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Creighton Hale
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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.
As actor
Westbound
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Story of Mankind
The Helen Morgan Story
Serenade
Strange Lady in Town
So You Want to Know Your Relatives
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Take the High Ground!
So You Want to Learn to Dance
Les Miserables
The Enforcer
The Screen Director
Goodbye, My Fancy
Fort Worth
So You Want to Be a Cowboy
Come Fill the Cup
On Moonlight Bay
Backfire
Sunset Boulevard
The Great Jewel Robber
One Last Fling
Beyond the Forest
Homicide
The Fountainhead
Night Unto Night
So You Want to Be Popular
Johnny Belinda
So You Want to Be a Gambler
So You Want an Apartment