Alan Hale

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Washington, District of Columbia, USA, 1892-02-09

Died: 1950-01-22

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1913	Dick's Turning	The Rich Boy's Father	0
2	1913	By Man's Law	Brother Owner	0
3	1914	Strongheart	Ralph Thorne	50
4	1914	Woman Against Woman	John Tressider	0
5	1914	The Little Widow		0
6	1914	The Power of the Press	Sam Freeborn	0
7	1914	The Woman in Black	Frank Mansfield	50
8	1915	The Americano	Madison - The Americano	0
9	1915	East Lynne	Sir Francis Levinson	0
10	1915	Dora Thorne	Hugh Fernely	0
11	1916	Pudd'nhead Wilson	Tom Driscoll	0
12	1916	Sold Out	Halsey Brent	0
13	1916	The Beast	Cowboy	0
14	1916	The Scarlet Oath	John Huntington	0
15	1916	The Love Thief	Captain Arthur Boyce	0
16	1916	The Americano		58
17	1917	One Hour	G.D. Stanley	0
18	1917	Life's Whirlpool	Dr. Henry Grey	0
19	1917	The Eternal Temptress	Count Rudolph Frizel	0
20	1918	Moral Suicide	'Lucky' Travers	10
21	1921	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Karl von Hartrott	66
22	1921	The Barbarian	Mark Grant	0
23	1921	A Voice in the Dark	Dr. Hugh Sainsbury	0
24	1921	A Wise Fool	George Masson	0
25	1921	The Fox	Rufus B. Coulter	0
26	1921	The Great Impersonation	Gustave Seimann	0
27	1922	One Glorious Day	Ben Wadley	0
28	1922	A Doll's House	Torvald Helmer	0
29	1922	The Trap	Benson	52
30	1922	The Dictator	Sabos	0
31	1922	Robin Hood	Little John	64
32	1922	Shirley of the Circus	Max	0
33	1923	Quicksands	Ferrago	50
34	1923	The Covered Wagon	Sam Woodhull	61
35	1923	Main Street	Miles Bjornstam	40
36	1923	The Eleventh Hour	Prince Stefan de Bernie	0
37	1923	Hollywood	Alan Hale	70
38	1923	Cameo Kirby	Colonel Moreau	58
39	1923	Long Live the King	King Karl	0
40	1923	Black Oxen	Prince Rohenhauer	52
41	1924	One Night in Rome	Duke Mareno	50
42	1924	For Another Woman		0
43	1925	Dick Turpin	Tom King	53
44	1927	Vanity	'Happy' Dan Morgan	0
45	1927	The Wreck of the Hesperus	Singapore Jack	0
46	1928	The Leopard Lady	Caesar	0
47	1928	Skyscraper	Slim Strede	56
48	1928	Oh Kay!	Jansen	0
49	1928	The Cop	Mather	60
50	1928	Power	Hanson	60
51	1928	Sal of Singapore	Captain Erickson	50
52	1928	The Spieler	Flash	82
53	1929	The Leatherneck	Otto Schmidt	54
54	1929	Sailor's Holiday	Adam Pike	52
55	1929	The Sap	Jim Belden	0
56	1929	Red Hot Rhythm	Walter	0
57	1930	She Got What She Wanted		0
58	1931	Aloha	Stevens	0
59	1931	The Night Angel	Biezel	40
60	1931	Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)	Jeb Mondstrum	64
61	1931	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Hubert	59
62	1931	The Sea Ghost	Capt. Greg Winters	52
63	1932	Union Depot	The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan	61
64	1932	So Big!	Klass Pool	59
65	1932	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Mr Simpson	0
66	1932	The Match King	Borglund	66
67	1933	What Price Decency	Klaus van Leyden	10
68	1933	The Eleventh Commandment	Max Stager	0
69	1933	Destination Unknown	Lundstrom	0
70	1934	Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen	Sam	50
71	1934	The Lost Patrol	Cook	65
72	1934	It Happened One Night	Danker	78
73	1934	Picture Brides	Von Luden	48
74	1934	Fog Over Frisco	Chief O'Malley	62
75	1934	Little Man, What Now?	Holgar Jachman	63
76	1934	Of Human Bondage	Emil Miller	65
77	1934	The Scarlet Letter	Bartholomew Hockings	49
78	1934	Great Expectations	Joe Gargery	62
79	1934	There's Always Tomorrow	Henry	80
80	1934	Imitation of Life	Martin the Furniture Man	70
81	1934	Broadway Bill	Orchestra Leader (uncredited)	60
82	1934	Babbitt	Charlie McKelvey	60
83	1934	The Little Minister	Rob Daw	59
84	1935	Grand Old Girl	Click Dade	65
85	1935	The Good Fairy	Maurice Schlapkohl	70
86	1935	The Crusades	Blondel	62
87	1935	Hollywood Extra Girl	Crusades Actor (uncredited)	60
88	1935	The Last Days of Pompeii	Burbix	56
89	1935	Another Face	Charles L. Kellar	42
90	1936	Two in the Dark	Inspector Florio	59
91	1936	A Message to Garcia	Dr. Ivan Krug	50
92	1936	The Country Beyond	Jim Alison	0
93	1936	Parole!	John Borchard	60
94	1936	Yellowstone	John Alexander Hardigan	44
95	1936	Our Relations	Joe Grogan	69
96	1937	When Thief Meets Thief	Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'	50
97	1937	God's Country and the Woman	Bjorn Skalka	42
98	1937	The Prince and the Pauper	Captain of the Guard	68
99	1937	High, Wide and Handsome	Walt Brennan	63
100	1937	Stella Dallas	Ed Munn	68
101	1937	Thin Ice	Baron	66
102	1937	Music for Madame	Detective Flugelman	50
103	1937	Breakdowns of 1937	Self	60
104	1938	Algiers	Grandpere	62
105	1938	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Kaidu	60
106	1938	Four Men and a Prayer	Furnoy	63
107	1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Little John	75
108	1938	Valley of the Giants	'Ox' Smith	60
109	1938	The Sisters	Sam Johnson	61
110	1938	Listen, Darling	J.J. Slattery	63
111	1939	Pacific Liner	Gallagher	53
112	1939	Dodge City	Rusty Hart	69
113	1939	The Man in the Iron Mask	Porthos	70
114	1939	Dust Be My Destiny	Michael 'Mike' Leonard	62
115	1939	On Your Toes	Sergei Alexandrovitch	39
116	1939	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	The Prince of Tyrone	63
117	1940	Green Hell	Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren	40
118	1940	The Fighting 69th	Big Mike Wynn	54
119	1940	Alice in Movieland	Carlo's Guest (uncredited)	63
120	1940	Three Cheers for the Irish	Gallagher	63
121	1940	Virginia City	Olaf Swenson	61
122	1940	They Drive by Night	Ed Carlsen	69
123	1940	The Sea Hawk	Carl Pitt	71
124	1940	Tugboat Annie Sails Again	Capt. Bullwinkle	55
125	1940	Santa Fe Trail	Tex Bell	57
126	1941	The Great Mr. Nobody	'Skipper' Martin	53
127	1941	The Strawberry Blonde	Old Man Grimes	69
128	1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Police Insp. Charles M. Mason	69
129	1941	Thieves Fall Out	Robert Barnes	55
130	1941	Manpower	Jumbo Wells	67
131	1941	The Smiling Ghost	Norton	65
132	1942	Captains of the Clouds	Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)	64
133	1942	Juke Girl	Yippee 'Yip'	65
134	1942	Desperate Journey	Sgt. Kirk Edwards	59
135	1942	Gentleman Jim	Pat Corbett	72
136	1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Boats O'Hara	71
137	1943	This Is the Army	Sergeant McGee	58
138	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Self	61
139	1943	Destination Tokyo	'Cookie' Wainwright	68
140	1944	Make Your Own Bed	Walter Whirtle	58
141	1944	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Steve Gillis	66
142	1944	Janie	Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon	55
143	1944	Hollywood Canteen	Self	73
144	1945	Roughly Speaking	Lew Morton	68
145	1945	Hotel Berlin	Herman Plottke	61
146	1945	God Is My Co-Pilot	Big Mike Harrigan	70
147	1945	Escape in the Desert	Dr. Orville Tedder	0
148	1946	Perilous Holiday	Dr. Lilley	0
149	1946	Night and Day	Leon Dowling	57
150	1946	The Man I Love	Riley	62
151	1946	The Time, The Place and The Girl	John Braden	54
152	1947	That Way with Women	Herman Brinker	62
153	1947	Pursued	Jake Dingle	65
154	1947	Cheyenne	Fred Durkin	68
155	1947	My Wild Irish Rose	John Donovan	60
156	1948	My Girl Tisa	Dugan	0
157	1948	Adventures of Don Juan	Leporello	64
158	1948	Whiplash	Terrance O'Leary	49
159	1949	South of St. Louis	Jake Evarts	56
160	1949	The Younger Brothers	Sheriff Knudson	50
161	1949	The House Across the Street	J.B. Grennell	45
162	1949	Always Leave Them Laughing	Sam Washburn	43
163	1949	The Inspector General	Kovatch	65
164	1950	Stars in My Crown	Jed Isbell	69
165	1950	Colt .45	Sheriff Harris	62
166	1950	Rogues of Sherwood Forest	Little John	48
167	1968	The Best of Laurel and Hardy	Joe Grogan (archive footage)	0
168	1982	Showbiz Goes to War	(archive footage)	100
169	2005	The Adventures of Errol Flynn	Various Roles (archive footage)	78

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