Template:Multiple issuesDaniel Hall is a fictional character in the Sandman comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. An infant for the majority of the Sandman series, he is the son of Hippolyta 'Lyta' Hall and Hector Hall, borne for two years in the Dreaming (where the Halls were being held prisoner by Brute and Glob, two nightmares who had escaped during Dream's earthly exile). Hector Hall was a perennial DC character, son of Carter Hall (the Golden Age Hawkman), and has assumed many guises during his stay in the DC Universe, and was at one point the Sandman and hence he inherited the same identity in Gaiman's Sandman. Lyta was the daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman (later changed post-Crisis to a new "Golden Age Fury") and once a superheroine called the Fury whose powers were derived from Tisiphone. When her fellow members of Infinity, Inc. learned she was pregnant, she was forced to resign from active duty. Daniel, at the end of the Sandman series, becomes the new Dream of the Endless after the demise of his predecessor.
Noted 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.
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Purchased his home in Hollywood from then-rising star John Wayne.
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Suffered severe sleep deprivation while working on Dracula (1931). He would stay and lock himself in his studio overnight on the Universal lot.
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His 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.
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Painted landscapes /seascapes in his spare time.
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Spent 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.
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Arrived in the USA from Canada circa. 1910.
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Began 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.