Alan Hale
Age: N/A | From: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: Allan Hale , Alan Hale Sr. , Rufus Edward MacKahan , Rufus Alan MacKahan
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Movie Involvements: 128
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
They Drive by Night
(1940) Ed Carlsen
Of Human Bondage
(1934) Emil Miller
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1921) Karl von Hartrott
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938) Little John
The Londoners
(2008) Miguel
Stars in My Crown
(1950) Jed Isbell
Imitation of Life
(1934) Martin the Furniture Man
Action in the North Atlantic
(1943) Boats O'HaraActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Miguel | |
| 2005 | Various Roles (archive footage) | |
| 1982 | (archive footage) | |
| 1968 | Joe Grogan (archive footage) | |
| 1950 | Little John | |
| Sheriff Harris | ||
| Jed Isbell | ||
| 1949 | Kovatch | |
| Sam Washburn | ||
| J.B. Grennell | ||
| Sheriff Knudson | ||
| Jake Evarts | ||
| 1948 | Leporello | |
| Terrance O'Leary | ||
| Dugan | ||
| 1947 | John Donovan | |
| Fred Durkin | ||
| Jake Dingle | ||
| Herman Brinker | ||
| 1946 | Riley | |
| John Braden | ||
| Leon Dowling | ||
| Dr. Lilley | ||
| 1945 | Dr. Orville Tedder | |
| Big Mike Harrigan | ||
| Herman Plottke | ||
| Lew Morton | ||
| 1944 | Self | |
| Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon | ||
| Steve Gillis | ||
| Walter Whirtle | ||
| 1943 | 'Cookie' Wainwright | |
| Self | ||
| Sergeant McGee | ||
| Boats O'Hara | ||
| 1942 | Pat Corbett | |
| Sgt. Kirk Edwards | ||
| Yippee 'Yip' | ||
| Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot) | ||
| 1941 | Norton | |
| Jumbo Wells | ||
| Robert Barnes | ||
| Police Insp. Charles M. Mason | ||
| Old Man Grimes | ||
| 'Skipper' Martin | ||
| 1940 | Tex Bell | |
| Capt. Bullwinkle | ||
| Carl Pitt | ||
| Ed Carlsen | ||
| Olaf Swenson | ||
| Gallagher | ||
| Carlo's Guest (uncredited) | ||
| Big Mike Wynn | ||
| Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren | ||
| 1939 | The Prince of Tyrone | |
| Sergei Alexandrovitch | ||
| Michael 'Mike' Leonard | ||
| Porthos | ||
| Rusty Hart | ||
| Gallagher | ||
| 1938 | J.J. Slattery | |
| Sam Johnson | ||
| 'Ox' Smith | ||
| Little John | ||
| Furnoy | ||
| Kaidu | ||
| Grandpere | ||
| 1937 | Self | |
| Detective Flugelman | ||
| Baron | ||
| Ed Munn | ||
| Walt Brennan | ||
| Captain of the Guard | ||
| Bjorn Skalka | ||
| Jim Diall 'Col. Fane' | ||
| 1936 | Joe Grogan | |
| John Alexander Hardigan | ||
| John Borchard | ||
| Jim Alison | ||
| Dr. Ivan Krug | ||
| Inspector Florio | ||
| 1935 | Charles L. Kellar | |
| Burbix | ||
| Crusades Actor (uncredited) | ||
| Blondel | ||
| Maurice Schlapkohl | ||
| Click Dade | ||
| 1934 | Rob Daw | |
| Charlie McKelvey | ||
| Orchestra Leader (uncredited) | ||
| Martin the Furniture Man | ||
| Henry | ||
| Joe Gargery | ||
| Bartholomew Hockings | ||
| Emil Miller | ||
| Holgar Jachman | ||
| Chief O'Malley | ||
| Von Luden | ||
| Danker | ||
| Cook | ||
| Sam | ||
| 1933 | Lundstrom | |
| Max Stager | ||
| Klaus van Leyden | ||
| 1932 | Borglund | |
| Mr Simpson | ||
| Klass Pool | ||
| The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan | ||
| 1931 | Capt. Greg Winters | |
| Hubert | ||
| Jeb Mondstrum | ||
| Biezel | ||
| Stevens | ||
| 1930 | N/A | |
| 1929 | Walter | |
| Jim Belden | ||
| Adam Pike | ||
| Otto Schmidt | ||
| 1928 | Flash | |
| Captain Erickson | ||
| Hanson | ||
| Mather | ||
| Jansen | ||
| Slim Strede | ||
| Caesar | ||
| 1927 | Singapore Jack | |
| 'Happy' Dan Morgan | ||
| 1925 | Tom King | |
| 1924 | Duke Mareno | |
| 1923 | Prince Rohenhauer | |
| King Karl | ||
| Colonel Moreau | ||
| Alan Hale | ||
| Prince Stefan de Bernie | ||
| Miles Bjornstam | ||
| Sam Woodhull | ||
| Ferrago | ||
| 1922 | Little John | |
| Sabos | ||
| Benson | ||
| Torvald Helmer | ||
| Ben Wadley | ||
| 1921 | Gustave Seimann | |
| Rufus B. Coulter | ||
| George Masson | ||
| Dr. Hugh Sainsbury | ||
| Mark Grant | ||
| Karl von Hartrott | ||
| 1918 | 'Lucky' Travers | |
| 1917 | Count Rudolph Frizel | |
| Dr. Henry Grey | ||
| 1916 | N/A | |
| Captain Arthur Boyce | ||
| John Huntington | ||
| Cowboy | ||
| Halsey Brent | ||
| 1915 | Hugh Fernely | |
| Sir Francis Levinson | ||
| Madison - The Americano | ||
| 1914 | Frank Mansfield | |
| Sam Freeborn | ||
| N/A | ||
| John Tressider | ||
| Ralph Thorne | ||
| 1913 | Brother Owner | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | Director | |
| 1926 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| 1925 | Director | |
| Director | ||
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