CHARLIE HALL
CHARLIE HALL, pictured above in the 1931 short COME CLEAN,
in which he played a soda jerk:
"No, we're out of moustachio!"
August 19, 1899 - December 7, 1959
Charlie Hall is probably the most familiar face in Laurel & Hardy films, besides Stan and Ollie themselves. He appeared in 47 films with Laurel & Hardy, more than any other supporting player. Most often he brought a sneer and evil squint to his roles (Stan & Ollie seemed to bring that out of people). His most familiar role and probably his best, was in THEM THAR HILLS (1934) and it's sequel the following year TIT FOR TAT, where Charlie played Mr. Hall, owner of a Grocery store, who battled back and forth with the Boys in the popular "tit for tat" format.
In addition to his many films with Stan and Babe, Mr. Hall also appeared in dozens of other films, including DRESSED TO KILL, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, THE GAY DIVORCEE with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and A QUIET FOURTH, an Edgar Kennedy comedy from 1941.
Stan befriends Charlie Hall in the 1933 film BUSY BODIES by giving him a cigar, only to turn him into the foreman reminding him that No Smoking is allowed.
Charlie's Filmography
- Love 'Em And Weep (1927) as the Butler
- Sugar Daddies (1927) as a Hotel extra
- The Second Hundred Years (1927) as a convict
- Call of the Cuckoos (1927) as the "Wheelbarrow"
- Battle of the Century (1927) as the delivery man
- Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) as the Landlord
- You're Darn Tootin' (1928) as a musician
- Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) as a soda jerk
- Two Tars (1928) as the shopkeeper
- Wrong Again (1929) as a neighbor
- That's My Wife (1929) as a waiter
- Big Business (1929) as a neighborhood extra
- Double Whoopee (1929) as a cab driver
- Berth Marks (1929) as a passenger
- Men O' War (1929) as the disgruntled boater
- They Go Boom (1929) as the Landlord
- Bacon Grabbers (1929) as a truck driver
- The Hoose-gow (1929) as the treetop lookout
- Angora Love (1929) as a neighbor
- Blotto (1930) as the cab driver (w/ moustache)
- Below Zero (1930) shoveling sidewalk snowball thrower
- Be Big (1931) as the Bell Hop
- Laughing Gravy (1931) as the Landlord
- Pardon Us (1931) as the Dentist's assistant
- Come Clean (1931) as the soda jerk
- Beau Hunks (1931) as Recruit 13
- On The Loose (1931) as the shooting gallery attendant
- Any Old Port (1932) as Stan's trainer
- The Music Box (1932) as the mailman
- Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) an extra near the dumb waiter
- Twice Two (1933) as the cake delivery man
- Me and My Pal (1933) as a delivery man
- The Midnight Patrol (1933) as a thief
- Busy Bodies (1933) as the startled coworker
- Sons of the Desert (1933) as a waiter at the convention
- Oliver the Eighth (1934) as a laundryman (CUT FROM FINAL RELEASE)
- Them Thar Hills (1934) co-star as motorist Charlie Hall
- March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) as a townsperson, extra
- The Live Ghost (1934) as a shanghaid sailor
- Tit For Tat (1935) co-star as the owner of Hall's Groceries Pictured below
- Bonnie Scotland (1935) as a henchman
- The Bohemian Girl (1936) as the voice of the "congradulations" gypsy
- Our Relations (1936) as an extra in the pawnshop
- Pick A Star (Movie Struck) (1937) as the Assistant to the Director
- A Chump At Oxford (1940) as Hector, one of the hateful students
- Saps At Sea (1940) as the desk clerk
CHARLIE HALL, pictured above
in the 1931 film PARDON US,
in this one he played a dental assistant
