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Arch Hall, Sr. is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 21 december 1908 at St. Louis (USA)
Archibald Williams Hall (December 21, 1908 – April 28, 1978), better known as Arch Hall Sr., was an American actor, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for making a series of B-movies in the early 1960s which starred his son, Arch Hall, Jr. Hall used various names throughout his career including Nicholas Merriwether, William Waters, and Archie Hall.
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Arch Hall, Sr.
Birth name Archibald Williams Hall
Nationality USA
Birth 21 december 1908 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 28 april 1978 (at 69 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 21 december 1908 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 28 april 1978 (at 69 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
He married Addalyn Faye Pollitt (born June 5, 1906 in Decorah, Iowa). She worked with him in the radio days, as a staff writer. During World War II, she was a Navy Inspector at Lockheed Aircraft. They had one child, Arch Hall, Jr., born in 1943.Usually with
Filmography of Arch Hall, Sr. (15 films)
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt
Roles Alvin
Rating69%
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks.
Deadwood '76 (1965)
, 1h37Directed by James Landis
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Liz Renay, Read Morgan, John Cardos, Harvey B. Dunn
Roles Boone May (as William Watters)
Rating46%
A drifter, Billy May (Arch Hall Jr.) arrives in Deadwood, South Dakota. A child misidentifies him as Billy the Kid and the town turns against him. He becomes a fugitive chased by Wild Bill Hickok. He runs into his long lost father who was a Civil War Veteran for the Confederacy. His father has made friends with a tribe of Indians and admires the leadership of the elders in the tribe. He plans on joining forces and tries to get Billy to join but Billy is not interested. He is interested in finding gold and living in peace however that is not what is in store for poor Billy.
The Nasty Rabbit (1964)
, 1h30Directed by James Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Arch Hall, Jr., Liz Renay, Arch Hall, Sr., Richard Kiel
Roles Marshall Malout / Malcolm McKinley
Rating26%
A Russian submarine lands one of their agents disguised as a cowboy carrying a rabbit that is carrying a deadly virus. The Soviets plan for the rabbit to infect the United States through breeding with American rabbits with the goal of killing large numbers of Americans.
The Thrill Killers (1964)
, 1h9Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Ray Dennis Steckler, Liz Renay, Carolyn Brandt, Ron Haydock, Coleman Francis, Arch Hall, Sr.
Roles Himself (uncredited)
Rating56%
The story takes place in 1964 in Hollywood, California. Joe Saxon (Joe Bardo) is an aspiring actor whose outlandish parties and spending worry his wife, Liz (Liz Renay). As per the narrator, he is "trapped in the world of non-reality".
The Sadist (1963)
, 1h35Directed by James Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr.
Roles Radio Announcer / Narrator (voice)
Rating65%
Three high school teachers, Ed, Doris, and Carl, are driving through California's Antelope Valley on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles. The group’s Chevrolet Bel Air has some trouble and they are forced to pull off to a gas station/junkyard on the side of the road. After examining the vehicle Ed concludes that the fuel pump will need to be replaced. Doris and Carl search the junkyard looking for the owner, but they cannot find him.
, 1h30Directed by Arch Hall, Sr.
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Richard Kiel, Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Ray Dennis Steckler, Carolyn Brandt
Roles Robert Miller
Rating22%
One night after shopping, Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) is driving to a party through the California desert when she nearly runs her car into Eegah (Richard Kiel), a giant cave man. She tells her boyfriend Tom Nelson (Arch Hall, Jr.), and her father Robert Miller (Arch Hall, Sr.) about the giant. Her father, a writer of adventure books, decides to go into the desert to look for the creature and possibly take a photograph of it. When his helicopter ride fails to show up at his designated pickup time, Tom and Roxy go looking for him.
Wild Guitar (1962)
, 1h32Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Ray Dennis Steckler, Carolyn Brandt
Roles Mike McCauley (as William Watters)
Rating46%
Bud Eagle (Arch Hall Jr.), a young singer-songwriter, arrives in Hollywood on a motorcycle. At Marge's Koffee Kup Cafe, he meets Vickie (Nancy Czar), an aspiring dancer, who quizzes him about his "gimmick" and promises to give him the "inside dope" on the music industry. He attends her performance at a television variety show later that night. When the scheduled saxophonist is unable to perform, Bud steps in with a ballad that earns him a standing ovation.
The Choppers (1961)
, 1h6Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Robert Paget, Arch Hall, Jr., Tom Brown, Bruno VeSota, Arch Hall, Sr.
Roles Jim Bradford
Rating47%
A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
His Brother's Ghost (1945)
, 58minutesDirected by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Karl Hackett, Charles King, Arch Hall, Sr., Bud Osborne
Roles Deputy Sheriff Bentley
Rating54%
When a group of gunmen are running sharecroppers off their land, rancher Andy Jones sends for his friend Billy Carson to organise the sharecroppers to fight. Andy is soon mortally wounded by the gunmen, but before his death schemes for his no good twin brother Fuzzy to be sent for to impersonate him. The gunmen, witnessing Andy's funeral fear that Fuzzy is Andy's avenging ghost.
Apology for Murder (1945)
, 1h7Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Ann Savage, Hugh Beaumont, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin, Sarah Padden, Eva Novak
Roles Paul (as Archie Hall)
Rating56%
Tough reporter Kenny Blake (Beaumont) falls in love with sultry Toni Kirkland (Savage) who is married to a much older man (Hicks). She seduces him to murder her husband. City editor Ward McKee (Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. In the end Tony and Kenny shoot each other. As he dies, Kenny types out his confession to the crime.
Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
, 1h3Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Dave O'Brien, Glenn Strange, Charles King, Slim Whitaker
Roles Henchman
Rating58%
Tired of always running from the law, Fuzzy leaves his pals Billy and Jeff and heads to Paradise Valley to be a homesteader. However when he finds himself in trouble, he sends for them. Angry at Fuzzy for abandoning them, Billy and Jeff decide to put on the ruse of helping Fuzzy while actually going behind his back to extract their vengeance. They take out an insurance policy on Fuzzy through a shifty Jewish banker named Ishmael. They find the source of Fuzzy's trouble, Matt Brawley, who controls the town and is running a land swindle.
, 53minutesDirected by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George F. Houston, Al St. John, Hillary Brooke, Karl Hackett, Ted Adams, Arch Hall, Sr.
Roles Clyde Barton (as Archie Hall)
Rating51%
The Mysterious Rider (1938)
, 1h14Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Douglass Dumbrille, Sidney Toler, Russell "Lucky" Hayden, Stanley Andrews, Monte Blue, Earl Dwire
Roles Rancher Andrews
Rating61%
In the Arizona desert in the late 1800s, famed outlaw Pecos Bill (Douglass Dumbrille) and his sidekick Frosty Kilburn (Sidney Toler) hold up a stagecoach. During the raid, Bill takes money from a wealthy passenger and gives it to a poor woman passenger, then rides away. Having lived an outlaw life for the past twenty years, and still wanted for a murder he did not commit, Pecos Bill, whose real name is Ben Wade, decides to return to his home town disguised as a regular cowboy to see his now grown daughter.
Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
, 55minutesDirected by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Louise Brooks, Yakima Canutt, John Archer
Roles Joe Waddell
Rating57%
Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)
, 55minutesDirected by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Pert Kelton, Peggy Moran, LeRoy Mason, Arthur Loft
Roles Rusty - Henchman in Stage
Rating60%
The owner of the Silver Shadow ranch, Maureen McClune (Peggy Moran), runs the Frontier Week rodeo every year, relying on the financial success of the event to support the ranch. The current rodeo is the most profitable in the event's history, but Maureen is told by the rodeo organizers that she must do even better if she hopes to get her contract renewed. Maureen's main competition is Jack Pomeroy (LeRoy Mason), who owns a rival ranch and a local nightclub and gambling house.