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Ben Hall

Born · March 18, 1899

Died · May 20, 1985 (86 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Bio

Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

Fury

Fury

You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once

Cover Up

Printer (Uncredited)

1949

The Noose Hangs High

Messenger (uncredited)

1948

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)

1947

My Darling Clementine

Barber (uncredited)

1946

Traffic with the Devil

Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)

1946

Young Widow

Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)

1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Townsman (Uncredited)

1946

Movie Pests

Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)

1944

It Happened Tomorrow

1944

Du Barry Was a Lady

Waiter

1943

The Hard Way

Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)

1943

The Incredible Stranger

Lou Coon (uncredited)

1942

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Attendant

1942

Hellzapoppin'

Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)

1941

Second Chorus

Western Union Boy (uncredited)

1941

Pride and Prejudice

Poet

1940

One Million B.C.

Shell Person

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)

1940

My Little Chickadee

Schoolboy (uncredited)

1940

Dad for a Day

Leonard's Father

1939

Marie Antoinette

Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)

1938

Held For Ransom

Hillbilly

1938

Riders of the Black Hills

Reporter Ethelbert

1938

Music for Madame

Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)

1937

Smoke Tree Range

Pete

1937

You Only Live Once

Messenger with Package (uncredited)

1937

A Million to One

Joe

1936

Postal Inspector

Mail Clerk (uncredited)

1936

Fury

Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)

1936

The Voice of Bugle Ann

Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)

1936

An All American Toothache

Dental Student (uncredited)

1936

Strike Me Pink

Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)

1936

Racing Luck

'Knapsack'

1935

The Live Wire

Steve

1935

Steamboat Round the Bend

Fleety Belle's brother

1935

Men Without Names

Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)

1935

Naughty Marietta

Mama's Boy (uncredited)

1935

Life Begins at Forty

Square Dance Participant

1935

Sequoia

Joe

1935

Hollywood Trouble

1935

Counsel on De Fence

Langdon's Assistant

1934

Love Past Thirty

Junior Burt

1934

The Stranger's Return

Farmhand

1933

Lilly Turner

Western Union Boy (uncredited)

1933

Strictly Personal

Holbrook (uncredited)

1933

Parole Girl

Apartment Telephone Operator

1933

Girl Missing

Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)

1933

Blondie Johnson

Newsboy (uncredited)

1933

Face in the Sky

Service Station Attendant (uncredited)

1933

The Sport Parade

Newsboy (uncredited)

1932

Vanity Street

Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)

1932

The Phantom President

Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)

1932

Gorilla Ship

Benny - Cabin Boy

1932

Alias Mary Smith

Jake

1932

After Tomorrow

Soad Jerk

1932

Sin's Pay Day

Henchman Rusty (uncredited)

1932

The Star Witness

Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)

1931

Stranger in Town

XYZ Grocery Clerk

1931

Newly Rich

Toby (uncredited)

1931

Blood and Thunder

Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)

1931

The Office Wife

Office Boy (uncredited)

1930

A Man from Wyoming

Orderly

1930

Radio Kisses

1930

Wall Street

Cliff

1929

The Girl from Woolworth's

Jerry Donelly (uncredited)

1929

Salute

Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)

1929

Hot News

Benny

1928

Harold Teen

Goofy

1928

Baby Brother

Man with glasses

1927

Girls

Irving Wise

1927

Casey at the Bat

Scorekeeper (uncredited)

1927

Satan Town

Crippy Jack

1926

The Skyrocket

Peter Stanton

1926