Thurston Hall

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Thurston Hall with Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)

Thurston Hall (born May 10, 1882 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 20, 1958 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American actor in film, television and theater.

life and career

Thurston Hall was already on the stage as a teenager, with her he traveled mainly through New England . He later founded his own drama group, which has performed not only in America, but also in Africa and New Zealand. In 1904 he appeared on Broadway for the first time with the comedy Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch , and by 1935 he worked there in around 25 productions. From 1915 Hall was regularly seen as the leading actor in silent films. An early highlight of his film career was the role of Mark Antony in the historical strip Cleopatra (1917) with Theda Bara in the leading role.

Hall made few films in the 1920s, instead working mainly on Broadway and even touring Australia with So This Is London . In the mid-1930s, the now graying Hall returned to Hollywood, where he found a successful niche as a character actor: mostly he embodied inflated authority figures, such as politicians and judges, or comical swindlers and charlatans. His better-known appearances include the horror film The Black Room (1935) with Boris Karloff , the screwball comedy Theodora Goes Wild (1936) directed by Richard Boleslawski , the Sherlock Holmes crime film Fatal Voyage (1943) with Basil Rathbone , and the Comedy The Double Life of Mr Mitty (1947) with Danny Kaye .

In the 1950s, Hall was seen more often in television series, where he repeated the role of the self-important man. In the television series Topper between 1953 and 1955 he was seen as the superior of the title character played by Leo G. Carroll , in the adventure sitcom The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday he played a publisher from 1956. In total, Thurston Hall appeared in around 270 film and television productions up to his death.

Thurston Hall died of a heart attack in 1958 at the age of 75, leaving behind his wife Quenda († 1984). He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thurston Hall in the All Movie Guide (English)
  2. ↑ Thurston Hall in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
  3. ^ Thurston Hall in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Thurston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor in film, television, and theater
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1958
Place of death Beverly Hills , California