death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
north hollywood , california 20 may 1985 brooklyn , new york 18 march 1899 ben hall -lrb- actor -rrb-
 ben hall actor
ben hall -lrb- actor -rrb-

benjamin joseph hall -lrb- march 18 , 1899 -- may 20 , 1985 -rrb- was an american actor who started performing as a boy and worked for three and a half decades , mainly in small parts .
born in brooklyn , new york as the eldest child of american stevedore george e. hall and his english wife constance l. fletcher , ben hall began making appearances in films when he was little more than ten years old .
after a handful of movies , his family moved to weehawken , new jersey , and in 1918 ben took work as a bank clerk in manhattan .
but by 1920 , ben and his mother had moved to los angeles -lrb- where they were joined later by his younger brother george jr. -rrb- .
hall worked as a property man for the studios for a time , but eventually began to get small roles and was eking out a living as an actor again by 1926 .
he became a minor but fairly frequently-used member of the john ford stock company , and did eight films for john ford between 1929 and 1946 .
most memorable among these bit roles was probably that of the barber who slicks down and perfumes wyatt earp 's hair in `` my darling clementine '' -lrb- 1946 -rrb- .
hall left acting in 1949 , though he lived for another 36 years .
he died in north hollywood , california in 1985 .
