Alan Hale
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-02-09
Day of Death
1950-01-22 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Alan Hale
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
Acting
(2005)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Various Roles (archive footage)
(1982)
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
(1968)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
as Joe Grogan (archive footage)
(1950)
Stars in My Crown
as Jed Isbell
(1950)
Colt .45
as Sheriff Harris
(1950)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
as Little John
(1949)
The Inspector General
as Kovatch
(1949)
South of St. Louis
as Jake Evarts
(1949)
The Younger Brothers
as Sheriff Knudson
(1949)
The House Across the Street
as J.B. Grennell
(1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing
as Sam Washburn
(1948)
Whiplash
as Terrance O'Leary
(1948)
Adventures of Don Juan
as Leporello
(1948)
My Girl Tisa
as Dugan
(1947)
Pursued
as Jake Dingle
(1947)
Cheyenne
as Fred Durkin
(1947)
That Way with Women
as Herman Brinker
(1947)
My Wild Irish Rose
as John Donovan
(1946)
Night and Day
as Leon Dowling
(1946)
The Man I Love
as Riley
(1946)
Perilous Holiday
as Dr. Lilley
(1946)
The Time, The Place and The Girl
as John Braden
(1945)
Hotel Berlin
as Herman Plottke
(1945)
Roughly Speaking
as Lew Morton
(1945)
Escape in the Desert
as Dr. Orville Tedder
(1945)
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Big Mike Harrigan
(1944)
Hollywood Canteen
as Self
(1944)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Steve Gillis
(1944)
Make Your Own Bed
as Walter Whirtle
(1944)
Janie
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
(1943)
This Is the Army
as Sergeant McGee
(1943)
Destination Tokyo
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
(1943)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Boats O'Hara
(1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self
(1942)
Gentleman Jim
as Pat Corbett
(1942)
Captains of the Clouds
as Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
(1942)
Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
(1942)
Juke Girl
as Yippee 'Yip'
(1941)
Manpower
as Jumbo Wells
(1941)
The Strawberry Blonde
as Old Man Grimes
(1941)
The Smiling Ghost
as Norton
(1941)
The Great Mr. Nobody
as 'Skipper' Martin
(1941)
Footsteps in the Dark
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
(1941)
Thieves Fall Out
as Robert Barnes
(1940)
The Sea Hawk
as Carl Pitt
(1940)
Santa Fe Trail
as Tex Bell
(1940)
They Drive by Night
as Ed Carlsen
(1940)
Virginia City
as Olaf Swenson
(1940)
The Fighting 69th
as Big Mike Wynn
(1940)
Green Hell
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
(1940)
Alice in Movieland
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
(1940)
Three Cheers for the Irish
as Gallagher
(1940)
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Capt. Bullwinkle
(1939)
Dodge City
as Rusty Hart
(1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Porthos
(1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as The Prince of Tyrone
(1939)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
(1939)
On Your Toes
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
(1939)
Pacific Liner
as Gallagher
(1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Little John
(1938)
Algiers
as Grandpere
(1938)
The Sisters
as Sam Johnson
(1938)
Listen, Darling
as J.J. Slattery
(1938)
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Kaidu
(1938)
Four Men and a Prayer
as Furnoy
(1938)
Valley of the Giants
as 'Ox' Smith
(1937)
Stella Dallas
as Ed Munn
(1937)
The Prince and the Pauper
as Captain of the Guard
(1937)
Thin Ice
as Baron
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Detective Flugelman
(1937)
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1937)
High, Wide and Handsome
as Walt Brennan
(1937)
God's Country and the Woman
as Bjorn Skalka
(1937)
When Thief Meets Thief
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
(1936)
Our Relations
as Joe Grogan
(1936)
Yellowstone
as John Alexander Hardigan
(1936)
Two in the Dark
as Inspector Florio
(1936)
Parole!
as John Borchard
(1936)
A Message to Garcia
as Dr. Ivan Krug
(1936)
The Country Beyond
as Jim Alison
(1935)
The Crusades
as Blondel
(1935)
The Good Fairy
as Maurice Schlapkohl
(1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Burbix
(1935)
Grand Old Girl
as Click Dade
(1935)
Another Face
as Charles L. Kellar
(1935)
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
(1934)
It Happened One Night
as Danker
(1934)
Of Human Bondage
as Emil Miller
(1934)
Imitation of Life
as Martin the Furniture Man
(1934)
Great Expectations
as Joe Gargery
(1934)
The Little Minister
as Rob Daw
(1934)
Broadway Bill
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
(1934)
The Lost Patrol
as Cook
(1934)
The Scarlet Letter
as Bartholomew Hockings
(1934)
Fog Over Frisco
as Chief O'Malley
(1934)
Little Man, What Now?
as Holgar Jachman
(1934)
Babbitt
as Charlie McKelvey
(1934)
(1934)
Picture Brides
as Von Luden
(1934)
There's Always Tomorrow
as Henry
(1933)
Destination Unknown
as Lundstrom
(1933)
The Eleventh Commandment
as Max Stager
(1933)
What Price Decency
as Klaus van Leyden
(1932)
Union Depot
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
(1932)
So Big!
as Klass Pool
(1932)
The Match King
as Borglund
(1932)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mr Simpson
(1931)
The Sea Ghost
as Capt. Greg Winters
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Hubert
(1931)
Aloha
as Stevens
(1931)
The Night Angel
as Biezel
(1931)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
as Jeb Mondstrum
(1930)
(1929)
The Leatherneck
as Otto Schmidt
(1929)
Red Hot Rhythm
as Walter
(1929)
Sailor's Holiday
as Adam Pike
(1929)
The Sap
as Jim Belden
(1928)
Power
as Hanson
(1928)
Oh Kay!
as Jansen
(1928)
Sal of Singapore
as Captain Erickson
(1928)
The Cop
as Mather
(1928)
Skyscraper
as Slim Strede
(1928)
The Leopard Lady
as Caesar
(1928)
The Spieler
as Flash
(1927)
Vanity
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
(1927)
The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Singapore Jack
(1925)
Dick Turpin
as Tom King
(1924)
(1924)
One Night in Rome
as Duke Mareno
(1923)
Hollywood
as Alan Hale
(1923)
The Covered Wagon
as Sam Woodhull
(1923)
Main Street
as Miles Bjornstam
(1923)
Quicksands
as Ferrago
(1923)
The Eleventh Hour
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
(1923)
Cameo Kirby
as Colonel Moreau
(1923)
Black Oxen
as Prince Rohenhauer
(1923)
Long Live the King
as King Karl
(1922)
Robin Hood
as Little John
(1922)
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
(1922)
The Dictator
as Sabos
(1922)
The Trap
as Benson
(1922)
One Glorious Day
as Ben Wadley
(1922)
Shirley of the Circus
as Max
(1921)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Karl von Hartrott
(1921)
A Wise Fool
as George Masson
(1921)
The Fox
as Rufus B. Coulter
(1921)
The Barbarian
as Mark Grant
(1921)
A Voice in the Dark
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
(1921)
The Great Impersonation
as Gustave Seimann
(1918)
Moral Suicide
as 'Lucky' Travers
(1917)
Life's Whirlpool
as Dr. Henry Grey
(1917)
The Eternal Temptress
as Count Rudolph Frizel
(1917)
One Hour
as G.D. Stanley
(1916)
(1916)
The Scarlet Oath
as John Huntington
(1916)
The Love Thief
as Captain Arthur Boyce
(1916)
Sold Out
as Halsey Brent
(1916)
The Beast
as Cowboy
(1916)
Pudd'nhead Wilson
as Tom Driscoll
(1915)
East Lynne
as Sir Francis Levinson
(1915)
Dora Thorne
as Hugh Fernely
(1915)
The Americano
as Madison - The Americano
(1914)
The Woman in Black
as Frank Mansfield
(1914)
Strongheart
as Ralph Thorne
(1914)
The Power of the Press
as Sam Freeborn
(1914)
Woman Against Woman
as John Tressider
(1914)
(1913)
By Man's Law
as Brother Owner
(1913)
Dick's Turning
as The Rich Boy's Father
Crew
(1927)
Rubber Tires
Director
(1926)
Risky Business
Director
(1926)
The Sporting Lover
Director
(1925)
The Wedding Song
Director
(1925)
Braveheart
Director