Porter Hall

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Clifford Porter Hall

Birth Place

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Born

September 19, 1888

Died

October 06, 1953

Filmography

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Return to Treasure Island (1954)

Maximillian Harris [also known as Clive Stone]

Vice Squad (1953)

Pony Express (1953)

Holiday for Sinners (1952)

The Half-Breed (1952)

Carbine Williams (1952)

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Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque

Story Of Louis Pasteur, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) A Victim Of Your Bigotry

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Return to Treasure Island (1954)

Maximillian Harris [also known as Clive Stone]

Vice Squad (1953)

Pony Express (1953)

Holiday for Sinners (1952)

The Half-Breed (1952)

Carbine Williams (1952)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Intruder in the Dust (1950)

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Judge [Alfalfa J.] O'Toole

You Gotta Stay Happy (1949)

Mr. Caslon [alias of Mr. Chalmers]

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Attorney Ketchell

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Unconquered (1947)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Singapore (1947)

Murder, He Says (1945)

Blood on the Sun (1945)

Kiss and Tell (1945)

Bring on the Girls (1945)

Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)

Double Indemnity (1944)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Justice of the peace

The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Standing Room Only (1944)

Going My Way (1944)

The Great Moment (1944)

President Franklin Pierce

A Stranger in Town (1943)

[Judge] Austin Harkley

The Woman of the Town (1943)

The Desperadoes (1943)

Banker [Stanley] Clanton

The Remarkable Andrew (1942)

Chief Clerk Art Slocumb

Butch Minds the Baby (1942)

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Mr. & Mrs. North (1942)

The Parson of Panamint (1941)

Jonathon Randall

Lazarus Wardrobe

His Girl Friday (1940)

Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)

Dark Command (1940)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Grand Jury Secrets (1939)

They Shall Have Music (1939)

Henry Goes Arizona (1939)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

Scandal Street (1938)

Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)

Stolen Heaven (1938)

Prison Farm (1938)

Chiston R. Bradby

Men with Wings (1938)

Hiram F. Jenkins

Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

Dr. [Max] Botulian

The Arkansas Traveler (1938)

Mayor Homer Daniels

Dangerous to Know (1938)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

[Norman] Merridew

This Way Please (1937)

True Confession (1937)

Wild Money (1937)

King of Gamblers (1937)

The Plainsman (1937)

Hotel Haywire (1937)

Judge [Sterling] Newhall

Souls at Sea (1937)

Court prosecutor

Wells Fargo (1937)

Let's Make a Million (1936)

And Sudden Death (1936)

District Attorney

The General Died at Dawn (1936)

Snowed Under (1936)

The Petrified Forest (1936)

Princess Comes Across (1936)

[Robert M.] Darcy

The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Too Many Parents (1936)

The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Murder in the Private Car (1934)

The Thin Man (1934)

Life Events

Videos

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Pretty Albuquerque Hard-luck big city newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has rolled into Albuquerque, because his car broke down, introducing himself to local editor Boot (Porter Hall) with a proposition, opening Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Story Of Louis Pasteur, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) A Victim Of Your Bigotry Paris, 1860, summoned to the court of emperor Napoleon III (Walter Kingsford) in recognition for earlier feats, chemist Paul Muni (title character) rants about germs, irritating physician Charbonnet (Fritz Leiber) and gets blamed (by Porter Hall) for a murder committed by a civilian who supported his theories, then is consoled by Martel (Donald Woods), in The Story Of Louis Pasteur, 1936.

Satan Met A Lady (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought You Were Sleeping Back in town enjoying banter with the secretary Murgatroyd (Marie Wilson) of his long-ago partner Ames (Porter Hall), Shane (Warren William) acts gallant for new client Bette Davis as Miss Purvis (the Mary Astor role in the landmark 1941 version of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon), not apparently realizing she’s been watching him, in Satan Met A Lady, 1936.

His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Real Red Menace In the press room at the courthouse, Howard Hawks directs the guys from Ben Hecht’s original play (Roscoe Karns as McCue, Porter Hall as Murphy, Ernest Truex as Roy, Cliff Edwards as Endicott, Frank Jenks as Wilson), and Roz Russell convincing as the title character, their pal Hildy, informing them she’s done, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

Arizona (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Do What The Lady Says Tough Phoebe Titus (Jean Arthur), known to be the only woman in the territory, demands some justice from Ward (Porter Hall) and his men Timmins and Longstreet (Sid Saylor and Wade Crosby), with an assist from new-in-town Muncie (William Holden) in Wesley Ruggles' Arizona, 1940.

Make Way For Tomorrow (1937) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Bank For You Introducing the cast and circumstance, George (Thomas Mitchell) joins mother (Beulah Bondi), father (Victor Moore) sisters (Minna Gombell, Elisabeth Risdon) and brother (Ray Mayer), opening Leo McCarey's Make Way For Tomorrow, 1937.

Sullivan's Travels (1942) -- (Movie Clip) O Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is reunited with "The Girl" (Veronica Lake) and his staff, and reconsiders filming "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," in the final scene from Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Going My Way (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Substitute Right Fielder Sauntering into his new New York City parish, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) meets neighborhood kids and atheist Belknap (Porter Hall), early in Leo McCarey's Going My Way, 1944.

Sullivan's Travels (1942) -- (Movie Clip) With A Little Sex Joel McCrea (as Sullivan), Robert Warwick (as LeBrand) and Porter Hall (as Hadrian) emerge from a screening for the dazzling single-take first scene from Preston Sturges' Depression comedy Sullivan's Travels 1942.

Souls At Sea (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Such Unmitigated Atrocity Director Henry Hathaway’s opening, George Zucco, whom we’ll learn is a British agent, Porter Hall as the prosecutor, Gary Cooper in the dock, Frances Dee a complainant, but there’s more to it, in Souls At Sea, 1937, based on the of historic wreck of the William Brown.

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Spirit Of The Night Racing toward Scotland Yard, Ray Milland (title character) is surprised by a pedestrian (Heather Angel) then a guy sinking in a bog, not meeting a band of nasties (led by Porter Hall), found by his butler Tenny (E.E. Clive), in the Paramount serial Bulldog Drummond Esapes, 1937.

Week-end At The Waldorf (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Honeymoon Couple Robert Benchley narrates, a couple (Cora Sue Collins, Michael Kirby) arrives, and Jessup (Samuel S. Hinds) rejects slippery Edley (Edward Arnold), just opening MGM's relocated and modified remake of Grand Hotel, Week-End At The Waldorf, 1944, starring Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner.

Thin Man, The -- (Original Trailer) A husband-and-wife detective team search for a missing inventor and almost get killed in The Thin Man (1934) starring William Powell & Myrna Loy.

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