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Tit for Tat

as Mr. Hall

1935
Them Thar Hills

as Mr. Hall

1934
Busy Bodies

as Shop Worker (uncredited)

1933
Twice Two

as Delivery Boy

1933
Be Big!

as Bellboy

1931
Come Clean

as Ice Cream Attendant

1931
Laughing Gravy

as Landlord (uncredited)

1931
Blotto

as Cabdriver

1930
Bear Shooters

as Charlie

1930
The Real McCoy

as Mountain Man (uncredited)

1930
Double Whoopee

as Cabdriver

1929
Angora Love

as Neighbor

1929
Berth Marks

as Train Passenger (uncredited)

1929
The Hoose-Gow

as Treetop Lookout (uncredited)

1929
They Go Boom!

as Landlord

1929
Leave 'Em Laughing

as The Landlord

1928
Came the Dawn

as Little Moving Man (uncredited)

1928
The Battle of the Century

as Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)

1927
The Second Hundred Years

as Convict (uncredited)

1927
Charlie Hall Charlie Hall

Birthday

1899-08-19

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Biography

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.
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