Thurston Hall
Acting • Born 1882-05-08 – Died 1958-02-20
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures. Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thurston Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
234 credits
Parole Racket
Movie • 1937
Editor Jamison
Tuxedo Junction
Movie • 1941
Doug Gordon
Swing It Soldier
Movie • 1941
Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor
Blondie on a Budget
Movie • 1940
Brice
Footlight Glamour
Movie • 1943
Randolph Wheeler
Blondie's Secret
Movie • 1948
George Whiteside
One Way Ticket
Movie • 1935
Mr. Ritchie
Here Comes Elmer
Movie • 1943
P. J. Ellis
Belle of Old Mexico
Movie • 1950
Horatio Huntington
Shakedown
Movie • 1936
T. Gregory Stuart
City for Conquest
Movie • 1940
Max Leonard
Money To Burn
Movie • 1939
Ellis
The Black Room
Movie • 1935
Col. Paul Hassel
We Can't Have Everything
Movie • 1918
Peter Cheever
The Midnight Patrol
Movie • 1918
Officer Terrence Shannon
The Squaw Man
Movie • 1918
Henry, Jim's Cousin
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie • 1947
Bruce Pierce
The Invisible Woman
Movie • 1940
Hudson
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Movie • 1939
Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie
The Great McGinty
Movie • 1940
Mr. Maxwell
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie • 1947
Wilbur Johnson
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1935
Editor
This Land Is Mine
Movie • 1943
Mayor Henry Manville
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie • 1938
Grant
Cleopatra
Movie • 1917
Antony
Theodora Goes Wild
Movie • 1936
Arthur Stevenson
Professor Beware
Movie • 1938
J.J. Van Buren
Carson City
Movie • 1952
Charles Crocker
Knights of the Bath
Movie • 1951
Master of the House (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
Movie • 1941
Inspector Crane
Counter-Espionage
Movie • 1942
Insp. Crane
The Man Who Lived Twice
Movie • 1936
Dr. Schuyler
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Mr. Sempler
The Unfinished Dance
Movie • 1947
Mr. Ronsell
Saratoga Trunk
Movie • 1945
Mr. Pound (uncredited)
The Youngest Profession
Movie • 1943
Mr. Drew
One Big Affair
Movie • 1952
Mr. G
West of the Pecos
Movie • 1945
Col. Lambeth
The Great Gildersleeve
Movie • 1942
Governor Jonathan Stafford
Trapped by Television
Movie • 1936
John Curtis
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Movie • 1940
Inspector Crane
Welcome Stranger
Movie • 1947
Congressman Beeker (uncredited)
Federal Agent at Large
Movie • 1950
'Big Bill' Dixon
Skirts Ahoy!
Movie • 1952
Thatcher Kinston
Night Stage to Galveston
Movie • 1952
Colonel James Bellamy
Two-Fisted Gentleman
Movie • 1936
Pop
Call of the Canyon
Movie • 1942
Grantley B. Johnson
The Golden Fleecing
Movie • 1940
Charles Engel
I Dood It
Movie • 1943
Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor
Counsel for Crime
Movie • 1937
Sen. Maddox
Whirlwind
Movie • 1951
Big Jim Lassiter
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Movie • 1941
Inspector Crane
Rim of the Canyon
Movie • 1949
Big Tim Hanlon
Something for the Boys
Movie • 1944
Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited)
The Girl Friend
Movie • 1935
George S. Harmon
The King Steps Out
Movie • 1936
Major
Accent on Love
Movie • 1941
T. J. Triton
Sued for Libel
Movie • 1939
David Hastings
Up in Central Park
Movie • 1948
Governor Motley
Metropolitan
Movie • 1935
T. Simon Hunter
Three Little Girls in Blue
Movie • 1946
Col. Clay
The Day the Bookies Wept
Movie • 1939
Col. March
Atlantic Adventure
Movie • 1935
City Editor Rutherford
The Bandit Queen
Movie • 1950
Governor
A Feather in Her Hat
Movie • 1935
Sir Elroyd Joyce
The Star Maker
Movie • 1939
Mr. Proctor
We Have Our Moments
Movie • 1937
Frank Rutherford
Women Are Like That
Movie • 1938
Claudius King
Fast Company
Movie • 1938
Dist. Atty. MacMillen
Pacific Blackout
Movie • 1941
Williams
Cover Girl
Movie • 1944
Tony Pastor (uncredited)
There's Always a Woman
Movie • 1938
District Attorney
Guard That Girl
Movie • 1935
Dr. Silas Hudson
Miraculous Journey
Movie • 1948
Kendricks
The Kaiser's Shadow
Movie • 1918
Hugo Wagner
Blonde from Brooklyn
Movie • 1945
"Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth
Lady from Nowhere
Movie • 1936
James Gordon Barnes
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Movie • 1941
Huntley (uncredited)
The Affairs of Annabel
Movie • 1938
Major
Millionaires in Prison
Movie • 1940
Harold Kellogg
Washington Melodrama
Movie • 1941
Sen. Morton
The Lone Wolf Returns
Movie • 1935
Inspector Crane
A Burglar to the Rescue
Movie • 1931
The Banker, Steve Corley
Hoosier Holiday
Movie • 1943
Henry P. Fairchild
Wilson
Movie • 1944
Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones
Going Places
Movie • 1938
Col. Withering
Hooray for Love
Movie • 1935
Jason Thatcher
The WAC from Walla Walla
Movie • 1952
Col. Mayfield
One Too Many
Movie • 1950
Kenneth Simes
Don't Tell the Wife
Movie • 1937
Major Manning
After the Dance
Movie • 1935
District Attorney
The Iron Trail
Movie • 1921
Curtis Gordon
The Band Wagon
Movie • 1953
Colonel Tripp (uncredited)
Dangerous Business
Movie • 1946
B.J. Calhoun
Spring Madness
Movie • 1938
Charles Platt
Alias the Deacon
Movie • 1940
Jim Cunningham
Life with Henry
Movie • 1941
Mr. Woodring (uncredited)
Devil's Squadron
Movie • 1936
Major Metcalf
Repent at Leisure
Movie • 1941
Jay Buckingham
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Movie • 1939
Senator
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Twitchell (uncredited)
Each Dawn I Die
Movie • 1939
Hanley
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Movie • 1939
Sam Bailey
Dancing Co-Ed
Movie • 1939
Henry W. Workman
First Love
Movie • 1939
Anthony Drake
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Harry (Uncredited)
It Had to Be You
Movie • 1947
Ned Harrington
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Movie • 1940
Inspector Crane
Goodnight, Sweetheart
Movie • 1944
Judge James Rutherford
Jeepers Creepers
Movie • 1939
M.K. Durant
Swing the Western Way
Movie • 1947
Jasper Jim Bandy
Women of Glamour
Movie • 1937
Mr. Stark
Hawaiian Nights
Movie • 1939
T.C. Hartley
Without Reservations
Movie • 1946
Henry Baldwin
The Blue Bird
Movie • 1940
Father Time
The Great Lie
Movie • 1941
Oscar Worthington James
In Old Missouri
Movie • 1940
John Pittman Sr.
Too Tough to Kill
Movie • 1935
Jim Whitney
Squadron of Honor
Movie • 1938
Bob Metcalf
No Time to Marry
Movie • 1938
Pettensall
Oh, Doctor
Movie • 1937
'Doc' Erasmus Thurston
He Hired the Boss
Movie • 1943
Mr. Bates
The Three Wise Guys
Movie • 1936
Hatcher
The Night Before the Divorce
Movie • 1942
Bert Harriman
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
Stagecoach Kid
Movie • 1949
Peter Arnold
Three Daring Daughters
Movie • 1948
Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited)
Murder in Greenwich Village
Movie • 1937
Charles Cabot
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1956
Mr. Higgins
Friendly Neighbors
Movie • 1940
The Governor
An Alien Enemy
Movie • 1918
David J. Hale
Love Me Forever
Movie • 1935
Maurizio
Hold That Ghost
Movie • 1941
Alderman Birch (uncredited)
Her Cardboard Lover
Movie • 1942
Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited)
Black Gold
Movie • 1947
Colonel Caldwell
It Can't Last Forever
Movie • 1937
Fulton
Bring on the Girls
Movie • 1945
Rutledge
Hello, Annapolis
Movie • 1942
Capt. Wendall
Belle Le Grand
Movie • 1951
Parkington
One More Tomorrow
Movie • 1946
Thomas Rufus Collier II
Mourning Becomes Electra
Movie • 1947
Dr. Blake
Don't Gamble with Love
Movie • 1936
Martin Gage
The Great Well
Movie • 1924
Peter Starling
Song of Nevada
Movie • 1944
John Barrabee
Chain Gang
Movie • 1950
John McKelvey, news publisher
Four Mothers
Movie • 1941
Mr. Davis (uncredited)
Shepherd of the Ozarks
Movie • 1942
James Maloney
Song of the Prairie
Movie • 1945
Jerome Wingate
It Grows on Trees
Movie • 1952
Mr. Sleamish (uncredited)
Square Dance Jubilee
Movie • 1949
G.K.
Remember the Day
Movie • 1941
Gov. Teller
Flight from Destiny
Movie • 1941
Dean Somers
Ever Since Venus
Movie • 1944
Edgar Pomeroy
She Wrote the Book
Movie • 1946
Horace Van Cleve
Don Juan Quilligan
Movie • 1945
First Judge
She Knew All the Answers
Movie • 1941
J. D. Sutton
Affair in Reno
Movie • 1957
J.B. Del Monte
The Exquisite Thief
Movie • 1919
Algernon P. Smythe
Twin Beds
Movie • 1942
Horace Touchstone
The Main Event
Movie • 1938
Captain Phillips
Design for Scandal
Movie • 1941
Northcott
The Son of Rusty
Movie • 1947
Franklyn B. Gibson
Rusty Saves a Life
Movie • 1949
Counsellor Frank A. Gibson
Campus Confessions
Movie • 1938
William Atterbury, Sr.
Venus Makes Trouble
Movie • 1937
Harlan Darrow
Lady on a Train
Movie • 1945
Josiah Waring
Kiddie Kure
Movie • 1940
Bill "Old Man" Morton
Bride for Sale
Movie • 1949
Trisby (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Movie • 1943
Sen. Henry Babcock
Sleepytime Gal
Movie • 1942
Mr. Adams
One Dangerous Night
Movie • 1943
Inspector Crane
Two Sisters from Boston
Movie • 1946
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr.
Out West with the Hardys
Movie • 1938
H.R. Bruxton (uncredited)
Where Did You Get That Girl?
Movie • 1941
Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President
Crash Dive
Movie • 1943
Senator from Texas
Roaming Lady
Movie • 1936
E. J. Reid
I Promise to Pay
Movie • 1937
Police Captain Hall
Manhattan Angel
Movie • 1949
Everett H. Burton
Hard to Get
Movie • 1938
John Atwater
The Brazen Beauty
Movie • 1918
Kenneth Hyde
Ex-Champ
Movie • 1939
Mr. Courtney
Pride of the Marines
Movie • 1936
Col. Gage
The Spitfire of Seville
Movie • 1919
The Show Down
Movie • 1917
She Couldn't Take It
Movie • 1935
Party Guest
Who Will Marry Me?
Movie • 1919
Jerome Van Tyne
The Price Mark
Movie • 1917
Dr. Daniel Melfi
Rings on Her Fingers
Movie • 1942
Love Letters
Movie • 1917
John Harland
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Businessman at Party (uncredited)
Bright Leaf
Movie • 1950
Phillips
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Movie • 1954
James M. Townsend
The Gay Senorita
Movie • 1945
J.J. Frentiss
In the Navy
Movie • 1941
Lead Senator (uncredited)
In Society
Movie • 1944
Mr. Van Cleve
Thrill of a Romance
Movie • 1945
J.P. Bancroft (uncredited)
Brewster's Millions
Movie • 1945
Colonel Drew
Million Dollar Legs
Movie • 1939
Gregory Melton Sr.
Tell It to the Judge
Movie • 1949
Sen. Caswell (uncredited)
Fair Lady
Movie • 1922
Italian banker
Killer at Large
Movie • 1936
Inspector O'Hara
The Royal Oak
Movie • 1923
Colonel Ancketell
Extortion
Movie • 1938
Prof. Tisdelle
Colonel Effingham's Raid
Movie • 1946
Ed - the Mayor
The Public Menace
Movie • 1935
Captain of Ocean Liner
The Great Moment
Movie • 1944
Senator Borland
Case of the Missing Man
Movie • 1935
Boyle
The Weaker Vessel
Movie • 1919
J. Booth Hunter
The Valley of Doubt
Movie • 1924
Jules
The One Woman
Movie • 1918
Governor Morrison
Mother Eternal
Movie • 1921
Edward Stevens Sr
Sweeter Than Revenge
Movie • 1915
Joe Best
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Movie • 1939
Mr. Guilfoyle
A Citrate Special
Movie • 1921
The Director
Texas Carnival
Movie • 1951
Mr. Gaytes
Wildness of Youth
Movie • 1922
Edward Grayton
Idle Hands
Movie • 1921
Henry Livingston
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1944
Man (uncredited)
The Unpainted Woman
Movie • 1919
Martin O'Neill
Super Speed
Movie • 1935
Investor
Lassie
TV • 1954
Topper
TV • 1953
My Little Margie
TV • 1952
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
TV • 1956
Harrison Prentice
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
Hopalong Cassidy
TV • 1952
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Judge
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Mr. Smith
Maverick
TV • 1957
Judge
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Judge
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
J. Peter Stuyvesant
Topper
TV • 1953
Mr. Schuyler