
Creighton Hale
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1888
- Died
- August 9, 1965 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- County Cork, Ireland
Biography
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
Filmography

Westbound
Movie · as Irritated Stagecoach Passenger (uncredited)

The Spirit of St. Louis
Movie · as Man Driving Car (uncredited)

The Story of Mankind
Movie · as Heavenly Judge

The Helen Morgan Story
Movie · as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)

Serenade
Movie · as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Strange Lady in Town
Movie · as Card Player (uncredited)

Cheyenne
TV · as Townsman (uncredited) · 1 ep
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Movie · as Audience Spectator (uncredited)

Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Movie · as Concierge's Husband (uncredited)

Take the High Ground!
Movie · as Army Doctor (uncredited)
So You Want to Learn to Dance
Movie · as Barber

Les Miserables
Movie · as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

The Abbott and Costello Show
TV · as Carson · 1 ep

The Enforcer
Movie

The Screen Director
Movie · as Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Goodbye, My Fancy
Movie · as Griswolds' Butler (Uncredited)

Fort Worth
Movie · as Railroad Backer (uncredited)
So You Want to Be a Cowboy
Movie · as Movie Patron

Come Fill the Cup
Movie · as Newspaperman (uncredited)

On Moonlight Bay
Movie · as Father in Silent Movie (uncredited)

Backfire
Movie · as Cab Driver (uncredited)

Sunset Boulevard
Movie · as Creighton Hale (uncredited)

The Great Jewel Robber
Movie · as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

One Last Fling
Movie · as Gus

Beyond the Forest
Movie · as Townsman with Glasses

Homicide
Movie · as Glorietta Desk Clerk

The Fountainhead
Movie · as Court Clerk (uncredited)

Night Unto Night
Movie
So You Want to Be Popular
Movie · as Waiter at Party

Johnny Belinda
Movie · as Bailiff (uncredited)

So You Want to Be a Gambler
Movie · as Blackjack Player (uncredited)
So You Want an Apartment
Movie · as Wallpaper Hanger (uncredited)

Fighter Squadron
Movie · as Cockney (uncredited)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Movie · as Second Tout (uncredited)

Humoresque
Movie · as Concert Spectator (uncredited), Professor (uncredited)

Cry Wolf
Movie · as Dr. Reynolds (uncredited)

Life with Father
Movie · as Mr. Wickersham the Father of Twin Boys (uncredited)

Love and Learn
Movie · as Tom - the Wyngate Butler (uncredited)

Always Together
Movie · as Eric, Turner's Butler (uncredited)
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra
Movie · as Supper Club Waiter (uncredited)

So You're Going to Be a Father
Movie · as Psychiatric Ward Doctor (uncredited)

Hollywood Wonderland
Movie · as Man Taking Tour (uncredited)

The Perils of Pauline
Movie · as Marcelled Leading Man

Nora Prentiss
Movie · as Captain of Waiters at The Sea Gull (uncredited)

Possessed
Movie · as Secretary at Inquest (uncredited)

The Verdict
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)

Three Strangers
Movie · as Man in Pub (uncredited)
So You Want to Play the Horses
Movie · as Cashier (uncredited)

Uncertain Glory
Movie

Crime by Night
Movie · as Horace Grayson (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington
Movie · as Casey (uncredited)

Casablanca
Movie · as Customer (uncredited)

The Mysterious Doctor
Movie · as Luke

Action in the North Atlantic
Movie · as Sparks (uncredited)

The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
Movie · as Dr. Carter

Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie · as Engineer (uncredited)

The Gorilla Man
Movie · as Constable Fletcher

Watch on the Rhine
Movie · as Chauffeur (uncredited)

The Male Animal
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)

The Hidden Hand
Movie · as The Coroner (uncredited)

Larceny, Inc.
Movie · as Mr. Carmichael

Winning Your Wings
Movie · as Uncle Ed (uncredited)

Bullet Scars
Movie · as Judd, the druggist

Gentleman Jim
Movie · as Championship Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Spy Ship
Movie · as Reporter

Murder in the Big House
Movie · as Ritter - Warden's Secretary

You Can't Escape Forever
Movie · as Newspaper Employee Taking Notes (uncredited)

The Gay Sisters
Movie · as Mourner/Courtroom Sketch Artist (uncredited)

Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Movie · as Mahan - Police Fingerprint Expert (uncredited)

The Maltese Falcon
Movie · as Stenographer (uncredited)

Sergeant York
Movie · as Associated Press Man (uncredited)

The Great Mr. Nobody
Movie · as Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)

Bad Men of Missouri
Movie · as Bank Representative

Steel Against the Sky
Movie · as Jim (uncredited)

Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Movie · as Rosie's Fiancee (uncredited)

Highway West
Movie · as Waiter (uncredited)

The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie · as Radio Man (uncredited)

Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
Movie · as Mr. Barnstorm (uncredited)

Here Comes Happiness
Movie · as Headline Printer (uncredited)

Footsteps in the Dark
Movie · as Mr. Harlan (uncredited)

Out of the Fog
Movie

One Foot in Heaven
Movie · as Church Usher (uncredited)

The Strawberry Blonde
Movie · as Secretary (uncredited)

My Love Came Back
Movie · as Thompson - Music Co. Clerk (uncredited)

Calling Philo Vance
Movie · as Du Bois - Fingerprint Man

Brother Orchid
Movie · as Reporter #3 (uncredited)

Just a Cute Kid
Movie · as Desk Clerk

King of the Lumberjacks
Movie · as Cashier (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail
Movie · as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

All This, and Heaven Too
Movie · as Ship's Officer (uncredited)

Saturday's Children
Movie · as Stamp Collecting Mailman (uncredited)

One Million B.C.
Movie · as Shell Person

East of the River
Movie · as Casino Floor Man (uncredited)

Knute Rockne All American
Movie · as Callahan's Secretary (uncredited)

Lady with Red Hair
Movie · as Reporter Eddie (uncredited)

Father Is A Prince
Movie · as Lawrence - Bower's Accountant (uncredited)

Tear Gas Squad
Movie · as Announcer

A Fugitive from Justice
Movie · as Reporter at Train Station (uncredited)

Money and the Woman
Movie · as Mack, Bank Customer (uncredited)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Movie · as Reporter

On Your Toes
Movie · as First Stage Manager

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie · as Draftsman (uncredited)

A Child is Born
Movie · as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Movie · as Man in Sheriff's Office

Indianapolis Speedway
Movie · as Racetrack Official

Kid Nightingale
Movie · as Man Answering Telephone at Lessernan's Gymnasium (uncredited)

The Return of Doctor X
Movie · as Hotel Manager

Dust Be My Destiny
Movie · as Nick's Second Customer (uncredited)

The Roaring Twenties
Movie · as Customer (uncredited)

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Movie · as Hotel Desk Clerk

The Cowboy Quarterback
Movie · as Broadcaster

The Bill of Rights
Movie · as New York Congressman

On Dress Parade
Movie · as Doctor Telling Cadets 'No Visitors' (uncredited)

Slapsie Maxie's
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)

International Settlement
Movie · as Clerk

One Wild Night
Movie · as Bank Teller (uncredited)

The Duke of West Point
Movie · as Captain

Step Lively, Jeeves!
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)

Midnight Taxi
Movie · as G-Man

Big Town Girl
Movie · as Desk Man

Find the Witness
Movie · as Bell Captain

Under Your Spell
Movie · as Bailiff (uncredited)

The Millionaire Kid
Movie · as Thomas Neville

36 Hours to Kill
Movie · as Ticket Agent

Custer's Last Stand
Movie · as Hank

Hollywood Boulevard
Movie · as Creighton Hale - Actor at Trocadero Bar
Hollywood Trouble
Movie

Becky Sharp
Movie · as British Officer (uncredited)

Helldorado
Movie · as Newspaper Reporter

One More Spring
Movie

Men Without Names
Movie · as Groom

Million Dollar Haul
Movie · as Curley Chandler

Life Begins at Forty
Movie · as Drug Clerk

George White's Scandals
Movie · as Theatre Treasurer (uncredited)

The Thin Man
Movie · as Reporter (uncredited)

Gambling Lady
Movie · as Funeral Attendee (uncredited)

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Movie · as Wedding Guest

What's Your Racket
Movie · as Chief

The Masquerader
Movie · as Bobby Blessington

Sensation Hunters
Movie · as Fred Barrett

The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Movie · as Wedding Supervisor

Free Wheeling
Movie · as Dickie's Father

Grief Street
Movie · as Play Co-star

Big Ears
Movie · as Wheezer's father

School's Out
Movie · as Jack Crabtree

Holiday
Movie · as Pete Hedges

Seven Footprints to Satan
Movie · as Jim Kirkham

The Great Divide
Movie · as Edgar Blossom

Riley of the Rainbow Division
Movie · as Riley
Sisters of Eve
Movie · as Leonard Tavernake

The House of Shame
Movie · as Harvey Baremore

Rose-Marie
Movie · as Etienne Doray

The Cat and the Canary
Movie · as Paul Jones

Should Men Walk Home?
Movie · as The Gentleman Crook

Why Girls Say No
Movie · as Becky's Boyfriend

Annie Laurie
Movie · as Donald

One Hour Married
Movie

The Midnight Message
Movie · as Billy Dodd

Beverly of Graustark
Movie · as Prince Oscar

Oh, Baby!
Movie

A Poor Girl's Romance
Movie · as Wellington Kingston
Seven Days
Movie · as Jim Wilson

The Shadow on the Wall
Movie · as George Walters

The Circle
Movie · as Arnold Cheney

The Bridge of Sighs
Movie · as Billy Craig
Exchange of Wives
Movie · as Victor Moran

Wages for Wives
Movie · as Danny Kester

Time, the Comedian
Movie · as Tom Cautley

The Mine with the Iron Door
Movie · as St. Jimmy

The Marriage Circle
Movie · as Dr. Gustav Mueller

Name the Man
Movie · as Alick Gell

How to Educate a Wife
Movie · as Billy Breese

Wine of Youth
Movie · as Richard (1897 prologue

This Woman
Movie · as Bobby Bleedon

Riders Up
Movie · as Johnny aka Information Kid

Mary of the Movies
Movie · as The Boy

Broken Hearts of Broadway
Movie · as An Outcast

Trilby
Movie · as Little Billee

Tea- With a Kick!
Movie · as Art Binger

Fascination
Movie · as Carlos de Lisa (her brother)

Her Majesty
Movie · as Ted Harper

Orphans of the Storm
Movie · as Picard

Forbidden Love
Movie · as Harold Van Zandt

Way Down East
Movie · as Professor Sterling

A Child for Sale
Movie · as Charles Stoddard

The Idol Dancer
Movie · as Walter Kincaid

The Thirteenth Chair
Movie · as Willy Grosby

A Damsel in Distress
Movie · as George Bevan

Oh Boy!
Movie · as George Budd

The Love Cheat
Movie · as Henry Calvin

The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Movie · as Conrad Le Brett

The Black Circle
Movie · as Andrew MacTavish Ferguson

The Woman the Germans Shot
Movie · as Frank Brooks

Mrs. Slacker
Movie · as Robert Gibbs
His Bonded Wife
Movie · as Philip Hazard

The Seven Pearls
Movie · as Harry Drake

The Iron Claw
Movie · as Davey

Snow White
Movie · as Prince Florimon

Charity
Movie · as Jimmie Fleming (Mary's brother)

The Romance of Elaine
Movie · as Walter Jameson

A Fool There Was
Movie · as Young Man at Wild Party (uncredited)
The Old Homestead
Movie · as Reuben Whitcomb

The New Exploits of Elaine
Movie · as Walter Jameson
The Taint
Movie · as Walter, Madame Bartlett's Son

The Stain
Movie · as Office Clerk

The Exploits of Elaine
Movie · as Walter Jameson (Ep. 1, 2, 3, 6)

The Million Dollar Mystery
Movie · as Gang Member