Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA · Born February 9, 1892
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.
TVThe Londoners
2008
as Miguel
MovieThe Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Various Roles (archive footage)
MovieShowbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
as Joe Grogan (archive footage)
MovieRogues of Sherwood Forest
1950
as Little John
MovieColt .45
1950
as Sheriff Harris
MovieStars in My Crown
1950
as Jed Isbell
MovieThe Inspector General
1949
as Kovatch
MovieAlways Leave Them Laughing
1949
as Sam Washburn
MovieThe House Across the Street
1949
as J.B. Grennell
MovieThe Younger Brothers
1949
as Sheriff Knudson
MovieSouth of St. Louis
1949
as Jake Evarts
MovieAdventures of Don Juan
1948
as Leporello
MovieWhiplash
1948
as Terrance O'Leary
MovieMy Girl Tisa
1948
as Dugan
MovieMy Wild Irish Rose
1947
as John Donovan
MovieCheyenne
1947
as Fred Durkin
MoviePursued
1947
as Jake Dingle
MovieThat Way with Women
1947
as Herman Brinker
MovieThe Man I Love
1946
as Riley
MovieThe Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
as John Braden
MovieNight and Day
1946
as Leon Dowling
MoviePerilous Holiday
1946
as Dr. Lilley
MovieEscape in the Desert
1945
as Dr. Orville Tedder
MovieGod Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Big Mike Harrigan
MovieHotel Berlin
1945
as Herman Plottke
MovieRoughly Speaking
1945
as Lew Morton
MovieHollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
MovieJanie
1944
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
MovieThe Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
as Steve Gillis
MovieMake Your Own Bed
1944
as Walter Whirtle
MovieDestination Tokyo
1943
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
MovieThank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Self
MovieThis Is the Army
1943
as Sergeant McGee
MovieAction in the North Atlantic
1943
as Boats O'Hara
MovieGentleman Jim
1942
as Pat Corbett
MovieDesperate Journey
1942
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
MovieJuke Girl
1942
as Yippee 'Yip'
MovieCaptains of the Clouds
1942
as Tiny Murphy
MovieThe Smiling Ghost
1941
as Norton
MovieManpower
1941
as Jumbo Wells
MovieThieves Fall Out
1941
as Robert Barnes
MovieFootsteps in the Dark
1941
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
MovieThe Strawberry Blonde
1941
as Old Man Grimes
MovieThe Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as 'Skipper' Martin
MovieSanta Fe Trail
1940
as Tex Bell
MovieTugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
as Capt. Bullwinkle
MovieThe Sea Hawk
1940
as Carl Pitt
MovieThey Drive by Night
1940
as Ed Carlsen
MovieVirginia City
1940
as Olaf Swenson
MovieThree Cheers for the Irish
1940
as Gallagher
MovieAlice in Movieland
1940
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
MovieThe Fighting 69th
1940
as Big Mike Wynn
MovieGreen Hell
1940
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
MovieThe Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as The Prince of Tyrone
MovieOn Your Toes
1939
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
MovieDust Be My Destiny
1939
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
MovieThe Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Porthos
MovieDodge City
1939
as Rusty Hart
MoviePacific Liner
1939
as Gallagher
MovieListen, Darling
1938
as J.J. Slattery
MovieThe Sisters
1938
as Sam Johnson
MovieValley of the Giants
1938
as 'Ox' Smith
MovieThe Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Little John
MovieFour Men and a Prayer
1938
as Furnoy
MovieThe Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
as Kaidu
MovieAlgiers
1938
as Grandpere
MovieBreakdowns of 1937
1937
as Self
MovieMusic for Madame
1937
as Detective Flugelman
MovieThin Ice
1937
as Baron
MovieStella Dallas
1937
as Ed Munn
MovieHigh, Wide and Handsome
1937
as Walt Brennan
MovieThe Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Captain of the Guard
MovieJump for Glory
1937
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
MovieGod's Country and the Woman
1937
as Bjorn Skalka
MovieOur Relations
1936
as Joe Grogan
MovieYellowstone
1936
as John Alexander Hardigan
MovieParole!
1936
as John Borchard
MovieThe Country Beyond
1936
as Jim Alison
MovieA Message to Garcia
1936
as Dr. Ivan Krug
MovieTwo in the Dark
1936
as Inspector Florio
MovieAnother Face
1935
as Charles L. Kellar
MovieThe Last Days of Pompeii
1935
as Burbix
MovieHollywood Extra Girl
1935
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
MovieThe Crusades
1935
as Blondel
MovieThe Good Fairy
1935
as Maurice Schlapkohl
MovieGrand Old Girl
1935
as Click Dade
MovieThe Little Minister
1934
as Rob Daw
MovieBabbitt
1934
as Charlie McKelvey
MovieBroadway Bill
1934
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
MovieImitation of Life
1934
as Martin the Furniture Man
MovieThere's Always Tomorrow
1934
as Henry
MovieGreat Expectations
1934
as Joe Gargery
MovieThe Scarlet Letter
1934
as Bartholomew Hockings
MovieOf Human Bondage
1934
as Emil Miller
MovieLittle Man, What Now?
1934
as Holgar Jachman
MovieFog Over Frisco
1934
as Chief O'Malley
MoviePicture Brides
1934
as Von Luden
MovieIt Happened One Night
1934
as Danker
MovieThe Lost Patrol
1934
as Cook
MovieMiss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
as Sam
MovieDestination Unknown
1933
as Lundstrom
MovieThe Eleventh Commandment
1933
as Max Stager
MovieWhat Price Decency
1933
as Klaus van Leyden
MovieThe Match King
1932
as Borglund
MovieRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Mr Simpson
MovieSo Big!
1932
as Klass Pool
MovieUnion Depot
1932
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
MovieThe Sea Ghost
1931
as Capt. Greg Winters
MovieThe Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Hubert
MovieSusan Lenox
1931
as Jeb Mondstrum
MovieThe Night Angel
1931
as Biezel
MovieAloha
1931
as Stevens
She Got What She Wanted
1930
MovieRed Hot Rhythm
1929
as Walter
MovieThe Sap
1929
as Jim Belden
MovieSailor's Holiday
1929
as Adam Pike
MovieThe Leatherneck
1929
as Otto Schmidt
MovieThe Spieler
1928
as Flash
MovieSal of Singapore
1928
as Captain Erickson
MoviePower
1928
as Hanson
MovieThe Cop
1928
as Mather
MovieOh Kay!
1928
as Jansen
MovieSkyscraper
1928
as Slim Strede
The Leopard Lady
1928
as Caesar
MovieThe Wreck of the Hesperus
1927
as Singapore Jack
MovieVanity
1927
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
MovieDick Turpin
1925
as Tom King
MovieTroubles of a Bride
1924
as Gordon Blake
MovieFor Another Woman
1924
One Night in Rome
1924
as Duke Mareno
MovieBlack Oxen
1923
as Prince Rohenhauer
MovieLong Live the King
1923
as King Karl
MovieCameo Kirby
1923
as Colonel Moreau
MovieHollywood
1923
as Alan Hale
MovieThe Eleventh Hour
1923
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
MovieMain Street
1923
as Miles Bjornstam
MovieThe Covered Wagon
1923
as Sam Woodhull
MovieQuicksands
1923
as Ferrago
MovieShirley of the Circus
1922
as Max
MovieRobin Hood
1922
as Little John
MovieThe Dictator
1922
as Sabos
MovieThe Trap
1922
as Benson
MovieA Doll's House
1922
as Torvald Helmer
MovieOne Glorious Day
1922
as Ben Wadley
MovieThe Great Impersonation
1921
as Gustave Seimann
MovieThe Fox
1921
as Rufus B. Coulter
MovieOver the Wire
1921
as James Twyford
MovieA Wise Fool
1921
as George Masson
MovieA Voice in the Dark
1921
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
MovieThe Barbarian
1921
as Mark Grant
MovieThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921
as Karl von Hartrott
MovieMoral Suicide
1918
as 'Lucky' Travers
MovieThe Eternal Temptress
1917
as Count Rudolph Frizel
MovieLife's Whirlpool
1917
as Dr. Henry Grey
MovieOne Hour
1917
as G.D. Stanley
MovieThe Price She Paid
1917
as Stanley Baird
MovieThe Americano
1916
MovieThe Love Thief
1916
as Captain Arthur Boyce
MovieThe Scarlet Oath
1916
as John Huntington
MovieRolling Stones
1916
as Jerry Braden
MovieThe Beast
1916
as Cowboy
MovieSold Out
1916
as Halsey Brent
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
as Tom Driscoll
MovieDora Thorne
1915
as Hugh Fernely
MovieEast Lynne
1915
as Sir Francis Levinson
The Americano
1915
as Madison - The Americano
MovieThe Woman in Black
1914
as Frank Mansfield
MovieThe Power of the Press
1914
as Sam Freeborn
MovieThe Little Widow
1914
Woman Against Woman
1914
as John Tressider
MovieStrongheart
1914
as Ralph Thorne
By Man's Law
1913
as Brother Owner
Dick's Turning
1913
as The Rich Boy's Father
Glued
1912
