Charlie Hall
from Birmingham, England, UK
from Birmingham, 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.
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Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
(Unknown)
So You Want to Play the Piano
(Unknown)
Bellhop (uncredited)
Newsboy (uncredited)
Ed (uncredited)
Window-Washer (uncredited)
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Painter (uncredited)
Comedian
Radio Rampage
Jack - Radio Repairman
Apartment House Waiter
Mugg (uncredited)
Milkman (uncredited)
Barney
Hotel Handyman
Waiter
Porter
Newspaper Photographer
Silver Slipper Waiter
Louie (Uncredited)
Waiter in New York (uncredited)
Rabbit
Sailor in Cantina Brawl (uncredited)
Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
Waitress
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
I'll Fix It
The Laundry Man
Budd Doolittle
Bellhop (uncredited)
Nightclub Waiter
A Quiet Fourth
Edgar's Neighbor
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Elevator Operator
Student
Courtroom Spectator
Man in Diner (uncredited)
Second Waiter
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
A Trailer Tragedy
Homeless Thief in Washroom
Elevator Boy
Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Gossiping Citizen
Airport Worker (uncredited)
Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
Mercury (uncredited)
Leary's pal
Bartender (uncredited)
An All American Toothache
(uncredited)
Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
Mr. Hall
Moving Man (uncredited)
Porter (uncredited)
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Native Henchman (uncredited)
In Love at 40
Man Getting Shave
(uncredited)
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Tenant (uncredited)
Irate Movie Patron
Spectator (uncredited)
Next Week-End
(Unknown)
Window Washer
Love on a Ladder
Pool Hall Patron
Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
T.N.T. Room Busboy
Postman
Cameraman (uncredited)
Man Pushed into Fountain
Coach Driver
Mr. Hall
One-Horse Farmers
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Ocean Swells
Sailor
Elevator Operator
Opened by Mistake
Intern (uncredited)
Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall) (uncredited)
Townsman (uncredited)
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Party Guest (uncredited)
Organ Grinder
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
Train Passenger (uncredited)
The Druggist's Dilemma
Charlie Zeno
Tire thief's partner
Actor (uncredited)
Theatre Usher (uncredited)
Rhapsody in Brew
Waiter (uncredited)
Shop Worker (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Keg o' My Heart
Waiter (uncredited)
Hunter (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Pilot (uncredited)
Waiter (uncredited)
Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
Love Pains
Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
Stan's Second (uncredited)
Postman (uncredited)
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Servant
The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
Man on Street (uncredited)
Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
Reporter (uncredited)
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
A Slip at the Switch
Second Tramp
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Janitor (uncredited)
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Page
Tipsy Ship Passenger
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Bellboy (uncredited)
Bellboy / Landlord
Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
Landlord (uncredited)
The Landlord
Elevator Operator
Man on Train
Dancer (uncredited)
Waiter (uncredited)
Little Cook
Man on the Street (uncredited)
Ice Cream Attendant
Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
Milkman (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Doughboy (uncredited)
The Kick-Off!
Man on the Street (uncredited)
Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
Mountain Man (uncredited)
The Waiter (uncredited)
Cabdriver
Cabdriver (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Charlie
Neighbor (uncredited)
Mover (uncredited)
Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
Bellhop
Passenger
Los cazadores de osos
Bootlegger
Waiter (uncredited)
Story
Man in Fender-Bender (uncredited)
Neighbor
Waiter (uncredited)
Neighbor (uncredited)
Audience Member (uncredited)
Cabdriver
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Taxi driver
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Boater (uncredited)
Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
Sidewalk diner attendant
Landlord
Truck Driver
Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
Postman (uncredited)
Neighbor
The Landlord
Little Moving Man (uncredited)
'Bull' Savage
Musician
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Messenger
Shopkeeper
(Unknown)
Villager at Train Station (uncredited)
English chauffeur
Moving man (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Cab driver (uncredited)
Tillsbury's Butler
Man under car
Soldier (uncredited)
Coxswain (uncredited)
Hotel extra
Convict (uncredited)
Asylum Inmate
Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
Shoe Shine Man
Musician
Stagehand (uncredited)
Steward Who Drops Plates
Steward
First Soldier Over the Top
Worker
Party guest
Customer
(Unknown)
Villager
First Bellhop (uncredited)
(Unknown)
A Fireman
The Janitor
(Unknown)