Charlie Hall
Acting
🎂 1899-08-18
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.
Cast credits(206)
1959
Kevin
1955
Jake - Roofer
1952
Man in lower bunk in jail (uncredited)
1953
Man with Pool Cue (uncredited)
1955
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
1933
Cab Driver (uncredited)
1946
Mercury (uncredited)
1939
(uncredited)
1935
Newsboy (uncredited)
1952
Bellhop (uncredited)
1955
Barney
1943
Waiter (uncredited)
1933
Doughboy (uncredited)
1931
Man in Pawnshop (uncredited)
1936
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1941
Comedian
1944
Postman (uncredited)
1932
Louie (Uncredited)
1942
Reporter (uncredited)
1932
Townsman (uncredited)
1934
Train Passenger (uncredited)
1929
Mr. Hall
1935
Shop Worker (uncredited)
1933
Bellboy
1931
1930
Actor (uncredited)
1933
Student
1940
Second Waiter
1940
Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1940
Little Cook
1931
Coxswain (uncredited)
1927
Ice Cream Attendant
1931
Airport Worker (uncredited)
1939
Caviar Waiter in New York (Uncredited)
1942
Hotel Handyman
1943
Boater (uncredited)
1929
Airport Attendant (uncredited)
1946
Dance Hall Official (uncredited)
1939
Asylum Inmate
1927
Coach Driver
1934
Second S.S. Atlantica Steward (uncredited)
1940
Porter
1943
Bartender (uncredited)
1937
Bank Teller (uncredited)
1935
Native Henchman (uncredited)
1935
Janitor (uncredited)
1932
Window-Washer (uncredited)
1946
2024
Man in Diner (uncredited)
1940
Mr. Hall
1934
Moving man (uncredited)
1927
Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
1927
Sailor at Table (as Charles Hall)
1934
Landlord (uncredited)
1931
Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
1939
Cabdriver
1930
Mugg (uncredited)
1944
Bellboy / Landlord
1931
Cabdriver
1929
Cockney Convict Heckler (uncredited)
1940
Tillsbury's Butler
1927
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1933
Cigarette Stand Owner
1934
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1932
Truck driver
1929
Ed (uncredited)
1950
Neighbor
1929
Hotel extra
1927
Convict
1927
Convict (uncredited)
1927
Man on the Street (uncredited)
1931
Gossiping Citizen
1939
Landlord
1929
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
1928
Hotel Porter (as Charles Hall)
1946
Stan's Second
1932
Klopstokian Athlete (uncredited)
1932
Shopkeeper
1928
Shooting Gallery Attendant (uncredited)
1931
2023
Tire thief's partner
1933
Sealnapper's Accomplice (uncredited)
1932
Leary's pal
1938
Courtroom Spectator
1940
Milkman (uncredited)
1944
Cab driver (uncredited)
1927
Bellhop (uncredited)
1941
Explorer's Man, Wellington (as Charley Hall)
1932
Delivery Boy
1933
Treetop Lookout (uncredited)
1929
Homeless Thief in Washroom
1940
Man on Street (uncredited)
1932
Elevator Boy
1940
Customer
1924
Bellhop
1930
Neighbor
1929
Party Guest (uncredited)
1933
1924
Tipsy Ship Passenger
1932
Townsman at Hearing (uncredited)
1930
Page
1932
Elevator Operator
1934
Waitress
1941
Newspaper Photographer
1942
Second Butler, Announcing Guests (uncredited)
1934
Dancer (uncredited)
1931
Annoyed Shopkeeper (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
Train Passenger (uncredited)
1932
Mover (uncredited)
1930
The Landlord
1928
Elevator Operator
1931
First Soldier Over the Top
1925
Apartment House Waiter
1944
Inebriated Party Guest (uncredited)
1931
Short Hobo 'Nap', aka Napoleon
1941
1931
Musician
1928
Tenant (uncredited)
1935
Nightclub Waiter
1941
Charlie
1930
Waiter (uncredited)
1929
Waiter
1943
Soldier (uncredited)
1927
Ritz Amsterdam Bellboy
1940
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1929
Receptionist / Postman / Delivery Man
1982
Waiter (uncredited)
1930
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
1930
Dan - Edgar's Neighbor
1941
Intern (uncredited)
1934
1933
Stagehand (uncredited)
1926
1967
Little Moving Man (uncredited)
1928
Painter (uncredited)
1945
Elevator Operator
1940
Audience Member (uncredited)
1929
Shaffner the Valet (uncredited)
1933
Man on Train
1931
Neighbor
1930
Moving Man (uncredited)
1935
Pilot (uncredited)
1933
Kay's Dancing Partner
1931
Irate Movie Patron
1934
Sidewalk diner attendant
1929
Cameraman (uncredited)
1934
1927
T.N.T. Room Busboy
1934
1923
Steward
1925
Milkman (uncredited)
1931
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1932
Passenger
1930
Musician
1926
Shoe Shine Man
1926
Hunter (uncredited)
1933
English chauffeur
1927
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
Messenger
1928
Spectator (uncredited)
1934
Budd Doolittle
1941
Train Passenger (uncredited)
1933
Jack - Radio Repairman
1944
Man in fender bender
1929
Cabdriver (uncredited)
1930
Steward Who Drops Plates
1925
Man Pushed into Fountain
1934
(uncredited)
1936
Waiter (uncredited)
1931
Streetcar passenger (uncredited)
1929
Waiter (uncredited)
1933
First Bellhop (uncredited)
1924
Man under car
1927
Waiter (uncredited)
1933
The Landlord
1931
Taxi driver
1929
1921
Theatre Usher (uncredited)
1933
1928
Man on the Street (uncredited)
1931
1933
Silver Slipper Waiter
1942
Window Washer
1934
Villager
1924
Edgar's Neighbor
1941
Postman (uncredited)
1929
Servant
1932
Mountain Man (uncredited)
1930
Sailor
1934
The Waiter (uncredited)
1930
The Laundry Man
1941
Pool Hall Patron
1934
A Fireman
1922
Porter (uncredited)
1935
1956
Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)
1935
Party guest
1924
Worker
1924
Organ Grinder
1933
Man Getting Shave
1935
Unimpressed Party Guest (uncredited)
1932
Second Tramp
1932
Postman
1934
The Stage Manager (as Charley Hall)
1932
Charlie Zeno
1933
