Alan Hale
Known for Acting · 174 credits
- Born
- 1892-02-09
- Died
- 1950-01-22
- Place of birth
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Also known as
- Allan Hale · Alan Hale Sr. · Rufus Edward MacKahan · Rufus Alan MacKahan
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.
Known For
TV Shows (1)
Movies (173)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Little John
The Strawberry Blonde
1941
as Old Man Grimes
It Happened One Night
1934
as Danker
Picture Brides
1934
as Von Luden
The Crusades
1935
as Blondel
Union Depot
1932
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Whiplash
1948
as Terrance O'Leary
Babbitt
1934
as Charlie McKelvey
Destination Tokyo
1943
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
Vanity
1927
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
Juke Girl
1942
as Yippee 'Yip'
Night and Day
1946
as Leon Dowling
Perilous Holiday
1946
as Dr. Lilley
Dodge City
1939
as Rusty Hart
Strongheart
1914
as Ralph Thorne
Desperate Journey
1942
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Destination Unknown
1933
as Lundstrom
Aloha
1931
as Stevens
Hollywood
1923
as Alan Hale
The Fox
1921
as Rufus B. Coulter
Dora Thorne
1915
as Hugh Fernely
One Hour
1917
as G.D. Stanley
Sold Out
1916
as Halsey Brent
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
as Leporello
Black Oxen
1923
as Prince Rohenhauer
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921
as Karl von Hartrott
The Leatherneck
1929
as Otto Schmidt
Virginia City
1940
as Olaf Swenson
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
as Burbix
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Big Mike Harrigan
Imitation of Life
1934
as Martin the Furniture Man
Algiers
1938
as Grandpere
The Lost Patrol
1934
as Cook
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Tex Bell
Oh Kay!
1928
as Jansen
Pursued
1947
as Jake Dingle
They Drive by Night
1940
as Ed Carlsen
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Carl Pitt
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Colt .45
1950
as Sheriff Harris
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Porthos
Hollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
Gentleman Jim
1942
as Pat Corbett
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
as Boats O'Hara
Thin Ice
1937
as Baron
Captains of the Clouds
1942
as Tiny Murphy
Cheyenne
1947
as Fred Durkin
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as The Prince of Tyrone
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950
as Little John
The Fighting 69th
1940
as Big Mike Wynn
Hotel Berlin
1945
as Herman Plottke
Stella Dallas
1937
as Ed Munn
The Sisters
1938
as Sam Johnson
The Inspector General
1949
as Kovatch
Manpower
1941
as Jumbo Wells
The Trap
1922
as Benson
Robin Hood
1922
as Little John
Stars in My Crown
1950
as Jed Isbell
Main Street
1923
as Miles Bjornstam
Roughly Speaking
1945
as Lew Morton
So Big!
1932
as Klass Pool
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Captain of the Guard
Of Human Bondage
1934
as Emil Miller
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
as Steve Gillis
Our Relations
1936
as Joe Grogan
The Man I Love
1946
as Riley
Alice in Movieland
1940
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1937
1937
as Self
Green Hell
1940
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
This Is the Army
1943
as Sergeant McGee
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Cop
1928
as Mather
Sal of Singapore
1928
as Captain Erickson
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
as Walt Brennan
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Self
Valley of the Giants
1938
as 'Ox' Smith
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
as John Braden
Fog Over Frisco
1934
as Chief O'Malley
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
as Sam
On Your Toes
1939
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
Great Expectations
1934
as Joe Gargery
Long Live the King
1923
as King Karl
Little Man, What Now?
1934
as Holgar Jachman
Two in the Dark
1936
as Inspector Florio
Cameo Kirby
1923
as Colonel Moreau
Jump for Glory
1937
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
The Good Fairy
1935
as Maurice Schlapkohl
The Scarlet Letter
1934
as Bartholomew Hockings
The Eleventh Commandment
1933
as Max Stager
South of St. Louis
1949
as Jake Evarts
Broadway Bill
1934
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Listen, Darling
1938
as J.J. Slattery
Another Face
1935
as Charles L. Kellar
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
as Kaidu
Always Leave Them Laughing
1949
as Sam Washburn
The Barbarian
1921
as Mark Grant
Janie
1944
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Dick Turpin
1925
as Tom King
The Beast
1916
as Cowboy
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Hubert
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
as Furnoy
Skyscraper
1928
as Slim Strede
Troubles of a Bride
1924
as Gordon Blake
The Match King
1932
as Borglund
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
as Henry
Yellowstone
1936
as John Alexander Hardigan
The Younger Brothers
1949
as Sheriff Knudson
Parole!
1936
as John Borchard
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931
as Jeb Mondstrum
Escape in the Desert
1945
as Dr. Orville Tedder
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
as Capt. Bullwinkle
The Little Minister
1934
as Rob Daw
Three Cheers for the Irish
1940
as Gallagher
Pacific Liner
1939
as Gallagher
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
as John Donovan
My Girl Tisa
1948
as Dugan
Quicksands
1923
as Ferrago
The Covered Wagon
1923
as Sam Woodhull
About 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 h… With 174 credits spanning from 1912 to 2008, Alan Hale has appeared in 173 films and 1 TV show.
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- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) — as Little John
- The Strawberry Blonde (1941) — as Old Man Grimes
- It Happened One Night (1934) — as Danker
- Picture Brides (1934) — as Von Luden
- The Crusades (1935) — as Blondel
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