Thurston Hall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 8, 1882, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- February 20, 1958
- Movies
- 222
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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).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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 | The WAC from Walla Walla | Col. Mayfield |
| 1952 | It Grows on Trees | Mr. Sleamish (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Carson City | Charles Crocker |
| 1952 | Skirts Ahoy! | Thatcher Kinston |
| 1952 | Night Stage to Galveston | Colonel James Bellamy |
| 1952 | One Big Affair | Mr. G |
| 1951 | Texas Carnival | Mr. Gaytes |
| 1951 | Whirlwind | Big Jim Lassiter |
| 1951 | Knights of the Bath | Master of the House (archive footage) |
| 1951 | Belle Le Grand | Parkington |
| 1950 | The Bandit Queen | Governor |
| 1950 | One Too Many | Kenneth Simes |
| 1950 | Chain Gang | John McKelvey, news publisher |
| 1950 | Bright Leaf | Phillips |
| 1950 | Federal Agent at Large | 'Big Bill' Dixon |
| 1950 | Belle of Old Mexico | Horatio Huntington |
| 1949 | Tell It to the Judge | Sen. Caswell (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Bride for Sale | Trisby (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Square Dance Jubilee | G.K. |
| 1949 | Rim of the Canyon | Big Tim Hanlon |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Businessman at Party (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Stagecoach Kid | Peter Arnold |
| 1949 | Manhattan Angel | Everett H. Burton |
| 1949 | Rusty Saves a Life | Counsellor Frank A. Gibson |
| 1948 | Blondie's Secret | George Whiteside |
| 1948 | Miraculous Journey | Kendricks |
| 1948 | Up in Central Park | Governor Motley |
| 1948 | King of the Gamblers | Pop' Morton |
| 1948 | Three Daring Daughters | Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited) |
| 1947 | It Had to Be You | Ned Harrington |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Dr. Blake |
| 1947 | The Unfinished Dance | Mr. Ronsell |
| 1947 | Black Gold | Colonel Caldwell |
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Bruce Pierce |
| 1947 | The Son of Rusty | Franklyn B. Gibson |
| 1947 | Swing the Western Way | Jasper Jim Bandy |
| 1947 | Welcome Stranger | Congressman Beeker (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Farmer's Daughter | Wilbur Johnson |
| 1946 | Three Little Girls in Blue | Col. Clay |
| 1946 | Dangerous Business | B.J. Calhoun |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston | Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr. |
| 1946 | She Wrote the Book | Horace Van Cleve |
| 1946 | One More Tomorrow | Thomas Rufus Collier II |
| 1946 | Without Reservations | Henry Baldwin |
| 1946 | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Ed - the Mayor |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Mr. Pound (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Song of the Prairie | Jerome Wingate |
| 1945 | West of the Pecos | Col. Lambeth |
| 1945 | The Gay Senorita | J.J. Frentiss |
| 1945 | Lady on a Train | Josiah Waring |
| 1945 | Blonde from Brooklyn | "Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth |
| 1945 | Don Juan Quilligan | First Judge |
| 1945 | Thrill of a Romance | J.P. Bancroft (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Brewster's Millions | Colonel Drew |
| 1945 | Bring on the Girls | Rutledge |
| 1944 | Something for the Boys | Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Ever Since Venus | Edgar Pomeroy |
| 1944 | In Society | Mr. Van Cleve |
| 1944 | Song of Nevada | John Barrabee |
| 1944 | Wilson | Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones |
| 1944 | The Great Moment | Senator Borland |
| 1944 | Goodnight, Sweetheart | Judge James Rutherford |
| 1944 | Follow the Boys | Man (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Cover Girl | Tony Pastor (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Here Comes Elmer | P. J. Ellis |
| 1943 | Footlight Glamour | Randolph Wheeler |
| 1943 | Hoosier Holiday | Henry P. Fairchild |
| 1943 | I Dood It | Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor |
| 1943 | This Land Is Mine | Mayor Henry Manville |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Senator from Texas |
| 1943 | He Hired the Boss | Mr. Bates |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Sen. Henry Babcock |
| 1943 | The Youngest Profession | Mr. Drew |
| 1943 | One Dangerous Night | Inspector Crane |
| 1943 | The Hard Way | Harry (Uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Great Gildersleeve | Governor Jonathan Stafford |
| 1942 | Counter-Espionage | Insp. Crane |
| 1942 | Call of the Canyon | Grantley B. Johnson |
| 1942 | Her Cardboard Lover | Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Twin Beds | Horace Touchstone |
| 1942 | Hello, Annapolis | Capt. Wendall |
| 1942 | Shepherd of the Ozarks | James Maloney |
| 1942 | Rings on Her Fingers | |
| 1942 | The Night Before the Divorce | Bert Harriman |
| 1942 | Sleepytime Gal | Mr. Adams |
| 1941 | Pacific Blackout | Williams |
| 1941 | Remember the Day | Gov. Teller |
| 1941 | Design for Scandal | Northcott |
| 1941 | Tuxedo Junction | Doug Gordon |
| 1941 | Secrets of the Lone Wolf | Inspector Crane |
| 1941 | Swing It Soldier | Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler |
| 1941 | Nine Lives Are Not Enough | Huntley (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Hold That Ghost | Alderman Birch |
| 1941 | Accent on Love | T. J. Triton |
| 1941 | In the Navy | Lead Senator (uncredited) |
| 1941 | She Knew All the Answers | J. D. Sutton |
| 1941 | Washington Melodrama | Sen. Morton |
| 1941 | The Great Lie | Oscar Worthington James |
| 1941 | Repent at Leisure | Jay Buckingham |
| 1941 | The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance | Inspector Crane |
| 1941 | Flight from Destiny | Dean Somers |
| 1941 | Life with Henry | Mr. Woodring (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Four Mothers | Mr. Davis (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Where Did You Get That Girl? | Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President |
| 1940 | The Invisible Woman | Hudson |
| 1940 | Kiddie Kure | Bill "Old Man" Morton |
| 1940 | Friendly Neighbors | The Governor |
| 1940 | The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date | Inspector Crane |
| 1940 | City for Conquest | Max Leonard |
| 1940 | The Golden Fleecing | Charles Engel |
| 1940 | The Great McGinty | Mr. Maxwell |
| 1940 | Millionaires in Prison | Harold Kellogg |
| 1940 | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Inspector Crane |
| 1940 | Alias the Deacon | Jim Cunningham |
| 1940 | In Old Missouri | John Pittman Sr. |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Gen. George Meade (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Blondie on a Budget | Brice |
| 1940 | The Blue Bird | Father Time |
| 1939 | Money To Burn | Ellis |
| 1939 | Our Neighbors - The Carters | Mr. Guilfoyle |
| 1939 | First Love | Anthony Drake |
| 1939 | Sued for Libel | David Hastings |
| 1939 | Jeepers Creepers | M.K. Durant |
| 1939 | Dancing Co-Ed | Henry W. Workman |
| 1939 | The Day the Bookies Wept | Col. March |
| 1939 | Hawaiian Nights | T.C. Hartley |
| 1939 | The Star Maker | Mr. Proctor |
| 1939 | Each Dawn I Die | Hanley |
| 1939 | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Sam Bailey |
| 1939 | Million Dollar Legs | Gregory Melton Sr. |
| 1939 | Ex-Champ | Mr. Courtney |
| 1939 | Dodge City | Twitchell (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Senator |
| 1939 | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie |
| 1938 | Going Places | Col. Withering |
| 1938 | Out West with the Hardys | H.R. Bruxton (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Spring Madness | Charles Platt |
| 1938 | Hard to Get | John Atwater |
| 1938 | Campus Confessions | William Atterbury, Sr. |
| 1938 | The Affairs of Annabel | Major |
| 1938 | Professor Beware | J.J. Van Buren |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Grant |
| 1938 | Fast Company | Dist. Atty. MacMillen |
| 1938 | Squadron of Honor | Bob Metcalf |
| 1938 | The Main Event | Captain Phillips |
| 1938 | Extortion | Prof. Tisdelle |
| 1938 | Women Are Like That | Claudius King |
| 1938 | There's Always a Woman | District Attorney |
| 1938 | No Time to Marry | Pettensall |
| 1937 | Murder in Greenwich Village | Charles Cabot |
| 1937 | Counsel for Crime | Sen. Maddox |
| 1937 | It Can't Last Forever | Fulton |
| 1937 | Venus Makes Trouble | Harlan Darrow |
| 1937 | I Promise to Pay | Police Captain Hall |
| 1937 | Oh, Doctor | 'Doc' Erasmus Thurston |
| 1937 | We Have Our Moments | Frank Rutherford |
| 1937 | Parole Racket | Editor Jamison |
| 1937 | Women of Glamour | Mr. Stark |
| 1937 | Don't Tell the Wife | Major Manning |
| 1936 | Lady from Nowhere | James Gordon Barnes |
| 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Arthur Stevenson |
| 1936 | Killer at Large | Inspector O'Hara |
| 1936 | The Man Who Lived Twice | Dr. Schuyler |
| 1936 | Two-Fisted Gentleman | Pop |
| 1936 | Shakedown | T. Gregory Stuart |
| 1936 | Trapped by Television | John Curtis |
| 1936 | The King Steps Out | Major |
| 1936 | The Three Wise Guys | Hatcher |
| 1936 | Roaming Lady | E. J. Reid |
| 1936 | Devil's Squadron | Major Metcalf |
| 1936 | Pride of the Marines | Col. Gage |
| 1936 | Don't Gamble with Love | Martin Gage |
| 1935 | The Lone Wolf Returns | Inspector Crane |
| 1935 | Too Tough to Kill | Jim Whitney |
| 1935 | Super Speed | Investor |
| 1935 | One Way Ticket | Mr. Ritchie |
| 1935 | Crime and Punishment | Editor |
| 1935 | Guard That Girl | Dr. Silas Hudson |
| 1935 | A Feather in Her Hat | Sir Elroyd Joyce |
| 1935 | The Case of the Missing Man | Boyle |
| 1935 | Metropolitan | T. Simon Hunter |
| 1935 | She Couldn't Take It | Party Guest |
| 1935 | The Public Menace | Captain of Ocean Liner |
| 1935 | The Girl Friend | George S. Harmon |
| 1935 | Atlantic Adventure | City Editor Rutherford |
| 1935 | The Black Room | Col. Paul Hassel |
| 1935 | Love Me Forever | Maurizio |
| 1935 | After the Dance | District Attorney |
| 1935 | Hooray for Love | Jason Thatcher |
| 1931 | A Burglar to the Rescue | The Banker, Steve Corley |
| 1924 | The Valley of Doubt | Jules |
| 1924 | The Great Well | Peter Starling |
| 1923 | The Royal Oak | Colonel Ancketell |
| 1922 | Wildness of Youth | Edward Grayton |
| 1922 | Fair Lady | Italian banker |
| 1921 | The Iron Trail | Curtis Gordon |
| 1921 | Idle Hands | Henry Livingston |
| 1921 | Mother Eternal | Edward Stevens Sr |
| 1921 | A Citrate Special | The Director |
| 1919 | The Spitfire of Seville | |
| 1919 | The Weaker Vessel | J. Booth Hunter |
| 1919 | The Unpainted Woman | Martin O'Neill |
| 1919 | The Exquisite Thief | Algernon P. Smythe |
| 1919 | Who Will Marry Me? | Jerome Van Tyne |
| 1918 | The Squaw Man | Henry, Jim's Cousin |
| 1918 | The Midnight Patrol | Officer Terrence Shannon |
| 1918 | The One Woman | Governor Morrison |
| 1918 | The Brazen Beauty | Kenneth Hyde |
| 1918 | We Can't Have Everything | Peter Cheever |
| 1918 | The Kaiser's Shadow | Hugo Wagner |
| 1918 | Tyrant Fear | Harley Dane |
| 1918 | An Alien Enemy | David J. Hale |
| 1917 | Love Letters | John Harland |
| 1917 | The Price Mark | Dr. Daniel Melfi |
| 1917 | Cleopatra | Antony |
| 1917 | The Show Down | |
| 1915 | Sweeter Than Revenge | Joe Best |
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