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Charlie Hall (19 August 1899 β 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.
Filmography
all 209
Movies 204
Writer 9
TV Shows 5
Dance of the Cookoos (1982)
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (1967)
No Hiding Place (1959)
So You Want to Play the Piano (1956)
Illegal (1955)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Cheyenne (1955)
Topper (1953)
The Abbott and Costello Show (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Spooky Wooky (1950)
The Milkman (1950)
Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
Sister Kenny (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
Without Reservations (1946)
On Stage Everybody (1945)
In Society (1944)
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1944)
Radio Rampage (1944)
The Lodger (1944)
His Butler's Sister (1943)
So's Your Uncle (1943)
Shot in the Escape (1943)
Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
The Ape Man (1943)
The Big Street (1942)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Framing Father (1942)
Man From Headquarters (1942)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
A Quiet Fourth (1941)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
Niagara Falls (1941)
Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941)
I'll Fix It (1941)
Father Steps Out (1941)
San Antonio Rose (1941)
An Apple in His Eye (1941)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
A Trailer Tragedy (1940)
Millionaires in Prison (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Saps at Sea (1940)
Curtain Call (1940)
Primrose Path (1940)
Vigil in the Night (1940)
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Mexican Spitfire (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Man About Town (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
Captain Fury (1939)
Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
Shall We Dance (1937)
Our Relations (1936)
An All American Toothache (1936)
Hot Money (1935)
Twin Triplets (1935)
In Love at 40 (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Thicker Than Water (1935)
Sing Sister Sing (1935)
Beginner's Luck (1935)
Treasure Blues (1935)
Tit for Tat (1935)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
The Live Ghost (1934)
Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Opened by Mistake (1934)
Ocean Swells (1934)
One-Horse Farmers (1934)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934)
Another Wild Idea (1934)
Music in Your Hair (1934)
Maid in Hollywood (1934)
I'll Take Vanilla (1934)
Rough Necking (1934)
The Undie-World (1934)
Soup and Fish (1934)
Love on a Ladder (1934)
Babes in the Goods (1934)
Bridal Bail (1934)
Oliver the Eighth (1934)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Air Fright (1933)
Hold Your Temper (1933)
Dirty Work (1933)
Backs to Nature (1933)
Keg o' My Heart (1933)
What Fur (1933)
Busy Bodies (1933)
Rhapsody in Brew (1933)
Beauty and the Bus (1933)
Morning Glory (1933)
The Midnight Patrol (1933)
The Druggist's Dilemma (1933)
One Track Minds (1933)
Diplomaniacs (1933)
Me and My Pal (1933)
Nature in the Wrong (1933)
King Kong (1933)
Maids a la Mode (1933)
Twice Two (1933)
Mr. Bride (1932)
Cynara (1932)
Sneak Easily (1932)
Taxi for Two (1932)
The Soilers (1932)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Show Business (1932)
A Slip at the Switch (1932)
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Wild Babies! (1932)
Too Many Women (1932)
Strictly Unreliable (1932)
Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932)
The Music Box (1932)
Any Old Port! (1932)
Love Pains (1932)
Sealskins (1932)
On the Loose (1931)
The Kick-Off! (1931)
War Mamas (1931)
Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)
Mama Loves Papa (1931)
The Pajama Party (1931)
Come Clean (1931)
The Panic Is On (1931)
Sweepstakes (1931)
Let's Do Things (1931)
One of the Smiths (1931)
Haunted at Midnight (1931)
Playing at Politics (1931)
The Skulls (1931)
Lime Juice Nights (1931)
The Pip from Pittsburg (1931)
Dumbbells in Derbies (1931)
Be Big! (1931)
The Chiselers (1931)
Laughing Gravy (1930)
Night of Goblins (1930)
Dollar Dizzy (1930)
Let's Go Native (1930)
Hog Wild (1930)
Fifty Million Husbands (1930)
Bear Shooters (1930)
Shivering and Shaking (1930)
Below Zero (1930)
The Night Life (1930)
Blotto (1930)
The Fighting Parson (1930)
The Real McCoy (1930)
Angora Love (1929)
Skirt Shy (1929)
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
They Go Boom! (1929)
Boxing Gloves (1929)
Snappy Sneezer (1929)
Men O'War (1929)
Leaping Love (1929)
Berth Marks (1929)
Little Mother (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Movie Night (1929)
Big Business (1929)
That's My Wife (1929)
Wrong Again (1929)
A Pair of Tights (1929)
We Faw Down (1928)
Two Tars (1928)
Captain Swagger (1928)
Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Came the Dawn (1928)
Leave 'Em Laughing (1928)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
The Second Hundred Years (1927)
Sugar Daddies (1927)
With Love and Hisses (1927)
Fluttering Hearts (1927)
Love 'Em and Weep (1927)
Eve's Love Letters (1927)
Forgotten Sweeties (1927)
Duck Soup (1927)
Seeing the World (1927)
Bromo and Juliet (1926)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
Thundering Fleas (1926)
All Wool (1925)
Unfriendly Enemies (1925)
Madame Sans Jane (1925)
Isn't Life Terrible? (1925)
A Ten-Minute Egg (1924)
Near Dublin (1924)
Big Moments from Little Pictures (1924)
Zeb vs. Paprika (1924)
Postage Due (1924)
The Cowboy Sheik (1924)
Smithy (1924)
Mother's Joy (1923)
Do Me a Favor (1922)
The Janitor (1921)
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GenderMale
Birthday1899-08-19
Deathday1959-12-07 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceBirmingham, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom, United States of America
Also Known As Charles Hall , Charley Hall , Charles Hill
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