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Alan Hale is a Actor and Director American born on 9 february 1892 at Washington, D.C. (USA)

Alan Hale

Alan Hale
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Birth name Rufus Alan MacKahan
Nationality USA
Birth 9 february 1892 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 22 january 1950 (at 57 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Alan Hale, Sr. (February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as movies supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others.

Biography

On le connaît surtout pour avoir été le compagnon d'Errol Flynn dans certains de ses plus grands films comme Les Aventures de Robin des Bois, Les Conquérants ou encore L'Aigle des mers. Son fils, Alan Hale Jr., est également acteur.

En outre, il est le réalisateur de neuf films muets entre 1915 et 1927, et coréalisateur (non crédité) d'un court métrage parlant en 1936 — voir filmographie ci-dessous —.

Il fut marié à l'actrice Gretchen Hartman (1897-1979) de 1914 à 1950, date de sa mort. Il en eut trois enfants.

Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

Best films

This Is the Army (1943)
(Actor)
It Happened One Night (1934)
(Actor)
The Leatherneck (1929)
(Actor)
Sal of Singapore (1928)
(Actor)

Usually with

Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(37 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(24 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(22 films)
Jack Mower
Jack Mower
(20 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alan Hale (147 films)

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Actor

Hollywood Without Make-Up
Directed by Ken Murray
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Kirk Douglas, Ken Murray, Cary Grant, June Allyson, George K. Arthur, Eddie Albert
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating71% 3.578353.578353.578353.578353.57835
The film consists of archive footage of famous Hollywood stars, mostly home movies showing the stars as themselves instead of playing a role in front of the camera.
Colt .45
Colt .45 (1950)
, 1h14
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale, Chief Thundercloud
Roles Sheriff Harris
Rating59% 2.9993352.9993352.9993352.9993352.999335
In the town of Red Rock, gun salesman Steve Farrell (Randolph Scott) demonstrates the new Colt .45 repeating pistols to the sheriff who is impressed that the United States government just ordered two thousand of these powerful weapons for the army. The demonstration is interrupted when men arrive to transfer one of the prisoners to another jail. As he's being led away, prisoner Jason Brett (Zachary Scott) grabs the pistols, shoots the sheriff, and escapes, pretending that Farrell was his partner. Convinced that Farrell was involved in the escape, the townspeople arrest the innocent gun salesman. In the coming days, Brett initiates a campaign of robberies and cold blooded murder, with regular guns being no match for his Colt .45 pistols.
Rogues of Sherwood Forest, 1h19
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale, Paul Cavanagh, Lester Matthews
Roles Little John
Rating54% 2.7096652.7096652.7096652.7096652.709665
In its view on history, evil King John resumes his old ways after the death of Richard the Lionheart with the plan to keep his power by importing Continental mercenaries and paying them through oppressive taxation. King John first attempts to kill the son of his old nemesis Robin. His henchmen fix a faulty protective cap to the lance of a Flemish Knight who challenges Robin in a joust. When Robin survives the lance attack he challenges his opponent to a joust without protective devices, impaling the Flemish Knight.
Stars in My Crown, 1h29
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale, Lewis Stone, James Mitchell
Roles Jed Isbell
Rating73% 3.6917653.6917653.6917653.6917653.691765
Shortly after the American Civil War, preacher Josiah Gray (Joel McCrea) arrives in the town of Walesburg. He heads straight for the saloon to give his first sermon. When the patrons laugh at him, he pulls out two guns, cowing the men into listening.
South of St. Louis, 1h28
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott, Douglas Kennedy, Art Smith, Victor Jory, Alexis Smith
Roles Jake Evarts
Rating59% 2.997692.997692.997692.997692.99769
During the Civil War, Kip Davis (Joel McCrea), Charlie Burns (Zachary Scott), and Lee Price (Douglas Kennedy), are run out of town by the guerilla raider and Union Army leader Luke Cottrell, who burns down their ranch. Though Kip's fiancee, Deb (Dorothy Malone) begs them to stay in the small Texas town of Edenton, the three ranch owners vow vengeance on the Cottrell and decide to head south to find him. When they get to Brownsville, Texas, Lee decides to join the Confederate Army, while Kip and Charlie attempt to rebuild Three Bell ranch. Before they do, however, they take on offer from an attractive local lounge singer, Rouge de Lisle (Alexis Smith), to transport a box of furniture for fifty dollars. It turns out, however, that the box is instead filled with an illegal shipment of firearms and Kip is subsequently arrested. Before he is punished, however, he is freed and is picked up by Rouge, who offers him a job gun-running for the Confederacy. He accepts the offer, hoping to get enough money smuggling to rebuild the ranch. The trio then hires a group of gunmen, one of which is Slim Hansen, who used to work for Cottrell, and heads to Matamoros, Mexico to pick up a shipment of guns for the Confederacy.
The Inspector General, 1h42
Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart
Roles Kovatch
Rating66% 3.346293.346293.346293.346293.34629
Georgi (Danny Kaye), an illiterate member of a wandering band of Gypsies led by Yakov (Walter Slezak) escapes from a travelling medicine show after he innocently lets slip that the elixir they're selling is a fraud. Tired and hungry, he wanders into the small town of Brodny and whilst trying to sample the contents of a horse's feedbag, he's arrested as a vagrant and sentenced to hang the next day by a corrupt police chief (Alan Hale Sr.), desperate to prove his efficiency.
Adventures of Don Juan, 1h50
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Romney Brent, Ann Rutherford, Fortunio Bonanova
Roles Leporello
Rating69% 3.495893.495893.495893.495893.49589
Late in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Spanish noble Don Juan de Mañara (Errol Flynn) is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with the British fiancée of a Spanish duke. The Spanish ambassador in London, Count de Polan (Robert Warwick), sends a letter of recommendation to his friend Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors), asking her to provide an opportunity at the court to rehabilitate Don Juan after the gossiping and rumors about his multiple illicit love affairs. He is thus hired as a fencing instructor at the Spanish Academy.
Always Leave Them Laughing, 1h56
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Bert Lahr, Alan Hale, Jerome Cowan
Roles Sam Washburn
Rating57% 2.8547352.8547352.8547352.8547352.854735
A nobody, comic Kip Cooper does his act on stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey to more snores than roars. He asks out one of the performing Washburn sisters for a date, and finds that Fay's parents once did a vaudeville act that Kip still knows by heart.
The Younger Brothers, 1h18
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton, Geraldine Brooks, Alan Hale
Roles Sheriff Knudson
Rating52% 2.6194652.6194652.6194652.6194652.619465
Determined to reform from their outlaw ways, Cole, Jim and Bob Younger ride to Cedar Creek, Minnesota, where a parole hearing will be held. If they steer clear of trouble, the Youngers will be free to return home to Missouri and their farm.
Whiplash
Whiplash (1948)
, 1h31
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Terrance O'Leary
Rating63% 3.1910353.1910353.1910353.1910353.191035
A struggling painter, Mike Gordon, is unhappy that cafe owner Sam has let a customer, Laurie Durant, purchase one of his works. Mike considers his art worthless and goes to Laurie offering to buy it back. She insists on keeping it, so Mike invites her to dinner instead.
Cheyenne
Cheyenne (1947)
, 1h39
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, John Arthur Kennedy
Roles Fred Durkin
Rating64% 3.245983.245983.245983.245983.24598
Jim Wylie is a gambler in Laramie, Wyoming Territory who is wanted by the Nevada law. He gets a proposal from a Wells Fargo agent; if he can help locate a bandit known as "The Poet" who has been robbing stagecoaches, all pending charges will be dropped and Jim can even claim a cash reward.
The Man I Love, 1h36
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Alan Hale
Roles Riley
Rating66% 3.343173.343173.343173.343173.34317
Homesick for her family in Los Angeles, lounge singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Shortly she lands a job at the nightclub of small-time-hood Nicky Toresca (Robert Alda) where her sister Sally (Andrea King) is employed.