Richard Hale
Richard Hale
A onetime opera singer, wizened, glowering American character actor Richard Hale spent most of his screen time playing small-town sourpusses. Many of his movie appearances were small and unbilled: he enjoyed larger assignments as outlaw patriarch Basserman in Preston Sturges' The Beautiful Blonde of Bashful Bend (1949), the Soothsayer in Julius Caesar (1953), and the father of the retarded Boo Radley (Robert Duvall) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He also showed up with regularity on television, often cast as a taciturn farmer or hard-hearted banker on the many western series of the 1950s and 1960s. One of Hale's showier parts was in the Oscar-winning All The King's Men, as the father of the girl killed in an auto accident caused by the drunken son (John Derek) of demagogic Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford), his character name: Richard Hale. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Richard Hale:
- Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando , James Mason , John Gielgud , Louis Calhern , Greer Garson , Edmond O'Brien , Deborah Kerr , George MacReady , Michael Pate , Alan Napier , John Hoyt , Tom Powers , Ian Wolfe , Douglas Dumbrille , Rhys Williams , Edmund Purdom , Paul Guilfoyle , John Doucette , Lawrence Dobkin , Michael Ansara , Jody Gilbert , Ned Glass , Lumsden Hare , John Lupton , Michael Tolan
- Friendly Persuasion with Gary Cooper , Dorothy McGuire , Anthony Perkins , Marjorie Main , Robert Middleton , Richard Eyer , Walter Catlett , Joel Fluellen , John Smith , Mary Carr , Russell Simpson , Charles Halton , James Dobson , Frank S. Hagney , Earl Hodgins , Frank Jenks , Diane Jergens , Norman Leavitt , Henry Rowland , Ralph Sanford , William Schallert , James Seay , Joseph Turkel
- All the King's Men with Broderick Crawford , John Derek , Joanne Dru , John Ireland , Mercedes McCambridge , Shepperd Strudwick , Anne Seymour , Raymond Greenleaf , Walter Burke , Will Wright , Grandon Rhodes , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Paul Ford , Louis Mason , Paul Maxey , John "Skins" Miller , Pat O'Malley , Frank Wilcox , King Donovan
- Sergeants 3 with Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Jr. Davis , Peter Lawford , Joey Bishop , Henry Silva , Michael Pate , Ruta Lee
- Scaramouche with Stewart Granger , Eleanor Parker , Janet Leigh , Mel Ferrer , Henry Wilcoxon , Nina Foch , Richard Anderson , Robert Coote , Lewis S. Stone , Elizabeth Risdon , Howard Freeman , John Dehner , John Litel , Carol Hughes , Douglas Dumbrille , John Eldredge , Mitchell Lewis , Ottola Nesmith , Dorothy Patrick , Frank Wilcox
- Ben-Hur with Charlton Heston , Stephen Boyd , Jack Hawkins , Haya Harareet , Hugh Griffith , Martha Scott , Sam Jaffe , Cathy O'Donnell , Finlay Currie , Frank Thring , Andre Morell , John Horsley , Duncan Lamont , Ralph Truman , Tutte Lemkow , John leMesurier , Cliff Lyons , Ferdinand "Ferdy" Mayne , John Glen , Karl Tunberg
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