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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 18, 1899
Died
December 7, 1959
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Charles Hall
- Charley Hall
- Charles Hill
Charlie Hall
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
10.0
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
0.0
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
Dance of the Cookoos
1982
🎬
0.0
Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
6.0
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
3.7
No Hiding Place
1959
🎬
4.0
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956
6.4
Bellhop (uncredited)
Illegal
1955
7.8
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
6.0
Kevin
Cheyenne
1955
5.8
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
Topper
1953
Credits
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
10.0
Dance of the Cookoos
as Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
1982
0.0
🎬
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
as Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
0.0
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
6.0
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7
🎬
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956
4.0
Illegal
as Bellhop (uncredited)
1955
6.4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
1955
7.8
Cheyenne
as Kevin
1955
6.0
Topper
as Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
1953
5.8
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Jake - Roofer
1952
7.2
Limelight
as Newsboy (uncredited)
1952
7.9
The Milkman
as Ed (uncredited)
1950
8.0
Abie's Irish Rose
as Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
1946
0.0
Sister Kenny
as Airport Attendant (uncredited)
1946
6.8
Dressed to Kill
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1946
6.6
Without Reservations
as Window-Washer (uncredited)
1946
6.2
On Stage Everybody
as Painter (uncredited)
1945
0.0
Hi, Beautiful
as Milkman (uncredited)
1944
9.5
In Society
as Mugg (uncredited)
1944
5.8
Girls! Girls! Girls!
as Apartment House Waiter
1944
0.0
🎬
Radio Rampage
as Jack - Radio Repairman
1944
0.0
The Lodger
as Comedian
1944
6.4
His Butler's Sister
as Porter
1943
7.1
So's Your Uncle
as Waiter
1943
5.0
Honeymoon Lodge
as Hotel Handyman
1943
0.0
The Ape Man
as Barney
1943
4.3
The Big Street
as Caviar Waiter in New York (Uncredited)
1942
5.6
The Falcon Takes Over
as Louie (Uncredited)
1942
6.2
Framing Father
as Silver Slipper Waiter
1942
0.0
Man From Headquarters
as Newspaper Photographer
1942
6.0
Hellzapoppin'
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1941
7.2
🎬
A Quiet Fourth
as Edgar's Neighbor
1941
0.0
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
as Nightclub Waiter
1941
4.1
Niagara Falls
as Bellhop (uncredited)
1941
6.8
Top Sergeant Mulligan
as Budd Doolittle
1941
5.0
🎬
I'll Fix It
as The Laundry Man
1941
0.0
Father Steps Out
as Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
1941
3.0
San Antonio Rose
as Waitress
1941
7.0
An Apple in His Eye
as Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
1941
0.0
One Night in the Tropics
as Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
1940
5.6
Mexican Spitfire Out West
as Elevator Boy
1940
4.6
🎬
A Trailer Tragedy
as Homeless Thief in Washroom
1940
0.0
Millionaires in Prison
as Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
1940
6.0
You Can't Fool Your Wife
as Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
1940
4.5
Saps at Sea
as Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1940
6.8
Curtain Call
as Second Waiter
1940
7.3
Primrose Path
as Man in Diner (uncredited)
1940
6.6
Vigil in the Night
as Courtroom Spectator
1940
5.5
A Chump at Oxford
as Student
1940
6.8
Mexican Spitfire
as Elevator Operator
1940
4.6
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Mercury (uncredited)
1939
7.3
Bachelor Mother
as Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
1939
7.1
Man About Town
as Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
1939
3.6
Five Came Back
as Airport Worker (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Captain Fury
as Gossiping Citizen
1939
4.9
Hey! Hey! USA
as Leary's pal
1938
7.0
Shall We Dance
as Bartender (uncredited)
1937
7.2
Our Relations
as Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
1936
7.0
🎬
An All American Toothache
as (uncredited)
1936
0.0
🎬
Hot Money
as Tenant (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Twin Triplets
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1935
0.0
🎬
In Love at 40
as Man Getting Shave
1935
0.0
Top Hat
as (uncredited)
1935
7.2
Bonnie Scotland
as Native Henchman (uncredited)
1935
6.6
Thicker Than Water
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
1935
7.2
Sing Sister Sing
as Porter (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Treasure Blues
as Moving Man (uncredited)
1935
0.0
Tit for Tat
as Mr. Hall
1935
6.9
Babes in Toyland
as Townsman (uncredited)
1934
6.3
The Live Ghost
as Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall)
1934
7.1
Kentucky Kernels
as Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
1934
6.3
🎬
Opened by Mistake
as Intern (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Mike Fright
as Elevator Operator
1934
5.8
🎬
Ocean Swells
as Sailor
1934
0.0
🎬
One-Horse Farmers
as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Them Thar Hills
as Mr. Hall
1934
7.5
Cockeyed Cavaliers
as Coach Driver
1934
5.3
Another Wild Idea
as Man Pushed into Fountain
1934
3.3
Maid in Hollywood
as Cameraman (uncredited)
1934
0.0
Rough Necking
as Postman
1934
10.0
The Undie-World
as T.N.T. Room Busboy
1934
9.0
Soup and Fish
as Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
1934
0.0
🎬
Love on a Ladder
as Pool Hall Patron
1934
1.0
Hi'–Neighbor!
as Window Washer
1934
7.9
Babes in the Goods
as Spectator (uncredited)
1934
9.0
Bridal Bail
as Irate Movie Patron
1934
3.0
Sons of the Desert
as Waiter (uncredited)
1933
7.0
Air Fright
as Pilot (uncredited)
1933
5.5
Hold Your Temper
1933
0.0
Backs to Nature
as Hunter (uncredited)
1933
5.0
🎬
Keg o' My Heart
as Waiter (uncredited)
1933
0.0
What Fur
1933
0.0
Busy Bodies
as Shop Worker (uncredited)
1933
7.3
🎬
Rhapsody in Brew
as Waiter (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Beauty and the Bus
as Theatre Usher (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Morning Glory
as Actor (uncredited)
1933
6.1
The Midnight Patrol
as Tire thief's partner
1933
6.5
🎬
The Druggist's Dilemma
as Charlie Zeno
1933
0.0
One Track Minds
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Diplomaniacs
as Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
1933
7.0
Me and My Pal
as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1933
6.4
Nature in the Wrong
as Organ Grinder
1933
0.0
King Kong
as Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
1933
7.6
Maids a la Mode
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1933
1.0
Twice Two
as Delivery Boy
1933
6.7
Cynara
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1932
4.7
Mr. Bride
as Tipsy Ship Passenger
1932
5.5
Sneak Easily
as Page
1932
0.0
The Soilers
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1932
6.2
Pack Up Your Troubles
as Janitor (uncredited)
1932
6.7
Show Business
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1932
6.0
🎬
A Slip at the Switch
as Second Tramp
1932
0.0
Million Dollar Legs
as Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
1932
6.6
What Price Hollywood?
as Reporter (uncredited)
1932
6.8
Wild Babies!
as Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
1932
1.0
Too Many Women
as Man on Street (uncredited)
1932
9.0
Strictly Unreliable
as The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
1932
5.5
🎬
Just a Pain in the Parlor
as Servant
1932
3.0
The Music Box
as Postman (uncredited)
1932
7.5
Any Old Port!
as Stan's Second
1932
6.9
🎬
Love Pains
as Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
1932
0.0
Sealskins
as Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
1932
5.5
On the Loose
as Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
1931
6.8
🎬
The Kick-Off!
as Man on the Street (uncredited)
1931
2.0
War Mamas
as Doughboy (uncredited)
1931
0.0
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931
5.4
Mama Loves Papa
as Milkman (uncredited)
1931
9.0
The Pajama Party
as Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
7.0
Come Clean
as Ice Cream Attendant
1931
7.2
The Panic Is On
as Man on the Street (uncredited)
1931
2.0
Sweepstakes
as Little Cook
1931
4.5
Let's Do Things
as Waiter (uncredited)
1931
0.0
One of the Smiths
as Dancer (uncredited)
1931
6.0
Haunted at Midnight
as Man on Train
1931
7.8
Playing at Politics
as Elevator Operator
1931
6.9
The Skulls
as The Landlord
1931
6.1
Laughing Gravy
as Landlord (uncredited)
1931
7.2
The Pip from Pittsburg
as Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
1931
6.3
Be Big!
as Bellboy
1931
6.7
The Chiselers
as Bellboy / Landlord
1931
6.6
Only Saps Work
as Waiter (uncredited)
1930
5.5
🎬
Los cazadores de osos
as Bootlegger
1930
0.0
Night of Goblins
as Passenger
1930
6.0
Dollar Dizzy
as Bellhop
1930
6.0
Men of the North
as Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
1930
5.0
Let's Go Native
as Mover (uncredited)
1930
7.5
Fifty Million Husbands
as Neighbor (uncredited)
1930
4.2
Bear Shooters
as Charlie
1930
5.3
Shivering and Shaking
as Street Cleaner (uncredited)
1930
6.8
Below Zero
1930
6.5
The Night Life
as Cabdriver (uncredited)
1930
7.2
Blotto
as Cabdriver
1930
7.2
The Fighting Parson
as The Waiter (uncredited)
1930
0.0
The Real McCoy
as Mountain Man (uncredited)
1930
6.5
Angora Love
as Neighbor
1929
6.4
Skirt Shy
as Postman (uncredited)
1929
2.0
The Hoose-Gow
as Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
1929
6.6
Bacon Grabbers
as Truck Driver
1929
6.3
They Go Boom!
as Landlord
1929
6.8
Boxing Gloves
as Sidewalk diner attendant
1929
6.0
Snappy Sneezer
as Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
1929
6.5
Men O' War
as Boater (uncredited)
1929
6.7
Leaping Love
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1929
0.0
Berth Marks
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
1929
6.7
Little Mother
as Taxi driver
1929
6.2
Double Whoopee
as Cabdriver
1929
6.7
Movie Night
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1929
6.0
That's My Wife
as Waiter (uncredited)
1929
6.6
Wrong Again
as Neighbor
1929
6.7
A Pair of Tights
as Man in Fender-Bender (uncredited)
1929
7.6
Must We Marry?
1928
0.0
Two Tars
as Shopkeeper
1928
6.7
Captain Swagger
as Messenger
1928
0.0
Should Married Men Go Home?
as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
1928
6.4
You're Darn Tootin'
as Musician
1928
5.8
Came the Dawn
as Little Moving Man (uncredited)
1928
6.5
Leave 'Em Laughing
as The Landlord
1928
5.9
The Battle of the Century
as Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
1927
6.8
Call of the Cuckoo
as Asylum Inmate
1927
5.7
The Second 100 Years
as Convict
1927
6.2
The Second 100 Years
as Convict (uncredited)
1927
6.2
Sugar Daddies
as Hotel extra
1927
5.9
College
as Coxswain (uncredited)
1927
6.7
With Love and Hisses
as Soldier (uncredited)
1927
6.1
Fluttering Hearts
as Man under car
1927
5.3
Love 'Em and Weep
as Tillsbury's Butler
1927
5.5
Eve's Love Letters
as Cab driver (uncredited)
1927
6.0
Forgotten Sweeties
1927
3.0
Duck Soup
as Moving man (uncredited)
1927
6.4
Seeing the World
as English chauffeur
1927
6.1
Bromo and Juliet
as Stagehand (uncredited)
1926
5.6
Thundering Fleas
as Musician
1926
5.6
Mighty Like a Moose
as Shoe Shine Man
1926
6.7
Unfriendly Enemies
as First Soldier Over the Top
1925
6.0
Madame Sans Jane
as Steward
1925
2.0
Isn't Life Terrible?
as Steward Who Drops Plates
1925
5.8
A Ten-Minute Egg
as First Bellhop (uncredited)
1924
5.0
Near Dublin
as Villager
1924
6.0
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
5.5
Postage Due
as Customer
1924
5.3
🎬
The Cowboy Sheik
as Party guest
1924
5.0
Smithy
as Worker
1924
5.5
Mother's Joy
1923
5.2
Do Me a Favor
as A Fireman
1922
5.0
🎬
The Janitor
1921
0.0