Charlie Hall
Acting • Born 1899-08-18 – Died 1959-12-07
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.
Filmography
209 credits
Leaping Love
Movie • 1929
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Hold Your Temper
Movie • 1933
Framing Father
Movie • 1942
Silver Slipper Waiter
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Window-Washer (uncredited)
Unfriendly Enemies
Movie • 1925
First Soldier Over the Top
Madame Sans Jane
Movie • 1925
Steward
Forgotten Sweeties
Movie • 1927
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1933
Tire thief's partner
Sugar Daddies
Movie • 1927
Hotel extra
One of the Smiths
Movie • 1931
Dancer (uncredited)
Be Big!
Movie • 1931
Bellboy
Double Whoopee
Movie • 1929
Cabdriver
Leave 'Em Laughing
Movie • 1928
The Landlord
Fluttering Hearts
Movie • 1927
Man under car
The Live Ghost
Movie • 1934
Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall)
The Second 100 Years
Movie • 1927
Convict
They Go Boom!
Movie • 1929
Landlord
Them Thar Hills
Movie • 1934
Mr. Hall
Tit for Tat
Movie • 1935
Mr. Hall
Thundering Fleas
Movie • 1926
Musician
Dressed to Kill
Movie • 1946
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Limelight
Movie • 1952
Newsboy (uncredited)
Morning Glory
Movie • 1933
Actor (uncredited)
The Milkman
Movie • 1950
Ed (uncredited)
So You Want to Play the Piano
Movie • 1956
San Antonio Rose
Movie • 1941
Waitress
Mighty Like a Moose
Movie • 1926
Shoe Shine Man
Boxing Gloves
Movie • 1929
Sidewalk diner attendant
Isn't Life Terrible?
Movie • 1925
Steward Who Drops Plates
Nature in the Wrong
Movie • 1933
Organ Grinder
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1967
A Slip at the Switch
Movie • 1932
Second Tramp
Just a Pain in the Parlor
Movie • 1932
Servant
Seeing the World
Movie • 1927
English chauffeur
Little Mother
Movie • 1929
Taxi driver
Illegal
Movie • 1955
Bellhop (uncredited)
Top Hat
Movie • 1935
(uncredited)
Man From Headquarters
Movie • 1942
Newspaper Photographer
The Lodger
Movie • 1944
Comedian
Hey! Hey! USA
Movie • 1938
Leary's pal
The Ape Man
Movie • 1943
Barney
Bear Shooters
Movie • 1930
Charlie
Sealskins
Movie • 1932
Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
Show Business
Movie • 1932
Train Passenger (uncredited)
A Pair of Tights
Movie • 1929
Man in Fender-Bender (uncredited)
Movie Night
Movie • 1929
Audience Member (uncredited)
Mother's Joy
Movie • 1923
Soup and Fish
Movie • 1934
Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
Sing Sister Sing
Movie • 1935
Porter (uncredited)
The Real McCoy
Movie • 1930
Mountain Man (uncredited)
Came the Dawn
Movie • 1928
Little Moving Man (uncredited)
Near Dublin
Movie • 1924
Villager
Dollar Dizzy
Movie • 1930
Bellhop
Hot Money
Movie • 1935
Tenant (uncredited)
Opened by Mistake
Movie • 1934
Intern (uncredited)
Maids a la Mode
Movie • 1933
Party Guest (uncredited)
One-Horse Farmers
Movie • 1934
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Smithy
Movie • 1924
Worker
Postage Due
Movie • 1924
Customer
Below Zero
Movie • 1930
Backs to Nature
Movie • 1933
Hunter (uncredited)
The Fighting Parson
Movie • 1930
The Waiter (uncredited)
The Music Box
Movie • 1932
Postman (uncredited)
Skirt Shy
Movie • 1929
Postman (uncredited)
Call of the Cuckoo
Movie • 1927
Asylum Inmate
War Mamas
Movie • 1931
Doughboy (uncredited)
The Pajama Party
Movie • 1931
Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
The Soilers
Movie • 1932
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Treasure Blues
Movie • 1935
Moving Man (uncredited)
Strictly Unreliable
Movie • 1932
The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
Twin Triplets
Movie • 1935
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
Sneak Easily
Movie • 1932
Page
On the Loose
Movie • 1931
Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
Beauty and the Bus
Movie • 1933
Theatre Usher (uncredited)
Babes in the Goods
Movie • 1934
Spectator (uncredited)
One Track Minds
Movie • 1933
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Maid in Hollywood
Movie • 1934
Cameraman (uncredited)
An All American Toothache
Movie • 1936
(uncredited)
Air Fright
Movie • 1933
Pilot (uncredited)
Let's Do Things
Movie • 1931
Waiter (uncredited)
Sweepstakes
Movie • 1931
Little Cook
Abie's Irish Rose
Movie • 1946
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Busy Bodies
Movie • 1933
Shop Worker (uncredited)
Berth Marks
Movie • 1929
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Kentucky Kernels
Movie • 1934
Cigarette Stand Owner (uncredited)
Men O' War
Movie • 1929
Boater (uncredited)
Laughing Gravy
Movie • 1931
Landlord (uncredited)
Sons of the Desert
Movie • 1933
Waiter (uncredited)
Saps at Sea
Movie • 1940
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Our Relations
Movie • 1936
Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
Me and My Pal
Movie • 1933
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Playing at Politics
Movie • 1931
Elevator Operator
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1932
Janitor (uncredited)
The Skulls
Movie • 1931
The Landlord
The Chiselers
Movie • 1931
Bellboy / Landlord
Twice Two
Movie • 1933
Delivery Boy
Shivering and Shaking
Movie • 1930
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Thicker Than Water
Movie • 1935
Bank Teller (uncredited)
The Hoose-Gow
Movie • 1929
Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Movie • 1931
Five Came Back
Movie • 1939
Airport Worker (uncredited)
Ocean Swells
Movie • 1934
Sailor
Man About Town
Movie • 1939
Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
Bachelor Mother
Movie • 1939
Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
The Pip from Pittsburg
Movie • 1931
Kay's Dancing Partner (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1939
Mercury (uncredited)
The Cowboy Sheik
Movie • 1924
Party guest
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
Angora Love
Movie • 1929
Neighbor
Niagara Falls
Movie • 1941
Bellhop (uncredited)
Babes in Toyland
Movie • 1934
Townsman (uncredited)
Bacon Grabbers
Movie • 1929
Truck Driver
The Night Life
Movie • 1930
Cabdriver (uncredited)
Duck Soup
Movie • 1927
Moving man (uncredited)
Should Married Men Go Home?
Movie • 1928
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Love 'Em and Weep
Movie • 1927
Tillsbury's Butler
The Battle of the Century
Movie • 1927
Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
That's My Wife
Movie • 1929
Waiter (uncredited)
Wrong Again
Movie • 1929
Neighbor
The Second 100 Years
Movie • 1927
Convict (uncredited)
With Love and Hisses
Movie • 1927
Soldier (uncredited)
You're Darn Tootin'
Movie • 1928
Musician
Bonnie Scotland
Movie • 1935
Native Henchman (uncredited)
Vigil in the Night
Movie • 1940
Courtroom Spectator
Mexican Spitfire
Movie • 1940
Elevator Operator
Eve's Love Letters
Movie • 1927
Cab driver (uncredited)
College
Movie • 1927
Coxswain (uncredited)
A Ten-Minute Egg
Movie • 1924
First Bellhop (uncredited)
The Panic Is On
Movie • 1931
Man on the Street (uncredited)
Blotto
Movie • 1930
Cabdriver
Come Clean
Movie • 1931
Ice Cream Attendant
Let's Go Native
Movie • 1930
Mover (uncredited)
Top Sergeant Mulligan
Movie • 1941
Budd Doolittle
Rough Necking
Movie • 1934
Postman
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Movie • 1934
Coach Driver
Rhapsody in Brew
Movie • 1933
Waiter (uncredited)
The Kick-Off!
Movie • 1931
Man on the Street (uncredited)
Too Many Women
Movie • 1932
Man on Street (uncredited)
Wild Babies!
Movie • 1932
Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
A Chump at Oxford
Movie • 1940
Student
Any Old Port!
Movie • 1932
Stan's Second
Keg o' My Heart
Movie • 1933
Waiter (uncredited)
Love Pains
Movie • 1932
Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
Mama Loves Papa
Movie • 1931
Milkman (uncredited)
One Night in the Tropics
Movie • 1940
Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
Fifty Million Husbands
Movie • 1930
Neighbor (uncredited)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1968
Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
An Apple in His Eye
Movie • 1941
Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
Primrose Path
Movie • 1940
Man in Diner (uncredited)
Millionaires in Prison
Movie • 1940
Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
Captain Swagger
Movie • 1928
Messenger
The Druggist's Dilemma
Movie • 1933
Charlie Zeno
In Love at 40
Movie • 1935
Man Getting Shave
Diplomaniacs
Movie • 1933
Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
Cynara
Movie • 1932
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Snappy Sneezer
Movie • 1929
Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
Shall We Dance
Movie • 1937
Bartender (uncredited)
Captain Fury
Movie • 1939
Gossiping Citizen
Mr. Bride
Movie • 1932
Tipsy Ship Passenger
Another Wild Idea
Movie • 1934
Man Pushed into Fountain
I'll Fix It
Movie • 1941
The Laundry Man
Bromo and Juliet
Movie • 1926
Stagehand (uncredited)
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie • 1940
Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
Curtain Call
Movie • 1940
Second Waiter
Father Steps Out
Movie • 1941
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Movie • 1940
Elevator Boy
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Movie • 1941
Nightclub Waiter
The Undie-World
Movie • 1934
T.N.T. Room Busboy
Bridal Bail
Movie • 1934
Irate Movie Patron
Love on a Ladder
Movie • 1934
Pool Hall Patron
A Quiet Fourth
Movie • 1941
Edgar's Neighbor
Million Dollar Legs
Movie • 1932
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
A Trailer Tragedy
Movie • 1940
Homeless Thief in Washroom
Night of Goblins
Movie • 1930
Passenger
Haunted at Midnight
Movie • 1931
Man on Train
His Butler's Sister
Movie • 1943
Porter
So's Your Uncle
Movie • 1943
Waiter
Honeymoon Lodge
Movie • 1943
Hotel Handyman
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Movie • 1944
Apartment House Waiter
Radio Rampage
Movie • 1944
Jack - Radio Repairman
Two Tars
Movie • 1928
Shopkeeper
Hellzapoppin'
Movie • 1941
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
King Kong
Movie • 1933
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
In Society
Movie • 1944
Mugg (uncredited)
On Stage Everybody
Movie • 1945
Painter (uncredited)
Do Me a Favor
Movie • 1922
A Fireman
The Falcon Takes Over
Movie • 1942
Louie (Uncredited)
Dance of the Cookoos
Movie • 1982
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
Zeb vs. Paprika
Movie • 1924
The Janitor
Movie • 1921
The Big Street
Movie • 1942
Caviar Waiter in New York (uncredited)
What Fur
Movie • 1933
Hi'–Neighbor!
Movie • 1934
Window Washer
Mike Fright
Movie • 1934
Elevator Operator
What Price Hollywood?
Movie • 1932
Reporter (uncredited)
Only Saps Work
Movie • 1930
Waiter (uncredited)
Men of the North
Movie • 1930
Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
Movie • 2024
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Hi, Beautiful
Movie • 1944
Milkman (uncredited)
Must We Marry?
Movie • 1928
Los cazadores de osos
Movie • 1930
Bootlegger
Crooks Can't Win
Movie • 1928
'Bull' Savage
Next Week-End
Movie • 1934
Big Business
Movie • 1929
Neighbor (uncredited)
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Kevin
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Jake - Roofer
Topper
TV • 1953
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)