Alan Hale
Acting
🎂 1892-02-09
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be an opera singer and also had success as an inventor. Among his innovations were a sliding theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips. His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. He played "Little John" in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring in a pivotal confrontation with the Earl of Essex, portrayed by Flynn. His other films include the 1922 epic The Trap with Lon Chaney, 1928's Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; all released in 1934; the 1937 film Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Fighting 69th with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien; They Drive By Night with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; Virginia City with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the 1943 movie This Is the Army with Irving Berlin. He also co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the successful western film Dodge City (1939) where he played the slightly dimwitted but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies. Hale directed eight movies during the 1920s and 1930s and acted in 235 theatrical films.
Cast credits(170)
Miguel
2008
Alan Hale
1923
Little John
1938
Danker
1934
Emil Miller
1934
Carl Pitt
1940
Tex Bell
1940
Rusty Hart
1939
Kovatch
1949
Jake Dingle
1947
Karl von Hartrott
1921
Ed Munn
1937
Leporello
1948
Boats O'Hara
1943
Captain of the Guard
1937
Leon Dowling
1946
Olaf Swenson
1940
Old Man Grimes
1941
Little John
1922
Ed Carlsen
1940
The Prince of Tyrone
1939
Mather
1928
Grandpere
1938
Cook
1934
Self
1944
Kaidu
1938
Porthos
1939
'Cookie' Wainwright
1943
Sheriff Harris
1950
Borglund
1932
Dugan
1948
Jumbo Wells
1941
Pat Corbett
1942
Jed Isbell
1950
Sergeant McGee
1943
Charlie McKelvey
1934
Joe Grogan
1936
Riley
1946
Chief O'Malley
1934
Yippee 'Yip'
1942
J.J. Slattery
1938
Hubert
1931
Terrance O'Leary
1948
John Alexander Hardigan
1936
Furnoy
1938
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
1934
Big Mike Wynn
1940
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
1942
J.B. Grennell
1949
Norton
1941
Maurice Schlapkohl
1935
Martin the Furniture Man
1934
Robert Barnes
1941
(archive footage)
1982
Various Roles (archive footage)
2005
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
1942
Big Mike Harrigan
1945
Self
1943
Inspector Florio
1936
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
1932
Klass Pool
1932
Joe Grogan (archive footage)
1968
Lew Morton
1945
Mr Simpson
1932
Blondel
1935
Herman Plottke
1945
Sam Johnson
1938
Benson
1922
Gallagher
1939
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
1939
Rob Daw
1934
John Donovan
1947
Walter Whirtle
1944
Joe Gargery
1934
Steve Gillis
1944
Sam Woodhull
1923
Bartholomew Hockings
1934
Bjorn Skalka
1937
'Skipper' Martin
1941
Walt Brennan
1937
Jim Belden
1929
Burbix
1935
'Happy' Dan Morgan
1927
Rufus B. Coulter
1921
Fred Durkin
1947
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
1940
Otto Schmidt
1929
Slim Strede
1928
Miles Bjornstam
1923
Baron
1937
Jeb Mondstrum
1931
Biezel
1931
The Rich Boy's Father
1913
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
1944
Holgar Jachman
1934
Detective Flugelman
1937
Tom King
1925
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
1940
Ben Wadley
1922
Jake Evarts
1949
King Karl
1923
Dr. Lilley
1946
Sergei Alexandrovitch
1939
Little John
1950
Count Rudolph Frizel
1917
Gallagher
1940
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
1941
Frank Mansfield
1914
'Ox' Smith
1938
Colonel Moreau
1923
Ferrago
1923
John Borchard
1936
Dr. Orville Tedder
1945
Lundstrom
1933
Stevens
1931
Sam Washburn
1949
Herman Brinker
1947
Captain Erickson
1928
John Braden
1946
Sam
1934
Cowboy
1916
Mark Grant
1921
Henry
1934
John Tressider
1914
Jansen
1928
1916
Sam Freeborn
1914
'Lucky' Travers
1918
Singapore Jack
1927
Self
1937
Caesar
1928
Click Dade
1935
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
1937
Dr. Ivan Krug
1936
Charles L. Kellar
1935
Sabos
1922
Von Luden
1934
Flash
1928
Hanson
1928
Capt. Bullwinkle
1940
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
1921
Madison - The Americano
1915
Duke Mareno
1924
Halsey Brent
1916
Captain Arthur Boyce
1916
Walter
1929
Max Stager
1933
Capt. Greg Winters
1931
Sheriff Knudson
1949
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
Sir Francis Levinson
1915
1930
George Masson
1921
John Huntington
1916
Brother Owner
1913
Tom Driscoll
1916
Prince Rohenhauer
1923
Torvald Helmer
1922
Klaus van Leyden
1933
Adam Pike
1929
Prince Stefan de Bernie
1923
Ralph Thorne
1914
Gustave Seimann
1921
Max
1922
G.D. Stanley
1917
Dr. Henry Grey
1917
1924
Hugh Fernely
1915
Jim Alison
1936
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