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
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.
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Known For
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 (uncredited)
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