Ben Hall
Known for: Acting
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
Filmography
Film
The Grapes of Wrath
Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
1940
Film
Pride and Prejudice
Poet
1940
Film
My Darling Clementine
Barber (uncredited)
1946
Film
Fury
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
1936
Film
Naughty Marietta
Mama's Boy (uncredited)
1935
Film
Blondie Johnson
Newsboy (uncredited)
1933
Film
You Only Live Once
Messenger with Package (uncredited)
1937
Film
Cover Up
Printer (Uncredited)
1949
Film
One Million B.C.
Shell Person
1940
Film
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
1947
Film
Du Barry Was a Lady
Waiter (uncredited)
1943
Film
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Townsman (Uncredited)
1946
Film
Hellzapoppin'
Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
1941
Film
Marie Antoinette
Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
1938
Film
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Attendant
1942
Film
Salute
Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
1929
Film
The Hard Way
Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
1943
Film
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Film
Hot News
Benny
1928
Film
Harold Teen
Goofy
1928
Film
Second Chorus
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1941
Film
The Office Wife
Office Boy (uncredited)
1930
Film
Steamboat Round the Bend
Fleety Belle's brother
1935
Love Past Thirty
Junior Burt
1934
Film
Parole Girl
Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1933
Film
Young Widow
Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
1946
Film
The Noose Hangs High
Messenger (uncredited)
1948
Film
Strike Me Pink
Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
1936
Film
Men Without Names
Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
1935
Film
Girls
Irving Wise
1927
Film
The Stranger's Return
Farmhand
1933
Film
The Phantom President
Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
1932
Film
Music for Madame
Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
1937
Down the Stretch
Pee Wee
1927
Film
Traffic with the Devil
Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
1946
Film
The Live Wire
Steve
1935
Film
My Little Chickadee
Schoolboy (uncredited)
1940
Film
Vanity Street
Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
1932
Film
Wall Street
Cliff
1929
Film
The Star Witness
Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
1931
Film
The Golden West
Pioneer
1932
Film
A Million to One
Joe
1936
Film
Life Begins at Forty
Square Dance Participant
1935
Film
Face in the Sky
Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
1933
Film
Postal Inspector
Mail Clerk (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
1936
Film
Racing Luck
'Knapsack'
1935
Film
Dad for a Day
Leonard's Father
1939
Film
Riders of the Black Hills
Reporter Ethelbert
1938
Film
Lilly Turner
Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1933
Film
Newly Rich
Toby (uncredited)
1931
Film
Alias Mary Smith
Jake
1932
Film
The Sport Parade
Newsboy (uncredited)
1932
Film
Seas Beneath
Elmer Harrigan (uncredited)
1931
Film
Girl Missing
Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
1933
Film
Sin's Pay Day
Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
1932
Film
Casey at the Bat
Scorekeeper (uncredited)
1927
Film
The Incredible Stranger
Lou Coon (uncredited)
1942
Film
Counsel on De Fence
Langdon's Assistant
1934
Film
Strictly Personal
Holbrook (uncredited)
1933
Film
After Tomorrow
Soad Jerk
1932
Film
Baby Brother
Man with glasses
1927
An All American Toothache
Dental Student (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Girl from Woolworth's
Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
1929
Film
Blood and Thunder
Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
1931
Film
A Man from Wyoming
Orderly
1930
Film
Smoke Tree Range
Pete
1937
Film
Held For Ransom
Hillbilly
1938
Hollywood Trouble
1935
Film
Sequoia
Joe
1935
Film
Satan Town
Crippy Jack
1926
Film
Nix on Dames
Cliff
1929
Film
Stranger in Town
XYZ Grocery Clerk
1931
Film
Gorilla Ship
Benny - Cabin Boy
1932
Film
Movie Pests
Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
1944
Radio Kisses
1930
Film
The Skyrocket
Peter Stanton
1926