Alan Hale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
174 acting credits · 6 directing credits
Acting · 174
Night and Day
1946
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
The Londoners
2008
It Happened One Night
1934
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921
Desperate Journey
1942
The Sea Hawk
1940
Algiers
1938
The Man I Love
1946
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Dodge City
1939
Manpower
1941
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
Of Human Bondage
1934
Colt .45
1950
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
Stella Dallas
1937
Union Depot
1932
Pursued
1947
The Inspector General
1949
The Fighting 69th
1940
Imitation of Life
1934
Destination Tokyo
1943
Gentleman Jim
1942
Our Relations
1936
Hollywood Canteen
1944
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
The Lost Patrol
1934
Robin Hood
1922
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
Virginia City
1940
Hollywood
1923
They Drive by Night
1940
Parole!
1936
This Is the Army
1943
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Valley of the Giants
1938
Listen, Darling
1938
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
The House Across the Street
1949
Whiplash
1948
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
The Strawberry Blonde
1941
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
Stars in My Crown
1950
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
Cheyenne
1947
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
The Good Fairy
1935
Broadway Bill
1934
The Scarlet Letter
1934
Yellowstone
1936
Green Hell
1940
The Sisters
1938
Little Man, What Now?
1934
The Crusades
1935
Aloha
1931
Strongheart
1914
Breakdowns of 1937
1937
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
Another Face
1935
Captains of the Clouds
1942
The Little Minister
1934
The Eleventh Hour
1923
Alice in Movieland
1940
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950
Fog Over Frisco
1934
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
Roughly Speaking
1945
The Cop
1928
Oh Kay!
1928
The Trap
1922
Jump for Glory
1937
Music for Madame
1937
Cameo Kirby
1923
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
Vanity
1927
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
The Fox
1921
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931
Thin Ice
1937
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
The Sea Ghost
1931
My Girl Tisa
1948
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
Dora Thorne
1915
Babbitt
1934
The Match King
1932
So Big!
1932
Janie
1944
South of St. Louis
1949
God's Country and the Woman
1937
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
The Younger Brothers
1949
Pacific Liner
1939
Escape in the Desert
1945
Sal of Singapore
1928
The Covered Wagon
1923
Power
1928
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
The Great Impersonation
1921
Juke Girl
1942
Great Expectations
1934
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
Three Cheers for the Irish
1940
Destination Unknown
1933
For Another Woman
1924
Always Leave Them Laughing
1949
The Leatherneck
1929
Thieves Fall Out
1941
Picture Brides
1934
Dick Turpin
1925
Two in the Dark
1936
The Smiling Ghost
1941
Quicksands
1923
A Message to Garcia
1936
The Americano
1916
The Night Angel
1931
Grand Old Girl
1935
The Spieler
1928
Hotel Berlin
1945
Make Your Own Bed
1944
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
On Your Toes
1939
Long Live the King
1923
Sailor's Holiday
1929
The Dictator
1922
Sold Out
1916
Red Hot Rhythm
1929
Shirley of the Circus
1922
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927
Life's Whirlpool
1917
Skyscraper
1928
One Hour
1917
Troubles of a Bride
1924
Perilous Holiday
1946
A Doll's House
1922
A Wise Fool
1921
The Barbarian
1921
Woman Against Woman
1914
She Got What She Wanted
1930
One Glorious Day
1922
The Sap
1929
The Eleventh Commandment
1933
Black Oxen
1923
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935
That Way with Women
1947
The Eternal Temptress
1917
The Price She Paid
1917
The Woman in Black
1914
Dick's Turning
1913
The Love Thief
1916
What Price Decency
1933
One Night in Rome
1924
The Power of the Press
1914
By Man's Law
1913
The Beast
1916
East Lynne
1915
The Scarlet Oath
1916
Main Street
1923
Moral Suicide
1918
Rolling Stones
1916
The Americano
1915
A Voice in the Dark
1921
The Country Beyond
1936
The Little Widow
1914
The Leopard Lady
1928
Glued
1912
