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Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

27 movies on Netflix

Biography

Thurston Hall was an American actor who worked in theater, film, and television. Born in Boston in 1882, he began his career as a teenager touring with New England stage companies, then went to London and formed a small troupe, also touring New Zealand and South Africa. In 1904 he acted in the initial staging of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. His Broadway credits included The Only Girl (1914) and Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). In 1925 he took a troupe to Australia to perform So This Is London. Hall entered silent films in 1915, and from 1915 to 1957 he appeared in 250 films. Later he became known for pompous or blustering authority figures, while early on he supported Theda Bara in vamp-costume dramas. On television, his best-known role was Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper, in Topper from 1953 to 1956. He died in 1958.

75years old at death

  • Born Boston
  • Died Beverly Hills
  • Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
  • Also credited as Ernest Thurston Hall

Movie Career

Films
27
Career span
15 years1935 to 1950

Genres

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Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty1947 Comedy, Fantasy, Romanceas Bruce Pierce

    IMDb rating 6.97.6K votes

  2. Theodora Goes Wild1936 Comedy, Romanceas Arthur Stevenson

    IMDb rating 7.13.3K votes

  3. The Black Room1935as Col. Paul Hassel

    IMDb rating 6.92.8K votes

  4. Without Reservations1946as Henry Baldwin

    IMDb rating 6.42.1K votes

  5. This Land Is Mine1943as Mayor Henry Manville

    IMDb rating 7.64.3K votes

  6. The Great Lie1941as Oscar Worthington James

    IMDb rating 7.14.8K votes

  7. The Great McGinty1940as Mr. Maxwell

    IMDb rating 7.25.0K votes

  8. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man1939as Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie

    IMDb rating 6.92.0K votes

Most often with

Roy William Neill directed two of these films, Anatole Litvak two. Three actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Thurston Hall's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$5.9 million

5 of the 27 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 27 films: 5 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 21 figure not found.

  • 5Worldwide figure
  • 1US gross only
  • 21Figure not found

Highest grossing

The five biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    Wilson1944as Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones
    $2.0M34.0% of the total
  2. 2
    Each Dawn I Die1939as Hanley
    $1.6M26.7% of the total
  3. 3
    $957K16.3% of the total
  4. 4
    The Great Lie1941as Oscar Worthington James
    $689K11.7% of the total
  5. 5
    The Invisible Woman1940as Hudson
    $660K11.2% of the total