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