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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be an opera singer and also had success as an inventor. Among his innovations were a sliding theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips. His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. He played "Little John" in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring in a pivotal confrontation with the Earl of Essex, portrayed by Flynn. His other films include the 1922 epic The Trap with Lon Chaney, 1928's Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; all released in 1934; the 1937 film Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Fighting 69th with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien; They Drive By Night with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; Virginia City with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the 1943 movie This Is the Army with Irving Berlin. He also co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the successful western film Dodge City (1939) where he played the slightly dimwitted but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies. Hale directed eight movies during the 1920s and 1930s and acted in 235 theatrical films.
Acted in 162
2000s
- 2008
- 2005
1980s
- 1982
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
1950s
- 1950
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Little John
Colt .45
Sheriff Harris
1940s
- 1949
Always Leave Them Laughing
Sam Washburn
The House Across the Street
J.B. Grennell
The Younger Brothers
Sheriff Knudson
- 1948
Adventures of Don Juan
Leporello
Whiplash
Terrance O'Leary
My Girl Tisa
Dugan
- 1947
My Wild Irish Rose
John Donovan
That Way with Women
Herman Brinker
- 1946
The Time, The Place and The Girl
John Braden
Perilous Holiday
Dr. Lilley
- 1945
Escape in the Desert
Dr. Orville Tedder
God Is My Co-Pilot
Big Mike Harrigan
Hotel Berlin
Herman Plottke
Roughly Speaking
Lew Morton
- 1944
Janie
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Steve Gillis
Make Your Own Bed
Walter Whirtle
- 1943
This Is the Army
Sergeant McGee
Action in the North Atlantic
Boats O'Hara
- 1942
Desperate Journey
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Juke Girl
Yippee 'Yip'
Captains of the Clouds
Tiny Murphy
- 1941
The Smiling Ghost
Norton
Manpower
Jumbo Wells
Thieves Fall Out
Robert Barnes
The Great Mr. Nobody
'Skipper' Martin
- 1940
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Capt. Bullwinkle
Three Cheers for the Irish
Gallagher
Alice in Movieland
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Green Hell
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
1930s
- 1939
On Your Toes
Sergei Alexandrovitch
Dust Be My Destiny
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Pacific Liner
Gallagher
- 1938
Listen, Darling
J.J. Slattery
The Sisters
Sam Johnson
Valley of the Giants
'Ox' Smith
Four Men and a Prayer
Furnoy
- 1937
Music for Madame
Detective Flugelman
Thin Ice
Baron
High, Wide and Handsome
Walt Brennan
The Prince and the Pauper
Captain of the Guard
Jump for Glory
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
God's Country and the Woman
Bjorn Skalka
- 1936
Our Relations
Joe Grogan
Yellowstone
John Alexander Hardigan
Parole!
John Borchard
The Country Beyond
Jim Alison
A Message to Garcia
Dr. Ivan Krug
Two in the Dark
Inspector Florio
- 1935
Another Face
Charles L. Kellar
The Last Days of Pompeii
Burbix
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Crusades
Blondel
The Good Fairy
Maurice Schlapkohl
Grand Old Girl
Click Dade
- 1934
The Little Minister
Rob Daw
Babbitt
Charlie McKelvey
Imitation of Life
Martin the Furniture Man
There's Always Tomorrow
Henry
Great Expectations
Joe Gargery
Little Man, What Now?
Holgar Jachman
Fog Over Frisco
Chief O'Malley
Picture Brides
Von Luden
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Sam
- 1933
Destination Unknown
Lundstrom
The Eleventh Commandment
Max Stager
What Price Decency
Klaus van Leyden
- 1932
The Match King
Borglund
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mr Simpson
So Big!
Klass Pool
Union Depot
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
- 1931
The Sea Ghost
Capt. Greg Winters
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Hubert
The Night Angel
Biezel
Aloha
Stevens
1920s
- 1929
Red Hot Rhythm
Walter
The Sap
Jim Belden
Sailor's Holiday
Adam Pike
The Leatherneck
Otto Schmidt
- 1928
The Spieler
Flash
Sal of Singapore
Captain Erickson
Power
Hanson
The Cop
Mather
Oh Kay!
Jansen
Skyscraper
Slim Strede
- 1927
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Singapore Jack
Vanity
'Happy' Dan Morgan
- 1925
Dick Turpin
Tom King
- 1924
Troubles of a Bride
Gordon Blake
For Another Woman
Movie
- 1923
Black Oxen
Prince Rohenhauer
Long Live the King
King Karl
Cameo Kirby
Colonel Moreau
Hollywood
Alan Hale
The Eleventh Hour
Prince Stefan de Bernie
Main Street
Miles Bjornstam
The Covered Wagon
Sam Woodhull
Quicksands
Ferrago
- 1922
Shirley of the Circus
Max
The Dictator
Sabos
The Trap
Benson
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
One Glorious Day
Ben Wadley
- 1921
The Great Impersonation
Gustave Seimann
The Fox
Rufus B. Coulter
Over the Wire
James Twyford
A Wise Fool
George Masson
The Barbarian
Mark Grant
A Voice in the Dark
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
1910s
- 1918
Moral Suicide
'Lucky' Travers
- 1917
The Eternal Temptress
Count Rudolph Frizel
Life's Whirlpool
Dr. Henry Grey
The Price She Paid
Stanley Baird
- 1916
The Americano
Movie
The Love Thief
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Scarlet Oath
John Huntington
The Beast
Cowboy
Sold Out
Halsey Brent
- 1915
Dora Thorne
Hugh Fernely
East Lynne
Sir Francis Levinson
- 1914
The Woman in Black
Frank Mansfield
The Power of the Press
Sam Freeborn
The Little Widow
Movie
Strongheart
Ralph Thorne
Directed 6
1920s
- 1927
Rubber Tires
Director
- 1926
Risky Business
Director
The Sporting Lover
Director
Forbidden Waters
Director
- 1925
Braveheart
Director
The Wedding Song
Director
Appearances3
1940s
- 1944
Hollywood Canteen
Self
- 1943
1930s
- 1937
Breakdowns of 1937
Self