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Benjamin Joseph Hall (March 18, 1899 – May 20, 1985) was an American actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades, mainly in small parts. Born in Brooklyn, New York as the eldest child of American stevedore George E. Hall and his English wife Constance L. Fletcher, Ben Hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old. After a handful of movies, his family moved to Weehawken, New Jersey, and in 1918 Ben took work as a bank clerk in Manhattan. But by 1920, Ben and his mother had moved to Los Angeles (where they were joined later by his younger brother George Jr.). Hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time, but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926. He became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the John Ford Stock Company, and did eight films for John Ford between 1929 and 1946. Most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes Wyatt Earp's hair in My Darling Clementine (1946). Hall left acting in 1949, though he lived for another 36 years. He died in North Hollywood, California in 1985. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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1949
Cover Up
Movie Printer (Uncredited)
1948
The Noose Hangs High
Movie Messenger (uncredited)
1947
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Movie Luke (Police Stooge) (uncredited)
1946
My Darling Clementine
Movie Barber (uncredited)
1946
Traffic with the Devil
Movie Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited)
1946
Young Widow
Movie Sailor in Hospital Waiting Room (Uncredited)
1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Movie Townsman (Uncredited)
1944
Movie Pests
Movie Man Next to Peanut-Eating Pest (uncredited)
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
Movie
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie Waiter (uncredited)
1943
The Hard Way
Movie Ice Cream Parlor Counterman (Uncredited)
1942
The Incredible Stranger
Movie Lou Coon (uncredited)
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Movie Attendant
1941
Hellzapoppin'
Movie Goofy Man in Betty's Way (uncredited)
1941
Second Chorus
Movie Western Union Boy (uncredited)
1940
Pride and Prejudice
Movie Poet

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1940
One Million B.C.
Movie Shell Person
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie Gas Station Attendant in Bakersfield (uncredited)
1940
My Little Chickadee
Movie Schoolboy (uncredited)
1939
Dad for a Day
Movie Leonard's Father
1938
Marie Antoinette
Movie Young Man Fetching Priest (uncredited)
1938
Held For Ransom
Movie Hillbilly
1938
Riders of the Black Hills
Movie Reporter Ethelbert
1937
Music for Madame
Movie Well-Wisher on Bus (Uncredited)
1937
Smoke Tree Range
Movie Pete
1937
You Only Live Once
Movie Messenger with Package (uncredited)
1936
A Million to One
Movie Joe
1936
Postal Inspector
Movie Mail Clerk (uncredited)
1936
Fury
Movie Walter "Goofy" Gordon (uncredited)
1936
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Movie Gabe Armstrong (uncredited)
1936
An All American Toothache
Movie Dental Student (uncredited)
1936
Strike Me Pink
Movie Student kicked by Bully (uncredited)
1935
Racing Luck
Movie 'Knapsack'
1935
The Live Wire
Movie Steve
1935
Steamboat Round the Bend
Movie Fleety Belle's brother
1935
Men Without Names
Movie Mr. Youngblood (uncredited)
1935
Naughty Marietta
Movie Mama's Boy (uncredited)
1935
Life Begins at Forty
Movie Square Dance Participant
1935
Sequoia
Movie Joe
1935
Hollywood Trouble
Movie