Porter Hall
Audiences rate Porter Hall’s films higher than 98% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Porter Hall (84.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 10 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Porter's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Clifford Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 – October 6, 1953) was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall played movie villains or comedic incompetent characters. Hall was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and began his career touring as a stage actor with roles in productions of The Great Gatsby and Naked in 1926. Hall made his film debut in the 1931 drama Secrets of a Secretary.
He made his last onscreen appearance in the 1954 film Return to Treasure Island, which was released after his death. He was probably best remembered for four roles: a senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an atheist in Going My Way, the nervous, ill-tempered Granville Sawyer, who administers a psychological test to Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, and a train passenger who encounters a man (Fred MacMurray) who has just committed a murder in Double Indemnity. On October 6, 1953, Hall died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at the age of 65. His interment was at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Hall had two children, David and Sarah Jane.
Born 1888-09-18 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Died 1953-10-06.
Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA).
On ThumbScore, Porter Hall appears in 10 films with an average audience score of 84.0%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
Sources: TMDB
