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