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Alan Hale
Known for: ActingFrom 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.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as The Prince of Tyrone 
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as Danker 
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Little John 
Pursued
as Jake Dingle 
The Sea Hawk
as Carl Pitt 
Susan Lenox
as Jeb Mondstrum 
Adventures of Don Juan
as Leporello 
Of Human Bondage
as Emil Miller 
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Karl von Hartrott 
Night and Day
as Leon Dowling 
The Prince and the Pauper
as Captain of the Guard 
Cheyenne
as Fred Durkin 
Dodge City
as Rusty Hart 
Santa Fe Trail
as Tex Bell 
The Lost Patrol
as Cook 
Destination Tokyo
as 'Cookie' Wainwright 
They Drive by Night
as Ed Carlsen 
Stars in My Crown
as Jed Isbell 
Colt .45
as Sheriff Harris 
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Kaidu 
Virginia City
as Olaf Swenson 
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Porthos 
Gentleman Jim
as Pat Corbett 
Manpower
as Jumbo Wells 
The Inspector General
as Kovatch 
Action in the North Atlantic
as Boats O'Hara 
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self 
South of St. Louis
as Jake Evarts 
The Strawberry Blonde
as Old Man Grimes 
Stella Dallas
as Ed Munn 
Robin Hood
as Little John 
The Last Days of Pompeii
as Burbix 
Imitation of Life
as Martin the Furniture Man 
Desperate Journey
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards 
Hollywood Canteen
as Self 
The Fighting 69th
as Big Mike Wynn 
Captains of the Clouds
as Tiny Murphy 
Little Man, What Now?
as Holgar Jachman 
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Steve Gillis 
Our Relations
as Joe Grogan 
This Is the Army
as Sergeant McGee 
Algiers
as Grandpere 
The Covered Wagon
as Sam Woodhull 
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Big Mike Harrigan 
Footsteps in the Dark
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason 
Listen, Darling
as J.J. Slattery 
The Crusades
as Blondel 
The Sisters
as Sam Johnson 
High, Wide and Handsome
as Walt Brennan 
Roughly Speaking
as Lew Morton 
There's Always Tomorrow
as Henry