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)
Colt .45
as Sheriff Harris
(1950)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
as Little John
(1950)
Stars in My Crown
as Jed Isbell
(1949)
The Inspector General
as Kovatch
(1949)
South of St. Louis
as Jake Evarts
(1949)
The House Across the Street
as J.B. Grennell
(1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing
as Sam Washburn
(1949)
The Younger Brothers
as Sheriff Knudson
(1948)
Whiplash
as Terrance O'Leary
(1948)
Adventures of Don Juan
as Leporello
(1948)
My Girl Tisa
as Dugan
(1947)
My Wild Irish Rose
as John Donovan
(1947)
Pursued
as Jake Dingle
(1947)
Cheyenne
as Fred Durkin
(1947)
That Way with Women
as Herman Brinker
(1946)
Perilous Holiday
as Dr. Lilley
(1946)
The Man I Love
as Riley
(1946)
Night and Day
as Leon Dowling
(1946)
The Time, The Place and The Girl
as John Braden
(1945)
Escape in the Desert
as Dr. Orville Tedder
(1945)
Hotel Berlin
as Herman Plottke
(1945)
Roughly Speaking
as Lew Morton
(1945)
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Big Mike Harrigan
(1944)
Make Your Own Bed
as Walter Whirtle
(1944)
Hollywood Canteen
as Self
(1944)
Janie
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
(1944)
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Steve Gillis
(1943)
Destination Tokyo
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
(1943)
This Is the Army
as Sergeant McGee
(1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self
(1943)
Action in the North Atlantic
as Boats O'Hara
(1942)
Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
(1942)
Gentleman Jim
as Pat Corbett
(1942)
Captains of the Clouds
as Tiny Murphy
(1942)
Juke Girl
as Yippee 'Yip'
(1941)
Thieves Fall Out
as Robert Barnes
(1941)
The Great Mr. Nobody
as 'Skipper' Martin
(1941)
Manpower
as Jumbo Wells
(1941)
The Smiling Ghost
as Norton
(1941)
The Strawberry Blonde
as Old Man Grimes
(1941)
Footsteps in the Dark
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
(1940)
Santa Fe Trail
as Tex Bell
(1940)
Three Cheers for the Irish
as Gallagher
(1940)
Virginia City
as Olaf Swenson
(1940)
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Capt. Bullwinkle
(1940)
Alice in Movieland
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
(1940)
The Sea Hawk
as Carl Pitt
(1940)
The Fighting 69th
as Big Mike Wynn
(1940)
Green Hell
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
(1940)
They Drive by Night
as Ed Carlsen
(1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as The Prince of Tyrone
(1939)
Dodge City
as Rusty Hart
(1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Porthos
(1939)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
(1939)
Pacific Liner
as Gallagher
(1939)
On Your Toes
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
(1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Little John
(1938)
Algiers
as Grandpere
(1938)
Four Men and a Prayer
as Furnoy
(1938)
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Kaidu
(1938)
The Sisters
as Sam Johnson
(1938)
Listen, Darling
as J.J. Slattery
(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)
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1937)
Thin Ice
as Baron
(1937)
Music for Madame
as Detective Flugelman
(1937)
God's Country and the Woman
as Bjorn Skalka
(1937)
When Thief Meets Thief
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
(1937)
High, Wide and Handsome
as Walt Brennan
(1936)
Our Relations
as Joe Grogan
(1936)
Yellowstone
as John Alexander Hardigan
(1936)
A Message to Garcia
as Dr. Ivan Krug
(1936)
Two in the Dark
as Inspector Florio
(1936)
The Country Beyond
as Jim Alison
(1936)
Parole!
as John Borchard
(1935)
The Crusades
as Blondel
(1935)
The Good Fairy
as Maurice Schlapkohl
(1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Burbix
(1935)
Another Face
as Charles L. Kellar
(1935)
Grand Old Girl
as Click Dade
(1935)
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
(1934)
Little Man, What Now?
as Holgar Jachman
(1934)
It Happened One Night
as Danker
(1934)
Broadway Bill
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
(1934)
Babbitt
as Charlie McKelvey
(1934)
Great Expectations
as Joe Gargery
(1934)
Of Human Bondage
as Emil Miller
(1934)
Fog Over Frisco
as Chief O'Malley
(1934)
The Scarlet Letter
as Bartholomew Hockings
(1934)
Imitation of Life
as Martin the Furniture Man
(1934)
The Little Minister
as Rob Daw
(1934)
The Lost Patrol
as Cook
(1934)
(1934)
There's Always Tomorrow
as Henry
(1934)
Picture Brides
as Von Luden
(1933)
Destination Unknown
as Lundstrom
(1933)
The Eleventh Commandment
as Max Stager
(1933)
What Price Decency
as Klaus van Leyden
(1932)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mr Simpson
(1932)
Union Depot
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
(1932)
So Big!
as Klass Pool
(1932)
The Match King
as Borglund
(1931)
Aloha
as Stevens
(1931)
The Sea Ghost
as Capt. Greg Winters
(1931)
The Night Angel
as Biezel
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Hubert
(1931)
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
as Jeb Mondstrum
(1930)
(1929)
Sailor's Holiday
as Adam Pike
(1929)
The Leatherneck
as Otto Schmidt
(1929)
The Sap
as Jim Belden
(1929)
Red Hot Rhythm
as Walter
(1928)
Skyscraper
as Slim Strede
(1928)
Power
as Hanson
(1928)
Oh Kay!
as Jansen
(1928)
The Cop
as Mather
(1928)
The Spieler
as Flash
(1928)
Sal of Singapore
as Captain Erickson
(1928)
The Leopard Lady
as Caesar
(1927)
The Wreck of the Hesperus
as Singapore Jack
(1927)
Vanity
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
(1925)
Dick Turpin
as Tom King
(1924)
One Night in Rome
as Duke Mareno
(1924)
(1923)
Black Oxen
as Prince Rohenhauer
(1923)
The Covered Wagon
as Sam Woodhull
(1923)
Quicksands
as Ferrago
(1923)
Hollywood
as Alan Hale
(1923)
Cameo Kirby
as Colonel Moreau
(1923)
The Eleventh Hour
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
(1923)
Main Street
as Miles Bjornstam
(1923)
Long Live the King
as King Karl
(1922)
Robin Hood
as Little John
(1922)
The Dictator
as Sabos
(1922)
One Glorious Day
as Ben Wadley
(1922)
Shirley of the Circus
as Max
(1922)
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
(1922)
The Trap
as Benson
(1921)
The Great Impersonation
as Gustave Seimann
(1921)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Karl von Hartrott
(1921)
A Wise Fool
as George Masson
(1921)
The Barbarian
as Mark Grant
(1921)
The Fox
as Rufus B. Coulter
(1921)
A Voice in the Dark
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
(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)
Sold Out
as Halsey Brent
(1916)
(1916)
Pudd'nhead Wilson
as Tom Driscoll
(1916)
The Love Thief
as Captain Arthur Boyce
(1916)
The Scarlet Oath
as John Huntington
(1916)
The Beast
as Cowboy
(1915)
East Lynne
as Sir Francis Levinson
(1915)
The Americano
as Madison - The Americano
(1915)
Dora Thorne
as Hugh Fernely
(1914)
Woman Against Woman
as John Tressider
(1914)
Strongheart
as Ralph Thorne
(1914)
The Woman in Black
as Frank Mansfield
(1914)
The Power of the Press
as Sam Freeborn
(1914)
(1913)
By Man's Law
as Brother Owner
(1913)
Dick's Turning
as The Rich Boy's Father
(1912)
Crew
(1927)
Rubber Tires
Director
(1926)
Risky Business
Director
(1926)
The Sporting Lover
Director
(1925)
The Wedding Song
Director
(1925)
Braveheart
Director