
Charlie Hall
Biography
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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.
Acting (179 movies)

Leaping Love
1929

Hold Your Temper
1933

Framing Father
1942

Without Reservations
1946

Madame Sans Jane
1925

Unfriendly Enemies
1925

Forgotten Sweeties
1927

The Midnight Patrol
1933

Sugar Daddies
1927

One of the Smiths
1931

Be Big!
1931

Double Whoopee
1929

Leave 'Em Laughing
1928

Fluttering Hearts
1927

The Live Ghost
1934

The Second 100 Years
1927

Them Thar Hills
1934

Tit for Tat
1935

They Go Boom!
1929

Thundering Fleas
1926

Dressed to Kill
1946

Limelight
1952

The Milkman
1950

Morning Glory
1933

San Antonio Rose
1941

Mighty Like a Moose
1926

Boxing Gloves
1929

Isn't Life Terrible?
1925

Nature in the Wrong
1933

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967

Seeing the World
1927

Little Mother
1929

Illegal
1955

Top Hat
1935

Man From Headquarters
1942

The Lodger
1944

Hey! Hey! USA
1938

The Ape Man
1943

Bear Shooters
1930

Show Business
1932

Sealskins
1932

A Pair of Tights
1929

Movie Night
1929

Mother's Joy
1923

Sing Sister Sing
1935

Soup and Fish
1934

The Real McCoy
1930

Came the Dawn
1928

Near Dublin
1924

Dollar Dizzy
1930

Maids a la Mode
1933

Smithy
1924

Postage Due
1924

Below Zero
1930

Backs to Nature
1933

The Fighting Parson
1930

The Music Box
1932

Skirt Shy
1929

Call of the Cuckoo
1927

War Mamas
1931

Strictly Unreliable
1932

Twin Triplets
1935

Treasure Blues
1935

The Soilers
1932

The Pajama Party
1931

One Track Minds
1933

Let's Do Things
1931

Sneak Easily
1932

Maid in Hollywood
1934

Babes in the Goods
1934

On the Loose
1931

Air Fright
1933

Beauty and the Bus
1933

Sweepstakes
1931

Abie's Irish Rose
1946

Busy Bodies
1933

Berth Marks
1929

Kentucky Kernels
1934

The Skulls
1931

The Chiselers
1931

Me and My Pal
1933

Men O' War
1929

Laughing Gravy
1931

Our Relations
1936

Sons of the Desert
1933

Playing at Politics
1931

Pack Up Your Troubles
1932

Shivering and Shaking
1930

Thicker Than Water
1935

Twice Two
1933

Saps at Sea
1940

The Hoose-Gow
1929

Scratch-As-Catch-Can
1931

Five Came Back
1939

Bachelor Mother
1939

Man About Town
1939

The Pip from Pittsburg
1931

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939

Sister Kenny
1946

Angora Love
1929
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Come Clean | 1931 | Writer | 
| Twice Two | 1933 | Writer | 
| Busy Bodies | 1933 | Writer |