Porter Hall
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known for
Credits
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
as Granville Sawyer
Double Indemnity (1944)
as Mr. Jackson
Unconquered (1947)
as Leach
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Senator Monroe
Ace in the Hole (1951)
as Jacob Q. Boot
His Girl Friday (1940)
as Murphy
The Thin Man (1934)
as Herbert MacCaulay
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
as Mr. Hadrian
Pony Express (1953)
as Jim Bridger
Blood on the Sun (1945)
as Arthur Bickett
Going My Way (1944)
as Mr. Belknap
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
as Milton Ames
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
as Harvey Chase
The Petrified Forest (1936)
as Jason Maple
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
as Stevens
Stolen Heaven (1938)
as 'Von' Offer
The Plainsman (1936)
as Jack McCall
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
as Nub Gowrie
Dark Command (1940)
as Angus McCloud
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
as Jacob Woodson, Justice of the Peace
Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
as Brandy Smith
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
as Judge O'Toole
Arizona (1940)
as Lazarus Ward
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
as Dr. Rossignol
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
as Darcy
The Desperadoes (1943)
as Banker Clanton
That Wonderful Urge (1948)
as Attorney Ketchell
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
as Peter Perrie
Vice Squad (1953)
as Jack Hartrampf
The Half-Breed (1952)
as Kraemer
Wells Fargo (1937)
as James Oliver
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
as Mr. Caslon
Carbine Williams (1952)
as Sam Markley
The Woman of the Town (1943)
as Mayor Dog Killey
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
as Norman Merridew
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
as Man in Drummond's Dream
Murder, He Says (1945)
as Mr. Johnson
A Stranger in Town (1943)
as Judge Austin Harkley
They Shall Have Music (1939)
as Mr. Flower
The Parson of Panamint (1941)
as Jonathan Randall
Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
as Drunk
Bring on the Girls (1945)
as Dr. Efrington
Murder in the Private Car (1934)
as Alden Murray
Singapore (1947)
as Mr. Bellows
Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
as Sheriff Korley
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
as Dr. Botulian
Souls at Sea (1937)
as Court Prosecutor
True Confession (1937)
as Mr. Hartman
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
as Col. Bradbury
The Cheat (1931)
as Leslie (uncredited)
Kiss and Tell (1945)
as Bill Franklin
The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
as Joe Sorsby
Snowed Under (1936)
as Arthur Layton
Men with Wings (1938)
as Hiram F. Jenkins
Scandal Street (1938)
as James Wilson
Dangerous to Know (1938)
as Mayor Bradley
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
as George Heyler
The Great Moment (1944)
as President Franklin Pierce
Standing Room Only (1944)
as Hugo Farenhall
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Spencer
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
as Louie
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
as Chief Clerk Art Slocumb
Return to Treasure Island (1954)
as Maximillian 'Maxie' Harris
Prison Farm (1938)
as Chiston R. Bradby
Too Many Parents (1936)
as Mrs. Saunders
King of Gamblers (1937)
as George Kramer
This Way Please (1937)
as S.J. Crawford
Wild Money (1937)
as Bill Court
The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
as Mayor Daniels
And Sudden Death (1936)
as District Attorney
King of Alcatraz (1938)
as Matthew Talbot
Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)
as Uncle Silas Phelps
Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
as Banker Edward G. Walsh (uncredited)
Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
as Sam Howell
Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
as Anthony Pelton