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Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures.
Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956).
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Known For
The Fountainhead
(1949)
Businessman at Party (uncredited)
Cover Girl
(1944)
Tony Pastor (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)
Bruce Pierce
The Band Wagon
(1953)
Colonel Tripp (uncredited)
Dodge City
(1939)
Twitchell (uncredited)
Carson City
(1952)
Charles Crocker
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938)
Grant
Virginia City
(1940)
Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
The Great Lie
(1941)
Oscar Worthington James
Crime and Punishment
(1935)
Editor
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)
Sen. Henry Babcock
Full Filmography
Acting
The Show Down
(1917)
The Price Mark
(1917)
Dr. Daniel Melfi
Cleopatra
(1917)
Antony
Love Letters
(1917)
John Harland
The Kaiser's Shadow
(1918)
Hugo Wagner
The Brazen Beauty
(1918)
Kenneth Hyde
We Can't Have Everything
(1918)
Peter Cheever
The Midnight Patrol
(1918)
Officer Terrence Shannon
The Squaw Man
(1918)
Henry, Jim's Cousin
An Alien Enemy
(1918)
David J. Hale
Who Will Marry Me?
(1919)
Jerome Van Tyne
The Spitfire of Seville
(1919)
The Exquisite Thief
(1919)
Algernon P. Smythe
The Weaker Vessel
(1919)
The Iron Trail
(1921)
Curtis Gordon
Fair Lady
(1922)
Italian banker
The Royal Oak
(1923)
Colonel Ancketell
The Great Well
(1924)
Peter Starling
A Burglar to the Rescue
(1931)
The Banker, Steve Corley
Guard That Girl
(1935)
Dr. Silas Hudson
Crime and Punishment
(1935)
Editor
Atlantic Adventure
(1935)
City Editor Rutherford
After the Dance
(1935)
District Attorney
Case of the Missing Man
(1935)
Boyle
Metropolitan
(1935)
T. Simon Hunter
The Black Room
(1935)
Col. Paul Hassel
The Girl Friend
(1935)
George S. Harmon
Too Tough to Kill
(1935)
Jim Whitney
A Feather in Her Hat
(1935)
Sir Elroyd Joyce
One Way Ticket
(1935)
Mr. Ritchie
The Public Menace
(1935)
Captain of Ocean Liner
Hooray for Love
(1935)
Jason Thatcher
The Lone Wolf Returns
(1935)
Inspector Crane
She Couldn't Take It
(1935)
Party Guest
Love Me Forever
(1935)
Maurizio
The Man Who Lived Twice
(1936)
Dr. Clifford L. Schuyler
Trapped by Television
(1936)
John Curtis
Two-Fisted Gentleman
(1936)
Pop
Don't Gamble with Love
(1936)
Martin Gage
The King Steps Out
(1936)
Major
Theodora Goes Wild
(1936)
Arthur Stevenson
Roaming Lady
(1936)
E. J. Reid
Devil's Squadron
(1936)
Major Metcalf
Pride of the Marines
(1936)
Col. Gage
Shakedown
(1936)
T. Gregory Stuart
Lady from Nowhere
(1936)
James Gordon Barnes
Killer at Large
(1936)
Inspector O'Hara
Venus Makes Trouble
(1937)
Harlan Darrow
Counsel for Crime
(1937)
Sen. Maddox
Murder in Greenwich Village
(1937)
Charles Cabot
Parole Racket
(1937)
Editor Jamison
Don't Tell the Wife
(1937)
Major Manning
It Can't Last Forever
(1937)
Fulton
Women of Glamour
(1937)
Mr. Stark
Oh, Doctor
(1937)
'Doc' Erasmus Thurston
We Have Our Moments
(1937)
Frank Rutherford
I Promise to Pay
(1937)
Police Captain Hall
The Main Event
(1938)
Captain Phillips
Out West with the Hardys
(1938)
H.R. Bruxton (uncredited)
Extortion
(1938)
Prof. Tisdelle
No Time To Marry
(1938)
Pettensall
Fast Company
(1938)
Dist. Atty. MacMillen
Women Are Like That
(1938)
Claudius King
The Affairs of Annabel
(1938)
Major
There's Always a Woman
(1938)
District Attorney
Spring Madness
(1938)
Charles Platt
Campus Confessions
(1938)
William Atterbury, Sr.
Professor Beware
(1938)
J.J. Van Buren
Squadron of Honor
(1938)
Bob Metcalf
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938)
Grant
Hard to Get
(1938)
John Atwater
Going Places
(1938)
Col. Withering
The Day the Bookies Wept
(1939)
Col. March
Sued for Libel
(1939)
David Hastings
The Star Maker
(1939)
Mr. Proctor
Dancing Co-Ed
(1939)
Henry W. Workman
Money To Burn
(1939)
Ellis
Each Dawn I Die
(1939)
Hanley
Million Dollar Legs
(1939)
Gregory Melton Sr.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
(1939)
Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie
Hawaiian Nights
(1939)
T.C. Hartley
Ex-Champ
(1939)
Mr. Courtney
Jeepers Creepers
(1939)
M.K. Durant
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
(1939)
Senator
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
(1939)
Sam Bailey
Dodge City
(1939)
Twitchell (uncredited)
First Love
(1939)
Anthony Drake
Millionaires in Prison
(1940)
Harold Kellogg
The Golden Fleecing
(1940)
Charles Engel
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
(1940)
Inspector Crane
The Great McGinty
(1940)
Mr. Maxwell
The Invisible Woman
(1940)
Hudson
City for Conquest
(1940)
Max Leonard
Blondie on a Budget
(1940)
Brice
Kiddie Kure
(1940)
Bill "Old Man" Morton
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
(1940)
Inspector Crane
Friendly Neighbors
(1940)
The Governor
Alias the Deacon
(1940)
Jim Cunningham
The Blue Bird
(1940)
Father Time
In Old Missouri
(1940)
John Pittman Sr.
Virginia City
(1940)
Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
Washington Melodrama
(1941)
Sen. Morton
Repent at Leisure
(1941)
Jay Buckingham
The Great Lie
(1941)
Oscar Worthington James
Swing It Soldier
(1941)
Oscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor
In the Navy
(1941)
Lead Senator (uncredited)
Hold That Ghost
(1941)
Alderman Birch (uncredited)
Where Did You Get That Girl?
(1941)
Stuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
(1941)
Huntley (uncredited)
She Knew All the Answers
(1941)
J. D. Sutton
Pacific Blackout
(1941)
Williams
Life with Henry
(1941)
Mr. Woodring (uncredited)
Accent on Love
(1941)
T. J. Triton
Design for Scandal
(1941)
Northcott
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
(1941)
Inspector Crane
Flight from Destiny
(1941)
Dean Somers
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
(1941)
Inspector Crane
Tuxedo Junction
(1941)
Doug Gordon
Remember the Day
(1941)
Gov. Teller
Four Mothers
(1941)
Mr. Davis (uncredited)
The Night Before the Divorce
(1942)
Bert Harriman
Sleepytime Gal
(1942)
Mr. Adams
Her Cardboard Lover
(1942)
Mr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited)
Rings on Her Fingers
(1942)
Call of the Canyon
(1942)
Grantley B. Johnson
The Great Gildersleeve
(1942)
Governor Jonathan Stafford
The Great Man's Lady
(1942)
Mr. Sempler
Counter-Espionage
(1942)
Insp. Crane
Twin Beds
(1942)
Horace Touchstone
Shepherd of the Ozarks
(1942)
James Maloney
Hello, Annapolis
(1942)
Capt. Wendall
He Hired the Boss
(1943)
Mr. Bates
The Hard Way
(1943)
Harry (Uncredited)
Hoosier Holiday
(1943)
Henry P. Fairchild
Crash Dive
(1943)
Senator from Texas
I Dood It
(1943)
Kenneth 'Ken' Cawlor
Here Comes Elmer
(1943)
P. J. Ellis
One Dangerous Night
(1943)
Inspector Crane
The Youngest Profession
(1943)
Mr. Drew
This Land Is Mine
(1943)
Mayor Henry Manville
Footlight Glamour
(1943)
Randolph Wheeler
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
(1943)
Sen. Henry Babcock
Goodnight, Sweetheart
(1944)
Judge James Rutherford
Cover Girl
(1944)
Tony Pastor (uncredited)
Something for the Boys
(1944)
Colonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited)
Wilson
(1944)
Senator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones
In Society
(1944)
Mr. Van Cleve
Ever Since Venus
(1944)
Edgar Pomeroy
Song of Nevada
(1944)
John Barrabee
The Great Moment
(1944)
Senator Borland
The Gay Senorita
(1945)
J.J. Frentiss
Blonde from Brooklyn
(1945)
"Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth
Brewster's Millions
(1945)
Colonel Drew
West of the Pecos
(1945)
Col. Lambeth
Lady on a Train
(1945)
Josiah Waring
Don Juan Quilligan
(1945)
First Judge
Song of the Prairie
(1945)
Jerome Wingate
Saratoga Trunk
(1945)
Mr. Pound (uncredited)
Bring on the Girls
(1945)
Rutledge
Thrill of a Romance
(1945)
J.P. Bancroft (uncredited)
Without Reservations
(1946)
Henry Baldwin
Three Little Girls in Blue
(1946)
Col. Clay
Dangerous Business
(1946)
B.J. Calhoun
Two Sisters from Boston
(1946)
Mr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr.
Colonel Effingham's Raid
(1946)
Ed - the Mayor
She Wrote the Book
(1946)
Horace Van Cleve
One More Tomorrow
(1946)
Thomas Rufus Collier II
It Had to Be You
(1947)
Ned Harrington
Swing the Western Way
(1947)
Jasper Jim Bandy
Welcome Stranger
(1947)
Congressman Beeker
The Unfinished Dance
(1947)
Mr. Ronsell
The Farmer's Daughter
(1947)
Wilbur Johnson
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)
Bruce Pierce
The Son of Rusty
(1947)
Franklyn B. Gibson
Mourning Becomes Electra
(1947)
Dr. Blake
Black Gold
(1947)
Colonel Caldwell
Up in Central Park
(1948)
Governor Motley
Three Daring Daughters
(1948)
Howie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited)
Miraculous Journey
(1948)
Kendricks
Blondie's Secret
(1948)
George Whiteside
The Fountainhead
(1949)
Businessman at Party (uncredited)
Manhattan Angel
(1949)
Everett H. Burton
Bride for Sale
(1949)
Trisby
Rusty Saves a Life
(1949)
Counsellor Frank A. Gibson
Square Dance Jubilee
(1949)
G.K.
Stagecoach Kid
(1949)
Peter Arnold
Tell It to the Judge
(1949)
Sen. Caswell (uncredited)
Rim of the Canyon
(1949)
Big Tim Hanlon
Bright Leaf
(1950)
Phillips
Chain Gang
(1950)
John McKelvey, news publisher
Belle of Old Mexico
(1950)
Horatio Huntington
The Bandit Queen
(1950)
Governor
One Too Many
(1950)
Kenneth Simes
Federal Agent at Large
(1950)
'Big Bill' Dixon
Belle Le Grand
(1951)
Parkington
Whirlwind
(1951)
Big Jim Lassiter
Knights of the Bath
(1951)
Master of the House (archive footage)
It Grows on Trees
(1952)
Mr. Sleamish
Carson City
(1952)
Charles Crocker
The WAC From Walla Walla
(1952)
Col. Mayfield
Skirts Ahoy!
(1952)
Thatcher Kinston
Night Stage to Galveston
(1952)
Colonel James Bellamy
One Big Affair
(1952)
Mr. G
The Band Wagon
(1953)
Colonel Tripp (uncredited)
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
(1954)
James M. Townsend
The Go-Getter
(1956)
Mr. Higgins
Affair in Reno
(1957)
J.B. Del Monte