Alan Hale
Acting
Born: February 9, 1892 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died: January 22, 1950 (aged 57)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
It Happened One Night
1934
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
The Sea Hawk
1940
Of Human Bondage
1934
They Drive by Night
1940
Our Relations
1936
Dodge City
1939
Pursued
1947
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
Stella Dallas
1937
Imitation of Life
1934
The Lost Patrol
1934
Photos (2)
Movies (161)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Little John
The Man in the Iron Mask
Porthos
Of Human Bondage
Emil Miller
It Happened One Night
Danker
Susan Lenox
Jeb Mondstrum
Night and Day
Leon Dowling
The Love Thief
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Sea Hawk
Carl Pitt
Santa Fe Trail
Tex Bell
Our Relations
Joe Grogan
The Fighting 69th
Big Mike Wynn
Adventures of Don Juan
Leporello
Pursued
Jake Dingle
Dodge City
Rusty Hart
Robin Hood
Little John
Virginia City
Olaf Swenson
South of St. Louis
Jake Evarts
The Strawberry Blonde
Old Man Grimes
Stars in My Crown
Jed Isbell
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Prince of Tyrone
They Drive by Night
Ed Carlsen
The Inspector General
Kovatch
Dora Thorne
Hugh Fernely
Destination Tokyo
'Cookie' Wainwright
The Lost Patrol
Cook
The Prince and the Pauper
Captain of the Guard
Action in the North Atlantic
Boats O'Hara
Stella Dallas
Ed Munn
Gentleman Jim
Pat Corbett
Imitation of Life
Martin the Furniture Man
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Kaidu
One Hour
G.D. Stanley
The Cop
Mather
Algiers
Grandpere
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Karl von Hartrott
Vanity
'Happy' Dan Morgan
Captains of the Clouds
Tiny Murphy
Juke Girl
Yippee 'Yip'
The Great Mr. Nobody
'Skipper' Martin
Rolling Stones
Jerry Braden
Footsteps in the Dark
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
This Is the Army
Sergeant McGee
The Man I Love
Riley
Desperate Journey
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Valley of the Giants
'Ox' Smith
Colt .45
Sheriff Harris
Manpower
Jumbo Wells
Red Hot Rhythm
Walter
Dust Be My Destiny
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Whiplash
Terrance O'Leary
Cheyenne
Fred Durkin
The Sisters
Sam Johnson
Hollywood
Alan Hale
Union Depot
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
God Is My Co-Pilot
Big Mike Harrigan
The Crusades
Blondel
Strongheart
Ralph Thorne
Hotel Berlin
Herman Plottke
Oh Kay!
Jansen
Broadway Bill
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Four Men and a Prayer
Furnoy
Green Hell
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
Fog Over Frisco
Chief O'Malley
My Girl Tisa
Dugan
The Good Fairy
Maurice Schlapkohl
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Steve Gillis
On Your Toes
Sergei Alexandrovitch
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Various Roles (archive footage)
Janie
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
The Trap
Benson
The Beast
Cowboy
Aloha
Stevens
The Last Days of Pompeii
Burbix
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
Parole!
John Borchard
Great Expectations
Joe Gargery
So Big!
Klass Pool
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Sam
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Hubert
Hollywood Extra Girl
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Two in the Dark
Inspector Florio
Music for Madame
Detective Flugelman
Alice in Movieland
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Little John
Jump for Glory
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
Little Man, What Now?
Holgar Jachman
Thieves Fall Out
Robert Barnes
Make Your Own Bed
Walter Whirtle
Thin Ice
Baron
Power
Hanson
Dick Turpin
Tom King
Another Face
Charles L. Kellar
The Little Minister
Rob Daw
The Spieler
Flash
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Capt. Bullwinkle
The Scarlet Oath
John Huntington
For Another Woman
1924
Pacific Liner
Gallagher
The Match King
Borglund
Long Live the King
King Karl
The Night Angel
Biezel
Destination Unknown
Lundstrom
The House Across the Street
J.B. Grennell
Sal of Singapore
Captain Erickson
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mr Simpson
God's Country and the Woman
Bjorn Skalka
Troubles of a Bride
Gordon Blake
Listen, Darling
J.J. Slattery
The Covered Wagon
Sam Woodhull
The Price She Paid
Stanley Baird
The Scarlet Letter
Bartholomew Hockings
Cameo Kirby
Colonel Moreau
Picture Brides
Von Luden
My Wild Irish Rose
John Donovan
There's Always Tomorrow
Henry
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Singapore Jack
The Leatherneck
Otto Schmidt
The Younger Brothers
Sheriff Knudson
The Eleventh Hour
Prince Stefan de Bernie
Always Leave Them Laughing
Sam Washburn
Moral Suicide
'Lucky' Travers
High, Wide and Handsome
Walt Brennan
Babbitt
Charlie McKelvey
A Message to Garcia
Dr. Ivan Krug
Shirley of the Circus
Max
Yellowstone
John Alexander Hardigan
The Time, The Place and The Girl
John Braden
Grand Old Girl
Click Dade
Black Oxen
Prince Rohenhauer
The Woman in Black
Frank Mansfield
The Sap
Jim Belden
The Dictator
Sabos
Over the Wire
James Twyford
Three Cheers for the Irish
Gallagher
Roughly Speaking
Lew Morton
The Fox
Rufus B. Coulter
The Sea Ghost
Capt. Greg Winters
Perilous Holiday
Dr. Lilley
Main Street
Miles Bjornstam
The Smiling Ghost
Norton
The Great Impersonation
Gustave Seimann
East Lynne
Sir Francis Levinson
The Country Beyond
Jim Alison
The Americano
1916
A Voice in the Dark
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
Escape in the Desert
Dr. Orville Tedder
The Little Widow
1914
That Way with Women
Herman Brinker
The Barbarian
Mark Grant
The Eleventh Commandment
Max Stager
A Wise Fool
George Masson
Quicksands
Ferrago
The Power of the Press
Sam Freeborn
Skyscraper
Slim Strede
The Eternal Temptress
Count Rudolph Frizel
One Glorious Day
Ben Wadley
Sailor's Holiday
Adam Pike
Sold Out
Halsey Brent
Life's Whirlpool
Dr. Henry Grey
What Price Decency
Klaus van Leyden
