From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Creighton Hale (24 May 1888 — 9 August 1965) was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s. Born Patrick Fitzgerald in County Cork, Ireland, he was educated in Dublin and London, and later attended Ardingly College in Sussex. He immigrated to America in his early twenties, traveling with a troupe of actors. While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company. He eventually became known professionally as Creighton Hale, although the derivation of those names remains unknown. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine in 1914. He starred in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat and the Canary. When talkies came about, his career declined. He made several appearances in Hal Roach's Our Gang series (School's Out, Big Ears, Free Wheeling), and also played unbilled bits in major talking films such as Larceny, Inc., The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca. He died in the Los Angeles County city of South Pasadena and was buried at Duncans Mills Cemetery in Northern California.
Known For
| Birth Location | County Cork, Ireland |
|---|---|
| Born | 1888-05-24 |
| Died | 1965-08-09 |
Movies
Westbound
as Irritated Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
1959
The Story of Mankind
as Heavenly Judge
1957
Serenade
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1956
Strange Lady in Town
as Card Player (uncredited)
1955
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
as Audience Spectator (uncredited)
1954
Take the High Ground!
as Army Doctor (uncredited)
1953
Les Miserables
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1952
1951
Goodbye, My Fancy
as Griswolds' Butler (Uncredited)
1951
The Screen Director
as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
1951
1951
Sunset Boulevard
as Creighton Hale (uncredited)
1950
The Great Jewel Robber
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1950
1950
Beyond the Forest
as Townsman with Glasses
1949
One Last Fling
as Gus
1949
The Fountainhead
as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1949
1949
Homicide
as Glorietta Desk Clerk
1949
Fighter Squadron
as Cockney (uncredited)
1948
Johnny Belinda
as Bailiff (uncredited)
1948
So You Want to Be a Gambler
as Blackjack Player (uncredited)
1948
So You Want an Apartment
as Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)
1948
Always Together
as Eric, Turner's Butler (uncredited)
1947
Life with Father
as Mr. Wickersham the Father of Twin Boys (uncredited)
1947
Cry Wolf
as Dr. Reynolds (uncredited)
1947
Hollywood Wonderland
as Man Taking Tour (uncredited)
1947
The Perils of Pauline
as Marcelled Leading Man
1947
So You're Going to Be a Father
as Psychiatric Ward Doctor (uncredited)
1947
Love and Learn
as Tom - the Wyngate Butler (uncredited)
1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
as Second Tout (uncredited)
1947
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
as Supper Club Waiter (uncredited)
1947
Humoresque
as Concert Spectator (uncredited)
1947
Humoresque
as Professor (uncredited)
1947
The Verdict
as Reporter
1946
So You Want to Play the Horses
as Cashier (uncredited)
1946
Three Strangers
as Man in Pub
1946
Crime by Night
as Horace Grayson (uncredited)
1944
Mr. Skeffington
as Casey (uncredited)
1944
1944
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Dr. Carter
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Engineer (uncredited)
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
as Sparks (uncredited)
1943
The Mysterious Doctor
as Luke
1943
The Gorilla Man
as Constable Fletcher
1943
Casablanca
as Customer (uncredited)
1943
Gentleman Jim
as Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)
1942
The Hidden Hand
as The Coroner (uncredited)
1942
You Can't Escape Forever
as Newspaper Employee Taking Notes (uncredited)
1942
Spy Ship
as Reporter
1942
Winning Your Wings
as Uncle Ed (uncredited)
1942
Larceny, Inc.
as Mr. Carmichael
1942
Murder in the Big House
as Ritter - Warden's Secretary
1942
The Male Animal
as Reporter (uncredited)
1942
Bullet Scars
as Judd, the druggist
1942
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Radio Man (uncredited)
1941
Steel Against the Sky
as Jim (uncredited)
1941
One Foot in Heaven
as Church Usher (uncredited)
1941
The Maltese Falcon
as Stenographer (uncredited)
1941
Sergeant York
as Associated Press Man (uncredited)
1941
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
as Mahan - Police Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)
1941
Highway West
as Waiter (uncredited)
1941
Bad Men of Missouri
as Bank Representative
1941
1941
Here Comes Happiness
as Headline Printer (uncredited)
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
as Mr. Harlan (uncredited)
1941
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
as Rosie's Fiancee (uncredited)
1941
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)
1941
Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
as Mr. Barnstorm (uncredited)
1941
Santa Fe Trail
as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
1940
Lady with Red Hair
as Reporter Eddie (uncredited)
1940
Father Is A Prince
as Lawrence - Bower's Accountant (uncredited)
1940
East of the River
as Casino Floor Man (uncredited)
1940
Knute Rockne All American
as Callahan's Secretary (uncredited)
1940
Just a Cute Kid
as Desk Clerk
1940
Money and the Woman
as Mack, Bank Customer (uncredited)
1940
My Love Came Back
as Thompson - Music Co. Clerk (uncredited)
1940
All This, and Heaven Too
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
1940
A Fugitive from Justice
as Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)
1940
Brother Orchid
as Reporter #3 (uncredited)
1940
Tear Gas Squad
as Announcer
1940
Saturday's Children
as Stamp Collecting Mailman (uncredited)
1940
King of the Lumberjacks
as Cashier (uncredited)
1940
One Million B.C.
as Shell Person
1940
Calling Philo Vance
as Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
1940
A Child Is Born
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1939
The Return of Doctor X
as Hotel Manager
1939
On Dress Parade
as Doctor Telling Cadets 'No Visitors' (uncredited)
1939
Kid Nightingale
as Man Answering Telephone at Lessernan's Gymnasium (uncredited)
1939
The Roaring Twenties
as Customer (uncredited)
1939
On Your Toes
as First Stage Manager
1939
Slapsie Maxie's
as Reporter (uncredited)
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
as Nick's Second Customer (uncredited)
1939
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
as Reporter
1939
The Bill of Rights
as New York Congressman
1939
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
as Hotel Desk Clerk
1939
Indianapolis Speedway
as Racetrack Official
1939
The Cowboy Quarterback
as Broadcaster
1939
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
as Man in Sheriff's Office
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Draftsman (uncredited)
1939
One Wild Night
as Bank Teller (uncredited)
1938
International Settlement
as Clerk
1938
Big Town Girl
as Desk Man
1937
Step Lively, Jeeves!
as Reporter (uncredited)
1937
Midnight Taxi
as G-Man
1937
Under Your Spell
as Bailiff (uncredited)
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
as Creighton Hale - Actor at Trocadero Bar
1936
36 Hours to Kill
as Ticket Agent
1936
The Millionaire Kid
as Thomas Neville
1936
Custer's Last Stand
as Hank
1936
Men Without Names
as Groom
1935
Becky Sharp
as British Officer (uncredited)
1935
Million Dollar Haul
as Curley Chandler
1935
Life Begins at Forty
as Drug Clerk
1935
1935
Helldorado
as Newspaper Reporter
1935
1935
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
as Wedding Guest
1934
The Thin Man
as Reporter (uncredited)
1934
George White's Scandals
as Theatre Treasurer (uncredited)
1934
Gambling Lady
as Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
1934
The Masquerader
as Bobby Blessington
1933
Sensation Hunters
as Fred Barrett
1933
Free Wheeling
as Dickie's Father
1932
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
as Wedding Supervisor
1932
Grief Street
as Play Co-star
1931
Big Ears
as Wheezer's father
1931
School's Out
as Jack Crabtree
1930
Holiday
as Pete Hedges
1930
The Great Divide
as Edgar Blossom
1929
Seven Footprints to Satan
as Jim
1929
The House of Shame
as Harvey Baremore
1928
1928
Riley of the Rainbow Division
as Riley
1928
Rose-Marie
as Etienne Doray
1928
The Cat and the Canary
as Paul Jones
1927
Annie Laurie
as Donald
1927
1927
Why Girls Say No
as Becky's Boyfriend
1927
Should Men Walk Home?
as The Gentleman Crook
1927
1926
The Midnight Message
as Billy Dodd
1926
Beverly of Graustark
as Prince Oscar
1926
Exchange of Wives
as Victor Moran
1925
The Circle
as Arnold Cheney
1925
Seven Days
as Jim Wilson
1925
1925
This Woman
as Bobby Bleedon
1924
The Mine with the Iron Door
as St. Jimmy
1924
Wine of Youth
as Richard (1897 prologue
1924
How to Educate a Wife
as Billy Breese
1924
The Marriage Circle
as Dr. Gustav Mueller
1924
Name the Man
as Alick Gell
1924
Tea- With a Kick!
as Art Binger
1923
Trilby
as Little Billee
1923
Broken Hearts of Broadway
as An Outcast
1923
Mary of the Movies
as The Boy
1923
Fascination
as Eduardo de Lisa (her father)
1922
Fascination
as Carlos de Lisa (her brother)
1922
Orphans of the Storm
as Picard
1921
Way Down East
as Professor Sterling
1920
A Child for Sale
as Charles Stoddard
1920
The Idol Dancer
as Walter Kincaid
1920
1919
The Thirteenth Chair
as Willy Grosby
1919
Oh Boy!
as George Budd
1919
The Woman the Germans Shot
as Frank Brooks
1918
Mrs. Slacker
as Robert Gibbs
1918
1917
Snow White
as Prince Florimon
1916
The Iron Claw
as Davey
1916
The Old Homestead
as Reuben Whitcomb
1915
The Romance of Elaine
as Walter Jameson
1915
The New Exploits of Elaine
as Walter Jameson
1915
A Fool There Was
as Young Man at Wild Party (uncredited)
1915
The Exploits of Elaine
as Walter Jameson (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 6)
1914
The Taint
as Walter, Madame Bartlett's Son
1914
The Stain
as Office Clerk
1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
as Gang Member
1914
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