Biography
American actor Ben Hall trafficked in adolescent and juvenile roles from his 1928 film debut in
Harold Teen onward. Frequently cast in bucolic roles, Hall was seen as Goofy in
Fritz Lang's
Fury (1935) and as heroine
Anne Shirley's dim-witted brother in
John Ford's
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935). Even when playing a Gallic character in
Algiers (1938), Hall was still essentially the country bumpkin. One of Ben Hall's last film credits was Ford's
My Darling Clementine (1946), in which he was briefly seen as a tremulous barber. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide