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