Thurston Hall
Born: 1882-05-08 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1958-02-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures. Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thurston Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1957
- Maverick as Judge
- Affair in Reno as J.B. Del Monte
1956
- The Go-Getter as Mr. Higgins
- The Adventures of Hiram Holliday as Harrison Prentice
1954
- Lassie
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake as James M. Townsend
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Judge
- The Band Wagon as Colonel Tripp (uncredited)
- Topper
- The Girl on the Park Bench as Judge
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Judge
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Mr. Smith
- Carson City as Charles Crocker
- Skirts Ahoy! as Thatcher Kinston
- Hopalong Cassidy
- My Little Margie
- One Big Affair as Mr. G
- Night Stage to Galveston as Colonel James Bellamy
- It Grows on Trees as Mr. Sleamish (uncredited)
- Dangerous Assignment
- The WAC from Walla Walla as Col. Mayfield
1951
- Texas Carnival as Mr. Gaytes
- Whirlwind as Big Jim Lassiter
- Racket Squad
- Belle Le Grand as Parkington
- Knights of the Bath as Master of the House (archive footage)
1950
- Bright Leaf as Phillips
- Chain Gang as John McKelvey, news publisher
- The Bandit Queen as Governor
- One Too Many as Kenneth Simes
- Belle of Old Mexico as Horatio Huntington
- Federal Agent at Large as 'Big Bill' Dixon
1949
- The Fountainhead as Businessman at Party (uncredited)
- Stagecoach Kid as Peter Arnold
- Manhattan Angel as Everett H. Burton
- Tell It to the Judge as Sen. Caswell (uncredited)
- Square Dance Jubilee as G.K.
- Rusty Saves a Life as Counsellor Frank A. Gibson
- Bride for Sale as Trisby (uncredited)
- Rim of the Canyon as Big Tim Hanlon
1948
- Three Daring Daughters as Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited)
- Miraculous Journey as Kendricks
- Up in Central Park as Governor Motley
- Blondie's Secret as George Whiteside
1947
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Bruce Pierce
- Black Gold as Colonel Caldwell
- Welcome Stranger as Congressman Beeker (uncredited)
- Mourning Becomes Electra as Dr. Blake
- The Farmer's Daughter as Wilbur Johnson
- Swing the Western Way as Jasper Jim Bandy
- The Son of Rusty as Franklyn B. Gibson
- The Unfinished Dance as Mr. Ronsell
- It Had to Be You as Ned Harrington
1946
- Dangerous Business as B.J. Calhoun
- Without Reservations as Henry Baldwin
- Two Sisters from Boston as Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr.
- Three Little Girls in Blue as Col. Clay
- She Wrote the Book as Horace Van Cleve
- Colonel Effingham's Raid as Ed - the Mayor
- One More Tomorrow as Thomas Rufus Collier II
1945
- Song of the Prairie as Jerome Wingate
- Thrill of a Romance as J.P. Bancroft (uncredited)
- Brewster's Millions as Colonel Drew
- Lady on a Train as Josiah Waring
- West of the Pecos as Col. Lambeth
- Don Juan Quilligan as First Judge
- The Gay Senorita as J.J. Frentiss
- Bring on the Girls as Rutledge
- Saratoga Trunk as Mr. Pound (uncredited)
- Blonde from Brooklyn as "Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth
1944
- In Society as Mr. Van Cleve
- Goodnight, Sweetheart as Judge James Rutherford
- Wilson as Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones
- Cover Girl as Tony Pastor (uncredited)
- Something for the Boys as Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited)
- The Great Moment as Senator Borland
- Ever Since Venus as Edgar Pomeroy
- Song of Nevada as John Barrabee
1943
- Footlight Glamour as Randolph Wheeler
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington as Sen. Henry Babcock
- This Land Is Mine as Mayor Henry Manville
- The Youngest Profession as Mr. Drew
- One Dangerous Night as Inspector Crane
- He Hired the Boss as Mr. Bates
- Here Comes Elmer as P. J. Ellis
- The Hard Way as Harry (Uncredited)
- I Dood It as Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor
- Crash Dive as Senator from Texas
- Hoosier Holiday as Henry P. Fairchild
1942
- Sleepytime Gal as Mr. Adams
- Hello, Annapolis as Capt. Wendall
- Counter-Espionage as Insp. Crane
- The Night Before the Divorce as Bert Harriman
- Call of the Canyon as Grantley B. Johnson
- The Great Gildersleeve as Governor Jonathan Stafford
- Twin Beds as Horace Touchstone
- Rings on Her Fingers
- Her Cardboard Lover as Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited)
- Shepherd of the Ozarks as James Maloney
1941
- Four Mothers as Mr. Davis (uncredited)
- Pacific Blackout as Williams
- The Great Lie as Oscar Worthington James
- Washington Melodrama as Sen. Morton
- The Great Man's Lady as Mr. Sempler
- Accent on Love as T. J. Triton
- Hold That Ghost as Alderman Birch (uncredited)
- Life with Henry as Mr. Woodring (uncredited)
- Flight from Destiny as Dean Somers
- In the Navy as Lead Senator (uncredited)
- She Knew All the Answers as J. D. Sutton
- Design for Scandal as Northcott
- Secrets of the Lone Wolf as Inspector Crane
- Where Did You Get That Girl? as Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President
- Remember the Day as Gov. Teller
- Tuxedo Junction as Doug Gordon
- The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance as Inspector Crane
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough as Huntley (uncredited)
- Repent at Leisure as Jay Buckingham
- Swing It Soldier as Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor
1940
- Virginia City as Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
- The Great McGinty as Mr. Maxwell
- Kiddie Kure as Bill "Old Man" Morton
- The Invisible Woman as Hudson
- The Blue Bird as Father Time
- Millionaires in Prison as Harold Kellogg
- Alias the Deacon as Jim Cunningham
- The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date as Inspector Crane
- Blondie on a Budget as Brice
- The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady as Inspector Crane
- City for Conquest as Max Leonard
- The Golden Fleecing as Charles Engel
- In Old Missouri as John Pittman Sr.
- Friendly Neighbors as The Governor
1939
- Dodge City as Twitchell (uncredited)
- Jeepers Creepers as M.K. Durant
- First Love as Anthony Drake
- Hawaiian Nights as T.C. Hartley
- Sued for Libel as David Hastings
- Ex-Champ as Mr. Courtney
- Each Dawn I Die as Hanley
- The Day the Bookies Wept as Col. March
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Senator
- The Star Maker as Mr. Proctor
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie
- Dancing Co-Ed as Henry W. Workman
- Money To Burn as Ellis
- Mutiny on the Blackhawk as Sam Bailey
- Million Dollar Legs as Gregory Melton Sr.
- Our Neighbors - The Carters as Mr. Guilfoyle
1938
- Fast Company as Dist. Atty. MacMillen
- Spring Madness as Charles Platt
- Professor Beware as J.J. Van Buren
- Extortion as Prof. Tisdelle
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Grant
- The Affairs of Annabel as Major
- Hard to Get as John Atwater
- The Main Event as Captain Phillips
- Women Are Like That as Claudius King
- Out West with the Hardys as H.R. Bruxton (uncredited)
- There's Always a Woman as District Attorney
- Going Places as Col. Withering
- No Time to Marry as Pettensall
- Squadron of Honor as Bob Metcalf
- Campus Confessions as William Atterbury, Sr.
1937
- Parole Racket as Editor Jamison
- Oh, Doctor as 'Doc' Erasmus Thurston
- I Promise to Pay as Police Captain Hall
- Counsel for Crime as Sen. Maddox
- Murder in Greenwich Village as Charles Cabot
- We Have Our Moments as Frank Rutherford
- Women of Glamour as Mr. Stark
- Don't Tell the Wife as Major Manning
- Venus Makes Trouble as Harlan Darrow
- It Can't Last Forever as Fulton
1936
- Shakedown as T. Gregory Stuart
- Pride of the Marines as Col. Gage
- Theodora Goes Wild as Arthur Stevenson
- Lady from Nowhere as James Gordon Barnes
- Don't Gamble with Love as Martin Gage
- Devil's Squadron as Major Metcalf
- Trapped by Television as John Curtis
- Killer at Large as Inspector O'Hara
- Two-Fisted Gentleman as Pop
- The King Steps Out as Major
- The Three Wise Guys as Hatcher
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Dr. Schuyler
- Roaming Lady as E. J. Reid
1935
- Metropolitan as T. Simon Hunter
- Crime and Punishment as Editor
- The Black Room as Col. Paul Hassel
- One Way Ticket as Mr. Ritchie
- A Feather in Her Hat as Sir Elroyd Joyce
- Hooray for Love as Jason Thatcher
- The Public Menace as Captain of Ocean Liner
- Guard That Girl as Dr. Silas Hudson
- The Lone Wolf Returns as Inspector Crane
- Too Tough to Kill as Jim Whitney
- The Girl Friend as George S. Harmon
- Love Me Forever as Maurizio
- Atlantic Adventure as City Editor Rutherford
- She Couldn't Take It as Party Guest
- Case of the Missing Man as Boyle
- After the Dance as District Attorney
1931
- A Burglar to the Rescue as The Banker, Steve Corley
1924
- The Great Well as Peter Starling
- The Valley of Doubt as Jules
1923
- The Royal Oak as Colonel Ancketell
1922
- Fair Lady as Italian banker
- Wildness of Youth as Edward Grayton
1921
- The Iron Trail as Curtis Gordon
- Idle Hands as Henry Livingston
- Mother Eternal as Edward Stevens Sr
- A Citrate Special as The Director
1919
- The Exquisite Thief as Algernon P. Smythe
- Who Will Marry Me? as Jerome Van Tyne
- The Spitfire of Seville
- The Weaker Vessel as J. Booth Hunter
1918
- The One Woman as Governor Morrison
- The Midnight Patrol as Officer Terrence Shannon
- We Can't Have Everything as Peter Cheever
- The Brazen Beauty as Kenneth Hyde
- The Kaiser's Shadow as Hugo Wagner
- The Squaw Man as Henry, Jim's Cousin
- An Alien Enemy as David J. Hale
1917
- Cleopatra as Antony
- Love Letters as John Harland
- The Show Down
- The Price Mark as Dr. Daniel Melfi
1915
- Sweeter Than Revenge as Joe Best