Charlie Hall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
210 acting credits
Acting · 210
Cheyenne
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
No Hiding Place
1959
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952
Topper
1953
King Kong
1933
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
Top Hat
1935
Limelight
1952
Dressed to Kill
1946
Babes in Toyland
1934
Without Reservations
1946
Sister Kenny
1946
Shall We Dance
1937
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
Bachelor Mother
1939
Blotto
1930
Hellzapoppin'
1941
Captain Fury
1939
Morning Glory
1933
Five Came Back
1939
The Lodger
1944
In Society
1944
Come Clean
1931
Sons of the Desert
1933
The Big Street
1942
College
1927
Illegal
1955
A Chump at Oxford
1940
One Night in the Tropics
1940
The Music Box
1932
Our Relations
1936
Bonnie Scotland
1935
Primrose Path
1940
Duck Soup
1927
The Milkman
1950
Only Saps Work
1930
Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940
The Battle of the Century
1927
Maid in Hollywood
1934
Two Tars
1928
Saps at Sea
1940
Pack Up Your Troubles
1932
Laughing Gravy
1931
Men of the North
1930
Below Zero
1930
Hi, Beautiful
1944
Them Thar Hills
1934
Man About Town
1939
Show Business
1932
Wrong Again
1929
The Midnight Patrol
1933
Double Whoopee
1929
Any Old Port!
1932
Berth Marks
1929
What Price Hollywood?
1932
Love Pains
1932
You're Darn Tootin'
1928
Be Big!
1931
Sugar Daddies
1927
Let's Go Native
1930
Bear Shooters
1930
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
Kentucky Kernels
1934
Me and My Pal
1933
Fluttering Hearts
1927
Twice Two
1933
Vigil in the Night
1940
Movie Night
1929
Should Married Men Go Home?
1928
Dollar Dizzy
1930
The Ape Man
1943
His Butler's Sister
1943
Busy Bodies
1933
Diplomaniacs
1933
Big Business
1929
Millionaires in Prison
1940
They Go Boom!
1929
Tit for Tat
1935
The Live Ghost
1934
Niagara Falls
1941
War Mamas
1931
Honeymoon Lodge
1943
Million Dollar Legs
1932
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
Men O' War
1929
Father Steps Out
1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
Cynara
1932
Bacon Grabbers
1929
The Soilers
1932
Sing Sister Sing
1935
Angora Love
1929
The Second 100 Years
1927
Let's Do Things
1931
Dance of the Cookoos
1982
Leave 'Em Laughing
1928
Curtain Call
1940
Smithy
1924
On the Loose
1931
The Chiselers
1931
Leaping Love
1929
The Hoose-Gow
1929
A Pair of Tights
1929
Boxing Gloves
1929
Seeing the World
1927
The Night Life
1930
Unfriendly Enemies
1925
Captain Swagger
1928
Babes in the Goods
1934
Haunted at Midnight
1931
That's My Wife
1929
Hot Money
1935
Mexican Spitfire
1940
Radio Rampage
1944
Madame Sans Jane
1925
Thundering Fleas
1926
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Mr. Bride
1932
Sweepstakes
1931
Abie's Irish Rose
1946
Next Week-End
1934
San Antonio Rose
1941
Rough Necking
1934
So's Your Uncle
1943
Playing at Politics
1931
Skirt Shy
1929
Police Bullets
1942
A Ten-Minute Egg
1924
One Track Minds
1933
Bridal Bail
1934
Love 'Em and Weep
1927
The Pajama Party
1931
A Trailer Tragedy
1940
An All American Toothache
1936
The Panic Is On
1931
Air Fright
1933
Bromo and Juliet
1926
Ocean Swells
1934
The Skulls
1931
The Fighting Parson
1930
An Apple in His Eye
1941
Nature in the Wrong
1933
Came the Dawn
1928
Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
Wild Babies!
1932
Soup and Fish
1934
Little Mother
1929
On Stage Everybody
1945
Thicker Than Water
1935
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967
One-Horse Farmers
1934
Strictly Unreliable
1932
Postage Due
1924
Framing Father
1942
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931
Sneak Easily
1932
Fifty Million Husbands
1930
Mighty Like a Moose
1926
Call of the Cuckoo
1927
One of the Smiths
1931
The Pip from Pittsburg
1931
What Fur
1933
Another Wild Idea
1934
Hey! Hey! USA
1938
Zeb vs. Paprika
1924
Maids a la Mode
1933
Mike Fright
1934
Night of Goblins
1930
Girls! Girls! Girls!
1944
The Real McCoy
1930
Sealskins
1932
Man From Headquarters
1942
With Love and Hisses
1927
Shivering and Shaking
1930
The Undie-World
1934
Los cazadores de osos
1930
Mama Loves Papa
1931
Near Dublin
1924
Love on a Ladder
1934
The Cowboy Sheik
1924
You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925
Snappy Sneezer
1929
Crooks Can't Win
1928
Do Me a Favor
1922
The Kick-Off!
1931
So You Want to Play the Piano
1956
Opened by Mistake
1934
Eve's Love Letters
1927
Treasure Blues
1935
Hi'–Neighbor!
1934
In Love at 40
1935
Just a Pain in the Parlor
1932
Forgotten Sweeties
1927
Too Many Women
1932
Beauty and the Bus
1933
Keg o' My Heart
1933
Backs to Nature
1933
The Druggist's Dilemma
1933
Are Brunettes Safe?
1927
I'll Fix It
1941
Must We Marry?
1928
A Slip at the Switch
1932
Twin Triplets
1935
The Janitor
1921
A Quiet Fourth
1941
Rhapsody in Brew
1933
Hold Your Temper
1933
Mother's Joy
1923