From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlan 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 Hoods son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh ONeill, 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, 1928s Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fanes 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 OBrien; 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 Flynns 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.
Sir Francis Levinson
Film 1915
Danker
Film 1934
Film 1930
Halsey Brent
Film 1916
Boats O'Hara
Film 1943
Karl von Hartrott
Film 1921
Miles Bjornstam
Film 1923
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Film 1939
Riley
Film 1946
Jake Dingle
Film 1947
J.B. Grennell
Film 1949
Alan Hale
Film 1923
Self
Film 1943
Sergeant McGee
Film 1943
Porthos
Film 1939
Bartholomew Hockings
Film 1934
Emil Miller
Film 1934
Rufus B. Coulter
Film 1921
Ferrago
Film 1923
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Film 1941
Self
Film 1944
Joe Grogan
Film 1936
Martin the Furniture Man
Film 1934
Cook
Film 1934
(archive footage)
Film 1982
Mr Simpson
Film 1932
Terrance O'Leary
Film 1948
Sheriff Harris
Film 1950
Madison - The Americano
Film 1915
Old Man Grimes
Film 1941
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Film 1934
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
Film 1921
George Masson
Film 1921
Big Mike Harrigan
Film 1945
Yippee 'Yip'
Film 1942
Sam Washburn
Film 1949
Klass Pool
Film 1932
Steve Gillis
Film 1944
Sergei Alexandrovitch
Film 1939
Little John
Film 1950
Various Roles (archive footage)
Film 2005
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Film 1932
Jed Isbell
Film 1950
Tom King
Film 1925
Jeb Mondstrum
Film 1931
Borglund
Film 1932
Sheriff Knudson
Film 1949
Dr. Ivan Krug
Film 1936
Kaidu
Film 1938
Herman Brinker
Film 1947
Lundstrom
Film 1933
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
Film 1937
John Tressider
Film 1914
Mather
Film 1928
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
Film 1940
Sam Freeborn
Film 1914
Hugh Fernely
Film 1915
Dr. Orville Tedder
Film 1945
Herman Plottke
Film 1945
Jake Evarts
Film 1949
Inspector Florio
Film 1936
Burbix
Film 1935
Joe Gargery
Film 1934
Ralph Thorne
Film 1914
Captain Erickson
Film 1928
Fred Durkin
Film 1947
Henry
Film 1934
John Alexander Hardigan
Film 1936
Von Luden
Film 1934
Max Stager
Film 1933
Capt. Bullwinkle
Film 1940
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Film 1944
John Donovan
Film 1947
Robert Barnes
Film 1941
'Lucky' Travers
Film 1918
Cowboy
Film 1916
Sam
Film 1934
Charles L. Kellar
Film 1935
Holgar Jachman
Film 1934
Flash
Film 1928
Capt. Greg Winters
Film 1931
Prince Rohenhauer
Film 1923
Sam Woodhull
Film 1923
Brother Owner
Film 1913
Gustave Seimann
Film 1921
Captain Arthur Boyce
Film 1916
Count Rudolph Frizel
Film 1917
John Huntington
Film 1916
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Film 1940
'Happy' Dan Morgan
Film 1927
Singapore Jack
Film 1927
Jim Alison
Film 1936
Slim Strede
Film 1928
Walt Brennan
Film 1937
Duke Mareno
Film 1924
Torvald Helmer
Film 1922
Adam Pike
Film 1929
Gallagher
Film 1940
Jim Belden
Film 1929
Chief O'Malley
Film 1934
Caesar
Film 1928
Olaf Swenson
Film 1940
Gallagher
Film 1939
Prince Stefan de Bernie
Film 1923
Blondel
Film 1935
Little John
Film 1922
Dr. Henry Grey
Film 1917
John Borchard
Film 1936
Benson
Film 1922
Stevens
Film 1931
Dr. Lilley
Film 1946
Mark Grant
Film 1921
Film 1916
Klaus van Leyden
Film 1933
Joe Grogan (archive footage)
Film 1968
Film 1914
John Braden
Film 1946
Detective Flugelman
Film 1937
Self
Film 1937
Hanson
Film 1928
Walter
Film 1929
Jansen
Film 1928
King Karl
Film 1923
Biezel
Film 1931
Otto Schmidt
Film 1929
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Film 1935
Frank Mansfield
Film 1914
Film 1913
Sabos
Film 1922
Ben Wadley
Film 1922
Tom Driscoll
Film 1916
Film 1924
Max
Film 1922
G.D. Stanley
Film 1917
Miguel
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