Arch Hall Sr.
Biography
Arch Hall Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker whose best-known work was a string of low-budget B-movies made in the early 1960s for the drive-in market. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in South Dakota, he was a University of South Dakota graduate who wrote for radio and interviewed elderly Native Americans on KOTA. He flew as a pilot for the United States Army Air Forces, then worked as a Hollywood stuntman in the 1930s, which expanded into small parts, usually in Westerns. Under names such as Nicholas Merriwether, William Waters and Archie Hall, he acted in his own pictures. He founded the studio Fairway Productions in Burbank, California; its films, later mocked as being among the worst ever made, starred Hall himself. His military service was satirized in The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961), with Robert Mitchum. He died in 1978.
69years old at death
- Born St. Louis
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: SagittariusLast day of the sign, on the Capricorn cusp
- Also credited as Archibald Williams Hall
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 12 years1962 to 1974
Every film, newest first
- 1974Thieves Like UsIMDb rating 6.9
- 1964The Nasty RabbitIMDb rating 2.7
- 1963The SadistIMDb rating 6.6
- 1962Wild GuitarIMDb rating 4.7
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Worked with
Arch Hall Sr. shares three films with Arch Hall Jr., and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Arch Hall Jr.'s page
Al Scott2 films together, 1962 to 1974
Al Scott's page
Tom Skerritt's page
Keith Carradine's page
Bert Remsen's page
Louise Fletcher's page
James LandisDirector, 2 films, 1963 to 1964
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