Alan Hale
Acting • Born 1892-02-09 – Died 1950-01-22
Biography
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.
Filmography
174 credits
East Lynne
Movie • 1915
Sir Francis Levinson
It Happened One Night
Movie • 1934
Danker
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
Tex Bell
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Movie • 1938
Little John
She Got What She Wanted
Movie • 1930
Sold Out
Movie • 1916
Halsey Brent
Destination Tokyo
Movie • 1943
'Cookie' Wainwright
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Boats O'Hara
Manpower
Movie • 1941
Jumbo Wells
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie • 1921
Karl von Hartrott
Algiers
Movie • 1938
Grandpere
Main Street
Movie • 1923
Miles Bjornstam
Dust Be My Destiny
Movie • 1939
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
The Man I Love
Movie • 1946
Riley
Captains of the Clouds
Movie • 1942
Tiny Murphy
Pursued
Movie • 1947
Jake Dingle
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1940
Carl Pitt
The House Across the Street
Movie • 1949
J.B. Grennell
Adventures of Don Juan
Movie • 1948
Leporello
Hollywood
Movie • 1923
Alan Hale
The Inspector General
Movie • 1949
Kovatch
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 1937
Captain of the Guard
Night and Day
Movie • 1946
Leon Dowling
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie • 1943
Self
This Is the Army
Movie • 1943
Sergeant McGee
Gentleman Jim
Movie • 1942
Pat Corbett
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1939
Porthos
The Scarlet Letter
Movie • 1934
Bartholomew Hockings
Stella Dallas
Movie • 1937
Ed Munn
Thin Ice
Movie • 1937
Baron
The Little Minister
Movie • 1934
Rob Daw
Of Human Bondage
Movie • 1934
Emil Miller
The Fox
Movie • 1921
Rufus B. Coulter
Quicksands
Movie • 1923
Ferrago
Footsteps in the Dark
Movie • 1941
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Hollywood Canteen
Movie • 1944
Self
Our Relations
Movie • 1936
Joe Grogan
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Movie • 1939
The Prince of Tyrone
They Drive by Night
Movie • 1940
Ed Carlsen
Imitation of Life
Movie • 1934
Martin the Furniture Man
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Rusty Hart
The Lost Patrol
Movie • 1934
Cook
The Good Fairy
Movie • 1935
Maurice Schlapkohl
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie • 1982
(archive footage)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Movie • 1932
Mr Simpson
The Fighting 69th
Movie • 1940
Big Mike Wynn
Listen, Darling
Movie • 1938
J.J. Slattery
Desperate Journey
Movie • 1942
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Whiplash
Movie • 1948
Terrance O'Leary
Colt .45
Movie • 1950
Sheriff Harris
The Smiling Ghost
Movie • 1941
Norton
Make Your Own Bed
Movie • 1944
Walter Whirtle
The Americano
Movie • 1915
Madison - The Americano
The Strawberry Blonde
Movie • 1941
Old Man Grimes
Broadway Bill
Movie • 1934
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
A Voice in the Dark
Movie • 1921
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
A Wise Fool
Movie • 1921
George Masson
God Is My Co-Pilot
Movie • 1945
Big Mike Harrigan
Juke Girl
Movie • 1942
Yippee 'Yip'
Always Leave Them Laughing
Movie • 1949
Sam Washburn
So Big!
Movie • 1932
Klass Pool
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Movie • 1944
Steve Gillis
On Your Toes
Movie • 1939
Sergei Alexandrovitch
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Movie • 1950
Little John
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie • 2005
Various Roles (archive footage)
Union Depot
Movie • 1932
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Stars in My Crown
Movie • 1950
Jed Isbell
Dick Turpin
Movie • 1925
Tom King
God's Country and the Woman
Movie • 1937
Bjorn Skalka
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Movie • 1931
Jeb Mondstrum
The Match King
Movie • 1932
Borglund
The Younger Brothers
Movie • 1949
Sheriff Knudson
A Message to Garcia
Movie • 1936
Dr. Ivan Krug
Roughly Speaking
Movie • 1945
Lew Morton
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Movie • 1938
Kaidu
That Way with Women
Movie • 1947
Herman Brinker
Destination Unknown
Movie • 1933
Lundstrom
Jump for Glory
Movie • 1937
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
The Great Mr. Nobody
Movie • 1941
'Skipper' Martin
Woman Against Woman
Movie • 1914
John Tressider
The Cop
Movie • 1928
Mather
Green Hell
Movie • 1940
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
The Power of the Press
Movie • 1914
Sam Freeborn
Dora Thorne
Movie • 1915
Hugh Fernely
Escape in the Desert
Movie • 1945
Dr. Orville Tedder
Hotel Berlin
Movie • 1945
Herman Plottke
South of St. Louis
Movie • 1949
Jake Evarts
Two in the Dark
Movie • 1936
Inspector Florio
The Last Days of Pompeii
Movie • 1935
Burbix
Great Expectations
Movie • 1934
Joe Gargery
Strongheart
Movie • 1914
Ralph Thorne
Sal of Singapore
Movie • 1928
Captain Erickson
Grand Old Girl
Movie • 1935
Click Dade
Valley of the Giants
Movie • 1938
'Ox' Smith
Cheyenne
Movie • 1947
Fred Durkin
There's Always Tomorrow
Movie • 1934
Henry
Yellowstone
Movie • 1936
John Alexander Hardigan
Picture Brides
Movie • 1934
Von Luden
The Eleventh Commandment
Movie • 1933
Max Stager
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Movie • 1940
Capt. Bullwinkle
Janie
Movie • 1944
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
My Wild Irish Rose
Movie • 1947
John Donovan
Thieves Fall Out
Movie • 1941
Robert Barnes
Moral Suicide
Movie • 1918
'Lucky' Travers
The Beast
Movie • 1916
Cowboy
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Movie • 1934
Sam
Another Face
Movie • 1935
Charles L. Kellar
Little Man, What Now?
Movie • 1934
Holgar Jachman
The Spieler
Movie • 1928
Flash
The Sea Ghost
Movie • 1931
Capt. Greg Winters
Black Oxen
Movie • 1923
Prince Rohenhauer
The Covered Wagon
Movie • 1923
Sam Woodhull
By Man's Law
Movie • 1913
Brother Owner
The Great Impersonation
Movie • 1921
Gustave Seimann
The Love Thief
Movie • 1916
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Eternal Temptress
Movie • 1917
Count Rudolph Frizel
Cameo Kirby
Movie • 1923
Colonel Moreau
The Scarlet Oath
Movie • 1916
John Huntington
Alice in Movieland
Movie • 1940
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Vanity
Movie • 1927
'Happy' Dan Morgan
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Movie • 1927
Singapore Jack
The Country Beyond
Movie • 1936
Jim Alison
Skyscraper
Movie • 1928
Slim Strede
Four Men and a Prayer
Movie • 1938
Furnoy
High, Wide and Handsome
Movie • 1937
Walt Brennan
One Night in Rome
Movie • 1924
Duke Mareno
A Doll's House
Movie • 1922
Torvald Helmer
Sailor's Holiday
Movie • 1929
Adam Pike
Three Cheers for the Irish
Movie • 1940
Gallagher
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie • 1931
Hubert
The Sap
Movie • 1929
Jim Belden
Fog Over Frisco
Movie • 1934
Chief O'Malley
The Leopard Lady
Movie • 1928
Caesar
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Olaf Swenson
Pacific Liner
Movie • 1939
Gallagher
The Eleventh Hour
Movie • 1923
Prince Stefan de Bernie
The Crusades
Movie • 1935
Blondel
Robin Hood
Movie • 1922
Little John
Life's Whirlpool
Movie • 1917
Dr. Henry Grey
The Sisters
Movie • 1938
Sam Johnson
Parole!
Movie • 1936
John Borchard
The Trap
Movie • 1922
Benson
Aloha
Movie • 1931
Stevens
Perilous Holiday
Movie • 1946
Dr. Lilley
The Barbarian
Movie • 1921
Mark Grant
The Americano
Movie • 1916
What Price Decency
Movie • 1933
Klaus van Leyden
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Movie • 1968
Joe Grogan (archive footage)
The Little Widow
Movie • 1914
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Movie • 1946
John Braden
Babbitt
Movie • 1934
Charlie McKelvey
Music for Madame
Movie • 1937
Detective Flugelman
Breakdowns of 1937
Movie • 1937
Self
My Girl Tisa
Movie • 1948
Dugan
Power
Movie • 1928
Hanson
Red Hot Rhythm
Movie • 1929
Walter
Oh Kay!
Movie • 1928
Jansen
Long Live the King
Movie • 1923
King Karl
The Night Angel
Movie • 1931
Biezel
The Leatherneck
Movie • 1929
Otto Schmidt
Hollywood Extra Girl
Movie • 1935
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
The Woman in Black
Movie • 1914
Frank Mansfield
Dick's Turning
Movie • 1913
The Rich Boy's Father
The Dictator
Movie • 1922
Sabos
One Glorious Day
Movie • 1922
Ben Wadley
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Movie • 1916
Tom Driscoll
For Another Woman
Movie • 1924
Shirley of the Circus
Movie • 1922
Max
One Hour
Movie • 1917
G.D. Stanley
Glued
Movie • 1912
Rolling Stones
Movie • 1916
Jerry Braden
Troubles of a Bride
Movie • 1924
Gordon Blake
The Price She Paid
Movie • 1917
Stanley Baird
The Londoners
TV • 2008
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