Date of birth: 1882-05-08
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ernest Thurston Hall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thurston Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

1937-03-11
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced

1941-11-25
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and h

1941-11-07
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed

1940-02-29
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old gi

1943-09-30
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he

1948-12-23
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised t

1935-11-25
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish

1943-11-15
This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, th

1950-03-01
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after t

1936-07-17
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can

1940-09-21
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug

1939-12-31
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contes

1935-07-15
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever

1918-07-07
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage i
1918-11-01
Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shanno

1918-12-15
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming

1947-09-01
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero

1940-12-28
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil

1939-02-17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from

1940-08-01
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he

1947-03-26
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unex

1935-11-22
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

1943-05-07
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet

1938-07-20
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming o

1917-10-14
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the great

1936-11-12
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little

1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join

1952-06-13
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires

1951-04-01
Short film cobbled from the Abbott & Costello feature In Society for the home movie market.

1941-03-06
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

1942-09-03
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

1936-09-25
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic s

1941-10-31
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who

1947-09-19
Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school's top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Meg is

1945-11-21
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces

1943-02-26
Best friends Joan and Patricia are teenage autograph seekers who spend most of their day bumping int

1952-02-22
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of troub

1945-08-10
Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they

1942-12-17
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nep

1936-06-15
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessma

1940-11-02
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf ke

1947-06-13
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and yo

1950-03-12
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an

1952-05-28
Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest troubl

1952-03-18
A former Texas Ranger teams up with some of his old colleagues to rid the state of corruption in the

1936-08-15
Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Gin

1942-08-17
A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

1940-08-16
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

1943-09-01
Constance Shaw, a Broadway dance star, and Joseph Rivington Reynolds, a keen fan of hers, marry afte

1937-10-14
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger p

1951-04-16
A singing postal inspector (Gene Autry) and his partner (Smiley Burnette) save a woman's (Gail Davis

1941-11-13
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

1949-07-01
20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal S

1944-11-01
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who ge

1935-09-27
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.

1936-05-27
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

1941-07-11
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his sp

1939-10-27
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.

1948-07-09
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corrupti

1935-10-17
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She l

1946-09-03
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.

1939-09-13
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

1935-08-25
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is wo

1950-12-22
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her pa

1935-10-25
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit

1939-08-25
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and pro

1937-03-28
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen

1938-04-23
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries h

1938-07-05
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

1941-12-31
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U

1944-03-22
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

1938-04-20
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However,

1935-11-02
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards'

1948-09-17
The passengers and crew of an airplane are stranded in an unfamiliar jungle. Unknown to most of the

1918-07-01
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and

1945-06-21
A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach

1936-12-23
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer t

1941-09-20
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

1938-09-09
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve

1940-07-12
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton wa

1941-04-17
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away.

1935-12-31
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanya

1931-09-07
He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversati
1943-09-13
During World War II three brothers go to enlist in the Air Force, but since they're farmers they're

1944-08-01
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post

1938-12-31
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain

1935-06-14
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the na

1952-10-10
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.

1950-12-01
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member

1937-03-05
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with inno

1921-10-29
Alaskan railroad magnate Curtis Gordon hires engineer Dan Appleton to design a railroad route up the

1935-06-25
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to

1953-08-07
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

1946-06-20
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims h

1938-11-11
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go

1940-05-13
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight

1941-01-23
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

1936-04-30
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Force

1941-04-04
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, ex

1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until

1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r

1939-08-19
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h

1939-07-31
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard

1939-09-29
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his

1939-11-10
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncl

1943-01-13
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small

1947-12-07
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

1940-05-30
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a m

1944-06-17
A journalist attacks the campaign of a mayoral candidate who has gained the endorsement of a rival n

1939-10-27
Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.

1947-06-25
Swing the Western Way

1937-03-09
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

1939-09-08
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to

1946-05-13
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train

1940-01-15
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness

1941-04-05
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his af

1940-04-17
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is

1935-12-20
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has be

1938-06-28
Squadron of Honor takes place during an American Legion convention, with newsreel shots of the genui

1938-02-05
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficu

1937-03-31
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

1943-04-02
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of l

1936-05-15
Riding in his private car on Christmas day, railroad tycoon Hatcher prefers work to celebrating, whi

1942-03-06
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

1940-03-23
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in

1949-06-02
Crooked ranch foreman Thatcher sends his two henchmen, Parnell and Clint, out to murder his boss, we

1948-02-12
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.

1937-11-03
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pu

1956-01-01
The Go-Getter (1956)

1940-11-17
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-f

1918-04-01
Neysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather, Adolph Schmidt, loves America, although

1935-06-28
A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her ca

1941-08-07
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. The

1942-07-16
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

1947-09-16
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

1937-07-15
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the

1945-03-30
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money.

1942-04-23
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a g

1951-01-27
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister h

1946-05-24
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christ

1947-11-19
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tyco

1936-02-28
Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occa

1924-03-01
In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.

1944-08-05
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive.

1950-11-01
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.

1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

1942-03-26
Aluminum magnate James J. Maloney, Sr. meets with government officials to discuss the war effort and

1945-09-27
Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation i

1952-09-02
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxte

1949-11-11
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1941-12-25
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him

1941-02-08
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h

1944-09-14
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwrit

1946-05-31
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to

1945-06-01
When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he find

1941-05-13
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro

1957-02-15
The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an

1919-04-28
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the und

1942-04-30
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr

1938-06-22
FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match on

1941-12-01
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry bos
1947-08-07
The fourth film in Columbia's "Rusty" series is a lecture against gossiping. A young army veteran co

1949-02-03
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says

1938-09-23
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luis
1937-05-14
A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures

1945-08-03
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When sh

1949-11-12
Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she
1940-11-23
While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently br

1943-03-24
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route

1942-03-05
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure

1943-01-22
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three s

1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New

1938-11-25
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his fami

1941-01-03
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They e

1943-04-22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra

1936-05-02
Joyce Reid, a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers h

1937-04-21
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.

1949-03-17
Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth cente

1938-11-05
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill

1918-09-09
Jacala, a strong-willed, temperamental ranch girl, inherits her father's millions and moves from Mon

1939-05-11
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

1936-04-02
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prospe

1919-07-21

1917-08-06
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealth

1935-10-08
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustra

1919-01-27
Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Ba

1917-10-21
Broke and stranded in the Big City, Paula Lee (Dorothy Dalton) willingly becomes the mistress of "lo

1942-03-20
Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful cl

1917-12-24
Naive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland (William C

1949-06-25
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite

1950-06-16
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.

1954-03-29
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

1945-08-08
Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican ho

1941-05-30
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tomm

1944-08-16
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the p

1945-05-23
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business mee

1945-04-07
Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns tha

1939-07-13
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie F

1949-11-18
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opp

1922-03-19
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a

1936-10-27
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
1923-10-01
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. T

1938-05-09
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.

1946-01-24
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to h

1935-09-30
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass

1944-07-18
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia

1935-10-20
After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job an

1919-06-30
Abby Hopkins, the eldest of a small-town newspaper-owner's five daughters, is urged by her family to

1924-05-24
Dissipated youth Tommy Hilgrade is sent to the lumber lands in the Northwest by his father who hopes

1918-10-01
Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by

1921-04-17
Unable to support her second child, a boy, Alice Baldwin gives him up to the wife of Edward Stevens,
1915-12-17

1939-11-24
A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.
1921-01-01
Unidentified prank film. Restored and released by Undercrank Productions.

1951-10-05
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.

1922-09-29
Andrew Kane, the spoiled and wayward son of once wealthy parents, vies with stockbroker James Surbru

1921-06-10
Marjorie Travers has vanished in Chinatown and and her older sister Gloria appeals to the Mayor for

1953-12-03
Trudy is incensed when her rent goes up after the city relaxes rent control. She marches down to the