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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.
Filmography Westbound
1959
Irritated Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)
Details The Story of Mankind
1957
Heavenly Judge
Details The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
Man Driving Car (uncredited)
Details Serenade
1956
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Details Strange Lady in Town
1955
Card Player (uncredited)
Details So You Want to Know Your Relatives
1954
Audience Spectator (uncredited)
Details Take the High Ground!
1953
Army Doctor (uncredited)
Details So You Want to Learn to Dance
1953
Barber
Details Les Miserables
1952
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Details On Moonlight Bay
1951
Character TBA
Details Fort Worth
1951
Railroad Backer (uncredited)
Details Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
Griswolds' Butler (Uncredited)
Details So You Want to Be a Cowboy
1951
Movie Patron
Details The Screen Director
1951
Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Details The Enforcer
1951
Character TBA
Details Sunset Boulevard
1950
Creighton Hale (uncredited)
Details The Great Jewel Robber
1950
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Details Backfire
1950
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Details Beyond the Forest
1949
Townsman with Glasses
Details The Fountainhead
1949
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Details Night Unto Night
1949
Character TBA
Details Homicide
1949
Glorietta Desk Clerk
Details So You Want to Be Popular
1949
Waiter at Party
Details Fighter Squadron
1948
Cockney (uncredited)
Details Johnny Belinda
1948
Bailiff (uncredited)
Details So You Want to Be a Gambler
1948
Blackjack Player (uncredited)
Details So You Want an Apartment
1948
Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)
Details Always Together
1947
Eric, Turner's Butler (uncredited)
Details Life with Father
1947
Mr. Wickersham the Father of Twin Boys (uncredited)
Details Cry Wolf
1947
Dr. Reynolds (uncredited)
Details Hollywood Wonderland
1947
Man Taking Tour (uncredited)
Details The Perils of Pauline
1947
Marcelled Leading Man
Details So You're Going to Be a Father
1947
Psychiatric Ward Doctor (uncredited)
Details Love and Learn
1947
Tom - the Wyngate Butler (uncredited)
Details The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947
Second Tout (uncredited)
Details Nora Prentiss
1947
Captain of Waiters at The Sea Gull (uncredited)
Details Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
1947
Supper Club Waiter (uncredited)
Details Humoresque
1947
Concert Spectator (uncredited)
Details Humoresque
1947
Professor (uncredited)
Details So You Want to Play the Horses
1946
Cashier (uncredited)
Details Three Strangers
1946
Man in Pub
Details Crime by Night
1944
Horace Grayson (uncredited)
Details Mr. Skeffington
1944
Casey (uncredited)
Details Uncertain Glory
1944
Character TBA
Details The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943
Dr. Carter
Details Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Engineer (uncredited)
Details Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Sparks (uncredited)
Details The Mysterious Doctor
1943
Luke
Details The Gorilla Man
1943
Constable Fletcher
Details Casablanca
1943
Customer (uncredited)
Details Gentleman Jim
1942
Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Details The Hidden Hand
1942
The Coroner (uncredited)
Details You Can't Escape Forever
1942
Newspaper Employee Taking Notes (uncredited)
Details Winning Your Wings
1942
Uncle Ed (uncredited)
Details Larceny, Inc.
1942
Mr. Carmichael
Details Murder in the Big House
1942
Ritter - Warden's Secretary
Details The Male Animal
1942
Reporter (uncredited)
Details Bullet Scars
1942
Judd, the druggist
Details The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Radio Man (uncredited)
Details Steel Against the Sky
1941
Jim (uncredited)
Details One Foot in Heaven
1941
Church Usher (uncredited)
Details The Maltese Falcon
1941
Stenographer (uncredited)
Details Sergeant York
1941
Associated Press Man (uncredited)
Details Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941
Mahan - Police Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)
Details Highway West
1941
Waiter (uncredited)
Details Bad Men of Missouri
1941
Bank Representative
Details Out of the Fog
1941
Character TBA
Details Here Comes Happiness
1941
Headline Printer (uncredited)
Details Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
1941
Rosie's Fiancee (uncredited)
Details Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Mr. Harlan (uncredited)
Details The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)
Details Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
1941
Mr. Barnstorm (uncredited)
Details Santa Fe Trail
1940
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Details Lady with Red Hair
1940
Reporter Eddie (uncredited)
Details Father Is A Prince
1940
Lawrence - Bower's Accountant (uncredited)
Details East of the River
1940
Casino Floor Man (uncredited)
Details Just a Cute Kid
1940
Desk Clerk
Details Knute Rockne All American
1940
Callahan's Secretary (uncredited)
Details Money and the Woman
1940
Mack, Bank Customer (uncredited)
Details My Love Came Back
1940
Thompson - Music Co. Clerk (uncredited)
Details All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Details A Fugitive from Justice
1940
Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)
Details Brother Orchid
1940
Reporter #3 (uncredited)
Details Saturday's Children
1940
Stamp Collecting Mailman (uncredited)
Details Tear Gas Squad
1940
Announcer
Details King of the Lumberjacks
1940
Cashier (uncredited)
Details One Million B.C.
1940
Shell Person
Details Calling Philo Vance
1940
Du Bois - Fingerprint Man
Details A Child Is Born
1939
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Details The Return of Doctor X
1939
Hotel Manager
Details On Dress Parade
1939
Doctor Telling Cadets 'No Visitors' (uncredited)
Details Kid Nightingale
1939
Man Answering Telephone at Lessernan's Gymnasium (uncredited)
Details The Roaring Twenties
1939
Customer (uncredited)
Details On Your Toes
1939
First Stage Manager
Details Dust Be My Destiny
1939
Nick's Second Customer (uncredited)
Details Slapsie Maxie's
1939
Reporter (uncredited)
Details Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939
Reporter
Details The Bill of Rights
1939
New York Congressman
Details Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939
Hotel Desk Clerk
Details Indianapolis Speedway
1939
Racetrack Official
Details The Cowboy Quarterback
1939
Broadcaster
Details Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939
Man in Sheriff's Office
Details Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
Draftsman (uncredited)
Details One Wild Night
1938
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Details International Settlement
1938
Clerk
Details Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937
Reporter (uncredited)
Details Under Your Spell
1936
Bailiff (uncredited)
Details Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Creighton Hale - Actor at Trocadero Bar
Details 36 Hours to Kill
1936
Ticket Agent
Details The Millionaire Kid
1936
Thomas Neville
Details Custer's Last Stand
1936
Hank
Details Becky Sharp
1935
British Officer (uncredited)
Details Million Dollar Haul
1935
Curley Chandler
Details Life Begins at Forty
1935
Drug Clerk
Details One More Spring
1935
Character TBA
Details Helldorado
1935
Newspaper Reporter
Details Hollywood Trouble
1935
Character TBA
Details Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934
Wedding Guest
Details The Thin Man
1934
Reporter (uncredited)
Details George White's Scandals
1934
Theatre Treasurer (uncredited)
Details Gambling Lady
1934
Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Details The Masquerader
1933
Bobby Blessington
Details Sensation Hunters
1933
Fred Barrett
Details Free Wheeling
1932
Dickie's Father
Details The Greeks Had a Word for Them
1932
Wedding Supervisor
Details Grief Street
1931
Play Co-star
Details Big Ears
1931
Wheezer's father
Details School's Out
1930
Jack Crabtree
Details The Great Divide
1929
Edgar Blossom
Details Seven Footprints to Satan
1929
Jim
Details The House of Shame
1928
Harvey Baremore
Details Sisters of Eve
1928
Leonard Tavernake
Details Riley of the Rainbow Division
1928
Riley
Details Rose-Marie
1928
Etienne Doray
Details The Cat and the Canary
1927
Paul Jones
Details One Hour Married
1927
Character TBA
Details Why Girls Say No
1927
Becky's Boyfriend
Details Should Men Walk Home?
1927
The Gentleman Crook
Details The Midnight Message
1926
Billy Dodd
Details Beverly of Graustark
1926
Prince Oscar
Details Wages for Wives
1925
Danny Kester
Details Exchange of Wives
1925
Victor Moran
Details The Circle
1925
Arnold Cheney
Details The Shadow on the Wall
1925
George Walters
Details The Bridge of Sighs
1925
Billy Craig
Details This Woman
1924
Bobby Bleedon
Details The Mine with the Iron Door
1924
St. Jimmy
Details Wine of Youth
1924
Richard (1897 prologue
Details How to Educate a Wife
1924
Billy Breese
Details The Marriage Circle
1924
Dr. Gustav Mueller
Details Tea- With a Kick!
1923
Art Binger
Details Broken Hearts of Broadway
1923
An Outcast
Details Mary of the Movies
1923
The Boy
Details Fascination
1922
Carlos de Lisa (her brother)
Details Orphans of the Storm
1921
Picard
Details Forbidden Love
1921
Harold Van Zandt
Details Way Down East
1920
Professor Sterling
Details A Child for Sale
1920
Charles Stoddard
Details The Idol Dancer
1920
Walter Kincaid
Details The Black Circle
1919
Andrew MacTavish Ferguson
Details A Damsel in Distress
1919
George Bevan
Details The Love Cheat
1919
Henry Calvin
Details The Thirteenth Chair
1919
Willy Grosby
Details The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
1919
Conrad Le Brett
Details The Woman the Germans Shot
1918
Frank Brooks
Details Mrs. Slacker
1918
Robert Gibbs
Details The Seven Pearls
1917
Harry Drake
Details Snow White
1916
Prince Florimon
Details Charity
1916
Jimmie Fleming (Mary's brother)
Details The Old Homestead
1915
Reuben Whitcomb
Details The Romance of Elaine
1915
Walter Jameson
Details The New Exploits of Elaine
1915
Walter Jameson
Details A Fool There Was
1915
Young Man at Wild Party (uncredited)
Details The Exploits of Elaine
1914
Walter Jameson (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 6)
Details The Taint
1914
Walter, Madame Bartlett's Son
Details The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
Gang Member
Details