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Birthday:
May 8, 1882
Place of Birth:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Thurston Hall
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Affair in Reno | J.B. Del Monte |
| 1956 | The Go-Getter | Mr. Higgins |
| 1954 | Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake | James M. Townsend |
| 1953 | The Band Wagon | Colonel Tripp (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Carson City | Charles Crocker |
| 1952 | One Big Affair | Mr. G |
| 1952 | Skirts Ahoy! | Thatcher Kinston |
| 1952 | Night Stage to Galveston | Colonel James Bellamy |
| 1952 | The WAC from Walla Walla | Col. Mayfield |
| 1952 | It Grows on Trees | Mr. Sleamish (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Knights of the Bath | Master of the House (archive footage) |
| 1951 | Whirlwind | Big Jim Lassiter |
| 1951 | Belle Le Grand | Parkington |
| 1950 | Belle of Old Mexico | Horatio Huntington |
| 1950 | Federal Agent at Large | 'Big Bill' Dixon |
| 1950 | The Bandit Queen | Governor |
| 1950 | One Too Many | Kenneth Simes |
| 1950 | Chain Gang | John McKelvey, news publisher |
| 1950 | Bright Leaf | Phillips |
| 1949 | Rim of the Canyon | Big Tim Hanlon |
| 1949 | Stagecoach Kid | Peter Arnold |
| 1949 | Square Dance Jubilee | G.K. |
| 1949 | Rusty Saves a Life | Counsellor Frank A. Gibson |
| 1949 | Bride for Sale | Trisby |
| 1949 | Manhattan Angel | Everett H. Burton |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Businessman at Party (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Tell It to the Judge | Sen. Caswell (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Blondie's Secret | George Whiteside |
| 1948 | Up in Central Park | Governor Motley |
| 1948 | Miraculous Journey | Kendricks |
| 1948 | Three Daring Daughters | Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Bruce Pierce |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Wilbur Johnson |
| 1947 | The Unfinished Dance | Mr. Ronsell |
| 1947 | Welcome Stranger | Congressman Beeker (uncredited) |
| 1947 | It Had to Be You | Mr. Ned Harrington |
| 1947 | Swing the Western Way | Jasper Jim Bandy |
| 1947 | Black Gold | Colonel Caldwell |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Dr. Blake |
| 1947 | The Son of Rusty | Franklyn B. Gibson |
| 1946 | Three Little Girls in Blue | Col. Clay |
| 1946 | Dangerous Business | B.J. Calhoun |
| 1946 | Without Reservations | Henry Baldwin |
| 1946 | One More Tomorrow | Thomas Rufus Collier II |
| 1946 | She Wrote the Book | Horace Van Cleve |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston | Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr. |
| 1946 | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Ed - the Mayor |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Mr. Pound (uncredited) |
| 1945 | West of the Pecos | Col. Lambeth |
| 1945 | Blonde from Brooklyn | "Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth |
| 1945 | Bring on the Girls | Rutledge |
| 1945 | Song of the Prairie | Jerome Wingate |
| 1945 | Don Juan Quilligan | First Judge |
| 1945 | Lady on a Train | Josiah Waring |
| 1945 | The Gay Senorita | J.J. Frentiss |
| 1945 | Thrill of a Romance | J.P. Bancroft (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Brewster's Millions | Colonel Drew |
| 1944 | Something for the Boys | Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Cover Girl | Tony Pastor (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Wilson | Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones |
| 1944 | Goodnight, Sweetheart | Judge James Rutherford |
| 1944 | Song of Nevada | John Barrabee |
| 1944 | Ever Since Venus | Edgar Pomeroy |
| 1944 | In Society | Mr. Van Cleve |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | Senator Borland |
| 1943 | Footlight Glamour | Randolph Wheeler |
| 1943 | Here Comes Elmer | P. J. Ellis |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine | Mayor Henry Manville |
| 1943 | The Youngest Profession | Mr. Drew |
| 1943 | I Dood It | Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor |
| 1943 | Hoosier Holiday | Henry P. Fairchild |
| 1943 | The Hard Way | Harry (Uncredited) |
| 1943 | He Hired the Boss | Mr. Bates |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Sen. Henry Babcock |
| 1943 | One Dangerous Night | Inspector Crane |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Senator from Texas |
| 1942 | Counter-Espionage | Insp. Crane |
| 1942 | The Great Gildersleeve | Governor Jonathan Stafford |
| 1942 | Call of the Canyon | Grantley B. Johnson |
| 1942 | The Night Before the Divorce | Bert Harriman |
| 1942 | Her Cardboard Lover | Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Hello, Annapolis | Capt. Wendall |
| 1942 | Shepherd of the Ozarks | James Maloney |
| 1942 | Twin Beds | Horace Touchstone |
| 1942 | Sleepytime Gal | Mr. Adams |
| 1942 | Rings on Her Fingers | |
| 1941 | Tuxedo Junction | Doug Gordon |
| 1941 | Swing It Soldier | Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor |
| 1941 | The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance | Inspector Crane |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler |
| 1941 | Secrets of the Lone Wolf | Inspector Crane |
| 1941 | Accent on Love | T. J. Triton |
| 1941 | Pacific Blackout | Williams |
| 1941 | Nine Lives Are Not Enough | Huntley (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Washington Melodrama | Sen. Morton |
| 1941 | Life with Henry | Mr. Woodring (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Repent at Leisure | Jay Buckingham |
| 1941 | The Great Lie | Oscar Worthington James |
| 1941 | Hold That Ghost | Alderman Birch (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Four Mothers | Mr. Davis (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Remember the Day | Gov. Teller |
| 1941 | Flight from Destiny | Dean Somers |
| 1941 | She Knew All the Answers | J. D. Sutton |
| 1941 | Design for Scandal | Northcott |
| 1941 | Where Did You Get That Girl? | Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President |
| 1941 | In the Navy | Lead Senator (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Blondie on a Budget | Brice |
| 1940 | City for Conquest | Max Leonard |
| 1940 | The Invisible Woman | Hudson |
| 1940 | The Great McGinty | Mr. Maxwell |
| 1940 | The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date | Inspector Crane |
| 1940 | The Golden Fleecing | Charles Engel |
| 1940 | Millionaires in Prison | Harold Kellogg |
| 1940 | Alias the Deacon | Jim Cunningham |
| 1940 | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Inspector Crane |
| 1940 | The Blue Bird | Father Time |
| 1940 | In Old Missouri | John Pittman Sr. |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Gen. George Meade (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Friendly Neighbors | The Governor |
| 1940 | Kiddie Kure | Bill "Old Man" Morton |
| 1939 | Money To Burn | Ellis |
| 1939 | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie |
| 1939 | Sued for Libel | David Hastings |
| 1939 | The Day the Bookies Wept | Col. March |
| 1939 | The Star Maker | Mr. Proctor |
| 1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Senator |
| 1939 | Dodge City | Twitchell (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Each Dawn I Die | Hanley |
| 1939 | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Sam Bailey |
| 1939 | Dancing Co-Ed | Henry W. Workman |
| 1939 | First Love | Anthony Drake |
| 1939 | Jeepers Creepers | M.K. Durant |
| 1939 | Hawaiian Nights | T.C. Hartley |
| 1939 | Ex-Champ | Mr. Courtney |
| 1939 | Million Dollar Legs | Gregory Melton Sr. |
| 1939 | Our Neighbors - The Carters | Mr. Guilfoyle |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Grant |
| 1938 | Professor Beware | J.J. Van Buren |
| 1938 | Women Are Like That | Claudius King |
| 1938 | Fast Company | Dist. Atty. MacMillen |
| 1938 | There's Always a Woman | District Attorney |
| 1938 | The Affairs of Annabel | Major |
| 1938 | Going Places | Col. Withering |
| 1938 | Spring Madness | Charles Platt |
| 1938 | Squadron of Honor | Bob Metcalf |
| 1938 | No Time to Marry | Pettensall |
| 1938 | The Main Event | Captain Phillips |
| 1938 | Campus Confessions | William Atterbury, Sr. |
| 1938 | Out West with the Hardys | H.R. Bruxton (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Hard to Get | John Atwater |
| 1938 | Extortion | Prof. Tisdelle |
| 1937 | Parole Racket | Editor Jamison |
| 1937 | Counsel for Crime | Sen. Maddox |
| 1937 | We Have Our Moments | Frank Rutherford |
| 1937 | Don't Tell the Wife | Major Manning |
| 1937 | Women of Glamour | Mr. Stark |
| 1937 | Oh, Doctor | 'Doc' Erasmus Thurston |
| 1937 | Murder in Greenwich Village | Charles Cabot |
| 1937 | It Can't Last Forever | Fulton |
| 1937 | Venus Makes Trouble | Harlan Darrow |
| 1937 | I Promise to Pay | Police Captain Hall |
| 1936 | Shakedown | T. Gregory Stuart |
| 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Arthur Stevenson |
| 1936 | The Man Who Lived Twice | Dr. Clifford L. Schuyler |
| 1936 | Trapped by Television | John Curtis |
| 1936 | Two-Fisted Gentleman | Pop |
| 1936 | The King Steps Out | Major |
| 1936 | Lady from Nowhere | James Gordon Barnes |
| 1936 | Devil's Squadron | Major Metcalf |
| 1936 | The Three Wise Guys | Hatcher |
| 1936 | Don't Gamble with Love | Martin Gage |
| 1936 | Roaming Lady | E. J. Reid |
| 1936 | Pride of the Marines | Col. Gage |
| 1936 | Killer at Large | Inspector O'Hara |
| 1935 | One Way Ticket | Mr. Ritchie |
| 1935 | The Black Room | Col. Paul Hassel |
| 1935 | Crime and Punishment | Editor |
| 1935 | The Girl Friend | George S. Harmon |
| 1935 | Metropolitan | T. Simon Hunter |
| 1935 | Atlantic Adventure | City Editor Rutherford |
| 1935 | A Feather in Her Hat | Sir Elroyd Joyce |
| 1935 | Guard That Girl | Dr. Silas Hudson |
| 1935 | The Lone Wolf Returns | Inspector Crane |
| 1935 | Hooray for Love | Jason Thatcher |
| 1935 | After the Dance | District Attorney |
| 1935 | Too Tough to Kill | Jim Whitney |
| 1935 | Love Me Forever | Maurizio |
| 1935 | She Couldn't Take It | Party Guest |
| 1935 | The Public Menace | Captain of Ocean Liner |
| 1935 | Case of the Missing Man | Boyle |
| 1931 | A Burglar to the Rescue | The Banker, Steve Corley |
| 1924 | The Great Well | Peter Starling |
| 1924 | The Valley of Doubt | Jules |
| 1923 | The Royal Oak | Colonel Ancketell |
| 1922 | Fair Lady | Italian banker |
| 1921 | The Iron Trail | Curtis Gordon |
| 1921 | Mother Eternal | Edward Stevens Sr |
| 1919 | The Exquisite Thief | Algernon P. Smythe |
| 1919 | The Spitfire of Seville | |
| 1919 | Who Will Marry Me? | Jerome Van Tyne |
| 1919 | The Weaker Vessel | J. Booth Hunter |
| 1918 | We Can't Have Everything | Peter Cheever |
| 1918 | The Midnight Patrol | Officer Terrence Shannon |
| 1918 | The Squaw Man | Henry, Jim's Cousin |
| 1918 | The Kaiser's Shadow | Hugo Wagner |
| 1918 | An Alien Enemy | David J. Hale |
| 1918 | The Brazen Beauty | Kenneth Hyde |
| 1918 | The One Woman | Governor Morrison |
| 1917 | Cleopatra | Antony |
| 1917 | The Show Down | |
| 1917 | The Price Mark | Dr. Daniel Melfi |
| 1917 | Love Letters | John Harland |
| 1915 | Sweeter Than Revenge | Joe Best |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Maverick | Judge |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Hiram Holliday | Harrison Prentice |
| 1954 | Lassie | |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | |
| 1953 | Topper | |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Judge |
| 1953 | Topper | Mr. Schuyler |
| 1952 | My Little Margie | |
| 1952 | Dangerous Assignment | |
| 1952 | Hopalong Cassidy | |
| 1952 | The Abbott and Costello Show | Mr. Smith |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Judge |
| 1952 | The Abbott and Costello Show | J. Peter Stuyvesant |
| 1951 | Racket Squad |