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Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 β 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.
as Miguel(1 ep)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Joe Grogan (archive footage)
as Little John
as Sheriff Harris
as Jed Isbell
as Kovatch
as Sam Washburn
as J.B. Grennell
as Sheriff Knudson
as Jake Evarts
as Leporello
as Terrance O'Leary
as Dugan
as John Donovan
as Fred Durkin
as Jake Dingle
as Herman Brinker
as Riley
as John Braden
as Leon Dowling
as Dr. Lilley
as Dr. Orville Tedder
as Big Mike Harrigan
as Herman Plottke
as Lew Morton
as Self
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
as Steve Gillis
as Walter Whirtle
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
as Self
as Sergeant McGee
as Boats O'Hara
as Pat Corbett
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
as Yippee 'Yip'
as Tiny Murphy
as Norton
as Jumbo Wells
as Robert Barnes
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
as Old Man Grimes
as 'Skipper' Martin
as Tex Bell
as Capt. Bullwinkle
as Carl Pitt
as Ed Carlsen
as Olaf Swenson
as Gallagher
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
as Big Mike Wynn
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
as The Prince of Tyrone
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
as Porthos
as Rusty Hart
as Gallagher
as J.J. Slattery
as Sam Johnson
as 'Ox' Smith
as Little John
as Furnoy
as Kaidu
as Grandpere
as Self
as Detective Flugelman
as Baron
as Ed Munn
as Walt Brennan
as Captain of the Guard
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
as Bjorn Skalka
as Joe Grogan
as John Alexander Hardigan
as John Borchard
as Jim Alison
as Dr. Ivan Krug
as Inspector Florio
as Charles L. Kellar
as Burbix
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
as Blondel
as Maurice Schlapkohl
as Click Dade
as Rob Daw
as Charlie McKelvey
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
as Martin the Furniture Man
as Henry
as Joe Gargery
as Bartholomew Hockings
as Emil Miller
as Holgar Jachman
as Chief O'Malley
as Von Luden
as Danker
as Cook
as Lundstrom
as Max Stager
as Klaus van Leyden
as Borglund
as Mr Simpson
as Klass Pool
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
as Capt. Greg Winters
as Hubert
as Jeb Mondstrum
as Biezel
as Stevens
as Walter
as Jim Belden
as Adam Pike
as Otto Schmidt
as Flash
as Captain Erickson
as Hanson
as Mather
as Jansen
as Slim Strede
as Caesar
as Singapore Jack
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
as Tom King
as Gordon Blake
as Duke Mareno
as Prince Rohenhauer
as King Karl
as Colonel Moreau
as Alan Hale
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
as Miles Bjornstam
as Sam Woodhull
as Ferrago
as Max
as Little John
as Sabos
as Benson
as Torvald Helmer
as Ben Wadley
as Gustave Seimann
as Rufus B. Coulter
as James Twyford
as George Masson
as Mark Grant
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
as Karl von Hartrott
as 'Lucky' Travers
as Count Rudolph Frizel
as Dr. Henry Grey
as G.D. Stanley
as Stanley Baird
as Captain Arthur Boyce
as John Huntington
as Jerry Braden
as Cowboy
as Halsey Brent
as Tom Driscoll
as The Sweetheart
as Hugh Fernely
as Sir Francis Levinson
as Madison - The Americano
as Frank Mansfield
as Sam Freeborn
as John Tressider
as Ralph Thorne
as Brother Owner
as The Rich Boy's Father
