Thurston Hall

• Born: May 10, 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts
• Died: Feb 20, 1958 in Beverly Hills, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s-'50s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
• Career Highlights: Cleopatra, Theodora Goes Wild, The Three Wise Guys
• First Major Screen Credit: Cleopatra (1917)

Biography

The living image of the man on the Monopoly cards, Thurston Hall began his six-decade acting career on the New England stock-company circuit. Forming his own troupe, Hall toured America, Africa and New Zealand. On Broadway, he was starred in such venerable productions as Ben-Hur and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. In films from 1915, Hall appeared in dozens of silents, notably the 1917 Theda Bara version of Cleopatra, in which he played Mark Antony. After 15 years on Broadway, Hall returned to films in 1935, spending the next 20 years portraying many a fatuous businessman, pompous politician, dyspeptic judge or crooked "ward heeler." From 1953 through 1955, Hall was seen as the choleric bank president Mr. Schuyler on the TV sitcom Topper. Towards the end of his life, a thinner, goateed Thurston Hall appeared in several TV commercials as the Kentucky-colonel spokesman for a leading chicken pot pie manufacturer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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