Charlie Hall (actor)
Charlie Hall ( born August 19, 1899 in Birmingham, England; † December 7, 1959 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ) was a British film actor. Hall gained great notoriety as the "little Nemesis " by Laurel and Hardy, whose most frequent supporting actor, he was in nearly 50 films.
Life
Charlie Hall was a skilled carpenter, but resigned already as a teenager at the Fred Karno vaudeville troupe, which also Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel and Will Hay began their careers. In 1920 he visited his sister in New York City and remained in the United States. He found work as a stagehand tried it but then again with the acting. 1921 Hall gave his film debut. From the mid- 1920s, Hall was one of the many comedy actor, which began Hal Roach in his films. Once, when he fell out with his studio bosses, he had to work in an English gas mask factory for a monthly salary of just over three U.S. dollars. He asked the director George Stevens to 200 U.S. dollars so he could return to Hollywood. Ultimately he succeeded comeback.
Although Hall also often turned to other Roach comedians as Charley Chase and the Little Rascals, he is today best known for the role of the constant adversary of Laurel and Hardy. He played in 44 of the 106 films of the comedy duo, making it her most frequent Supporting Actor, ahead of James Finlayson and Mae Busch. Due to his small stature ( 1.64 meters ) he was mostly seen in the role of " angry little man" and developed a reputation as the nemesis of Laurel and Hardy. So he destroyed as a grocer in the sullied honor the business of comedy duo because he suspected an affair between Ollie and his wife. In the margins of the circular saw muses Halls figure on revenge. One of his few roles friendly against Stan and Ollie was his brief appearance as helpful postman in the grueling piano transportation. Even with over 40 years he played a student in In Oxford.
In addition to his work with Laurel and Hardy, he was also seen in other films, such as Buster Keaton in College, King Kong and the white woman, I ' me in your heart into it and in hell is dancing the hell is going on! . After the end of the Hal Roach movies Hall took over in the 1940s and 1950s, numerous supporting roles in major Hollywood studios and occasionally on television. He joined, among others, in several RKO short films of his former colleagues Roach Edgar Kennedy, played with Charlie Chaplin in the spotlight and was seen in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. After nearly 300 films, he retired in 1956 back from the drama business.
He died in 1959 at the age of 60 years. He was married twice, once Dolly Gray until her death in 1937 and Wilda George. In the near Birmingham there is a museum called The Charlie Hall as a tribute to the actor.