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.
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Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Joe
XYZ Grocery Clerk
Holbrook (uncredited)
Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
Junior Burt
Newsboy (uncredited)
Waiter (uncredited)
Barber (uncredited)
Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
Crippy Jack
Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Attendant
Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
Lou Coon (uncredited)
Leonard's Father
Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
Mama's Boy (uncredited)
Printer (Uncredited)
Toby (uncredited)
Poet
Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
Goofy
Shell Person
Office Boy (uncredited)
Messenger with Package (uncredited)
Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
Townsman (Uncredited)
Fleety Belle's brother
Messenger (uncredited)
Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
Soad Jerk
Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
Farmhand
Steve
Jake
Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
Square Dance Participant
Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
Scorekeeper (uncredited)
Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
Reporter Ethelbert
Hillbilly
Cliff
Dental Student (uncredited)
Orderly
Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Irving Wise
Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
Newsboy (uncredited)
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
Benny - Cabin Boy
Peter Stanton
Joe
Man with glasses
Benny
Langdon's Assistant
'Knapsack'
Pete
Cliff
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