His first film role was in the 1899 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He was the father of actor Alan Hale, Jr., best known as "the Skipper" on television's Gilligan's Island. His wife of over thirty years was Gretchen Hartman (1897–1979), a child actress and silent film player and mother of their three children. (Febru– January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. Hale was, in so many ways, an actor's actor, who could do more with a single reaction shot than most actors could do with a soliloquy, Like many of the actors in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, Hale was really too American to play Little John (a role he did three times in his career), but you don't notice because he and his fellow Yank in the film, Eugene Palette, are just so good and such perfect embodiments of their characters.Alan Hale, Sr. While Hale was generally Flynn's side-kick, in one of their films the latter kills the former ( THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, and in another Hale plays Flynn's father (and dies: GENTLEMAN JIM). Of course, both men were under contract to Warners which, like all studios, tried to maximize use of their players. Yeah, they REALLY hated Ida Lupino and those "doors" in THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT!! He did a combination vertical-horizontal double take that was priceless, often followed by that delightful chortling laugh of his. Even though he played Little John in the Fairbanks silent, it was the Flynn picture that really brought Hale out of his shell and became a very much beloved figure to moviegoers. For most of his silent films and pre-Warner talkies he was more or less a villain. Hale was a notorious scene-stealer and Flynn actually loved his upstaging antics.
They just had great chemistry and Flynn probably asked for Hale whenever the role was right.
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