Charlie Hall (actor)

Charlie Hall was an English film actor. He is bestknown as the Little Nemesis of Laurel and Hardy and appeared in nearly 50 films with them, so that Hall was the most frequent supporting actor of their films.

Charlie Hall was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He learned carpentry as a trade, but as a teenager, he became a member of the Fred Karno troupe of stage comedians. In his late teens, he visited his sister in New York and stayed there, finding employment as a stagehand. While working behind the scenes, he met the comic actor Bobby Dunn and they became friends Dunn convinced Hall to take a stab again at acting, which he did. By the mid1920s, Hall was working for Hal Roach. Stan Laurel, one of Roachs comedy stars, was also a graduate of the Karno troupe.

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