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Alan Hale

Born · February 9, 1892

Died · January 22, 1950 (57 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Bio

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.

Known for

The Londoners

Miguel · (1 episode)

5.4

2008

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Various Roles (archive footage)

7.8

2005

Showbiz Goes to War

(archive footage)

10.0

1982

The Best of Laurel and Hardy

Joe Grogan (archive footage)

0.0

1968

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

Little John

4.8

1950

Colt .45

Sheriff Harris

5.7

1950

Stars in My Crown

Jed Isbell

6.9

1950

The Inspector General

Kovatch

6.4

1949

Always Leave Them Laughing

Sam Washburn

4.3

1949

The House Across the Street

J.B. Grennell

4.5

1949

The Younger Brothers

Sheriff Knudson

5.0

1949

South of St. Louis

Jake Evarts

5.6

1949

Adventures of Don Juan

Leporello

6.4

1948

Whiplash

Terrance O'Leary

4.9

1948

My Girl Tisa

Dugan

0.0

1948

My Wild Irish Rose

John Donovan

6.0

1947

Cheyenne

Fred Durkin

6.8

1947

Pursued

Jake Dingle

6.5

1947

That Way with Women

Herman Brinker

6.0

1947

The Man I Love

Riley

5.9

1946

The Time, The Place and The Girl

John Braden

5.4

1946

Night and Day

Leon Dowling

5.7

1946

Perilous Holiday

Dr. Lilley

0.0

1946

Escape in the Desert

Dr. Orville Tedder

0.0

1945

God Is My Co-Pilot

Big Mike Harrigan

7.0

1945

Hotel Berlin

Herman Plottke

6.1

1945

Roughly Speaking

Lew Morton

6.8

1945

Hollywood Canteen

Self

7.3

1944

Janie

Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon

5.5

1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Steve Gillis

6.6

1944

Make Your Own Bed

Walter Whirtle

5.8

1944

Destination Tokyo

'Cookie' Wainwright

6.7

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Self

6.1

1943

This Is the Army

Sergeant McGee

5.7

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

Boats O'Hara

7.0

1943

Gentleman Jim

Pat Corbett

7.2

1942

Desperate Journey

Sgt. Kirk Edwards

5.9

1942

Juke Girl

Yippee 'Yip'

6.5

1942

Captains of the Clouds

Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)

6.5

1942

The Smiling Ghost

Norton

6.5

1941

Manpower

Jumbo Wells

6.7

1941

Thieves Fall Out

Robert Barnes

5.5

1941

Footsteps in the Dark

Police Insp. Charles M. Mason

6.9

1941

The Strawberry Blonde

Old Man Grimes

6.8

1941

The Great Mr. Nobody

'Skipper' Martin

5.3

1941

Santa Fe Trail

Tex Bell

5.6

1940

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

Capt. Bullwinkle

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Little John

7.5

1938

Four Men and a Prayer

Furnoy

6.3

1938

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Kaidu

5.9

1938

Algiers

Grandpere

6.3

1938

Breakdowns of 1937

Self

6.0

1937

Music for Madame

Detective Flugelman

5.0

1937

Thin Ice

Baron

6.7

1937

Stella Dallas

Ed Munn

6.9

1937

High, Wide and Handsome

Walt Brennan

6.0

1937

The Prince and the Pauper

Captain of the Guard

6.8

1937

God's Country and the Woman

Bjorn Skalka

4.2

1937

When Thief Meets Thief

Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'

5.0

1937

Our Relations

Joe Grogan

6.9

1936

Yellowstone

John Alexander Hardigan

5.2

1936

Parole!

John Borchard

6.0

1936

The Country Beyond

Jim Alison

0.0

1936

A Message to Garcia

Dr. Ivan Krug

5.0

1936

Two in the Dark

Inspector Florio

5.7

1936

Another Face

Charles L. Kellar

4.2

1935

The Last Days of Pompeii

Burbix

5.6

1935

Hollywood Extra Girl

Crusades Actor (uncredited)

6.0

1935

The Crusades

Blondel

6.2

1935

The Good Fairy

Maurice Schlapkohl

6.9

1935

Grand Old Girl

Click Dade

6.5

1935

The Little Minister

Rob Daw

5.9

1934

Babbitt

Charlie McKelvey

6.0

1934

Broadway Bill

Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

6.1

1934

Imitation of Life

Martin the Furniture Man

7.0

1934

There's Always Tomorrow

Henry

8.0

1934

Great Expectations

Joe Gargery

6.2

1934

The Scarlet Letter

Bartholomew Hockings

4.9

1934

Of Human Bondage

Emil Miller

6.5

1934

Little Man, What Now?

Holgar Jachman

6.4

1934

Fog Over Frisco

Chief O'Malley

6.1

1934

Picture Brides

Von Luden

4.5

1934

It Happened One Night

Danker

7.8

1934

The Lost Patrol

Cook

6.5

1934

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen

Sam

5.0

1934

Destination Unknown

Lundstrom

0.0

1933

The Eleventh Commandment

Max Stager

0.0

1933

What Price Decency

Klaus van Leyden

1.0

1933

The Match King

Borglund

6.6

1932

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Mr Simpson

0.0

1932

So Big!

Klass Pool

5.8

1932

Union Depot

The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan

6.1

1932

The Sea Ghost

Capt. Greg Winters

5.2

1931

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Hubert

5.9

1931

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)

Jeb Mondstrum

6.4

1931

The Night Angel

Biezel

4.0

1931

Aloha

Stevens

0.0

1931

Slim Strede

5.4

1928

The Leopard Lady

Caesar

0.0

1928

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Singapore Jack

0.0

1927

Vanity

'Happy' Dan Morgan

0.0

1927

Dick Turpin

Tom King

5.3

1925

For Another Woman

1923

Quicksands

0.0

1917

Life's Whirlpool

Dr. Henry Grey

0.0

1917

One Hour

G.D. Stanley

0.0

1917

0.0

1914

The Little Widow

0.0

1914

Woman Against Woman

John Tressider

0.0

1914

Strongheart

Ralph Thorne

5.0

1914

By Man's Law

Brother Owner

0.0

1913

Dick's Turning

0.0

1913