Alan Hale

Actor

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Also Known As

Rufus Alan Mckahan

Birth Place

Washington, Washington D.C., USA

Born

February 10, 1892

Died

January 22, 1950

Biography

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Robust screen hero of the silent era who went on to direct seven films for Cecil B DeMille in the mid-1920s. After the advent of sound, Hale carved out a niche as a hearty sidekick in a number of Warner Bros. adventure films. Father of actor Alan Hale Jr....

Filmography

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Rubber Tires (1927)

Forbidden Waters (1926)

Risky Business (1926)

The Sporting Lover (1926)

Braveheart (1925)

The Scarlet Honeymoon (1925)

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Last Days Of Pompeii, The -- (Movie Clip) Greatest Man In Judea

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Things I Want

Family & Companions

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Gretchen Hale

Wife

Biography

Robust screen hero of the silent era who went on to direct seven films for Cecil B DeMille in the mid-1920s. After the advent of sound, Hale carved out a niche as a hearty sidekick in a number of Warner Bros. adventure films. Father of actor Alan Hale Jr.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Rubber Tires (1927)

Forbidden Waters (1926)

Risky Business (1926)

The Sporting Lover (1926)

Braveheart (1925)

The Scarlet Honeymoon (1925)

The Wedding Song (1925)

Cast (Feature Film)

Terror Night (1989)

Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)

Stars in My Crown (1950)

Colt .45 (1950)

The Inspector General (1949)

South of St. Louis (1949)

The Younger Brothers (1949)

Sheriff Knudson

Adventures of Don Juan (1949)

The House Across the Street (1949)

Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)

Whiplash (1948)

Terrence O'Leary

My Girl Tisa (1948)

The Man I Love (1947)

My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

That Way with Women (1947)

Cheyenne (1947)

Night and Day (1946)

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)

Perilous Holiday (1946)

Roughly Speaking (1945)

Hotel Berlin (1945)

God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)

"Big Mike" Harrigan

Escape in the Desert (1945)

Dr. Orville Tedder

Gaslight Follies (1945)

Sir Francis Levison

Destination Tokyo (1944)

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

Professor Reardon

Make Your Own Bed (1944)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

This Is the Army (1943)

Juke Girl (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

Desperate Journey (1942)

Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)

"Skipper" Martin

The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Thieves Fall Out (1941)

The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Manpower (1941)

Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

Inspector Mason

Virginia City (1940)

Olaf [Moose] Swenson

The Sea Hawk (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Green Hell (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Captain Bullwinkle

Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)

The Fighting 69th (1940)

Sergeant Big Mike Wynn

Dodge City (1939)

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

On Your Toes (1939)

Sergei Alexandrovitch

Pacific Liner (1939)

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

The Sisters (1938)

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Listen, Darling (1938)

Valley of the Giants (1938)

High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

Mr. [Walt] Brennan

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Captain of the guard

Thin Ice (1937)

God's Country and the Woman (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

Music for Madame (1937)

[Detective] Flugelman

When Thief Meets Thief (1937)

Jim Dial, also known as Colonel Fane

Two in the Dark (1936)

Inspector Florio

[John] Borchard

A Message to Garcia (1936)

Dr. [Ivan] Krug

Our Relations (1936)

Yellowstone (1936)

[John Alexander] Hardigan

The Country Beyond (1936)

The Crusades (1935)

The Good Fairy (1935)

Maurice Schlapkohl

Another Face (1935)

Charles L. Keller

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Grand Old Girl (1935)

[Clarence] Click Dade

Fog over Frisco (1934)

There's Always Tomorrow (1934)

The Lost Patrol (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

[Martin,] the furniture man

Charlie [McKelvey]

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934)

Of Human Bondage (1934)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Great Expectations (1934)

The Scarlet Letter (1934)

Bartholomew Hockings

The Little Minister (1934)

Little Man, What Now? (1934)

Broadway Bill (1934)

Orchestra leader

What Price Decency? (1933)

Klaus Van Leyden

The Eleventh Commandment (1933)

Picture Brides (1933)

Destination Unknown (1933)

The Match King (1932)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)

Union Depot (1932)

The Baron, Bushy Sloan

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

[Jeb] Mondstrom

The Night Angel (1931)

Sea Ghost (1931)

Lieutenant Winters

She Got What She Wanted (1930)

Sailor's Holiday (1929)

Red Hot Rhythm (1929)

Sal of Singapore (1929)

Captain Erickson

The Leatherneck (1929)

The Leopard Lady (1928)

Skyscraper (1928)

The Spieler (1928)

The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)

Hearts and Fists (1926)

Dick Turpin (1925)

The Crimson Runner (1925)

Gregory [later Krutz]

Flattery (1925)

Arthur Barrington

Black Oxen (1924)

Prince Rohenhauer

For Another Woman (1924)

The Covered Wagon (1924)

Code of the Wilderness (1924)

Girls Men Forget (1924)

Troubles of a Bride (1924)

One Night in Rome (1924)

Hollywood (1923)

Robin Hood (1923)

Main Street (1923)

Miles Bjornstam

Long Live the King (1923)

Cameo Kirby (1923)

Quicksands (1923)

The Eleventh Hour (1923)

Prince Stefan de Bernie

The Dictator (1922)

Sabos, an amateur Sherlock but professional Don Juan

The Trap (1922)

A Doll's House (1922)

One Glorious Day (1922)

Shirley of the Circus (1922)

Rufus B. Coulter

The Great Impersonation (1921)

Gustave Seimann

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

Karl von Hartrott

A Wise Fool (1921)

Over the Wire (1921)

A Voice in the Dark (1921)

Dr. Hugh Sainsbury

The Barbarian (1920)

Moral Suicide (1918)

"Lucky" Travers

The Price She Paid (1917)

One Hour (1917)

Life's Whirlpool (1917)

The Eternal Temptress (1917)

Count Rudolph Frizel

The Love Thief (1916)

Captain Arthur Boyce

The Scarlet Oath (1916)

John Huntington

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1916)

The Purple Lady (1916)

Count Louis Petelier

The Woman in the Case (1916)

Rolling Stones (1916)

Dora Thorne (1915)

The Power of the Press (1914)

The Woman in Black (1914)

Frank Mansfield

Cast (Special)

Friday Night Surprise! (1989)

The Revenge of Red Chief (1979)

Cast (Short)

Alice in Movieland (1940)

Life Events

1911

Film actor

1925

Film director

Photo Collections

God is My Co-Pilot - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for God is My Co-Pilot (1945). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Virginia City - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Warner Bros' Virginia City (1940), starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Last Days Of Pompeii, The -- (Movie Clip) Greatest Man In Judea Once virtuous blacksmith turned gladiator turned horse and slave trader Marcus (Preston Foster), still devoted to his adopted son (David Holt), pursuing a prophesy that the greatest man in Judea would come to their aid, visits Pontius Pilate (Basil Rathbone, just introduced, in an atypical hairdo), in The Last Days Of Pompeii, 1935.

High, Wide And Handsome (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Things I Want Our first look at Dorothy Lamour as singer Molly (working at her Paramount home, age 22, months before her star-making performance in the Samuel Goldwyn/John Ford spectacle The Hurricane), with a song written for the picture by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, in 1859 Pennsylvania, with Alan Hale as evil interloping railroad baron Brennan, confronted by our hero, local oil driller Peter (Randolph Scott), High, Wide And Handsome, 1937.

Desperate Journey (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Yankees Always Win After a bit in which the Resistance in Poland pulls off a sabotage and sends a carrier pigeon to England, we meet Allied members of an RAF bomber crew, Arthur Kennedy, Patrick O’Moore, Ronald Reagan as Johnny, Errol Flynn as Terry, Ronald Sinclair as Hollis, Alan Hale as Edwards, Raoul Walsh directing, in Desperate Journey, 1942.

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Seen A Doll On A Submarine Officers under command of Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant) take the U.S.S. Copperfin out, crewmen Tin Can (Dane Clark), Mike (Tom Tully), Cookie (Alan Hale) and Wolf (John Garfield) introduced, in Delmer Daves' Destination Tokyo, 1943.

Adventures Of Mark Twain, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You And Your Tall Tales Facing failure as miner in Nevada, with Alan Hale as his partner, Fredric March as Samuel Clemens doesn’t realize that Donald Crisp as J.B. Pond, is looking for “Mark Twain,” the pseudonym he first used when he submitted “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County,” which had become a sensation back east, in The Adventures Of Mark Twain,1944.

Stella Dallas (1937) -- (Movie Clip) That Iceberg-ey Way New mother Barbara Stanwyck (title character) with working class pal Ed (Alan Hale), her background showing, as increasingly snooty husband Stephen (John Boles) returns home, in Stella Dallas, 1937.

Virginia City (1940) -- (Movie Clip) In This Fever Hole Commander Irby (Randolph Scott) of the notorious Libby Confederate prison catches previously introduced tunneling Union prisoners Kerry (Errol Flynn) and pals (Guinn Williams, Alan Hale), the Civil War framing for the Warner Bros. Western, Virginia City, 1940, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) We Didn't Ask For This War Below decks with the crew of the Northern Star, novice Ensign Parker (Dick Hogan) getting schooled by Peter Whitney, Dane Clark, Alan Hale and Sam Levene as Goldberg, then we see there really is a German sub nearby, early in the WWII Merchant Marine story Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.

Action In The North Atlantic (1943) -- (Movie Clip) My Dear Adolf Seven, then twelve days after their Merchant Marine tanker was sunk by a Nazi submarine, the crew of the Northern Star is rescued, Humphrey Bogart, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey the captain, Alan Hale sassing the enemy, in Warner Bros.’ Merchant Marine adventure, Action In The North Atlantic, 1943.

Gentleman Jim (1942) -- (Movie Clip) This Is A Break For Me San Francisco bank clerk Errol Flynn (as Jim Corbett, title character) just got a raise, having expected to get fired for being seen at a boxing match, showing off for pal Walter (Jack Carson), Miss Ware (Alexis Smith, her first scene) and “Pop” (Alan Hale), early in Raoul Walsh’s Gentleman Jim, 1942.

Gentleman Jim (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Come Out Fighting San Franciscan Errol Flynn (title character, Jim Corbett), cited by experts as among the most naturally gifted actors ever to play a fighter, squares off with Burke (Jack Foster) a former champ, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Arthur Shields supporting, in Warner Bros.’ Gentleman Jim, 1942.

Fighting 69th, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Rainbow Division Fictional recruit Plunkett (James Cagney) and "real" Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) have just met when a brawl breaks out between troops from New York and Alabama, settled by another patriotic historical figure, then-major "Wild Bill" Donovan (George Brent), early in The Fighting 69th, 1940.

Adventures of Robin Hood, The -- (Re-issue Trailer) The Sherwood Forest legend (Errol Flynn) leads his Merry Men in a battle against the wicked Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

Janie - (Original Trailer) A small-town girl (Joyce Reynolds) defies her father by falling for a soldier (Robert Hutton).

Hollywood Canteen -- (Original Trailer) Half of Hollywood pitches in to help a serviceman and a starlet find love at the Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Three Cheers For The Irish - (Original Trailer) It's Angus' Irish Rose as a Scots lad and an Irish lass anger their families by marrying in Three Cheers for the Irish (1940).

Night and Day - (Original Trailer) Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter (Cary Grant), who rose from high society to find success on Tin Pan Alley.

God's Country and the Woman - (Original Trailer) A lady lumberjack falls for one of her workers, not realizing it's a business rival in disguise in God's Country and the Woman (1937).

Escape in the Desert - (Original Trailer) It's The Petrified Forest updated for wartime as Nazis hold hostages in a hotel in the American Southwest.

Babbitt - (Original Trailer) Guy Kibbee is prefectly cast as Sinclair Lewis' small-town businessman, Babbitt (1934).

It Happened One Night - (Original Trailer) A newspaperman (Clark Gable) tracks a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) on a madcap cross-country tour in It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra.

Santa Fe Trail -- (Original Trailer) Errol Flynn is the young Jeb Stuart sent out to stop abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) in Santa Fe Trail (1940).

Roughly Speaking -- (Original Trailer) Rosalind Russell is a headstrong woman who ends up with two marriages and seven children in the true story of Louise Randall Pierson.

Sisters, The - (Original Trailer) Errol Flynn and Bette Davis in love and it's all capped off with the San Francisco earthquake, as promoted by Warner Bros. in the original theatrical trailer for The Sisters, 1938, directed by Anatole Litvak.

Family

Alan Hale Jr

Son

Actor.

Karen Hale Wookey

Daughter

Script supervisor, former actor.

Companions

Gretchen Hale

Wife

Bibliography

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