Thurston Hall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thurston Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 10, 1882 In Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 203
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Sweeter Than Revenge 1915-12-17
- Latest Project:
- Series Maverick 1957-09-22
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Affair in Reno | J.B. Del Monte | 1957-02-15 |
| Series | Maverick | Unknown | 1957-09-22 |
| Movie | The Go-Getter | Mr. Higgins | 1956-01-01 |
| Series | The Adventures of Hiram Holliday | Harrison Prentice | 1956-10-03 |
| Movie | Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake | James M. Townsend | 1954-03-29 |
| Series | Lassie | Unknown | 1954-09-12 |
| Series | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Unknown | 1954-10-15 |
| Movie | The Band Wagon | Colonel Tripp (uncredited) | 1953-08-07 |
| Series | Topper | Unknown | 1953-10-09 |
| Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
| Movie | Skirts Ahoy! | Thatcher Kinston | 1952-05-28 |
| Movie | Night Stage to Galveston | Colonel James Bellamy | 1952-03-18 |
| Series | Dangerous Assignment | Unknown | 1952-01-01 |
| Movie | Carson City | Charles Crocker | 1952-06-13 |
| Movie | One Big Affair | Mr. G | 1952-02-22 |
| Series | Hopalong Cassidy | Unknown | 1952-09-19 |
| Series | My Little Margie | Unknown | 1952-06-16 |
| Movie | The WAC from Walla Walla | Col. Mayfield | 1952-10-10 |
| Series | The Abbott and Costello Show | Unknown | 1952-12-05 |
| Movie | It Grows on Trees | Mr. Sleamish (uncredited) | 1952-09-02 |
| Movie | Belle Le Grand | Parkington | 1951-01-27 |
| Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
| Movie | Whirlwind | Big Jim Lassiter | 1951-04-16 |
| Movie | Federal Agent at Large | 'Big Bill' Dixon | 1950-03-12 |
| Movie | Bright Leaf | Phillips | 1950-06-16 |
| Movie | Chain Gang | John McKelvey, news publisher | 1950-11-01 |
| Movie | One Too Many | Kenneth Simes | 1950-12-01 |
| Movie | The Bandit Queen | Governor | 1950-12-22 |
| Movie | Stagecoach Kid | Peter Arnold | 1949-06-02 |
| Movie | Rusty Saves a Life | Counsellor Frank A. Gibson | 1949-02-03 |
| Movie | The Fountainhead | Businessman at Party (uncredited) | 1949-06-25 |
| Movie | Square Dance Jubilee | G.K. | 1949-11-11 |
| Movie | Bride for Sale | Trisby | 1949-11-12 |
| Movie | Rim of the Canyon | Big Tim Hanlon | 1949-07-01 |
| Movie | Tell It to the Judge | Sen. Caswell (uncredited) | 1949-11-18 |
| Movie | Up in Central Park | Governor Motley | 1948-07-09 |
| Movie | Three Daring Daughters | Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited) | 1948-02-12 |
| Movie | Miraculous Journey | Kendricks | 1948-09-17 |
| Movie | Blondie's Secret | George Whiteside | 1948-12-23 |
| Movie | The Son of Rusty | Franklyn B. Gibson | 1947-08-07 |
| Movie | Swing the Western Way | Jasper Jim Bandy | 1947-06-25 |
| Movie | The Farmer's Daughter | Wilbur Johnson | 1947-03-26 |
| Movie | Welcome Stranger | Congressman Beeker (uncredited) | 1947-06-13 |
| Movie | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Bruce Pierce | 1947-09-01 |
| Movie | Black Gold | Colonel Caldwell | 1947-09-16 |
| Movie | Mourning Becomes Electra | Dr. Blake | 1947-11-19 |
| Movie | It Had to Be You | Mr. Ned Harrington | 1947-12-07 |
| Movie | The Unfinished Dance | Mr. Ronsell | 1947-09-19 |
| Movie | Without Reservations | Henry Baldwin | 1946-05-13 |
| Movie | One More Tomorrow | Thomas Rufus Collier II | 1946-05-24 |
| Movie | Colonel Effingham's Raid | Ed - the Mayor | 1946-01-24 |
| Movie | She Wrote the Book | Horace Van Cleve | 1946-05-31 |
| Movie | Two Sisters from Boston | Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr. | 1946-06-06 |
| Movie | Three Little Girls in Blue | Col. Clay | 1946-09-03 |
| Movie | Thrill of a Romance | J.P. Bancroft (uncredited) | 1945-05-23 |
| Movie | Brewster's Millions | Colonel Drew | 1945-04-07 |
| Movie | Bring on the Girls | Rutledge | 1945-03-30 |
| Movie | Don Juan Quilligan | First Judge | 1945-06-01 |
| Movie | Blonde from Brooklyn | "Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth | 1945-06-21 |
| Movie | Saratoga Trunk | Mr. Pound (uncredited) | 1945-11-21 |
| Movie | West of the Pecos | Col. Lambeth | 1945-08-10 |
| Movie | Song of the Prairie | Jerome Wingate | 1945-09-27 |
| Movie | The Gay Senorita | J.J. Frentiss | 1945-08-08 |
| Movie | Lady on a Train | Josiah Waring | 1945-08-03 |
| Movie | The Great Moment | Senator Borland | 1944-07-18 |
| Movie | Goodnight, Sweetheart | Judge James Rutherford | 1944-06-17 |
| Movie | Cover Girl | Tony Pastor (uncredited) | 1944-03-22 |
| Movie | Wilson | Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones | 1944-08-01 |
| Movie | Something for the Boys | Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited) | 1944-11-01 |
| Movie | Song of Nevada | John Barrabee | 1944-08-05 |
| Movie | Ever Since Venus | Edgar Pomeroy | 1944-09-14 |
| Movie | In Society | Mr. Van Cleve | 1944-08-16 |
| Movie | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Sen. Henry Babcock | 1943-03-24 |
| Movie | The Youngest Profession | Mr. Drew | 1943-02-26 |
| Movie | He Hired the Boss | Mr. Bates | 1943-04-02 |
| Movie | The Hard Way | Harry (Uncredited) | 1943-01-13 |
| Movie | One Dangerous Night | Inspector Crane | 1943-01-22 |
| Movie | This Land Is Mine | Mayor Henry Manville | 1943-05-07 |
| Movie | Crash Dive | Senator from Texas | 1943-04-22 |
| Movie | Hoosier Holiday | Henry P. Fairchild | 1943-09-13 |
| Movie | Footlight Glamour | Randolph Wheeler | 1943-09-30 |
| Movie | I Dood It | Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor | 1943-09-01 |
| Movie | Here Comes Elmer | P. J. Ellis | 1943-11-15 |
| Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | 1942-03-20 | |
| Movie | Sleepytime Gal | Mr. Adams | 1942-03-05 |
| Movie | Hello, Annapolis | Capt. Wendall | 1942-04-23 |
| Movie | The Night Before the Divorce | Bert Harriman | 1942-03-06 |
| Movie | Shepherd of the Ozarks | James Maloney | 1942-03-26 |
| Movie | Twin Beds | Horace Touchstone | 1942-04-30 |
| Movie | Counter-Espionage | Insp. Crane | 1942-09-03 |
| Movie | The Great Gildersleeve | Governor Jonathan Stafford | 1942-12-17 |
| Movie | Her Cardboard Lover | Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited) | 1942-07-16 |
| Movie | Call of the Canyon | Grantley B. Johnson | 1942-08-17 |
| Movie | The Great Lie | Oscar Worthington James | 1941-04-05 |
| Movie | Washington Melodrama | Sen. Morton | 1941-04-17 |
| Movie | She Knew All the Answers | J. D. Sutton | 1941-05-13 |
| Movie | Repent at Leisure | Jay Buckingham | 1941-04-04 |
| Movie | Four Mothers | Mr. Davis (uncredited) | 1941-01-04 |
| Movie | Where Did You Get That Girl? | Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President | 1941-01-03 |
| Movie | Life with Henry | Mr. Woodring (uncredited) | 1941-01-23 |
| Movie | Flight from Destiny | Dean Somers | 1941-02-08 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance | Inspector Crane | 1941-03-06 |
| Movie | Accent on Love | T. J. Triton | 1941-07-11 |
| Movie | Design for Scandal | Northcott | 1941-12-01 |
| Movie | Pacific Blackout | Williams | 1941-12-31 |
| Movie | In the Navy | Lead Senator (uncredited) | 1941-05-30 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Lone Wolf | Inspector Crane | 1941-11-13 |
| Movie | Remember the Day | Gov. Teller | 1941-12-25 |
| Movie | Swing It Soldier | Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor | 1941-11-07 |
| Movie | Nine Lives Are Not Enough | Huntley (uncredited) | 1941-09-20 |
| Movie | Hold That Ghost | Alderman Birch (uncredited) | 1941-08-08 |
| Movie | The Great Man's Lady | Mr. Sempler | 1941-10-31 |
| Movie | Alias the Deacon | Jim Cunningham | 1940-05-13 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Inspector Crane | 1940-05-30 |
| Movie | In Old Missouri | John Pittman Sr. | 1940-04-17 |
| Movie | Virginia City | Gen. George Meade (uncredited) | 1940-03-23 |
| Movie | Blondie on a Budget | Brice | 1940-02-29 |
| Movie | Millionaires in Prison | Harold Kellogg | 1940-07-12 |
| Movie | The Blue Bird | Father Time | 1940-01-15 |
| Movie | The Invisible Woman | Hudson | 1940-12-28 |
| Movie | The Great McGinty | Mr. Maxwell | 1940-08-01 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date | Inspector Crane | 1940-11-02 |
| Movie | Friendly Neighbors | The Governor | 1940-11-17 |
| Movie | City for Conquest | Max Leonard | 1940-09-21 |
| Movie | The Golden Fleecing | Charles Engel | 1940-08-16 |
| Movie | Mutiny on the Blackhawk | Sam Bailey | 1939-07-31 |
| Movie | Each Dawn I Die | Hanley | 1939-08-19 |
| Movie | Million Dollar Legs | Gregory Melton Sr. | 1939-07-13 |
| Movie | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie | 1939-02-17 |
| Movie | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Senator | 1939-03-24 |
| Movie | Dodge City | Twitchell (uncredited) | 1939-04-08 |
| Movie | Ex-Champ | Mr. Courtney | 1939-05-11 |
| Movie | The Star Maker | Mr. Proctor | 1939-08-25 |
| Movie | First Love | Anthony Drake | 1939-11-10 |
| Movie | Hawaiian Nights | T.C. Hartley | 1939-09-08 |
| Movie | Sued for Libel | David Hastings | 1939-10-27 |
| Movie | Money To Burn | Ellis | 1939-12-31 |
| Movie | Jeepers Creepers | M.K. Durant | 1939-10-27 |
| Movie | The Day the Bookies Wept | Col. March | 1939-09-13 |
| Movie | Dancing Co-Ed | Henry W. Workman | 1939-09-29 |
| Movie | Squadron of Honor | Bob Metcalf | 1938-06-28 |
| Movie | Fast Company | Dist. Atty. MacMillen | 1938-07-05 |
| Movie | The Main Event | Captain Phillips | 1938-06-22 |
| Movie | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Grant | 1938-07-20 |
| Movie | No Time to Marry | Pettensall | 1938-02-05 |
| Movie | Women Are Like That | Claudius King | 1938-04-23 |
| Movie | There's Always a Woman | District Attorney | 1938-04-20 |
| Movie | Going Places | Col. Withering | 1938-12-31 |
| Movie | Professor Beware | J.J. Van Buren | 1938-07-29 |
| Movie | Spring Madness | Charles Platt | 1938-11-11 |
| Movie | Out West with the Hardys | H.R. Bruxton (uncredited) | 1938-11-25 |
| Movie | Hard to Get | John Atwater | 1938-11-05 |
| Movie | Campus Confessions | William Atterbury, Sr. | 1938-09-23 |
| Movie | The Affairs of Annabel | Major | 1938-09-09 |
| Movie | We Have Our Moments | Frank Rutherford | 1937-03-28 |
| Movie | Women of Glamour | Mr. Stark | 1937-03-09 |
| Movie | Don't Tell the Wife | Major Manning | 1937-03-05 |
| Movie | Oh, Doctor | 'Doc' Erasmus Thurston | 1937-03-31 |
| Movie | Venus Makes Trouble | Harlan Darrow | 1937-05-14 |
| Movie | I Promise to Pay | Police Captain Hall | 1937-04-21 |
| Movie | Counsel for Crime | Sen. Maddox | 1937-10-14 |
| Movie | Murder in Greenwich Village | Charles Cabot | 1937-11-03 |
| Movie | It Can't Last Forever | Fulton | 1937-07-15 |
| Movie | The King Steps Out | Major | 1936-05-27 |
| Movie | Roaming Lady | E. J. Reid | 1936-05-02 |
| Movie | Don't Gamble with Love | Martin Gage | 1936-02-28 |
| Movie | Trapped by Television | John Curtis | 1936-06-15 |
| Movie | Devil's Squadron | Major Metcalf | 1936-04-30 |
| Movie | Lady from Nowhere | James Gordon Barnes | 1936-12-23 |
| Movie | Shakedown | T. Gregory Stuart | 1936-07-17 |
| Movie | Killer at Large | Inspector O'Hara | 1936-10-27 |
| Movie | Theodora Goes Wild | Arthur Stevenson | 1936-11-12 |
| Movie | The Man Who Lived Twice | Dr. Schuyler | 1936-09-25 |
| Movie | Atlantic Adventure | City Editor Rutherford | 1935-08-25 |
| Movie | The Girl Friend | George S. Harmon | 1935-09-27 |
| Movie | The Black Room | Col. Paul Hassel | 1935-07-15 |
| Movie | The Public Menace | Captain of Ocean Liner | 1935-09-30 |
| Movie | Hooray for Love | Jason Thatcher | 1935-06-14 |
| Movie | After the Dance | District Attorney | 1935-06-25 |
| Movie | Love Me Forever | Maurizio | 1935-06-28 |
| Movie | Too Tough to Kill | Jim Whitney | 1935-12-20 |
| Movie | The Lone Wolf Returns | Inspector Crane | 1935-12-31 |
| Movie | She Couldn't Take It | Party Guest | 1935-10-08 |
| Movie | Crime and Punishment | Editor | 1935-11-22 |
| Movie | One Way Ticket | Mr. Ritchie | 1935-11-25 |
| Movie | Case of the Missing Man | Boyle | 1935-10-20 |
| Movie | Metropolitan | T. Simon Hunter | 1935-10-17 |
| Movie | A Feather in Her Hat | Sir Elroyd Joyce | 1935-10-25 |
| Movie | A Burglar to the Rescue | The Banker, Steve Corley | 1931-09-07 |
| Movie | The Great Well | Peter Starling | 1924-03-01 |
| Movie | The Royal Oak | Colonel Ancketell | 1923-10-01 |
| Movie | Mother Eternal | Edward Stevens Sr | 1921-04-17 |
| Movie | The Iron Trail | Curtis Gordon | 1921-10-29 |
| Movie | The Spitfire of Seville | 1919-07-21 | |
| Movie | The Exquisite Thief | Algernon P. Smythe | 1919-04-28 |
| Movie | An Alien Enemy | David J. Hale | 1918-04-01 |
| Movie | We Can't Have Everything | Peter Cheever | 1918-07-07 |
| Movie | The Brazen Beauty | Kenneth Hyde | 1918-09-09 |
| Movie | The Squaw Man | Henry, Jim's Cousin | 1918-12-15 |
| Movie | The Show Down | 1917-08-06 | |
| Movie | The Price Mark | Dr. Daniel Melfi | 1917-10-21 |
| Movie | Cleopatra | Antony | 1917-10-14 |
| Movie | Sweeter Than Revenge | Joe Best | 1915-12-17 |