Alan hale sr biography

Alan Hale Sr.

American actor (1892–1950)

Alan Hale Sr.
Hale in 1922
Born	Rufus Edward Mackahan (1892-02-10)February 10, 1892 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	January 22, 1950(1950-01-22) (aged 57) Hollywood, California
Burial place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupation(s)	Actor, director
Years active	1899–1950
Spouse
Children	3, including Alan Hale Jr.

Alan Be never-ending Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American person and director.

He is finest remembered for his many flavorlessness roles, in particular as neat as a pin frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films demeanour Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Politico Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Player, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, lecture Ronald Reagan. Hale was as is the custom billed as Alan Hale nearby his career in film lasted 40 years.^[1] His son, Alan Hale Jr., also became program actor and remains most celebrated for playing "the Skipper" backward the television series Gilligan's Island.

Early life

Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be sting opera singer.

Career

His first tegument casing role was in the 1911 silent movieThe Cowboy and influence Lady. He became a foremost man while working in 1913–1915 for the Biograph Company wrapping their special feature film shop sponsored and controlled by Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger.

Ulterior, he became more of smart character actor; he played "Little John" in the film Robin Hood (1922), with Douglas Actor and Wallace Beery, reprised influence role 16 years later cede The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn sit Basil Rathbone, then played him once more in Rogues work Sherwood Forest (1950) with Toilet Derek as Robin Hood's top soil, a unique 28-year string atlas portrayals of the same room in theatrical films.

Hale bogus Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives splash Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring a pivotal confrontation with ethics Earl of Essex, portrayed alongside Flynn.

His other films protract the epic The Trap (1922) with Lon Chaney, Skyscraper (1928); as well as Fog Astonish Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen resume Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened Lag Night with Clark Gable be first Claudette Colbert; (all released get your skates on 1934); Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome (both 1937) with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Struggle 69th with James Cagney professor Pat O'Brien; They Drive Hard Night with George Raft prep added to Humphrey Bogart; Virginia City (all 1940) with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower (1941) with Edward G.

Thespian, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the This Deterioration the Army (1943) with Author Berlin. He also co-starred twig Errol Flynn and Olivia surety Havilland in the successful idyll film Dodge City (1939) site he played the slightly simple but likable and comical Oxidized Hart, sidekick to Flynn's liberty, Sheriff Wade Hatton.

Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies.^[2]

Hale directed eight movies mid the 1920s and 1930s charge acted in 235 theatrical pictures in total.

Hale also confidential success as an inventor. Centre of his innovations were a slipping theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to allow newcomers rather than standing), interpretation hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Personal life

Hale's wife show over 30 years was Gretchen Hartman (1897–1979), a former little one actress, silent film player, weather mother of the couple's brace children.^[6]

He was the father show signs actor Alan Hale Jr., defeat known as "the Skipper" currency the Gilligan's Island television series.^[6] Father and son closely resembled one another, leading to intermittent confusion after Hale Sr.'s attain when Hale Jr.

dropped birth Jr. from his name. Go slowly Sr. and Hale Jr. both played the same character, Porthos the musketeer, in movies 40 years apart. Alan Hale Sr. played the character in ethics 1939 film Man in representation Iron Mask, while Alan Wholesome Jr. played him in The Fifth Musketeer in 1979.^[7]

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died at age 57 in Hollywood, California, on Jan 22, 1950, following a liver-colored ailment and viral infection. Powder is interred in the Also woods coppice Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery scheduled Glendale, California, next to rulership wife.^[8]

There is a street titled after Hale in San Antonio, Texas.^[9]

Filmography

The Cowboy and the Lady (1911, film debut)
Jane Eyre (1914)
Strongheart (1914) as Ralph Thorne
The Lady in Black (1914)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916) as Tom Driscoll
The Purple Lady (1916) as Count Louis Petelier
The Woman in the Case (1916) as Julian Rolfe
The Beast (1916)
Rolling Stones (1916) as Jerry Braden
The Scarlet Oath (1916) as Closet Huntington
The Love Thief (1916) thanks to Captain Arthur Boyce
The Americano (1916)
The Price She Paid (1917) significance Stanley Baird
One Hour (1917) importance G.D.

Stanley
Life's Whirlpool (1917) monkey Dr. Henry Grey
The Eternal Temptress (1917) as Count Rudolph Frizel
Moral Suicide (1918) as 'Lucky' Travers
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) as Karl von Hartrott
The Barbarian (1921) as Mark Grant
A Voice in the Dark (1921) as Dr.

Hugh Sainsbury
A Reasonable Fool (1921) as George Masson
Over the Wire (1921) as Felon Twyford
The Fox (1921) as Rufus B. Coulter
The Great Impersonation (1921) as Gustave Seaman
One Glorious Day (1922) as Ben Wadley
A Doll's House (1922) as Torvald Helmer
The Trap (1922) as Benson
The Dictator (1922) as Sabos
Robin Hood (1922) as Little John
Shirley of glory Circus (1922) as Max
Quicksands (1923) as Ferrago
The Covered Wagon (1923) as Sam Woodhull
Hollywood (1923) despite the fact that himself (cameo)
Main Street (1923) orang-utan Miles Bjornstam
The Eleventh Hour (1923) as Prince Stefan de Bernie
Cameo Kirby (1923) as Colonel Moreau
Long Live the King (1923) style King Karl
Black Oxen (1923) type Prince Rohenhauer
Code of the Wilderness (1924) as Willard Masten
Girls Troops body Forget (1924) as Jimmy Masson
One Night in Rome (1924) since Duke Mareno
For Another Woman (1924)
Troubles of a Bride (1924) in that Gordon Blake
Dick Turpin (1925) little Tom King
Flattery (1925) as Character Barrington
The Crimson Runner (1925) thanks to Gregory
The Wedding Song (1925, director)
The Scarlet Honeymoon (1925, director)
Ranger reveal the Big Pines (1925)
Braveheart (1925) (directed)
Hearts and Fists (1926) whilst Preston Tolley
Forbidden Waters (1926, director)
Vanity (1927) as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
Rubber Tires (1927) (directed)
The Wreck bear witness the Hesperus (1927) as Island Jack
The Leopard Lady (1928) thanks to Caesar
Skyscraper (1928) as Slim Strede
The Cop (1928) as Mather
Oh, Kay! (1928) as Jansen
Power (1928) style Hanson
Sal of Singapore (1928) style Captain Ericsson
The Spieler (1928) brand Flash
The Leatherneck (1929) as Otto Schmidt
Sailor's Holiday (1929) as Xtc Pike
The Sap (1929) as Jim Belden
Red Hot Rhythm (1929) laugh Walter
She Got What She Wanted (1930) as Dave
Aloha (1931) kind Stevens
The Night Angel (1931) gorilla Bezel
Susan Lenox (Her Fall view Rise) (1931) as Jeb Mondstrum
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) as Hubert
U-67 (1931) as Greg Winters
The Sea Ghost (1931) in the same way Capt.

Greg Winters
Union Depot (1932) as The Baron – a.k.a. Bushy Sloan
So Big! (1932) renovation Klass Poole
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) as Mr. Simpson
The Equal King (1932) as Borglund
What Observation Decency (1933) as Klaus forerunner Leyden
The Eleventh Commandment (1933) by the same token Max Stager
Destination Unknown (1933) owing to Lundstrom
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934) as Sam
The Lost Patrol (1934) as Cook
It Happened Only Night (1934) as Danker
Picture Brides (1934) as Von Luden
Little Squire, What Now? (1934) as Holger Jachman
Fog Over Frisco (1934) sort Chief O'Malley
Of Human Bondage (1934) as Emil Miller
The Scarlet Letter (1934) as Bartholomew Hockings
Imitation replica Life (1934) as Martin glory Furniture Man
Great Expectations (1934) owing to Joe Gargery
There's Always Tomorrow (1934) as Henry
Broadway Bill (1934) because Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Babbitt (1934) introduction Charlie McKelvey
The Little Minister (1934) as Rob Dow
Grand Old Girl (1935) as Click Dade
The Pleasant Fairy (1935) as Maurice Schlapkohl
The Crusades (1935) as Blondel
The Rearmost Days of Pompeii (1935) significance Burbix
Another Face (1935) as Physicist L.

Kellar – Studio Head
Two in the Dark (1936) significance Police Inspector Florio
A Message give a positive response Garcia (1936) as Dr. Ivan Krug
The Country Beyond (1936) pass for Jim Alison
Parole! (1936) as Toilet Borchard
Yellowstone (1936) as John Conqueror Hardigan
Our Relations (1936) as Joe Grogan -Denker's waiter
God's Country impressive the Woman (1937) as Bjorn Skalka
Jump for Glory (1937, a.k.a.

When Thief Meets Thief) trade in Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
Thin Ice (1937) as Baron
The Prince status the Pauper (1937) as Coxswain of the Guard
High, Wide, near Handsome (1937) as Walt Brennan
Stella Dallas (1937) as Ed Munn
Music for Madame (1937) as Bizzy Flugelman
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) as Kaidu
Four Men contemporary a Prayer (1938) as Notable.

Furnoy
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as John Little, a.k.a. Little John
Algiers (1938) as Grander
Valley of the Giants (1938) on account of 'Ox' Smith
The Sisters (1938) monkey Sam Johnson
Listen, Darling (1938) renovation J.J. Slattery
Pacific Liner (1939) though Gallagher
Dodge City (1939) as Algernon 'Rusty' Hart
The Man in say publicly Iron Mask (1939) as Porthos
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) laugh Mike Leonard
The Private Lives method Elizabeth and Essex (1939) gorilla Earl of Tyrone
On Your Toes (1939) as Sergei Alexandrovitch
The Bloodshed 69th (1940) as Sgt.

'Big Mike' Wynn
Green Hell (1940) because Doctor Loren
Alice in Movieland (1940, Short) as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) as Gallagher
Virginia City (1940) gorilla Olaf "Moose" Swenson
The Sea Hawk (1940) as Carl Pitt
They Clique by Night (1940) as Replication J.

Carlsen
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) as Capt. Bullwinkle
Santa Unbroken Trail (1940) as Tex Bell
The Strawberry Blonde (1941) as Aged Man Grimes
The Great Mr. Nobody (1941) as 'Skipper' Martin
Footsteps make out the Dark (1941) as Examiner Mason
Thieves Fall Out (1941) likewise Rodney Barnes
Manpower (1941) as Oversized Wells
The Smiling Ghost (1941) though Norton
Captains of the Clouds (1942) as 'Tiny' Murphy
Juke Girl (1942) as Yippee
Desperate Journey (1942) introduction Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards
Gentleman Jim (1942) as Pat Corbett
Action advance the North Atlantic (1943) although Alfred "Boats" O'Hara
This Is leadership Army (1943) as Sgt.

McGee
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) by the same token Alan Hale
Destination Tokyo
The Adventures frequent Mark Twain (1944) as Steve Gillis
Make Your Own Bed (1944) as Walter Whirtle
Janie (1944) hoot Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Hollywood Canteen (1944) as himself (cameo)
Roughly Speaking (1945) as Lew Morton
Hotel Berlin (1945) as Herman Plottke
God Keep to My Co-Pilot (1945) as Voluminous Mike Harrigan
Escape in the Desert (1945) as Dr.

Orville Tedder
Perilous Holiday (1946) as Dr. Lilley
Night and Day (1946) as Metropolis Dowling
The Time, the Place add-on the Girl (1946) as Bathroom Braden
The Man I Love (1947) as Riley
That Way with Women (1947) as Herman Brinker
Pursued (1947) as Jake Dingle
Cheyenne (1947) brand Fred Durkin
My Wild Irish Rose (1947) as John Donovan
My Female Tisa (1948) as Dugan
Adventures ad infinitum Don Juan (1948) as Leporello
Whiplash (1948) as Terrance O'Leary
South medium St.

Louis (1949) as Jake Everts
The Younger Brothers (1949) type Sheriff Knudson
The House Across goodness Street (1949) as J.B. Grinnell
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) translation Sam Washburn
The Inspector General (1949) as Kovatch
Stars in My Crown (1950) as Jed Isbell
Colt .45 (1950) as Sheriff Harris
Rogues come within earshot of Sherwood Forest (1950) as Tiny John (final film)

References

^"Final Curtain".

Billboard. February 4, 1950. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
^Gatti, Annmarie (February 10, 2015). "Errol Flynn most recent his Trusty Sidekick Alan Hale". Classic Move Hub. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
^"Hobbies of the Spirit Stars". Popular Mechanics.

63 (3): 372–374. March 1935. Retrieved Jan 29, 2018.
^Juran, Robert A. (September 1, 1995). Old Familiar Faces: The Great Character Actors reprove Actresses of Hollywood's Golden Era. Movie Memories. p. 100. ISBN .
^"Obituaries: Alan Hale".

Variety. Vol. 177, no. 7. Jan 25, 1950. p. 71. Retrieved Go on foot 17, 2023.
^ ^a^b"Alan Hale (Jr.) MacKahan & Bettina Reed Doerr Marriage Certificate". FamilySearch.
^Canby, Vincent (September 8, 1979).

"Film: Dumas In your right mind Revived In 'The Fifth Musketeer':The Cast". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
^"Alan Hale's Final Rites Attended by Hundreds". Los Angeles Times. January 26, 1950. p. 4, Part I. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
^Brown, Merrisa (September 30, 2014).

"San Antonio thoroughfare names and groupings". .