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). 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.
Acted in 189
2020s
- 2024
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1980s
- 1982
Dance of the Cookoos
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
1960s
- 1967
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Movie
1950s
- 1959
- 1955
- 1953
- 1952
- 1950
The Milkman
Ed (uncredited)
1940s
- 1946
Abie's Irish Rose
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Sister Kenny
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
- 1945
On Stage Everybody
Painter (uncredited)
- 1944
Hi, Beautiful
Milkman (uncredited)
In Society
Mugg (uncredited)
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Apartment House Waiter
- 1943
His Butler's Sister
Porter
So's Your Uncle
Waiter
Honeymoon Lodge
Hotel Handyman
The Ape Man
Barney
- 1942
Police Bullets
Rabbit
The Big Street
Waiter in New York (uncredited)
The Falcon Takes Over
Louie (Uncredited)
Framing Father
Silver Slipper Waiter
Man From Headquarters
Newspaper Photographer
- 1941
Hellzapoppin'
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Nightclub Waiter
Niagara Falls
Bellhop (uncredited)
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Budd Doolittle
Father Steps Out
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
San Antonio Rose
Waitress
An Apple in His Eye
Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
They Met in Argentina
Sailor in Cantina Brawl (uncredited)
- 1940
One Night in the Tropics
Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Elevator Boy
Millionaires in Prison
Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Saps at Sea
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Curtain Call
Second Waiter
Primrose Path
Man in Diner (uncredited)
Vigil in the Night
Courtroom Spectator
Mexican Spitfire
Elevator Operator
1930s
- 1939
Bachelor Mother
Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
Man About Town
Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
Five Came Back
Airport Worker (uncredited)
Captain Fury
Gossiping Citizen
- 1938
Hey! Hey! USA
Leary's pal
- 1937
Shall We Dance
Bartender (uncredited)
- 1936
Our Relations
Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
- 1935
Hot Money
Tenant (uncredited)
Twin Triplets
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Bonnie Scotland
Native Henchman (uncredited)
Thicker Than Water
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Sing Sister Sing
Porter (uncredited)
Treasure Blues
Moving Man (uncredited)
Tit for Tat
Mr. Hall
- 1934
The Live Ghost
Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall) (uncredited)
Kentucky Kernels
Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
Mike Fright
Elevator Operator
Them Thar Hills
Mr. Hall
Another Wild Idea
Man Pushed into Fountain
Maid in Hollywood
Cameraman (uncredited)
Rough Necking
Postman
The Undie-World
T.N.T. Room Busboy
Soup and Fish
Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
Hi'–Neighbor!
Window Washer
Babes in the Goods
Spectator (uncredited)
Bridal Bail
Irate Movie Patron
- 1933
Air Fright
Pilot (uncredited)
Hold Your Temper
Movie
Backs to Nature
Hunter (uncredited)
What Fur
Movie
Busy Bodies
Shop Worker (uncredited)
Beauty and the Bus
Theatre Usher (uncredited)
Morning Glory
Actor (uncredited)
The Midnight Patrol
Tire thief's partner
One Track Minds
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Diplomaniacs
Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
Me and My Pal
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Nature in the Wrong
Organ Grinder
Maids a la Mode
Party Guest (uncredited)
Twice Two
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- 1932
Cynara
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Mr. Bride
Tipsy Ship Passenger
Sneak Easily
Page
The Soilers
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Show Business
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
What Price Hollywood?
Reporter (uncredited)
Wild Babies!
Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
Too Many Women
Man on Street (uncredited)
Strictly Unreliable
The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
The Music Box
Postman (uncredited)
Any Old Port!
Stan's Second (uncredited)
Sealskins
Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
- 1931
On the Loose
Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
War Mamas
Doughboy (uncredited)
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Movie
Mama Loves Papa
Milkman (uncredited)
The Pajama Party
Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
Come Clean
Ice Cream Attendant
The Panic Is On
Man on the Street (uncredited)
Sweepstakes
Little Cook
Let's Do Things
Waiter (uncredited)
One of the Smiths
Dancer (uncredited)
Haunted at Midnight
Man on Train
The Skulls
The Landlord
Laughing Gravy
Landlord (uncredited)
The Pip from Pittsburg
Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Be Big!
Bellboy (uncredited)
The Chiselers
Bellboy / Landlord
- 1930
Only Saps Work
Waiter (uncredited)
Night of Goblins
Passenger
Dollar Dizzy
Bellhop
Men of the North
Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
Let's Go Native
Mover (uncredited)
Fifty Million Husbands
Neighbor (uncredited)
Bear Shooters
Charlie
Shivering and Shaking
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
The Night Life
Cabdriver (uncredited)
Blotto
Cabdriver
The Fighting Parson
The Waiter (uncredited)
The Real McCoy
Mountain Man (uncredited)
1920s
- 1929
Angora Love
Neighbor
Skirt Shy
Postman (uncredited)
The Hoose-Gow
Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
They Go Boom!
Landlord
Boxing Gloves
Sidewalk diner attendant
Snappy Sneezer
Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
Men O' War
Boater (uncredited)
Leaping Love
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Little Mother
Taxi driver
Berth Marks
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Double Whoopee
Cabdriver
Movie Night
Audience Member (uncredited)
Big Business
Neighbor (uncredited)
That's My Wife
Waiter (uncredited)
Wrong Again
Neighbor
A Pair of Tights
Man in Fender-Bender (uncredited)
- 1928
Must We Marry?
Movie
Two Tars
Shopkeeper
Should Married Men Go Home?
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
You're Darn Tootin'
Musician
Crooks Can't Win
'Bull' Savage
Came the Dawn
Little Moving Man (uncredited)
Leave 'Em Laughing
The Landlord
- 1927
The Battle of the Century
Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
Call of the Cuckoo
Asylum Inmate
The Second 100 Years
Convict, Convict (uncredited)
Sugar Daddies
Hotel extra
With Love and Hisses
Soldier (uncredited)
Fluttering Hearts
Man under car
Love 'Em and Weep
Tillsbury's Butler
Eve's Love Letters
Cab driver (uncredited)
Forgotten Sweeties
Movie
Duck Soup
Moving man (uncredited)
Seeing the World
English chauffeur
Are Brunettes Safe?
Villager at Train Station (uncredited)
- 1926
Bromo and Juliet
Stagehand (uncredited)
Thundering Fleas
Musician
Mighty Like a Moose
Shoe Shine Man
- 1925
Unfriendly Enemies
First Soldier Over the Top
Madame Sans Jane
Steward
Isn't Life Terrible?
Steward Who Drops Plates
- 1924
A Ten-Minute Egg
First Bellhop (uncredited)
Near Dublin
Villager
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie
Postage Due
Customer
The Cowboy Sheik
Party guest
Smithy
Worker
- 1923
Mother's Joy
Movie
- 1922
Do Me a Favor
A Fireman
Wrote 4
1930s
- 1933
Busy Bodies
Writer
Twice Two
Writer
- 1931
Come Clean
Writer
- 1930
Hog Wild
Story