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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
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7

They Drive by Night

(1940) Ed Carlsen
Of Human Bondage
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6

Of Human Bondage

(1934) Emil Miller
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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7

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

(1921) Karl von Hartrott
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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7

The Adventures of Robin Hood

(1938) Little John
The Londoners
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5

The Londoners

(2008) Miguel
Stars in My Crown
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7

Stars in My Crown

(1950) Jed Isbell
Imitation of Life
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7

Imitation of Life

(1934) Martin the Furniture Man
Action in the North Atlantic
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7

Action in the North Atlantic

(1943) Boats O'Hara

Acting

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
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