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