Alan Hale
Acting
🎂 1892-02-09
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.
Cast credits(171)
Sam Woodhull
1923
Captain of the Guard
1937
Little John
1938
Danker
1934
Rusty Hart
1939
'Cookie' Wainwright
1943
Ed Munn
1937
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
1934
Carl Pitt
1940
Slim Strede
1928
Jumbo Wells
1941
Sergeant McGee
1943
(archive footage)
1982
Jake Dingle
1947
Little John
1950
Miguel
2008
Self
1944
The Prince of Tyrone
1939
Grandpere
1938
Karl von Hartrott
1921
Riley
1946
Tex Bell
1940
Cook
1934
Chief O'Malley
1934
Kovatch
1949
Hubert
1931
Self
1943
Henry
1934
Olaf Swenson
1940
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
1944
Sheriff Harris
1950
Dr. Ivan Krug
1936
Leporello
1948
Big Mike Wynn
1940
Pat Corbett
1942
Joe Gargery
1934
Burbix
1935
Porthos
1939
Holgar Jachman
1934
Leon Dowling
1946
John Donovan
1947
Baron
1937
Sergei Alexandrovitch
1939
King Karl
1923
Jim Alison
1936
Furnoy
1938
Tom King
1925
Klass Pool
1932
Rob Daw
1934
Various Roles (archive footage)
2005
Mather
1928
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
1940
Alan Hale
1923
'Ox' Smith
1938
Dr. Lilley
1946
Big Mike Harrigan
1945
Mark Grant
1921
Terrance O'Leary
1948
Sam Johnson
1938
Herman Plottke
1945
Steve Gillis
1944
Boats O'Hara
1943
Jed Isbell
1950
Blondel
1935
Click Dade
1935
Walter Whirtle
1944
J.B. Grennell
1949
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
1942
Mr Simpson
1932
'Skipper' Martin
1941
Inspector Florio
1936
Yippee 'Yip'
1942
Ed Carlsen
1940
J.J. Slattery
1938
Little John
1922
Kaidu
1938
Detective Flugelman
1937
Gallagher
1939
Sheriff Knudson
1949
Old Man Grimes
1941
Self
1937
Sam
1934
John Alexander Hardigan
1936
Emil Miller
1934
Flash
1928
Hanson
1928
Lundstrom
1933
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
1939
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
1942
Martin the Furniture Man
1934
Fred Durkin
1947
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
1940
Borglund
1932
Jeb Mondstrum
1931
Otto Schmidt
1929
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
1932
Walt Brennan
1937
Jake Evarts
1949
Herman Brinker
1947
Hugh Fernely
1915
Bjorn Skalka
1937
Brother Owner
1913
'Happy' Dan Morgan
1927
Joe Grogan
1936
Robert Barnes
1941
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
1941
Joe Grogan (archive footage)
1968
Biezel
1931
Maurice Schlapkohl
1935
Klaus van Leyden
1933
Lew Morton
1945
Sam Washburn
1949
Singapore Jack
1927
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
1937
Torvald Helmer
1922
Prince Rohenhauer
1923
Walter
1929
Colonel Moreau
1923
Dr. Orville Tedder
1945
Ralph Thorne
1914
John Braden
1946
1916
Capt. Bullwinkle
1940
Bartholomew Hockings
1934
Capt. Greg Winters
1931
Charles L. Kellar
1935
Benson
1922
Charlie McKelvey
1934
Stevens
1931
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
1935
Norton
1941
Dugan
1948
Dr. Henry Grey
1917
Jim Belden
1929
Max
1922
George Masson
1921
1930
Frank Mansfield
1914
Captain Arthur Boyce
1916
Prince Stefan de Bernie
1923
Duke Mareno
1924
Captain Erickson
1928
Von Luden
1934
John Borchard
1936
Jansen
1928
Count Rudolph Frizel
1917
Miles Bjornstam
1923
Max Stager
1933
Sabos
1922
Rufus B. Coulter
1921
Gustave Seimann
1921
John Huntington
1916
Tom Driscoll
1916
Sam Freeborn
1914
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
1921
Gallagher
1940
'Lucky' Travers
1918
1924
Ben Wadley
1922
Caesar
1928
Madison - The Americano
1915
G.D. Stanley
1917
Cowboy
1916
Sir Francis Levinson
1915
Adam Pike
1929
John Tressider
1914
The Rich Boy's Father
1913
1914
Ferrago
1923
Halsey Brent
1916
1912
