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9 Feb 1892
22 Jan 1950 (57)
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Alan Hale
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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2008 | The Londoners | Miguel |
2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Various Roles (archive footage) |
1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
1968 | The Best of Laurel and Hardy | Joe Grogan (archive footage) |
1950 | Stars in My Crown | Jed Isbell |
1950 | Colt .45 | Sheriff Harris |
1950 | Rogues of Sherwood Forest | Little John |
1949 | The Inspector General | Kovatch |
1949 | South of St. Louis | Jake Evarts |
1949 | The House Across the Street | J.B. Grennell |
1949 | Always Leave Them Laughing | Sam Washburn |
1949 | The Younger Brothers | Sheriff Knudson |
1948 | Adventures of Don Juan | Leporello |
1948 | Whiplash | Terrance O'Leary |
1948 | My Girl Tisa | Dugan |
1947 | Pursued | Jake Dingle |
1947 | Cheyenne | Fred Durkin |
1947 | My Wild Irish Rose | John Donovan |
1947 | That Way with Women | Herman Brinker |
1946 | Night and Day | Leon Dowling |
1946 | The Man I Love | Riley |
1946 | The Time, The Place and The Girl | John Braden |
1946 | Perilous Holiday | Dr. Lilley |
1945 | Hotel Berlin | Herman Plottke |
1945 | God Is My Co-Pilot | Big Mike Harrigan |
1945 | Roughly Speaking | Lew Morton |
1945 | Escape in the Desert | Dr. Orville Tedder |
1944 | Hollywood Canteen | Self |
1944 | The Adventures of Mark Twain | Steve Gillis |
1944 | Make Your Own Bed | Walter Whirtle |
1944 | Janie | Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon |
1943 | Destination Tokyo | 'Cookie' Wainwright |
1943 | Action in the North Atlantic | Boats O'Hara |
1943 | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Self |
1943 | This Is the Army | Sergeant McGee |
1942 | Gentleman Jim | Pat Corbett |
1942 | Captains of the Clouds | Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot) |
1942 | Desperate Journey | Sgt. Kirk Edwards |
1942 | Juke Girl | Yippee 'Yip' |
1941 | The Strawberry Blonde | Old Man Grimes |
1941 | Manpower | Jumbo Wells |
1941 | Footsteps in the Dark | Police Insp. Charles M. Mason |
1941 | The Smiling Ghost | Norton |
1941 | The Great Mr. Nobody | 'Skipper' Martin |
1941 | Thieves Fall Out | Robert Barnes |
1940 | The Sea Hawk | Carl Pitt |
1940 | They Drive by Night | Ed Carlsen |
1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Tex Bell |
1940 | Virginia City | Olaf Swenson |
1940 | The Fighting 69th | Big Mike Wynn |
1940 | Green Hell | Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren |
1940 | Alice in Movieland | Carlo's Guest (uncredited) |
1940 | Three Cheers for the Irish | Gallagher |
1940 | Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Capt. Bullwinkle |
1939 | Dodge City | Rusty Hart |
1939 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | The Prince of Tyrone |
1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Porthos |
1939 | Dust Be My Destiny | Michael 'Mike' Leonard |
1939 | Pacific Liner | Gallagher |
1939 | On Your Toes | Sergei Alexandrovitch |
1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Little John |
1938 | Algiers | Grandpere |
1938 | Listen, Darling | J.J. Slattery |
1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Kaidu |
1938 | Four Men and a Prayer | Furnoy |
1938 | The Sisters | Sam Johnson |
1938 | Valley of the Giants | 'Ox' Smith |
1937 | Stella Dallas | Ed Munn |
1937 | The Prince and the Pauper | Captain of the Guard |
1937 | Thin Ice | Baron |
1937 | God's Country and the Woman | Bjorn Skalka |
1937 | Breakdowns of 1937 | Self |
1937 | When Thief Meets Thief | Jim Diall 'Col. Fane' |
1937 | High, Wide and Handsome | Walt Brennan |
1937 | Music for Madame | Detective Flugelman |
1936 | Our Relations | Joe Grogan |
1936 | A Message to Garcia | Dr. Ivan Krug |
1936 | Two in the Dark | Inspector Florio |
1936 | Yellowstone | John Alexander Hardigan |
1936 | Parole! | John Borchard |
1936 | The Country Beyond | Jim Alison |
1935 | The Good Fairy | Maurice Schlapkohl |
1935 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Burbix |
1935 | The Crusades | Blondel |
1935 | Another Face | Charles L. Kellar |
1935 | Grand Old Girl | Click Dade |
1935 | Hollywood Extra Girl | Crusades Actor (uncredited) |
1934 | It Happened One Night | Danker |
1934 | Of Human Bondage | Emil Miller |
1934 | Imitation of Life | Martin the Furniture Man |
1934 | The Lost Patrol | Cook |
1934 | Broadway Bill | Orchestra Leader (uncredited) |
1934 | The Little Minister | Rob Daw |
1934 | Fog Over Frisco | Chief O'Malley |
1934 | The Scarlet Letter | Bartholomew Hockings |
1934 | Little Man, What Now? | Holgar Jachman |
1934 | Babbitt | Charlie McKelvey |
1934 | Great Expectations | Joe Gargery |
1934 | Picture Brides | Von Luden |
1934 | There's Always Tomorrow | Henry |
1934 | Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen | Sam |
1933 | What Price Decency | Klaus van Leyden |
1933 | Destination Unknown | Lundstrom |
1933 | The Eleventh Commandment | Max Stager |
1932 | Union Depot | The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan |
1932 | So Big! | Klass Pool |
1932 | The Match King | Borglund |
1932 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Mr Simpson |
1931 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Hubert |
1931 | Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) | Jeb Mondstrum |
1931 | The Sea Ghost | Capt. Greg Winters |
1931 | Aloha | Stevens |
1931 | The Night Angel | Biezel |
1930 | She Got What She Wanted | |
1929 | The Leatherneck | Otto Schmidt |
1929 | Sailor's Holiday | Adam Pike |
1929 | The Sap | Jim Belden |
1929 | Red Hot Rhythm | Walter |
1928 | Skyscraper | Slim Strede |
1928 | The Spieler | Flash |
1928 | Power | Hanson |
1928 | The Cop | Mather |
1928 | Sal of Singapore | Captain Erickson |
1928 | The Leopard Lady | Caesar |
1928 | Oh Kay! | Jansen |
1927 | Vanity | 'Happy' Dan Morgan |
1927 | The Wreck of the Hesperus | Singapore Jack |
1925 | Dick Turpin | Tom King |
1924 | One Night in Rome | Duke Mareno |
1923 | The Covered Wagon | Sam Woodhull |
1923 | Cameo Kirby | Colonel Moreau |
1923 | Black Oxen | Prince Rohenhauer |
1923 | Main Street | Miles Bjornstam |
1923 | Hollywood | Alan Hale |
1923 | Quicksands | Ferrago |
1923 | The Eleventh Hour | Prince Stefan de Bernie |
1923 | Long Live the King | King Karl |
1922 | Robin Hood | Little John |
1922 | The Trap | Benson |
1922 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer |
1922 | The Dictator | Sabos |
1922 | One Glorious Day | Ben Wadley |
1921 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Karl von Hartrott |
1921 | The Fox | Rufus B. Coulter |
1921 | A Voice in the Dark | Dr. Hugh Sainsbury |
1921 | A Wise Fool | George Masson |
1921 | The Great Impersonation | Gustave Seimann |
1921 | The Barbarian | Mark Grant |
1918 | Moral Suicide | 'Lucky' Travers |
1917 | The Eternal Temptress | Count Rudolph Frizel |
1917 | Life's Whirlpool | Dr. Henry Grey |
1916 | The Americano | |
1916 | Sold Out | Halsey Brent |
1916 | The Beast | Cowboy |
1916 | The Love Thief | Captain Arthur Boyce |
1916 | The Scarlet Oath | John Huntington |
1915 | East Lynne | Sir Francis Levinson |
1915 | The Americano | Madison - The Americano |
1915 | Dora Thorne | Hugh Fernely |
1914 | The Woman in Black | Frank Mansfield |
1914 | Strongheart | Ralph Thorne |
1914 | Woman Against Woman | John Tressider |
1914 | The Power of the Press | Sam Freeborn |
1914 | The Little Widow | |
1913 | By Man's Law | Brother Owner |
1913 | Dick's Turning |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1927 | Rubber Tires | Director |
1926 | Risky Business | Director |
1926 | The Sporting Lover | Director |
1925 | The Wedding Song | Director |
1925 | Braveheart | Director |