Jonathan Hole

Jonathan Hole was an American actor whose work in entertainment lasted more than six decades and crossed vaudeville, theater, radio, television, and film. Born in Eldora, Iowa, he started in vaudeville during the 1920s and spent 1924 to 1934 in New York stage productions. He joined the Morgan Wallace players in 1926, handling stage management at the Princess Theater in Des Moines. He also performed on radio, including as Paul Henderson on the soap opera Ma Perkins. His movie career began in 1951 with Two-Dollar Bettor, and he went on to appear in thirty-six features, usually uncredited, among them Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), Beloved Infidel (1959), Moon Pilot (1962), 4 for Texas (1963), and The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970). On television he made about 200 appearances across 121 shows, often in comic roles as fussy clerks, managers, or minor bureaucrats. His final television role came in Silhouette in 1990. He died in 1998.