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Colt .45

as Sheriff Harris

1950
Stars in My Crown

as Jed Isbell

1950
The House Across the Street

as J.B. Grennell

1949
The Inspector General

as Kovatch

1949
South of St. Louis

as Jake Evarts

1949
Adventures of Don Juan

as Leporello

1948
Pursued

as Jake Dingle

1947
Cheyenne

as Fred Durkin

1947
My Wild Irish Rose

as John Donovan

1947
Night and Day

as Leon Dowling

1946
God Is My Co-Pilot

as Big Mike Harrigan

1945
Roughly Speaking

as Lew Morton

1945
Hotel Berlin

as Herman Plottke

1945
Make Your Own Bed

as Walter Whirtle

1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain

as Steve Gillis

1944
Janie

as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon

1944
Destination Tokyo

as 'Cookie' Wainwright

1943
Action in the North Atlantic

as Boats O'Hara

1943
This Is the Army

as Sergeant McGee

1943
Captains of the Clouds

as Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)

1942
Gentleman Jim

as Pat Corbett

1942
Desperate Journey

as Sgt. Kirk Edwards

1942
Juke Girl

as Yippee 'Yip'

1942
Manpower

as Jumbo Wells

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

1941
Santa Fe Trail

as Tex Bell

1940
They Drive by Night

as Ed Carlsen

1940
Alan Hale Alan Hale

Birthday

1892-02-10

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Biography

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.
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