Creighton Hale

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Creighton Hale 24 May 1888 9 August 1965 was an IrishAmerican theatre film and television actor whose career extended more than a halfcentury from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s Born Patrick Fitzgerald in County Cork Ireland he was educated in Dublin and London and later attended Ardingly College in Sussex He immigrated to America in his early twenties traveling with a troupe of actors While starring in Charles Frohmans Broadway production of Indian Summer Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company He eventually became known professionally as Creighton Hale although the derivation of those names remains unknown His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine in 1914 He starred in hit films such as Way Down East Orphans of the Storm and The Cat and the Canary When talkies came about his career declined He made several appearances in Hal Roachs Our Gang series Schools Out Big Ears Free Wheeling and also played unbilled bits in major talking films such as Larceny Inc The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca He died in the Los Angeles County city of South Pasadena and was buried at Duncans Mills Cemetery in Northern California