Charles Daniel Hall Net Worth

Charles Daniel Hall Net Worth is
$10 Million

Charles Daniel Hall Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Charles D. Hall ( April 20, 1888 – April 8, 1970) was a British-American art director and production designer. He is perhaps best remembered for his tenure at Universal Pictures, where he began his career during the silent era. He was art director for many of Universal's most famous productions of the 1920s and '30's: The Phantom of the Opera (1925), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), the original Bela Lugosi Dracula (1931), the original Magnificent Obsession (1935), and the 1936 My Man Godfrey among them, as well as eleven films directed by James Whale, including the original Boris Karloff Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and the 1936 film version of Show Boat. Hall also worked on the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat, directed by Harry A. Pollard.Hall left Universal in the late 1930s and went to United Artists, where he worked for producer Hal Roach on such films as Topper Takes a Trip, the first of the two sequels to 1937's Topper. He then worked for a time on mostly B-films.Hall later moved into working in television. He ended his career as art director for the pioneering 1955 TV series Medic.Hall bought a house from John Wayne in which he lived until his death. From the late 1950s-60's Hall is known for his watercolor paintings.He was nominated for two Academy Awards, but neither nomination was for one of his famous films. They were for the films Captain Fury and Merrily We Live.

Date Of BirthApril 20, 1888
Died1970-01-01
Place Of BirthNorwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Height5' 3" (1.6 m)
ProfessionArt Director, Production Designer, Special Effects
Star SignTaurus
#Fact
1Noted exponent of low key set design, under contract at Universal 1923-37. Also worked for Chaplin (1925-31) and Hal Roach. With United Artists, 1938-49. Roach also occasionally worked at United Artists, sometimes with Hall.
2Purchased his home in Hollywood from then-rising star John Wayne.
3Suffered severe sleep deprivation while working on Dracula (1931). He would stay and lock himself in his studio overnight on the Universal lot.
4His great-grandnephew, Matthew Charles Hall, is the director of several horror films that were inspired by Charles. The short film In the Land of Phantoms (2008) is dedicated to his memory.
5Painted landscapes /seascapes in his spare time.
6Spent his early film career at Universal Pictures, but left in 1937. Carl Laemmle, Universal's founder, had recently been ousted from power, and Universal's new bosses had butchered James Whale's film The Road Back (1937), on which Hall had served as production designer. The bosses had caved in to pressure from the Nazis, who had threatened to have this anti-Nazi film, based on a German novel, boycotted overseas if its content was not toned down.
7Arrived in the USA from Canada circa. 1910.
8Began his career with Fred Karno's music hall troupe in England as a scenic designer. Later worked with fellow British music hall veterans Charles Chaplin as production designer from 1918 to 1936, and with Stan Laurel on two films in 1940.

Art Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Outcasts of the City1958as Daniel Hall
The Unearthly1957as Daniel Hall
Ethel Barrymore Theater1956TV Series 1 episode
Desert Sands1955as Daniel Hall
Medic1954-1955TV Series 18 episodes
The Man Behind the Badge1955TV Series 5 episodes
Treasury Men in Action1954-1955TV Series 17 episodes
TV Reader's Digest1955TV Series 4 episodes
Dear Phoebe1954TV Series 1 episode
The Steel Cage1954as Daniel Hall
The World Dances1954Documentary as Daniel Hall
Top Banana1954as Danny Hall
Police Call1954TV Series 1 episode
Appointment in Honduras1953
Marry Me Again1953as Daniel Hall
The Loretta Young Show1953TV Series 1 episode
The Moonlighter1953as Dan Hall
The Blue Gardenia1953as Daniel Hall
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd1952as Daniel Hall
Ruby Gentry1952as Dan Hall
Schlitz Playhouse1952TV Series 9 episodes
Red Snow1952as Daniel Hall
Red Planet Mars1952
Japanese War Bride1952as Danny Hall
The Fighter1952as Daniel Hall
China Smith1952TV Series 3 episodes
Gruen Guild Theater1951TV Series 1 episode
Journey Into Light1951as Danny Hall
Stars Over Hollywood1951TV Series 19 episodes
Two Lost Worlds1951as Danny Hall
The Bogus Green1951TV Movie as Daniel Hall
The Vicious Years1950
The Flying Saucer1950
Two Knights from Brooklyn1949
There's a Girl in My Heart1949as Daniel Hall
Not Wanted1949
Shamrock Hill1949as Danny Hall
An Old-Fashioned Girl1949as Daniel Hall
Yanks Ahoy1943as Chas. D. Hall
Nazty Nuisance1943
Taxi, Mister1943
Prairie Chickens1943as Charles Hall
Calaboose1943
Two Mugs from Brooklyn1942
Fall In1942
The Devil with Hitler1942Short
Flying with Music1942
Brooklyn Orchid1942as Charles Hall
Hay Foot1942
Fiesta1941
All-American Co-Ed1941
Niagara Falls1941
Tanks a Million1941
Road Show1941
Saps at Sea1940
One Million B.C.1940
A Chump at Oxford1940
The Housekeeper's Daughter1939
Captain Fury1939
Zenobia1939
Topper Takes a Trip1938
There Goes My Heart1938
Swiss Miss1938
Merrily We Live1938
The Road Back1937
Hats Off1936as Danny Hall
My Man Godfrey1936
Nobody's Fool1936
Show Boat1936
Next Time We Love1936
Magnificent Obsession1935
The Great Impersonation1935
East of Java1935
Remember Last Night?1935
Diamond Jim1935
Bride of Frankenstein1935
It Happened in New York1935
Night Life of the Gods1935
The Good Fairy1935
There's Always Tomorrow1934
Imitation of Life1934
One More River1934
I Give My Love1934
Love Birds1934
The Black Cat1934
Affairs of a Gentleman1934
Little Man, What Now?1934
I'll Tell the World1934
Glamour1934
The Poor Rich1934
Madame Spy1934
Counsellor at Law1933
By Candlelight1933
King for a Night1933
The Invisible Man1933
Ladies Must Love1933as Danny Hall
Don't Bet on Love1933as Chas. D. Hall
Horse Play1933
The Kiss Before the Mirror1933
The World Gone Mad1933as Daniel Hall
The Vampire Bat1933as Daniel Hall
Merry-Go-Round1932uncredited
The Crusader1932as Daniel Hall
Back Street1932uncredited
Scandal for Sale1932
The Impatient Maiden1932
Murders in the Rue Morgue1932
The Land of Oz, a Sequel to the 'Wizard of Oz'1932as Danny Hall
Frankenstein1931
The Spirit of Notre Dame1931
Waterloo Bridge1931
East of Borneo1931
Up for Murder1931
Iron Man1931
Dracula1931/II
Dracula1931/I
The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa1930
All Quiet on the Western Front1930
Tarzan the Tiger1929
The Last Performance1929
The Love Trap1929
Melody Lane1929
Broadway1929
Show Boat1929
The Kid's Clever1929
The Last Warning1929
Lonesome1928
The Man Who Laughs1928
The Circus1928uncredited
Uncle Tom's Cabin1927
The Cat and the Canary1927
Sensation Seekers1927
The Cheerful Fraud1926
The Cohens and Kellys1926
The Phantom of the Opera1925uncredited
Bag and Baggage1923
The Pilgrim1923uncredited
Pay Day1922/IShort uncredited
The Idle Class1921Short uncredited
The Kid1921uncredited

Production Designer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Desert Sands1955
Big House, U.S.A.1955
Shield for Murder1954
Modern Times1936uncredited
Only Yesterday1933
A Woman of the Sea1926
The Gold Rush1925uncredited
The Professor1919Short uncredited
A Day's Pleasure1919Short uncredited
Sunnyside1919Short uncredited
Shoulder Arms1918uncredited
The Bond1918Short
A Dog's Life1918Short uncredited

Special Effects

TitleYearStatusCharacter
What Next, Corporal Hargrove?1945assistant: A. Arnold Gillespie - uncredited
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes1945special effects - as Danny Hall
Son of Lassie1945special effects - as Danny Hall
Without Love1945special effects - as Danny Hall
Mrs. Parkington1944special effects - as Danny Hall
Captain Caution1940special effects photography designed by

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Man Who Laughs1928technical director
The Gold Rush1925technical director - uncredited
The Lying Truth1922technical director

Visual Effects

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dragon Seed1944miniatures - uncredited
The Heavenly Body1944miniatures - uncredited

Art Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Old Dark House1932interior designer - uncredited
The Hunchback of Notre Dame1923/Iassistant art director - uncredited

Set Decorator

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Modern Times1936settings
City Lights1931settings

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
In the Land of Phantoms2008Video short in memory of

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1940OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Art DirectionCaptain Fury (1939)
1939OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Art DirectionMerrily We Live (1938)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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