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Porter Hall
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Actor Born: September 19, 1888 in Cincinnati, OH Death: October 6, 1953 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:After working his way through the University of Cincinnati, "Porter Hall" slaved away as a Pennsylvania steel worker, then turned to acting, spending nearly 20 years building a solid reputation as a touring Shakespearean actor. Hall was 43 when he made his first film, "Secrets of a Secretary". Never entertaining thoughts of playing romantic leads, Hall was content to parlay his weak chin and shifty eyes into dozens of roles calling for such unattractive character traits as cowardice, duplicity and plain old mean-spiritedness. Cast as a murder suspect in "The Thin Man" (1934), Hall's guilt was so transparent that it effectively ended the mystery even before it began. In DeMille's "The Plainsman" (1936), Hall played Jack McCall, the rattlesnake who shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back (his performance won Hall a Screen Actors Guild award). In the rollicking "Murder He Says" (1944), Hall portrays the... Full Biography
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