Alan Hale

Highest Rated: 100% Pursued (1947)

Lowest Rated: 50% Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

Birthday: Feb 10, 1892

Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia

The son of a patent medicine manufacturer, American actor Alan Hale chose a theatrical career at a time when, according to his son Alan Hale Jr., boarding houses would post signs reading "No Dogs or Actors Allowed." Undaunted, Hale spent several years on stage after graduating from Philadelphia University, entering films as a slapstick comedian for Philly's Lubin Co. in 1911. Bolstering his acting income with odd jobs as a newspaperman and itinerant inventor (at one point he considered becoming an osteopath!), Hale finally enjoyed a measure of security as a much-in-demand character actor in the 1920s, usually as hard-hearted villains. One of his more benign roles was as Little John in Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood (1922), a role he would repeat opposite Errol Flynn in 1938 and John Derek in 1950. Talkies made Hale more popular than ever, especially in his many roles as Irishmen, blusterers and "best pals" for Warner Bros. Throughout his career, Hale never lost his love for inventing things, and reportedly patented or financed items as commonplace as auto brakes and as esoteric as greaseless potato chips. Alan Hale contracted pneumonia and died while working on the Warner Bros. western Montana (1950), which starred Hale's perennial screen cohort Errol Flynn.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Union Depot	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Rogues Of Sherwood Forest	Little John	—	1950
No Score Yet	Colt .45	Sheriff Harris	—	1950
No Score Yet	Stars in My Crown	Jed Isbell	—	1950
No Score Yet	Always Leave Them Laughing	Mr. Washburn	—	1949
No Score Yet	South of St. Louis	Jake Evarts	—	1949
90%	The Inspector General	Kovatch	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Younger Brothers	Sheriff Knudson	—	1949
No Score Yet	Whiplash	Actor	—	1948
No Score Yet	Adventures of Don Juan	Leporello	—	1948
No Score Yet	My Girl Tisa	Dugan	—	1948
No Score Yet	Wyoming Kid	Fred	—	1947
No Score Yet	That Way with Women	Herman Brinker	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Man I Love	Riley	—	1947
100%	Pursued	Jake Dingle	—	1947
No Score Yet	My Wild Irish Rose	John Donovan	—	1947
67%	Night and Day	Leon Dowling	—	1946
No Score Yet	Hotel Berlin	Hermann Plottke	—	1945
No Score Yet	God Is My Co-Pilot	"Big Mike" Harrigan	—	1945
No Score Yet	Roughly Speaking	Lew Morton	—	1945
No Score Yet	Janie	Reardon	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Mark Twain	Steve Gillis	—	1944
No Score Yet	Hollywood Canteen	Himself	—	1944
No Score Yet	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Specialty	—	1943
No Score Yet	This Is the Army	Sgt. McGee	—	1943
No Score Yet	Action in the North Atlantic	O'Hara	—	1943
80%	Destination Tokyo	Cookie	—	1943
No Score Yet	Juke Girl	`Yippee'	—	1942
67%	Desperate Journey	Flight Sgt. Kirk Edwards	—	1942
No Score Yet	Captains of the Clouds	"Tiny" Murphy	—	1942
100%	Gentleman Jim	Pat	—	1942
No Score Yet	Footsteps in the Dark	Insp. Mason	—	1941
100%	The Strawberry Blonde	Old Man Grimes	—	1941
No Score Yet	Manpower	Jumbo Wells	—	1941
No Score Yet	Tugboat Annie Sails Again	Capt. Bullwinkle	—	1940
92%	They Drive by Night	Ed J. Carlsen	—	1940
93%	The Sea Hawk	Carl Pitt	—	1940
No Score Yet	Three Cheers for the Irish	Gallagher	—	1940
71%	The Fighting 69th	Sgt. Big Mike Wynn	—	1940
63%	Santa Fe Trail	Barefoot Brody	—	1940
No Score Yet	Virginia City	Olaf "Moose" Swenson	—	1940
No Score Yet	Green Hell	Dr. Emil `Nils' Loren	—	1940
78%	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Earl of Tyrone	—	1939
No Score Yet	On Your Toes	Sergei Alexandrovitch	—	1939
No Score Yet	Dust Be My Destiny	Michael Leonard	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Man in the Iron Mask	Porthos	—	1939
100%	Dodge City	Algernon `Rusty' Hart	—	1939
No Score Yet	Listen, Darling	J.J. Slattery	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Sisters	Sam Johnson	—	1938
No Score Yet	Valley of the Giants	`Ox' Smith	—	1938
No Score Yet	Algiers	Grandpere	—	1938
100%	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Little John	—	1938
50%	Four Men and a Prayer	Furnoy	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Marco Polo	Kaidu	—	1938
No Score Yet	Music for Madame	Detective Flugelman	—	1937
No Score Yet	Thin Ice	Baron	—	1937
89%	Stella Dallas	Ed Munn	—	1937
67%	The Prince and the Pauper	Captain of the Guard	—	1937
No Score Yet	When Thief Meets Thief	Jim Dial/"Col. Fane"	—	1937
No Score Yet	God's Country and the Woman	Bjorn Skalka	—	1937
No Score Yet	High, Wide and Handsome	Walt Brennan	—	1937
No Score Yet	Our Relations	Joe Groagan, the Waiter	—	1936
No Score Yet	Yellowstone	John Alexander Hardigan	—	1936
No Score Yet	A Message to Garcia	Doctor Ivan Krug	—	1936
No Score Yet	Another Face	Charles L. Keller	—	1935
100%	The Crusades	Blondel	—	1935
No Score Yet	Last Days of Pompeii	Burbix	—	1935
86%	The Good Fairy	Schlapkohl	—	1935
No Score Yet	Grand Old Girl	Click Dade	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Little Minister	Rob Dow	—	1934
No Score Yet	Babbitt	Charlie McKelvey	—	1934
87%	Imitation of Life	Martin, Furniture Man	—	1934
100%	Broadway Bill	Orchestra leader	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Scarlet Letter	Bartholomew Hockins	—	1934
86%	Of Human Bondage	Emil Miller	—	1934
No Score Yet	Fog Over Frisco	Chief O'Malley	—	1934
No Score Yet	Little Man, What Now?	Jachman	—	1934
No Score Yet	Picture Brides	Von Luden	—	1934
99%	It Happened One Night	Danker	—	1934
100%	The Lost Patrol	Cook	—	1934
No Score Yet	Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen	Sam	—	1934
No Score Yet	Great Expectations	Joe Gargery	—	1934
No Score Yet	Eleventh Commandment	Max Stager	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Match King	Borglund	—	1932
No Score Yet	So Big	Klaus Poole	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	Hubert	—	1931
No Score Yet	Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise	Mondstrum	—	1931
No Score Yet	Rebound	Actor	—	1931
No Score Yet	The Leatherneck	Otto Schmidt	—	1929
No Score Yet	The Leopard Lady	Caesar	—	1928
No Score Yet	Power	Hanson	—	1928
No Score Yet	Skyscraper	Slim	—	1928
No Score Yet	Rubber Tires	Director	—	1927
No Score Yet	Risky Business	Director	—	1926
No Score Yet	Dick Turpin	Tom King	—	1925
No Score Yet	Braveheart	Director	—	1925
100%	Hollywood	Actor	—	1923
90%	The Covered Wagon	Sam Woodhull	—	1923
No Score Yet	Cameo Kirby	Colonel Moreau	—	1923
No Score Yet	Main Street	Miles Bjornstam	—	1923
No Score Yet	The Trap	Benson	—	1922
No Score Yet	A Doll's House	Torvald Helmer	—	1922
100%	One Glorious Day	Ben Wadley	—	1922
80%	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Karl	—	1921
No Score Yet	Barbarian	Mark	—	1921
No Score Yet	Great Impersonation	Gustave Seimann	—	1921
No Score Yet	Power of the Press	Sam	—	1914

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
87%	Mystery Science Theater 3000 1989-1999	Actor	1995

Quotes from Alan Hale's Characters

Tiny Murphy:	You're muscling in on Emily,.
Emily Foster:	Just because I'll marry Johnny,what's that got to do with you and me?
Brian MacLean:	answer: just about everything.
Brian MacLean:	The sight of money always makes me feel good.

Johnny Dutton:	The guy is nuts! (about Brian)
Johnny Dutton:	The guy is nuts!
Brian MacLean:	You're all wet in case you didn't know it.
Tiny Murphy:	All he did is nick his gourd.(about Brian falling)
Tiny Murphy:	All he did is nick his gourd.
Brian MacLean:	Get this straight, he's no friend of mine! (about Brian).
Brian MacLean:	Get this straight, he's no friend of mine!

Brian MacLean:	I guess its all right if you don't mind wearing a chute (a parachute).
Brian MacLean:	I guess its all right if you don't mind wearing a chute. [a parachute]
Brian MacLean:	Take a good hold, he's coming straight at us. (fellow bush pilots try to ground Brian from the air).
Brian MacLean:	Take a good hold, he's coming straight at us. [fellow bush pilots try to ground Brian from the air]
Brian MacLean:	OH you don't know me, I have a whim of iron. (he came back to Emily on a "whim".)
Brian MacLean:	OH you don't know me, I have a whim of iron. [he came back to Emily on a 'whim']
Tiny Murphy:	I hate to lose that propeller, I just paid it off.
Johnny Dutton:	He won't get away this time (after Brian).
Johnny Dutton:	He won't get away this time. [after Brian]
Emily Foster:	HEY, you're a sick man! (after Brian grabbed at her).
Emily Foster:	HEY, you're a sick man! [after Brian grabbed at her]

Blimp Lebec:	I do not wish to meet the price of a burgler (cagney flew for 25 dollars less)
Blimp Lebec:	I do not wish to meet the price of a burgler [cagney flew for 25 dollars less]
Johnny Dutton:	He won't be hauling cheaper after I catch up to him (cagney stole his customer)
Johnny Dutton:	He won't be hauling cheaper after I catch up to him [cagney stole his customer]
Tiny Murphy:	He's all over the place and we can't catch up with him.
Brian MacLean:	The name is not Johnny, never was Johnny.
Brian MacLean:	I always seem like somebody else.
Brian MacLean:	Lets see if you are as practical as beautiful.
Emily Foster:	The pleasures all yours.

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