience Member (uncredited)
Movie Night
Actor Postman (uncredited)
Skirt Shy
Actor Train Passenger (uncredited)
Berth Marks
Actor Boater (uncredited)
Men O'War
Actor Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
The Hoose-Gow
Actor Neighbor
Angora Love
Actor Truck driver
Bacon Grabbers
Actor Waiter (uncredited)
That's My Wife
Actor Neighbor
Wrong Again
Actor Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
Snappy Sneezer
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1927
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Forgotten Sweeties
Actor Hotel extra
Sugar Daddies
Actor Man under car
Fluttering Hearts
Actor Convict
The Second Hundred Years
Actor English chauffeur
Seeing the World
Actor Asylum Inmate
Call of the Cuckoo
Actor Tillsbury's Butler
Love 'Em and Weep
Actor Moving man (uncredited)
Duck Soup
Actor Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
The Battle of the Century
Actor Soldier (uncredited)
With Love and Hisses
Actor Convict (uncredited)
The Second Hundred Years
Actor Cab driver (uncredited)
Eve's Love Letters
Actor Coxswain (uncredited)
College
