Charlie Hall Filmography

Charlie Hall was a movie actor. Charlie Hall was born in Birmingham, England. He learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens visited his sister in New York City and stayed there finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends and Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid-1920s Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roach's comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe. As an... actor Charlie Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in nearly 50 of their films, sometimes in bit parts but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences. Unlike the usual villains in Laurel and Hardy movies, who were big and burly, Charlie Hall was of short stature, standing five feet, four inches tall.
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