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