Ben Hall (Actor)

Reviews of Ben Hall Movies

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Movies starring Ben Hall have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

The Grapes of Wrath - released in 1940 - is Ben Hall's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 709 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Ben Hall is Second Chorus - released in 1941 - with a score of 49% based on 14 reviews.

Actor 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 as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946).

Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985.

Ben Hall has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Don Brodie, Ward Bond and Robert Homans.

Ben Hall has worked with these film directors: John Ford, Norman Taurog, H. C. Potter and Fritz Lang.