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