Ben Hall
Acting • Born 1899-03-18 – Died 1985-05-20
Biography
Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
74 credits
Radio Kisses
Movie • 1930
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Movie • 1942
Attendant
Hollywood Trouble
Movie • 1935
The Skyrocket
Movie • 1926
Peter Stanton
Love Past Thirty
Movie • 1934
Junior Burt
Satan Town
Movie • 1926
Crippy Jack
The Star Witness
Movie • 1931
Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
It Happened Tomorrow
Movie • 1944
Held For Ransom
Movie • 1938
Hillbilly
A Man from Wyoming
Movie • 1930
Orderly
Harold Teen
Movie • 1928
Goofy
Racing Luck
Movie • 1935
'Knapsack'
An All American Toothache
Movie • 1936
Dental Student (uncredited)
Parole Girl
Movie • 1933
Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Lilly Turner
Movie • 1933
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
The Stranger's Return
Movie • 1933
Farmhand
Face in the Sky
Movie • 1933
Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
Smoke Tree Range
Movie • 1937
Pete
Fury
Movie • 1936
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie • 1940
Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
Postal Inspector
Movie • 1936
Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Counsel on De Fence
Movie • 1934
Langdon's Assistant
Pride and Prejudice
Movie • 1940
Poet
My Little Chickadee
Movie • 1940
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Blood and Thunder
Movie • 1931
Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
A Million to One
Movie • 1936
Joe
One Million B.C.
Movie • 1940
Shell Person
Hot News
Movie • 1928
Benny
Movie Pests
Movie • 1944
Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
Second Chorus
Movie • 1941
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Life Begins at Forty
Movie • 1935
Square Dance Participant
Riders of the Black Hills
Movie • 1938
Reporter Ethelbert
The Incredible Stranger
Movie • 1942
Lou Coon (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Movie • 1946
Barber (uncredited)
Sequoia
Movie • 1935
Joe
The Girl from Woolworth's
Movie • 1929
Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
Strike Me Pink
Movie • 1936
Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
Men Without Names
Movie • 1935
Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
The Sport Parade
Movie • 1932
Newsboy (uncredited)
Vanity Street
Movie • 1932
Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
Sin's Pay Day
Movie • 1932
Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
Traffic with the Devil
Movie • 1946
Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
The Office Wife
Movie • 1930
Office Boy (uncredited)
Blondie Johnson
Movie • 1933
Newsboy (uncredited)
Steamboat Round the Bend
Movie • 1935
Fleety Belle's brother
Baby Brother
Movie • 1927
Man with glasses
Casey at the Bat
Movie • 1927
Scorekeeper (uncredited)
Salute
Movie • 1929
Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
Music for Madame
Movie • 1937
Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
Alias Mary Smith
Movie • 1932
Jake
Strictly Personal
Movie • 1933
Holbrook (uncredited)
Girl Missing
Movie • 1933
Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Girls
Movie • 1927
Irving Wise
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie • 1943
Waiter (uncredited)
Stranger in Town
Movie • 1931
XYZ Grocery Clerk
Hellzapoppin'
Movie • 1941
Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Movie • 1936
Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
After Tomorrow
Movie • 1932
Soad Jerk
Newly Rich
Movie • 1931
Toby (uncredited)
The Noose Hangs High
Movie • 1948
Messenger (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
You Only Live Once
Movie • 1937
Messenger with Package (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie • 1946
Townsman (Uncredited)
The Live Wire
Movie • 1935
Steve
Cover Up
Movie • 1949
Printer (Uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
Movie • 1938
Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Young Widow
Movie • 1946
Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
Naughty Marietta
Movie • 1935
Mama's Boy (uncredited)
Gorilla Ship
Movie • 1932
Benny - Cabin Boy
Wall Street
Movie • 1929
Cliff
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Movie • 1947
Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
Dad for a Day
Movie • 1939
Leonard's Father
The Phantom President
Movie • 1932
Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
Nix on Dames
Movie • 1929
Cliff