Trivia

Hall appeared in more Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movies than any other actor, including Mae Busch, Billy Gilbert or James Finlayson.

In most of his appearances in the Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films, Hall doesn't have a lot of dialogue, and what lines he has are usually growled or barked angrily at either Laurel or Hardy. That was to disguise his British accent, which was more pronounced than Laurel's. Laurel thought it would be a bit too implausible and distract from the scene to have two Englishmen fighting in the middle of an American comedy, so he had Hall disguise his voice whenever possible (although there are times when his English accent is quite obvious).

In 1937 Charlie returned to England probably hoping to get work in the British studios. This may have been due to being sacked by Hal Roach for not turning up at the studio, probably due to over socialising with Stan or to get away from his wife or to see his mother who was very ill. However things didn't turn out well for him as little filming was being done in London and with money running out he eventually moved to his family in Birmingham where the only work he was able to get was in a gas mask factory. He eventually wrote to his friend, director George Stevens, in the States, asking for a loan of $200 so that he could return to America but then he met up with his friend Edgar Kennedy, who'd come over to make 'Hey. Hey USA' with Will Hay, and who got him a few days work on the film which earned him enough for him to get back to the States.

By the mid-1950s, Hall's health was declining due to increasing liver problems as he aged and an inability to continue working as an extra and bit player. Returning to his carpentry skills, he took a job as a prop-maker at Warner Brothers.

He met Stan Laurel when they were both members of the Fred Karno company which toured Britain.

In the Laurel and Hardy short "Laughing Gravy" (1930) he played a dog-hating landlord who would mercilessly throw a little dog, whose real name was Laughing Gravy, out into the frigid cold. In real life, he reportedly adopted one of Laughing Gravy's puppies.

Between roles, he reportedly worked as a carpenter on the Hal Roach lot.

Immigrated to the United States in 1920.

Hall is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, Eventide section, Lot 1928. along side his wife, who pre deceased him.

His brother Frank worked for the Birmingham City Council.

He was in the Laurel and Hardy film Oliver the Eighth (1934) but his part was cut out.

He was one of 8 children born in a small cottage in Washwood Heath Road in the Ward End district of Birmingham.

He left England in 1920 to go to America intending to get work as a carpenter.

Has a pub named after him in Barnabas Road, Erdington, Birmingham.

He left school in 1914 to assist his father as a carpenter and began supplementing his wages by doing comedy sketches in vaudeville around music halls and clubs in the Midlands and eventually was signed up with Fred Karno when he was 16.

Charlie arrived on Ellis Island in America 9th October 1912.

He officially opened the Odeon Cinema in Birmingham in 1938.

Prior to acting he was a carpenter at the Metropolitan Carriage Works in Birmingham.

He was born in Washwood Heath Road in the Ward End district of Birmingham and was educated at Lea Road School eventually he joined the Fred Karno troupe in which Charlie Chaplin was the star.

His first Laurel and Hardy film was Love 'Em and Weep in 1927 and his last Saps at Sea in 1940.

He came back to England in 1938 and did a few shows in London.

He died 7th December 1959 age 60.

He married Wilda George, whose stage name was Foxie Hall on 8th November 1935.

Hall played an Oxford student, along with an up and coming Peter Cushing, in "A Chump at Oxford" although he was forty years old at the time.

He had a small part in Oliver the Eighth but it was cut out.

While he's well known as being a regular support actor in the Laurel and Hardy films both he and his wife Wilda had small parts in the Laurel and Hardy films Swiss Miss and Our Relations.