Charlie Hall
Actor, Film actor
1899 – 1959
Who was Charlie Hall?
Charlie Hall was a film actor.
Charlie Hall was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He 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 was of short stature, standing 5 ft 5 in tall. His height and slight British 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.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1899
Birmingham - Also known as
- Charles Hall
- The Little Nemesis
- Charley Hall
- Charles Hill
- Spouses
- WIlda George
- Dolly Gray
( - 1937)
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 7, 1959
North Hollywood
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on July 23, 2013
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