Charlie Hall
Known for Acting · 210 credits
- Born
- 1899-08-18
- Died
- 1959-12-07
- Place of birth
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Charles Hall · Charley Hall · Charles Hill
Biography
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).
Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (205)
King Kong
1933
as Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
as Mercury (uncredited)
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
as Louie (Uncredited)
Top Hat
1935
as (uncredited)
College
1927
as Coxswain (uncredited)
Bachelor Mother
1939
as Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
The Lodger
1944
as Comedian
Limelight
1952
as Newsboy (uncredited)
Illegal
1955
as Bellhop (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
1946
as Airport Attendant (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin'
1941
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Dressed to Kill
1946
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Bonnie Scotland
1935
as Native Henchman (uncredited)
Captain Fury
1939
as Gossiping Citizen
Without Reservations
1946
as Window-Washer (uncredited)
Sons of the Desert
1933
as Waiter (uncredited)
Blotto
1930
as Cabdriver
Primrose Path
1940
as Man in Diner (uncredited)
Bacon Grabbers
1929
as Truck Driver
Boxing Gloves
1929
as Sidewalk diner attendant
Busy Bodies
1933
as Shop Worker (uncredited)
Ocean Swells
1934
as Sailor
Babes in Toyland
1934
as Townsman (uncredited)
Five Came Back
1939
as Airport Worker (uncredited)
Captain Swagger
1928
as Messenger
Shall We Dance
1937
as Bartender (uncredited)
In Society
1944
as Mugg (uncredited)
Leaping Love
1929
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Hey! Hey! USA
1938
as Leary's pal
Honeymoon Lodge
1943
as Hotel Handyman
The Big Street
1942
as Waiter in New York (uncredited)
Them Thar Hills
1934
as Mr. Hall
The Midnight Patrol
1933
as Tire thief's partner
Thundering Fleas
1926
as Musician
The Music Box
1932
as Postman (uncredited)
Maid in Hollywood
1934
as Cameraman (uncredited)
Our Relations
1936
as Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956
Only Saps Work
1930
as Waiter (uncredited)
Morning Glory
1933
as Actor (uncredited)
Come Clean
1931
as Ice Cream Attendant
Mama Loves Papa
1931
as Milkman (uncredited)
Laughing Gravy
1931
as Landlord (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
1940
as Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
The Soilers
1932
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Be Big!
1931
as Bellboy (uncredited)
Fluttering Hearts
1927
as Man under car
Saps at Sea
1940
as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Curtain Call
1940
as Second Waiter
Postage Due
1924
as Customer
Opened by Mistake
1934
as Intern (uncredited)
They Go Boom!
1929
as Landlord
Cynara
1932
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Man About Town
1939
as Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
Show Business
1932
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
What Price Hollywood?
1932
as Reporter (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
1944
as Milkman (uncredited)
The Skulls
1931
as The Landlord
Niagara Falls
1941
as Bellhop (uncredited)
Mexican Spitfire
1940
as Elevator Operator
A Chump at Oxford
1940
as Student
On the Loose
1931
as Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
Men of the North
1930
as Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
Below Zero
1930
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
as Nightclub Waiter
Tit for Tat
1935
as Mr. Hall
Duck Soup
1927
as Moving man (uncredited)
Wrong Again
1929
as Neighbor
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
as Elevator Boy
Abie's Irish Rose
1946
as Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Big Business
1929
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Sugar Daddies
1927
as Hotel extra
The Ape Man
1943
as Barney
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
as Janitor (uncredited)
The Second 100 Years
1927
as Convict / Convict (uncredited)
Double Whoopee
1929
as Cabdriver
Let's Do Things
1931
as Waiter (uncredited)
The Hoose-Gow
1929
as Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
Vigil in the Night
1940
as Courtroom Spectator
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Two Tars
1928
as Shopkeeper
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
as Asylum Inmate
Men O' War
1929
as Boater (uncredited)
His Butler's Sister
1943
as Porter
Thicker Than Water
1935
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
Seeing the World
1927
as English chauffeur
Million Dollar Legs
1932
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
So's Your Uncle
1943
as Waiter
Movie Night
1929
as Audience Member (uncredited)
Millionaires in Prison
1940
as Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
Any Old Port!
1932
as Stan's Second (uncredited)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
as Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
as Coach Driver
Father Steps Out
1941
as Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
Bear Shooters
1930
as Charlie
The Milkman
1950
as Ed (uncredited)
Berth Marks
1929
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
Let's Go Native
1930
as Mover (uncredited)
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
The Battle of the Century
1927
as Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
On Stage Everybody
1945
as Painter (uncredited)
Bromo and Juliet
1926
as Stagehand (uncredited)
Came the Dawn
1928
as Little Moving Man (uncredited)
Kentucky Kernels
1934
as Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
Dollar Dizzy
1930
as Bellhop
Wild Babies!
1932
as Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925
as Steward Who Drops Plates
Sneak Easily
1932
as Page
War Mamas
1931
as Doughboy (uncredited)
Sweepstakes
1931
as Little Cook
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931
Unfriendly Enemies
1925
as First Soldier Over the Top
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
as Tillsbury's Butler
San Antonio Rose
1941
as Waitress
Eve's Love Letters
1927
as Cab driver (uncredited)
Twice Two
1933
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Police Bullets
1942
as Rabbit
An All American Toothache
1936
as (uncredited)
Little Mother
1929
as Taxi driver
Rough Necking
1934
as Postman
About Charlie Hall
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… With 210 credits spanning from 1921 to 2024, Charlie Hall has appeared in 205 films and 5 TV shows.
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- King Kong (1933) — as Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) — as Mercury (uncredited)
- The Falcon Takes Over (1942) — as Louie (Uncredited)
- Top Hat (1935) — as (uncredited)
- College (1927) — as Coxswain (uncredited)
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