Porter Hall
Biography
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Clifford Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 – October 6, 1953) was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall played movie villains or comedic incompetent characters. Hall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and began his career touring as a stage actor with roles in productions of The Great Gatsby and Naked in 1926. Hall made his film debut in the 1931 drama Secrets of a Secretary. He made his last onscreen appearance in the 1954 film Return to Treasure Island, which was released after his death.
He was probably best remembered for four roles: a senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an atheist in Going My Way, the nervous, ill-tempered Granville Sawyer, who administers a psychological test to Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, and a train passenger who encounters a man (Fred MacMurray) who has just committed a murder in Double Indemnity.
On October 6, 1953, Hall died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at the age of 65. His interment was at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Hall had two children, David and Sarah Jane.
Acting (75 movies)
Double Indemnity
1944
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
His Girl Friday
1940
The Thin Man
1934
The Princess Comes Across
1936
Miracle on 34th Street
1947
Ace in the Hole
1951
Holiday for Sinners
1952
Satan Met a Lady
1936
Dark Command
1940
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
The Great Moment
1944
The Mark of the Whistler
1944
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937
Sullivan's Travels
1941
The Petrified Forest
1936
Going My Way
1944
Intruder in the Dust
1949
Unconquered
1947
Singapore
1947
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
Blood on the Sun
1945
Vice Squad
1953
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
Secrets of a Secretary
1931
This Way Please
1937
Butch Minds the Baby
1942
Murder, He Says
1945
Wells Fargo
1937
The General Died at Dawn
1936
Return to Treasure Island
1954
True Confession
1937
They Shall Have Music
1939
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
The Case of the Lucky Legs
1935
Stolen Heaven
1938
A Stranger in Town
1943
Too Many Parents
1936
Chicken Every Sunday
1949
Snowed Under
1936
Standing Room Only
1944
The Arkansas Traveler
1938
Men with Wings
1938
Kiss and Tell
1945
Tom Sawyer, Detective
1938
Souls at Sea
1937
Murder in the Private Car
1934
Pony Express
1953
Dangerous to Know
1938
The Plainsman
1936
That Wonderful Urge
1948
Arizona
1940
Prison Farm
1938
Henry Goes Arizona
1939
Grand Jury Secrets
1939
The Desperadoes
1943
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
Wild Money
1937
The Parson of Panamint
1941
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940
The Woman of the Town
1943
King of Gamblers
1937
And Sudden Death
1936
Bring on the Girls
1945
The Half-Breed
1952
The Cheat
1931
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Scandal Street
1938
King of Alcatraz
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
Let's Make a Million
1936
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
Carbine Williams
1952
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