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Charlie Hall is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 18 august 1899 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
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.
Étant de relative petite taille (1,60 m), il se fait une spécialité, par contraste comique, de jouer les "méchants" et les "hargneux", rôle habituellement réservé aux acteurs à la stature imposante. C'est ainsi qu'il est souvent confronté à Oliver Hardy qui fait largement plus que le double de son poids. Cette même particularité physique lui fait très souvent jouer le rôle de groom ou de liftier dans les figurations.
Dans le milieu des années cinquante, Charlie Hall connaît de graves problèmes de santé et abandonne le métier d'acteur et redevient alors accessoiriste et décorateur.
Il meurt en 1959 d'une crise cardiaque et est enterré au Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 august 1899 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 7 december 1959 (at 60 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 18 august 1899 at Birmingham (United-kingdom)
Death 7 december 1959 (at 60 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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.
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Charlie Hall naît à Birmingham dans le centre de l'Angleterre où, suivant les traces de son père, il se destine au métier de charpentier. Adolescent, il entre dans la troupe de Fred Karno et à l'image de Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin ou Stan Laurel, il embarque avec la troupe pour les États-Unis en 1920.Étant de relative petite taille (1,60 m), il se fait une spécialité, par contraste comique, de jouer les "méchants" et les "hargneux", rôle habituellement réservé aux acteurs à la stature imposante. C'est ainsi qu'il est souvent confronté à Oliver Hardy qui fait largement plus que le double de son poids. Cette même particularité physique lui fait très souvent jouer le rôle de groom ou de liftier dans les figurations.
Dans le milieu des années cinquante, Charlie Hall connaît de graves problèmes de santé et abandonne le métier d'acteur et redevient alors accessoiriste et décorateur.
Il meurt en 1959 d'une crise cardiaque et est enterré au Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
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Illegal (1955)
, 1h28Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Dekker, Howard St. John
Roles Bellhop (uncredited)
Rating69%
Victor Scott (Edward G. Robinson) is a District Attorney with a drive to win every case. He is assisted by attorney Ellen Miles (Nina Foch) who is not quite as relentless, but is devoted to her D.A. boss. After Scott discovers that a man he sent to his death is innocent, he falls into an alcoholic haze, is arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, and determines to defend another incarcerated man. This leads to a new career as a defense attorney.
Limelight (1952)
, 2h17Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
Roles Newsboy (uncredited)
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
The Milkman (1950)
, 1h27Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante, Piper Laurie, William Conrad, Henry O'Neill, Paul Harvey
Roles Ed (uncredited)
Rating65%
Roger Bradley (O'Connor) is the son of the owner of a milk company. He wants to get a job as a milkman at his father's company, but his father denies it because of Roger's after-war trauma: when he gets stressed or frustrated, he quacks like a duck. Roger gets upset at his father and does not see any problem with the quacking. In revenge, he gets a job with his father's arch-rival, Breezy Albright (Durante) at another milk company. He becomes very successful and quickly falls in love with the boss's daughter, Chris Abbott (Laurie).
Dressed to Kill (1946)
, 1h16Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Holmes Herbert, Frederick Worlock, Edmund Breon
Roles Cab Driver (uncredited)
Rating67%
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison (played by an uncredited Cyril Delevanti) hides the location of stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes (each of which plays a subtly different version of "The Swagman"). The boxes are sold at a local auction house.
Without Reservations (1946)
, 1h47Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Claudette Colbert, John Wayne, Don DeFore, Anne Triola, Phil Brown, Frank Puglia
Roles Window-Washer (uncredited)
Rating63%
Successful author Christopher "Kit" Madden (Claudette Colbert) travels to Los Angeles to work on the film adaptation of her best-selling book Here is Tomorrow. It is supposed to star Cary Grant as the hero Mark Winston and Lana Turner, but Grant has just dropped out and the producer thinks they need an unknown actor to play Winston. On a train to Hollywood Kit meets two Marines, Captain "Rusty" Thomas (John Wayne) and 1st Lieutenant "Dink" Watson (Don DeFore). She considers Rusty the best choice to play Mark Winston, but he is dismissive of her book: she wrote a political allegory and he does not believe Cary Grant would refuse Lana Turner for 400 pages. Unsure how he will react if he discovers she is a famous writer, she keeps her identity secret (saying her name is "Kitty Kloch"). During their journey across the country on trains, the trio end up in various comedic and dramatic situations. When Rusty finally learns the truth, he thinks that she has been using him just so he would be in the motion picture. Nonetheless, after a number of missteps, the couple eventually are able to resolve their differences.
Sister Kenny (1946)
, 1h56Directed by Dudley Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Holden
Roles Airport Attendant (uncredited)
Rating71%
In 1911, Elizabeth Kenny (Rosalind Russell) returns from nurse school in Brisbane, Australia to her home in the bush of Queensland with the head doctor at the nearest hospital, Dr. McDonnell (Alexander Knox). She informs him that she will be a bush nurse near her home instead of taking up residency at the hospital 50 miles away; her own personal experiences growing up in the bush made her want to help those not able to get to a hospital. Dr. McDonnell is incredulous, and says she will not last six months in the bush.
Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
, 1h36Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Michael Chekhov, Joanne Dru, J. M. Kerrigan, George E. Stone, Emory Parnell, Art Baker
Roles Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
Rating54%
This script must be run from the command line
The Lodger (1944)
, 1h24Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood, Aubrey Mather
Roles Comedian
Rating69%
Slade, a serial killer, is a lodger in a 19th Century family's London home. So is a singer, Kitty Langley, who definitely has caught Slade's eye.
In Society (1944)
, 1h14Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Crime
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant, Arthur Treacher, Thomas Gomez
Roles Mugg (uncredited)
Rating65%
Eddie Harrington (Bud Abbott) and Albert Mansfield (Lou Costello) are plumbers who receive a call about a leak in the private bathroom of Mr. Van Cleve (Thurston Hall), a wealthy businessman. The leak is keeping him awake, but the costume ball that his wife (Nella Walker) is throwing downstairs is not.
His Butler's Sister (1943)
, 1h27Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Franchot Tone, Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Catlett, Florence Bates
Roles Porter
Rating68%
Après ses études, Ann Carter part retrouver son frère et s'aperçoit qu'il est maître d'hôtel chez un compositeur de renom. Pour tenter de faire entendre sa voix au maître de céans, elle se fait passer pour la femme de chambre. Mais ses efforts n'aboutissent pas...
The Ape Man (1943)
, 1h4Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Minerva Urecal, J. Farrell MacDonald, Wheeler Oakman
Roles Barney
Rating44%
Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi) and his colleague Dr. Randall (Henry Hall) are involved in a series of scientific experiments which have caused him to transform into an ape-man. In an attempt to obtain a cure Brewster believes that it will be necessary to inject himself with recently drawn human spinal fluid. When Randall refuses to help him by providing the fluid, Brewster and his captive gorilla must attempt to find an appropriate donor.
Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
, 1h3Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors David Bruce, June Vincent, Harriet Nelson, Rod Cameron, Franklin Pangborn, Andrew Tombes
Roles Hotel Handyman
Rating65%
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
, 1h5Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Ward Bond, Edward Gargan
Roles Louie (Uncredited)
Rating63%
Brutish prison escapee Moose Malloy (Ward Bond) forces Goldie Locke (Allen Jenkins) to drive him to a posh nightclub, where Moose hopes to be reunited with his old girlfriend
The Big Street (1942)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Aldrich, Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Sam Levene, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Caviar Waiter in New York (Uncredited)
Rating63%
The film focuses on busboy Augustus Pinkerton II (Henry Fonda), known as "Little Pinks," and his relationship with heartless singer Gloria Lyons (Lucille Ball), who is crippled in a fall after her boyfriend, New York City nightclub owner Case Ables (Barton MacLane), pushes her down a flight of stairs in a fit of jealousy. Left penniless by the expenses she incurs during a long convalescence, Gloria is forced to rely on the kindness of Pinks, who invites her to stay with him in his apartment.
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
, 1h24Directed by Edward F. Cline, H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films
Actors Ole Olsen, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Mischa Auer, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Rating73%
La comédie et le film traitent, sur un mode burlesque, des us et coutumes des milieux du spectacle, du théâtre et du cinéma. Ole (Ole Olsen) et Chic (Chic Johnson) ont entrepris de tourner un film mais le producteur impose un coscénariste, Jeff. Ce dernier est amoureux de Kitty, future très riche héritière convoitée par Woody, un jeune homme fortuné. Parallèlement, Betty, la sœur de Chic, s'est éprise d'un prétendu aristocrate russe, un soi-disant comte qui est en fait un vrai prince russe mais se fait passer pour un aventurier. Quimby, un détective, vient se mêler aux divers quiproquos et en provoquer.