Alan Hale

Alan Hale

  • Birthday: 1892-02-09
  • Deathday: 1950-01-22
  • Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Also know as: Allan Hale

Biography

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.

Filmography

The Spieler

1928

As Flash

Sailor's Holiday

1929

As Adam Pike

A Doll's House

1922

As Torvald Helmer

Red Hot Rhythm

1929

As Walter

The Americano

1915

As Madison - The Americano

Dick Turpin

1925

As Tom King

Sal of Singapore

1928

As Captain Erickson

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

1940

As Capt. Bullwinkle

The Covered Wagon

1923

As Sam Woodhull

Skyscraper

1928

As Slim Strede

Life's Whirlpool

1917

As Dr. Henry Grey

The Sea Ghost

1931

As Capt. Greg Winters

The Leopard Lady

1928

As Caesar

The Trap

1922

As Benson

Power

1928

As Hanson

The Leatherneck

1929

As Otto Schmidt

The Woman in Black

1914

As Frank Mansfield

East Lynne

1915

As Sir Francis Levinson

The Cop

1928

As Mather

The Love Thief

1916

As Captain Arthur Boyce

The Sap

1929

As Jim Belden

Destination Tokyo

1943

As 'Cookie' Wainwright

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

As Boats O'Hara

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

As Michael 'Mike' Leonard

The Little Minister

1934

As Rob Daw

Our Relations

1936

As Joe Grogan

On Your Toes

1939

As Sergei Alexandrovitch

Perilous Holiday

1946

As Dr. Lilley

Destination Unknown

1933

As Lundstrom

Picture Brides

1934

As Von Luden

Cameo Kirby

1923

As Colonel Moreau

Vanity

1927

As 'Happy' Dan Morgan

When Thief Meets Thief

1937

As Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'

The Great Mr. Nobody

1941

As 'Skipper' Martin

Oh Kay!

1928

As Jansen

One Glorious Day

1922

As Ben Wadley

Sold Out

1916

As Halsey Brent

Quicksands

1923

As Ferrago

Little Man, What Now?

1934

As Holgar Jachman

One Night in Rome

1924

As Duke Mareno

Manpower

1941

As Jumbo Wells

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1921

As Karl von Hartrott

Captains of the Clouds

1942

As Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)

The House Across the Street

1949

As J.B. Grennell

Adventures of Don Juan

1948

As Leporello

This Is the Army

1943

As Sergeant McGee

Gentleman Jim

1942

As Pat Corbett

Footsteps in the Dark

1941

As Police Insp. Charles M. Mason

Desperate Journey

1942

As Sgt. Kirk Edwards

Make Your Own Bed

1944

As Walter Whirtle

The Strawberry Blonde

1941

As Old Man Grimes

God Is My Co-Pilot

1945

As Big Mike Harrigan

The Adventures of Mark Twain

1944

As Steve Gillis

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

1950

As Little John

Union Depot

1932

As The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan

Stars in My Crown

1950

As Jed Isbell

A Message to Garcia

1936

As Dr. Ivan Krug

That Way with Women

1947

As Herman Brinker

Grand Old Girl

1935

As Click Dade

Valley of the Giants

1938

As 'Ox' Smith

Yellowstone

1936

As John Alexander Hardigan

The Eleventh Commandment

1933

As Max Stager

Thieves Fall Out

1941

As Robert Barnes

My Wild Irish Rose

1947

As John Donovan

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1927

As Singapore Jack

The Country Beyond

1936

As Jim Alison

Pacific Liner

1939

As Gallagher

The Eleventh Hour

1923

As Prince Stefan de Bernie

Aloha

1931

As Stevens

My Girl Tisa

1948

As Dugan

A Voice in the Dark

1921

As Dr. Hugh Sainsbury

A Wise Fool

1921

As George Masson

Woman Against Woman

1914

As John Tressider

The Eternal Temptress

1917

As Count Rudolph Frizel

Santa Fe Trail

1940

As Tex Bell

Algiers

1938

As Grandpere

Pursued

1947

As Jake Dingle

The Scarlet Letter

1934

As Bartholomew Hockings

The Man in the Iron Mask

1939

As Porthos

Stella Dallas

1937

As Ed Munn

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939

As The Prince of Tyrone

The Fighting 69th

1940

As Big Mike Wynn

Listen, Darling

1938

As J.J. Slattery

Colt .45

1950

As Sheriff Harris

The Smiling Ghost

1941

As Norton

Always Leave Them Laughing

1949

As Sam Washburn

God's Country and the Woman

1937

As Bjorn Skalka

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

1931

As Jeb Mondstrum

Green Hell

1940

As Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren

Two in the Dark

1936

As Inspector Florio

Great Expectations

1934

As Joe Gargery

Cheyenne

1947

As Fred Durkin

Janie

1944

As Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon

Another Face

1935

As Charles L. Kellar

Escape in the Desert

1945

As Dr. Orville Tedder

Robin Hood

1922

As Little John

Parole!

1936

As John Borchard

Music for Madame

1937

As Detective Flugelman

Long Live the King

1923

As King Karl

The Night Angel

1931

As Biezel

Main Street

1923

As Miles Bjornstam

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1932

As Mr Simpson

Moral Suicide

1918

As 'Lucky' Travers

The Scarlet Oath

1916

As John Huntington

It Happened One Night

1934

As Danker

The Sea Hawk

1940

As Carl Pitt

The Man I Love

1946

As Riley

The Inspector General

1949

As Kovatch

Of Human Bondage

1934

As Emil Miller

They Drive by Night

1940

As Ed Carlsen

Dodge City

1939

As Rusty Hart

Juke Girl

1942

As Yippee 'Yip'

The Younger Brothers

1949

As Sheriff Knudson

Roughly Speaking

1945

As Lew Morton

Hotel Berlin

1945

As Herman Plottke

Three Cheers for the Irish

1940

As Gallagher

Virginia City

1940

As Olaf Swenson

South of St. Louis

1949

As Jake Evarts

The Great Impersonation

1921

As Gustave Seimann

By Man's Law

1913

As Brother Owner

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938

As Little John

The Prince and the Pauper

1937

As Captain of the Guard

Thin Ice

1937

As Baron

The Lost Patrol

1934

As Cook

The Good Fairy

1935

As Maurice Schlapkohl

Whiplash

1948

As Terrance O'Leary

So Big!

1932

As Klass Pool

Strongheart

1914

As Ralph Thorne

Black Oxen

1923

As Prince Rohenhauer

The Crusades

1935

As Blondel

The Beast

1916

As Cowboy

Night and Day

1946

As Leon Dowling

Imitation of Life

1934

As Martin the Furniture Man

Four Men and a Prayer

1938

As Furnoy

The Sisters

1938

As Sam Johnson

The Barbarian

1921

As Mark Grant

Babbitt

1934

As Charlie McKelvey

The Dictator

1922

As Sabos

The Fox

1921

As Rufus B. Coulter

The Power of the Press

1914

As Sam Freeborn

High, Wide and Handsome

1937

As Walt Brennan

Hollywood Extra Girl

1935

As Crusades Actor (uncredited)

Dora Thorne

1915

As Hugh Fernely

The Match King

1932

As Borglund

Fog Over Frisco

1934

As Chief O'Malley

Hollywood Canteen

1944

As Self

Alice in Movieland

1940

As Carlo's Guest (uncredited)

Breakdowns of 1937

1937

As Self

Showbiz Goes to War

1982

As (archive footage)

Broadway Bill

1934

As Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

As Various Roles (archive footage)

Hollywood

1923

As Alan Hale

Production

Rubber Tires

1927

As Director

Risky Business

1926

As Director

Braveheart

1925

As Director

The Sporting Lover

1926

As Director

The Wedding Song

1925

As Director

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