Alan Hale
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; 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 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.
Known For
Sir Francis Levinson
East Lynne
Danker
It Happened One Night
Tex Bell
Santa Fe Trail
Little John
The Adventures of Robin Hood
She Got What She Wanted
Halsey Brent
Sold Out
'Cookie' Wainwright
Destination Tokyo
Boats O'Hara
Action in the North Atlantic
Jumbo Wells
Manpower
Karl von Hartrott
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Grandpere
Algiers
Miles Bjornstam
Main Street
Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Dust Be My Destiny
Riley
The Man I Love
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
Captains of the Clouds
Jake Dingle
Pursued
Carl Pitt
The Sea Hawk
J.B. Grennell
The House Across the Street
Leporello
Adventures of Don Juan
Alan Hale
Hollywood
Kovatch
The Inspector General
Captain of the Guard
The Prince and the Pauper
Leon Dowling
Night and Day
Self
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Pat Corbett
Gentleman Jim
Sergeant McGee
This Is the Army
Porthos
The Man in the Iron Mask
Bartholomew Hockings
The Scarlet Letter
Ed Munn
Stella Dallas
Baron
Thin Ice
Rob Daw
The Little Minister
Emil Miller
Of Human Bondage
Rufus B. Coulter
The Fox
Ferrago
Quicksands
Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Footsteps in the Dark
Self
Hollywood Canteen
Joe Grogan
Our Relations
The Prince of Tyrone
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Ed Carlsen
They Drive by Night
Martin the Furniture Man
Imitation of Life
Rusty Hart
Dodge City
Cook
The Lost Patrol
Maurice Schlapkohl
The Good Fairy
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
Mr Simpson
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Big Mike Wynn
The Fighting 69th
J.J. Slattery
Listen, Darling
Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Desperate Journey
Terrance O'Leary
Whiplash
Sheriff Harris
Colt .45
Norton
The Smiling Ghost
Walter Whirtle
Make Your Own Bed
Madison - The Americano
The Americano
Old Man Grimes
The Strawberry Blonde
Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Broadway Bill
Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
A Voice in the Dark
George Masson
A Wise Fool
Big Mike Harrigan
God Is My Co-Pilot
Yippee 'Yip'
Juke Girl
Sam Washburn
Always Leave Them Laughing
Klass Pool
So Big!
Steve Gillis
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Sergei Alexandrovitch
On Your Toes
Little John
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Various Roles (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Union Depot
Jed Isbell
Stars in My Crown
Tom King
Dick Turpin
Bjorn Skalka
God's Country and the Woman
Jeb Mondstrum
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Borglund
The Match King
Sheriff Knudson
The Younger Brothers
Dr. Ivan Krug
A Message to Garcia
Lew Morton
Roughly Speaking
Kaidu
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Herman Brinker
That Way with Women
Lundstrom
Destination Unknown
Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
Jump for Glory
'Skipper' Martin
The Great Mr. Nobody
John Tressider
Woman Against Woman
Mather
The Cop
Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
Green Hell
Sam Freeborn
The Power of the Press
Hugh Fernely
Dora Thorne
Dr. Orville Tedder
Escape in the Desert
Herman Plottke
Hotel Berlin
Jake Evarts
South of St. Louis
Inspector Florio
Two in the Dark
Burbix
The Last Days of Pompeii
Joe Gargery
Great Expectations
Ralph Thorne
Strongheart
Captain Erickson
Sal of Singapore
Click Dade
Grand Old Girl
'Ox' Smith
Valley of the Giants
Fred Durkin
Cheyenne
Henry
There's Always Tomorrow
John Alexander Hardigan
Yellowstone
Von Luden
Picture Brides
Max Stager
The Eleventh Commandment
Capt. Bullwinkle
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Janie
John Donovan
My Wild Irish Rose
Robert Barnes
Thieves Fall Out
'Lucky' Travers
Moral Suicide
Cowboy
The Beast
Sam
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Charles L. Kellar
Another Face
Holgar Jachman
Little Man, What Now?
Flash
The Spieler
Capt. Greg Winters
The Sea Ghost
Prince Rohenhauer
Black Oxen
Sam Woodhull
The Covered Wagon
Brother Owner
By Man's Law
Gustave Seimann
The Great Impersonation
Captain Arthur Boyce
The Love Thief
Count Rudolph Frizel
The Eternal Temptress
Colonel Moreau
Cameo Kirby
John Huntington
The Scarlet Oath
Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Alice in Movieland
'Happy' Dan Morgan
Vanity
Singapore Jack
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Jim Alison
The Country Beyond
Slim Strede
Skyscraper
Furnoy
Four Men and a Prayer
Walt Brennan
High, Wide and Handsome
Duke Mareno
One Night in Rome
Torvald Helmer
A Doll's House
Adam Pike
Sailor's Holiday
Gallagher
Three Cheers for the Irish
Hubert
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Jim Belden
The Sap
Chief O'Malley
Fog Over Frisco
Caesar
The Leopard Lady
Olaf Swenson
Virginia City
Gallagher
Pacific Liner
Prince Stefan de Bernie
The Eleventh Hour
Blondel
The Crusades
Little John
Robin Hood
Dr. Henry Grey
Life's Whirlpool
Sam Johnson
The Sisters
John Borchard
Parole!
Benson
The Trap
Stevens
Aloha
Dr. Lilley
Perilous Holiday
Mark Grant
The Barbarian
The Americano
Klaus van Leyden
What Price Decency
Joe Grogan (archive footage)
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
The Little Widow
John Braden
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Charlie McKelvey
Babbitt
Detective Flugelman
Music for Madame
Self
Breakdowns of 1937
Dugan
My Girl Tisa
Hanson
Power
Walter
Red Hot Rhythm
Jansen
Oh Kay!
King Karl
Long Live the King
Biezel
The Night Angel
Otto Schmidt
The Leatherneck
Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Hollywood Extra Girl
Frank Mansfield
The Woman in Black
The Rich Boy's Father
Dick's Turning
Sabos
The Dictator
Ben Wadley
One Glorious Day
Tom Driscoll
Pudd'nhead Wilson
For Another Woman
Max
Shirley of the Circus
G.D. Stanley
One Hour
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
169
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-02-09
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Also Known As
Allan Hale