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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.
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24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
02 January 1914
This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
06 June 1942
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies.
01 October 1928
Harvey Baremore is upset with any perceived extravagance from his demure wife Druid, while he is secretly stealing from his boss John Kimball to ply his mistress Doris with gifts.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
15 January 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
20 August 1936
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston.
10 August 1950
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
31 March 1918
Susie organizes plays to benefit the Red Cross. She marries her hero, Robert, but finds out he did it to avoid the draft.
30 June 1937
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
19 August 1939
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights.
01 October 1931
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
15 July 1928
Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends.
09 December 1943
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist.
07 March 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison.
21 February 1927
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
30 August 1933
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
22 March 1935
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
04 October 1925
A serious young man and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his serious minded wife, and it is not long before like attracts like, to the discomfiture of all.
10 May 1927
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
12 March 1949
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
01 September 1928
Young London realtor Leonard Tavernake becomes involved with two sisters, one good and one evil, which leads to much melodrama but things work out in the end.
28 February 1916
Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episodes are believed to be lost.
20 September 1925
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
08 March 1941
In this musical short, Cliff Edwards and his cowhands run a struggling dude ranch. When a pretty girl arrives, Cliff believes she is an heiress.
23 March 1956
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart.
27 May 1923
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress.
18 December 1954
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
18 November 1940
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners.
09 August 1947
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
10 May 1947
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
27 November 1948
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
15 September 1924
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all.
10 October 1942
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
11 February 1928
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post.
15 June 1940
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
12 April 1955
Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
01 January 1935
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
14 June 1915
The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular.
15 September 1929
Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner.
07 November 1942
Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money.
14 April 1951
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie showr
17 July 1914
An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name.
02 January 1936
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
29 January 1927
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale.
16 September 1917
15 part serial: CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Sultan's Necklace; 2. The Bowstring; 3. The Air Peril; 4. Amid the Clouds; 5.
18 October 1941
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
14 August 1952
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
15 February 1941
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
23 November 1946
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
25 April 1959
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront.
04 March 1947
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married.
26 August 1923
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
29 May 1947
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
