Charlie Hall
1899-08-18 ( 125 years old ) in 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.

Movies

Dance of the Cookoos 1982-01-01
The Best of Laurel and Hardy 1968-12-14
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy 1967-12-01
So You Want to Play the Piano 1956-05-05
Illegal 1955-10-09
Limelight 1952-10-23
The Milkman 1950-10-17
Abie's Irish Rose 1946-12-27
Sister Kenny 1946-10-10
Dressed to Kill 1946-05-24
Without Reservations 1946-05-13
On Stage Everybody 1945-07-13
In Society 1944-08-16
Girls! Girls! Girls! 1944-06-09
Radio Rampage 1944-03-28
The Lodger 1944-01-19
His Butler's Sister 1943-11-26
So's Your Uncle 1943-09-01
Honeymoon Lodge 1943-07-23
The Ape Man 1943-03-05
The Big Street 1942-08-13
The Falcon Takes Over 1942-05-29
Framing Father 1942-05-15
Man From Headquarters 1942-01-23
Hellzapoppin' 1941-12-25
A Quiet Fourth 1941-12-19
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby 1941-11-28
Niagara Falls 1941-10-17
Top Sergeant Mulligan 1941-10-16
I'll Fix It 1941-10-07
Father Steps Out 1941-07-19
San Antonio Rose 1941-06-20
An Apple in His Eye 1941-06-06
One Night in the Tropics 1940-11-15
Mexican Spitfire Out West 1940-10-29
A Trailer Tragedy 1940-10-17
Millionaires in Prison 1940-07-12
You Can't Fool Your Wife 1940-05-21
Saps at Sea 1940-04-29
Curtain Call 1940-04-18
Primrose Path 1940-03-22
Vigil in the Night 1940-02-05
A Chump at Oxford 1940-01-25
Mexican Spitfire 1940-01-12
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939-12-29
Bachelor Mother 1939-06-30
Man About Town 1939-06-29
Five Came Back 1939-06-23
Captain Fury 1939-05-26
Hey! Hey! USA 1938-10-01
Shall We Dance 1937-05-07
Our Relations 1936-09-15
An All American Toothache 1936-01-25
Hot Money 1935-11-16
Twin Triplets 1935-10-12
Top Hat 1935-08-29
In Love at 40 1935-08-29
Bonnie Scotland 1935-08-23
Thicker Than Water 1935-03-16
Sing Sister Sing 1935-03-02
Treasure Blues 1935-01-26
Tit for Tat 1935-01-05
Babes in Toyland 1934-12-14
The Live Ghost 1934-12-08
Kentucky Kernels 1934-11-02
Opened by Mistake 1934-10-05
Mike Fright 1934-08-25
Ocean Swells 1934-08-08
One-Horse Farmers 1934-08-01
Them Thar Hills 1934-07-21
Cockeyed Cavaliers 1934-06-29
Another Wild Idea 1934-06-16
Maid in Hollywood 1934-05-19
Rough Necking 1934-04-24
The Undie-World 1934-04-03
Soup and Fish 1934-03-30
Love on a Ladder 1934-03-18
Hi'–Neighbor! 1934-03-02
Babes in the Goods 1934-02-10
Bridal Bail 1934-02-09
Sons of the Desert 1933-12-29
Air Fright 1933-12-23
Hold Your Temper 1933-12-15
Backs to Nature 1933-11-14
Keg o' My Heart 1933-11-11
What Fur 1933-11-03
Busy Bodies 1933-10-07
Rhapsody in Brew 1933-09-29
Beauty and the Bus 1933-09-16
Morning Glory 1933-08-18
The Midnight Patrol 1933-08-03
The Druggist's Dilemma 1933-05-22
One Track Minds 1933-05-20
Diplomaniacs 1933-04-28
Me and My Pal 1933-04-22
Nature in the Wrong 1933-03-18
King Kong 1933-03-15
Maids a la Mode 1933-03-04
Twice Two 1933-02-25
Cynara 1932-12-24
Mr. Bride 1932-12-24
Sneak Easily 1932-12-10
The Soilers 1932-10-29
Pack Up Your Troubles 1932-09-16
Show Business 1932-08-20
A Slip at the Switch 1932-08-08
Million Dollar Legs 1932-07-08
What Price Hollywood? 1932-06-24
Wild Babies! 1932-06-17
Too Many Women 1932-05-14
Strictly Unreliable 1932-04-30
Just a Pain in the Parlor 1932-04-25
The Music Box 1932-04-16
Any Old Port! 1932-03-05
Love Pains 1932-02-13
Sealskins 1932-02-06
On the Loose 1931-12-26
The Kick-Off! 1931-12-05
War Mamas 1931-11-14
Scratch-As-Catch-Can 1931-11-06
Mama Loves Papa 1931-10-23
The Pajama Party 1931-10-03
Come Clean 1931-09-02
The Panic Is On 1931-08-14
Sweepstakes 1931-07-10
Let's Do Things 1931-06-06
One of the Smiths 1931-05-23
Haunted at Midnight 1931-05-21
Playing at Politics 1931-05-01
The Skulls 1931-04-18
Laughing Gravy 1931-04-04
The Pip from Pittsburg 1931-03-21
Be Big! 1931-02-07
The Chiselers 1931-02-07
Only Saps Work 1930-12-05
Night of Goblins 1930-10-16
Dollar Dizzy 1930-10-03
Men of the North 1930-09-27
Let's Go Native 1930-08-15
Fifty Million Husbands 1930-05-23
Bear Shooters 1930-05-16
Shivering and Shaking 1930-04-28
Below Zero 1930-04-26
The Night Life 1930-04-19
Blotto 1930-02-08
The Fighting Parson 1930-02-06
The Real McCoy 1930-02-01
Angora Love 1929-12-14
Skirt Shy 1929-11-30
The Hoose-Gow 1929-11-16
Bacon Grabbers 1929-10-19
They Go Boom! 1929-09-21
Boxing Gloves 1929-09-09
Snappy Sneezer 1929-07-29
Men O' War 1929-06-29
Leaping Love 1929-06-22
Little Mother 1929-06-01
Berth Marks 1929-06-01
Double Whoopee 1929-05-18
Movie Night 1929-05-11
That's My Wife 1929-03-23
Wrong Again 1929-02-23
A Pair of Tights 1929-02-03
Two Tars 1928-11-03
Captain Swagger 1928-10-13
Should Married Men Go Home? 1928-09-08
You're Darn Tootin' 1928-04-21
Came the Dawn 1928-03-03
Leave 'Em Laughing 1928-01-28
The Battle of the Century 1927-12-31
Call of the Cuckoo 1927-10-15
The Second 100 Years 1927-10-08
The Second 100 Years 1927-10-08
Sugar Daddies 1927-09-10
College 1927-09-10
With Love and Hisses 1927-08-28
Fluttering Hearts 1927-06-19
Love 'Em and Weep 1927-06-12
Eve's Love Letters 1927-05-28
Forgotten Sweeties 1927-04-10
Duck Soup 1927-03-13
Seeing the World 1927-02-13
Bromo and Juliet 1926-09-19
Thundering Fleas 1926-07-18
Mighty Like a Moose 1926-07-18
Unfriendly Enemies 1925-09-13
Madame Sans Jane 1925-08-09
Isn't Life Terrible? 1925-07-05
A Ten-Minute Egg 1924-07-19
Near Dublin 1924-05-10
Zeb vs. Paprika 1924-03-16
Postage Due 1924-02-17
The Cowboy Sheik 1924-02-03
Smithy 1924-01-19
Mother's Joy 1923-12-23
Do Me a Favor 1922-05-21
The Janitor 1921-12-16

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