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