Ben Hall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 18 March 1899 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- 20 May 1985
Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
Acting 77
- 1949Cover Up as Printer (Uncredited)
- 1948The Noose Hangs High as Messenger (uncredited)
- 1947Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
- 1946My Darling Clementine as Barber (uncredited)
- 1946Traffic with the Devil as Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
- 1946Young Widow as Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
- 1946The Diary of a Chambermaid as Townsman (Uncredited)
- 1944Movie Pests as Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
- 1944It Happened Tomorrow
- 1943Du Barry Was a Lady as Waiter (uncredited)
- 1943The Hard Way as Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
- 1942The Incredible Stranger as Lou Coon (uncredited)
- 1942The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Attendant
- 1941Hellzapoppin' as Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
- 1941Second Chorus as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
- 1940Pride and Prejudice as Poet
- 1940One Million B.C. as Shell Person
- 1940The Grapes of Wrath as Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
- 1940My Little Chickadee as Schoolboy (uncredited)
- 1939Dad for a Day as Leonard's Father
- 1938Marie Antoinette as Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
- 1938Held For Ransom as Hillbilly
- 1938Riders of the Black Hills as Reporter Ethelbert
- 1937Music for Madame as Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
- 1937Smoke Tree Range as Pete
- 1937You Only Live Once as Messenger with Package (uncredited)
- 1936A Million to One as Joe
- 1936Postal Inspector as Mail Clerk (uncredited)
- 1936Fury as Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
- 1936The Voice of Bugle Ann as Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
- 1936An All American Toothache as Dental Student (uncredited)
- 1936Strike Me Pink as Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
- 1935Racing Luck as 'Knapsack'
- 1935The Live Wire as Steve
- 1935Steamboat Round the Bend as Fleety Belle's brother
- 1935Men Without Names as Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
- 1935Naughty Marietta as Mama's Boy (uncredited)
- 1935Life Begins at Forty as Square Dance Participant
- 1935Sequoia as Joe
- 1935Hollywood Trouble
- 1934Counsel on De Fence as Langdon's Assistant
- 1934Love Past Thirty as Junior Burt
- 1933The Stranger's Return as Farmhand
- 1933Lilly Turner as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
- 1933Strictly Personal as Holbrook (uncredited)
- 1933Parole Girl as Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1933Girl Missing as Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
- 1933Blondie Johnson as Newsboy (uncredited)
- 1933Face in the Sky as Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
- 1932The Sport Parade as Newsboy (uncredited)
- 1932The Golden West as Pioneer
- 1932Vanity Street as Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
- 1932The Phantom President as Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
- 1932Gorilla Ship as Benny - Cabin Boy
- 1932Alias Mary Smith as Jake
- 1932After Tomorrow as Soad Jerk
- 1932Sin's Pay Day as Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
- 1931The Star Witness as Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
- 1931Stranger in Town as XYZ Grocery Clerk
- 1931Newly Rich as Toby (uncredited)
- 1931Seas Beneath as Elmer Harrigan (uncredited)
- 1931Blood and Thunder as Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
- 1930The Office Wife as Office Boy (uncredited)
- 1930A Man from Wyoming as Orderly
- 1930Radio Kisses
- 1929Wall Street as Cliff
- 1929Nix on Dames as Cliff
- 1929The Girl from Woolworth's as Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
- 1929Salute as Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
- 1928Hot News as Benny
- 1928Harold Teen as Goofy
- 1927Baby Brother as Man with glasses
- 1927Down the Stretch as Pee Wee
- 1927Girls as Irving Wise
- 1927Casey at the Bat as Scorekeeper (uncredited)
- 1926Satan Town as Crippy Jack
- 1926The Skyrocket as Peter Stanton




