Ben Hall

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-03-18 (86 years old)

Deathday

1985-05-20

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Ben Hall

Biography

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 a...

Acting

1926

The Skyrocket

as Peter Stanton

1934

Love Past Thirty

as Junior Burt

1926

Satan Town

as Crippy Jack

1931

The Star Witness

as Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)

1938

Held For Ransom

as Hillbilly

1930

1928

Harold Teen

as Goofy

1935

Racing Luck

as 'Knapsack'

1936

An All American Toothache

as Dental Student (uncredited)

1933

Parole Girl

as Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1933

Lilly Turner

as Western Union Boy (uncredited)

1933

1933

Face in the Sky

as Service Station Attendant (uncredited)

1937

1936

Fury

as Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)

1936

Postal Inspector

as Mail Clerk (uncredited)

1934

Counsel on De Fence

as Langdon's Assistant

1940

My Little Chickadee

as Schoolboy (uncredited)

1931

Blood and Thunder

as Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)

1940

One Million B.C.

as Shell Person

1928

Hot News

as Benny

1944

Movie Pests

as Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)

1941

Second Chorus

as Western Union Boy (uncredited)

1935

Life Begins at Forty

as Square Dance Participant

1938

Riders of the Black Hills

as Reporter Ethelbert

1942

The Incredible Stranger

as Lou Coon (uncredited)

1946

My Darling Clementine

as Barber (uncredited)

1935

Sequoia

as Joe

1929

The Girl from Woolworth's

as Jerry Donelly (uncredited)

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)

1935

Men Without Names

as Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)

1932

The Sport Parade

as Newsboy (uncredited)

1932

Vanity Street

as Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)

1932

Sin's Pay Day

as Henchman Rusty (uncredited)

1946

Traffic with the Devil

as Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)

1930

The Office Wife

as Office Boy (uncredited)

1933

Blondie Johnson

as Newsboy (uncredited)

1935

Steamboat Round the Bend

as Fleety Belle's brother

1927

Baby Brother

as Man with glasses

1927

Casey at the Bat

as Scorekeeper (uncredited)

1929

Salute

as Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)

1937

Music for Madame

as Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)

1932

1933

Strictly Personal

as Holbrook (uncredited)

1933

Girl Missing

as Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)

1927

Girls

as Irving Wise

1943

1931

Stranger in Town

as XYZ Grocery Clerk

1941

Hellzapoppin'

as Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)

1936

The Voice of Bugle Ann

as Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)

1932

After Tomorrow

as Soad Jerk

1931

Newly Rich

as Toby (uncredited)

1948

The Noose Hangs High

as Messenger (uncredited)

1943

The Hard Way

as Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)

1937

You Only Live Once

as Messenger with Package (uncredited)

1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

as Townsman (Uncredited)

1935

1949

Cover Up

as Printer (Uncredited)

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)

1946

Young Widow

as Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)

1935

Naughty Marietta

as Mama's Boy (uncredited)

1932

Gorilla Ship

as Benny - Cabin Boy

1929

Wall Street

as Cliff

1947

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

as Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)

1939

Dad for a Day

as Leonard's Father

1932

The Phantom President

as Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)

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