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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 18, 1899
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- May 20, 1985
Ben Hall
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 Joh…
Filmography
movieCover Up
1949 · Printer (Uncredited)
movieThe Noose Hangs High
1948 · Messenger (uncredited)
movieDick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947 · Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
movieMy Darling Clementine
1946 · Barber (uncredited)
movieTraffic with the Devil
1946 · Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
movieYoung Widow
1946 · Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
movieThe Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Townsman (Uncredited)
movieMovie Pests
1944 · Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
movieIt Happened Tomorrow
1944
movieDu Barry Was a Lady
1943 · Waiter (uncredited)
movieThe Hard Way
1943 · Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
movieThe Incredible Stranger
1942 · Lou Coon (uncredited)
movieThe Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942 · Attendant
movieHellzapoppin'
1941 · Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
movieSecond Chorus
1941 · Western Union Boy (uncredited)
moviePride and Prejudice
1940 · Poet
movieOne Million B.C.
1940 · Shell Person
movieThe Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
movieMy Little Chickadee
1940 · Schoolboy (uncredited)
movieDad for a Day
1939 · Leonard's Father
movieMarie Antoinette
1938 · Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
movieHeld For Ransom
1938 · Hillbilly
movieRiders of the Black Hills
1938 · Reporter Ethelbert
movieMusic for Madame
1937 · Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
movieSmoke Tree Range
1937 · Pete
movieYou Only Live Once
1937 · Messenger with Package (uncredited)
movieA Million to One
1936 · Joe
moviePostal Inspector
1936 · Mail Clerk (uncredited)
movieFury
1936 · Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
movieThe Voice of Bugle Ann
1936 · Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
An All American Toothache
movieAn All American Toothache
1936 · Dental Student (uncredited)
movieStrike Me Pink
1936 · Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
movieRacing Luck
1935 · 'Knapsack'
movieThe Live Wire
1935 · Steve
movieSteamboat Round the Bend
1935 · Fleety Belle's brother
movieMen Without Names
1935 · Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
movieNaughty Marietta
1935 · Mama's Boy (uncredited)
movieLife Begins at Forty
1935 · Square Dance Participant
movieSequoia
1935 · Joe
Hollywood Trouble
movieHollywood Trouble
1935
movieCounsel on De Fence
1934 · Langdon's Assistant
Love Past Thirty
movieLove Past Thirty
1934 · Junior Burt
movieThe Stranger's Return
1933 · Farmhand
movieLilly Turner
1933 · Western Union Boy (uncredited)
movieStrictly Personal
1933 · Holbrook (uncredited)
movieParole Girl
1933 · Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
movieGirl Missing
1933 · Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
movieBlondie Johnson
1933 · Newsboy (uncredited)
movieFace in the Sky
1933 · Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
movieThe Sport Parade
1932 · Newsboy (uncredited)
movieThe Golden West
1932 · Pioneer
movieVanity Street
1932 · Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
movieThe Phantom President
1932 · Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
movieGorilla Ship
1932 · Benny - Cabin Boy
movieAlias Mary Smith
1932 · Jake
movieAfter Tomorrow
1932 · Soad Jerk
movieSin's Pay Day
1932 · Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
movieThe Star Witness
1931 · Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
movieStranger in Town
1931 · XYZ Grocery Clerk
movieNewly Rich
1931 · Toby (uncredited)
movieSeas Beneath
1931 · Elmer Harrigan (uncredited)
movieBlood and Thunder
1931 · Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
movieThe Office Wife
1930 · Office Boy (uncredited)
movieA Man from Wyoming
1930 · Orderly
Radio Kisses
movieRadio Kisses
1930
movieWall Street
1929 · Cliff
movieNix on Dames
1929 · Cliff
movieThe Girl from Woolworth's
1929 · Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
movieSalute
1929 · Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
movieHot News
1928 · Benny
movieHarold Teen
1928 · Goofy
movieBaby Brother
1927 · Man with glasses
Down the Stretch
movieDown the Stretch
1927 · Pee Wee
movieGirls
1927 · Irving Wise
movieCasey at the Bat
1927 · Scorekeeper (uncredited)
movieSatan Town
1926 · Crippy Jack
movieThe Skyrocket
1926 · Peter Stanton