Highest rated movie: Double Indemnity (1944)
Lowest rated movie: Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
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Movies starring Porter Hall have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.
Double Indemnity - released in 1944 - is Porter Hall's highest rated movie, with a score of 88% based on 745 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Porter Hall is Mr. and Mrs. North - released in 1942 - with a score of 41% based on 2 reviews.
Clifford Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 – October 6, 1953) was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall played movie villains or comedic incompetent characters. Hall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and began his career touring as a stage actor with roles in productions of The Great Gatsby and Naked in 1926. Hall made his film debut in the 1931 drama Secrets of a Secretary. He made his last onscreen appearance in the 1954 film Return to Treasure Island, which was released after his death.
He was probably best remembered for four roles: a senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an atheist in Going My Way, the nervous, ill-tempered Granville Sawyer, who administers a psychological test to Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, and a train passenger who encounters a man (Fred MacMurray) who has just committed a murder in Double Indemnity.
On October 6, 1953, Hall died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at the age of 65. His interment was at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Hall had two children, David and Sarah Jane.
Porter Hall has acted in films with Fred MacMurray, Emory Parnell, Al Bridge and Byron Foulger.
Porter Hall has worked with these film directors: Archie Mayo, James P. Hogan, Preston Sturges and William Dieterle.
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