Charlie Hall
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Charlie Hall (August 19, 1899 - December 7, 1959) was a movie actor.
Charlie Hall was born in Birmingham, England. He learned carpentry as a trade, but as a tennager he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe. 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 stabe again at acting which he did. By the mid-1920's Hal was working for Hal Roach.
As an actor Hall worked with such comedians as Buster Keaton and Charley Chase but is best remembered as a comic foil for Laurel and Hardy, in which he co-starred in nearly fifty of their films, sometimes in bit parts but often as a mean landlord or opponent in many of their memorable tit-for-tat sequences.
Hall died in North Hollywood, California on December 7, 1959.
There is a public house in Erdington, near Birmingham, England, called The Charlie Hall as a tribute to him.
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