Ben Hall
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 i...
Known For
The Grapes of Wrath
Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
Barber (uncredited)
Pride and Prejudice
Poet
You Only Live Once
Messenger with Package (uncredited)
Fury
Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
One Million B.C.
Shell Person
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Filmography
Cover Up
1949
as Printer (Uncredited)
The Noose Hangs High
1948
as Messenger (uncredited)
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947
as Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
My Darling Clementine
1946
as Barber (uncredited)
Traffic with the Devil
1946
as Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
as Townsman (Uncredited)
Young Widow
1946
as Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
Movie Pests
1944
as Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
as Waiter (uncredited)
The Hard Way
1943
as Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
as Attendant
The Incredible Stranger
1942
as Lou Coon (uncredited)
Second Chorus
1941
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin'
1941
as Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
as Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
Pride and Prejudice
1940
as Poet
My Little Chickadee
1940
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
One Million B.C.
1940
as Shell Person
Dad for a Day
1939
as Leonard's Father
Held For Ransom
1938
as Hillbilly
Riders of the Black Hills
1938
as Reporter Ethelbert
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
Smoke Tree Range
1937
as Pete
Music for Madame
1937
as Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
You Only Live Once
1937
as Messenger with Package (uncredited)
An All American Toothache
1936
as Dental Student (uncredited)
Fury
1936
as Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
Postal Inspector
1936
as Mail Clerk (uncredited)
A Million to One
1936
as Joe
Strike Me Pink
1936
as Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
as Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
Hollywood Trouble
1935
Racing Luck
1935
as 'Knapsack'
Life Begins at Forty
1935
as Square Dance Participant
Steamboat Round the Bend
1935
as Fleety Belle's brother
Sequoia
1935
as Joe
Men Without Names
1935
as Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
The Live Wire
1935
as Steve
Naughty Marietta
1935
as Mama's Boy (uncredited)
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Junior Burt
Counsel on De Fence
1934
as Langdon's Assistant
The Stranger's Return
1933
as Farmhand
Parole Girl
1933
as Apartment Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Lilly Turner
1933
as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
Face in the Sky
1933
as Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
Girl Missing
1933
as Service Station Attendant (Uncredited)
Strictly Personal
1933
as Holbrook (uncredited)
Blondie Johnson
1933
as Newsboy (uncredited)
Alias Mary Smith
1932
as Jake
The Sport Parade
1932
as Newsboy (uncredited)
Vanity Street
1932
as Stage Door Johnnie in Bearskin Coat (uncredited)
Sin's Pay Day
1932
as Henchman Rusty (uncredited)
After Tomorrow
1932
as Soad Jerk
Gorilla Ship
1932
as Benny - Cabin Boy
The Phantom President
1932
as Man at Medicine Show (uncredited)
The Golden West
1932
as Pioneer
The Star Witness
1931
as Timekeeper at W.P. Randolph (uncredited)
Blood and Thunder
1931
as Mr. C. Mortimer Hickey (uncredited)
Stranger in Town
1931
as XYZ Grocery Clerk
Newly Rich
1931
as Toby (uncredited)
Seas Beneath
1931
as Elmer Harrigan (uncredited)
Radio Kisses
1930
A Man from Wyoming
1930
as Orderly
The Office Wife
1930
as Office Boy (uncredited)
The Girl from Woolworth's
1929
as Jerry Donelly (uncredited)
Salute
1929
as Midshipman Joel Farragut Gish (uncredited)
Wall Street
1929
as Cliff
Nix on Dames
1929
as Cliff
Harold Teen
1928
as Goofy
Hot News
1928
as Benny
Casey at the Bat
1927
as Scorekeeper (uncredited)
Baby Brother
1927
as Man with glasses
Girls
1927
as Irving Wise
Down the Stretch
1927
as Pee Wee
The Skyrocket
1926
as Peter Stanton
Satan Town
1926
as Crippy Jack