Ben Hall

Born: 1899-03-18

Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Pride and Prejudice

as Poet
Released: 1940-07-26

Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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My Darling Clementine

as Barber (uncredited)
Released: 1946-10-17

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of...

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You Only Live Once

as Messenger with Package (uncredited)
Released: 1937-01-23

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a...

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Hellzapoppin'

as Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-25

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring...

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The Hard Way

as Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
Released: 1943-01-13

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their...

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Fury

as Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-05

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to...

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Du Barry was a Lady

as Waiter
Released: 1943-08-13

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with...

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Marie Antoinette

as Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-26

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...

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One Million B.C.

as Shell Person
Released: 1940-04-05

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by...

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My Little Chickadee

as Schoolboy (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-09

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a...

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Naughty Marietta

as Mama's Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-29

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and...

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It Happened Tomorrow

as uncredited
Released: 1944-03-31

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This...

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Strike Me Pink

as Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
Released: 1936-01-24

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

as Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
Released: 1947-09-26

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as...

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The Diary of a Chambermaid

as Townsman (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-02-15

Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

as Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-15

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan)...

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Second Chorus

as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1941-01-03

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both...

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Cover Up

as Printer (Uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-25

Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small...

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Steamboat Round the Bend

as Fleety Belle's brother
Released: 1935-09-06

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying...

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The Noose Hangs High

as Messenger (uncredited)
Released: 1948-04-05

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to...

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Strictly Personal

as Holbrook (uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-17

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a...

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The Girl from Woolworth's

as Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
Released: 1929-10-27

Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party...

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The Phantom President

as Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
Released: 1932-09-23

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for...

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Traffic with the Devil

as Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
Released: 1946-08-31

This "Theater of Life" series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as...

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as Attendant
Released: 1942-03-27

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...

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Face in the Sky

as Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-15

Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one...

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The Stranger's Return

as Farmhand
Released: 1933-07-28

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she...

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Young Widow

as Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-01

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

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Held For Ransom

as Hillbilly
Released: 1938-06-17

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

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Blondie Johnson

as Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-25

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist...

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Parole Girl

as Apartment Telephone Operator
Released: 1933-03-04

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being...

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The Office Wife

as Office Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1930-08-23

Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive...

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Wall Street

as Cliff
Released: 1929-12-01

A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph...

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Alias Mary Smith

as Jake
Released: 1932-07-14

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a...

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A Million to One

as Joe
Released: 1936-12-31

The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest...

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The Sport Parade

as Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: 1932-11-11

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

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Men Without Names

as Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
Released: 1935-06-29

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

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Salute

as Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
Released: 1929-09-01

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

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Riders of the Black Hills

as Reporter Ethelbert
Released: 1938-06-15

Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid...

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The Star Witness

as Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
Released: 1931-08-22

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an...

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Movie Pests

as Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
Released: 1944-07-08

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying...

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Postal Inspector

as Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Released: 1936-08-16

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

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A Man from Wyoming

as Orderly
Released: 1930-07-12

A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World...

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Music for Madame

as Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-08

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of...

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Stranger in Town

as XYZ Grocery Clerk
Released: 1931-08-06

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic...

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Dad for a Day

as Leonard's Father
Released: 1939-10-20

The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.

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Harold Teen

as Goofy
Released: 1928-04-28

Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his...

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The Incredible Stranger

as Lou Coon (uncredited)
Released: 1942-06-20

In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been...

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Girl Missing

as Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-03-04

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's...

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Life Begins at Forty

as Square Dance Participant
Released: 1935-03-22

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return...

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Casey at the Bat

as Scorekeeper (uncredited)
Released: 1927-03-08

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable...

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Baby Brother

as Man with glasses
Released: 1927-06-26

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other...

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Counsel on De Fence

as Langdon's Assistant
Released: 1934-10-24

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

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Sequoia

as Joe
Released: 1935-01-16

A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.

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After Tomorrow

as Soad Jerk
Released: 1932-03-06

In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents,...

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Lilly Turner

as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Released: 1933-05-13

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a...

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Racing Luck

as 'Knapsack'
Released: 1935-11-19

Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a...

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Blood and Thunder

as Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
Released: 1931-01-17

Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.

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Smoke Tree Range

as Pete
Released: 1937-06-05

A cowboy aids an orphaned girl whose cattle are being rustled by an outlaw gang.

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Vanity Street

as Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
Released: 1932-10-14

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to...

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Newly Rich

as Toby (uncredited)
Released: 1931-07-02

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing...

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Sin's Pay Day

as Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
Released: 1932-03-02

A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she...

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Gorilla Ship

as Benny - Cabin Boy
Released: 1932-07-19

Philip Wells and his wife Helen argue a lot about the attention that Philip thinks Helen and his...

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Satan Town

as Crippy Jack
Released: 1926-08-15

"The Wickedest Place in the World - Tourists Welcome", so says the banner across main street....

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The Skyrocket

as Peter Stanton
Released: 1926-02-14

In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but...

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The Live Wire

as Steve
Released: 1935-11-01

A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also...

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Hot News

as Benny
Released: 1928-07-14

Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The...

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Girls

as Irving Wise
Released: 1927-03-27

When the girls on campus learn that Tom Drake is so super-shy that he never kissed a girl, they...

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