Alan Hale
178 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 9, 1892
- Died
- Jan 22, 1950 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Also known as
- Allan Hale · Alan Hale Sr. · Rufus Edward MacKahan · Rufus Alan MacKahan
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Alan Hale: movies and TV shows
Acting (173)
- 2008
- 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 Rogues of Sherwood Forest
as Little John
- 1950 Colt .45
as Sheriff Harris
- 1950 Stars in My Crown
as Jed Isbell
- 1949 The Inspector General
as Kovatch
- 1949 Always Leave Them Laughing
as Sam Washburn
- 1949 The House Across the Street
as J.B. Grennell
- 1949 The Younger Brothers
as Sheriff Knudson
- 1949 South of St. Louis
as Jake Evarts
- 1948 Adventures of Don Juan
as Leporello
- 1948 Whiplash
as Terrance O'Leary
- 1948 My Girl Tisa
as Dugan
- 1947 My Wild Irish Rose
as John Donovan
- 1947 Cheyenne
as Fred Durkin
- 1947 Pursued
as Jake Dingle
- 1947 That Way with Women
as Herman Brinker
- 1946 The Man I Love
as Riley
- 1946 The Time, The Place and The Girl
as John Braden
- 1946 Night and Day
as Leon Dowling
- 1946 Perilous Holiday
as Dr. Lilley
- 1945 Escape in the Desert
as Dr. Orville Tedder
- 1945 God Is My Co-Pilot
as Big Mike Harrigan
- 1945 Hotel Berlin
as Herman Plottke
- 1945 Roughly Speaking
as Lew Morton
- 1944 Janie
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
- 1944 The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Steve Gillis
- 1944 Make Your Own Bed
as Walter Whirtle
- 1943 Destination Tokyo
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
- 1943 This Is the Army
as Sergeant McGee
- 1943 Action in the North Atlantic
as Boats O'Hara
- 1942 Gentleman Jim
as Pat Corbett
- 1942 Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
- 1942 Juke Girl
as Yippee 'Yip'
- 1942 Captains of the Clouds
as Tiny Murphy
- 1941 The Smiling Ghost
as Norton
- 1941 Manpower
as Jumbo Wells
- 1941 Thieves Fall Out
as Robert Barnes
- 1941 Footsteps in the Dark
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
- 1941 The Strawberry Blonde
as Old Man Grimes
- 1941 The Great Mr. Nobody
as 'Skipper' Martin
- 1940 Santa Fe Trail
as Tex Bell
- 1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Capt. Bullwinkle
- 1940 The Sea Hawk
as Carl Pitt
- 1940 They Drive by Night
as Ed Carlsen
- 1940 Virginia City
as Olaf Swenson
- 1940 Three Cheers for the Irish
as Gallagher
- 1940 Alice in Movieland
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
- 1940 The Fighting 69th
as Big Mike Wynn
- 1940 Green Hell
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
- 1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as The Prince of Tyrone
- 1939 On Your Toes
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
- 1939 Dust Be My Destiny
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
- 1939 The Man in the Iron Mask
as Porthos
- 1939 Dodge City
as Rusty Hart
- 1939 Pacific Liner
as Gallagher
- 1938 Listen, Darling
as J.J. Slattery
- 1938 The Sisters
as Sam Johnson
- 1938 Valley of the Giants
as 'Ox' Smith
- 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Little John
- 1938 Four Men and a Prayer
as Furnoy
- 1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Kaidu
- 1938 Algiers
as Grandpere
- 1937 Music for Madame
as Detective Flugelman
- 1937 Thin Ice
as Baron
- 1937 Stella Dallas
as Ed Munn
- 1937 High, Wide and Handsome
as Walt Brennan
- 1937 The Prince and the Pauper
as Captain of the Guard
- 1937 Jump for Glory
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
- 1937 God's Country and the Woman
as Bjorn Skalka
- 1936 Our Relations
as Joe Grogan
- 1936 Yellowstone
as John Alexander Hardigan
- 1936 Parole!
as John Borchard
- 1936 The Country Beyond
as Jim Alison
- 1936 A Message to Garcia
as Dr. Ivan Krug
- 1936 Two in the Dark
as Inspector Florio
- 1935 Another Face
as Charles L. Kellar
- 1935 The Last Days of Pompeii
as Burbix
- 1935 Hollywood Extra Girl
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
- 1935 The Crusades
as Blondel
- 1935 The Good Fairy
as Maurice Schlapkohl
- 1935 Grand Old Girl
as Click Dade
- 1934 The Little Minister
as Rob Daw
- 1934 Babbitt
as Charlie McKelvey
- 1934 Broadway Bill
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
- 1934 Imitation of Life
as Martin the Furniture Man
- 1934 There's Always Tomorrow
as Henry
- 1934 Great Expectations
as Joe Gargery
- 1934 The Scarlet Letter
as Bartholomew Hockings
- 1934 Of Human Bondage
as Emil Miller
- 1934 Little Man, What Now?
as Holgar Jachman
- 1934 Fog Over Frisco
as Chief O'Malley
- 1934 Picture Brides
as Von Luden
- 1934 It Happened One Night
as Danker
- 1934 The Lost Patrol
as Cook
- 1934 Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Sam
- 1933 Destination Unknown
as Lundstrom
- 1933 The Eleventh Commandment
as Max Stager
- 1933 What Price Decency
as Klaus van Leyden
- 1932 The Match King
as Borglund
- 1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mr Simpson
- 1932 So Big!
as Klass Pool
- 1932 Union Depot
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
- 1931 The Sea Ghost
as Capt. Greg Winters
- 1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Hubert
- 1931 Susan Lenox
as Jeb Mondstrum
- 1931 The Night Angel
as Biezel
- 1931 Aloha
as Stevens
- 1930
- 1929 Red Hot Rhythm
as Walter
- 1929 The Sap
as Jim Belden
- 1929 Sailor's Holiday
as Adam Pike
- 1929 The Leatherneck
as Otto Schmidt
- 1928 The Spieler
as Flash
- 1928 Sal of Singapore
as Captain Erickson
- 1928 Power
as Hanson
- 1928 The Cop
as Mather
- 1928 Oh Kay!
as Jansen
- 1928 Skyscraper
as Slim Strede
- 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 Troubles of a Bride
as Gordon Blake
- 1924
- 1924 One Night in Rome
as Duke Mareno
- 1923 Black Oxen
as Prince Rohenhauer
- 1923 Long Live the King
as King Karl
- 1923 Cameo Kirby
as Colonel Moreau
- 1923 Hollywood
as Alan Hale
- 1923 The Eleventh Hour
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
- 1923 Main Street
as Miles Bjornstam
- 1923 The Covered Wagon
as Sam Woodhull
- 1923 Quicksands
as Ferrago
- 1922 Shirley of the Circus
as Max
- 1922 Robin Hood
as Little John
- 1922 The Dictator
as Sabos
- 1922 The Trap
as Benson
- 1922 A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
- 1922 One Glorious Day
as Ben Wadley
- 1921 The Great Impersonation
as Gustave Seimann
- 1921 The Fox
as Rufus B. Coulter
- 1921 Over the Wire
as James Twyford
- 1921 A Wise Fool
as George Masson
- 1921 A Voice in the Dark
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
- 1921 The Barbarian
as Mark Grant
- 1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Karl von Hartrott
- 1918 Moral Suicide
as 'Lucky' Travers
- 1917 The Eternal Temptress
as Count Rudolph Frizel
- 1917 Life's Whirlpool
as Dr. Henry Grey
- 1917 One Hour
as G.D. Stanley
- 1917 The Price She Paid
as Stanley Baird
- 1916
- 1916 The Love Thief
as Captain Arthur Boyce
- 1916 The Scarlet Oath
as John Huntington
- 1916 Rolling Stones
as Jerry Braden
- 1916 The Beast
as Cowboy
- 1916 Sold Out
as Halsey Brent
- 1916 Pudd'nhead Wilson
as Tom Driscoll
- 1915 Cupid Entangled
as The Sweetheart
- 1915 Dora Thorne
as Hugh Fernely
- 1915 East Lynne
as Sir Francis Levinson
- 1915 The Americano
as Madison - The Americano
- 1914 The Woman in Black
as Frank Mansfield
- 1914 The Power of the Press
as Sam Freeborn
- 1914
- 1914 Woman Against Woman
as John Tressider
- 1914 Strongheart
as Ralph Thorne
- 1913 By Man's Law
as Brother Owner
- 1913 Dick's Turning
as The Rich Boy's Father
- 1912
Behind the camera (6)
- 1927 Rubber Tires
Director
- 1926 Risky Business
Director
- 1926 The Sporting Lover
Director
- 1926 Forbidden Waters
Director
- 1925 Braveheart
Director
- 1925 The Wedding Song
Director
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 1944
- 1943
- 1937