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