Allan Hale — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Allan Hale [Alan Hale Sr.] is tall and broad, with pale blue eyes, a crinkley blonde pompadour and a bigness of manner that makes you believe him to be at least twenty-six years old, but he isn’t, he’s only twenty-one, ambitious and active, anxious to please and easy to be pleased.

Allan’s parents did not pick out dramatics, either screen or stage, as a calling for their son; it was Allan who did that. His parents decided that he should be an osteopath and when Allan had almost finished a course of instruction that would have given him the right to that title, he decided that fate had ordained him an actor and proceeded to so convince his parents.

He has a strong tenor voice and it served him well in his stage experience. Then he joined the advancing army of voiceless actors, has made a creditable name and place for himself in their ranks and, outside working hours, continues to cultivate his voice.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1913