36-722: (Redirected from Mike Hall ) Michael or Mike Hall may refer to: Performing arts [ edit ] Michael Hall (actor, born 1926) (1926–2020), American actor Michael Hall (English musician) (1932–2012), English violinist and conductor Anthony Michael Hall (Michael Anthony Hall, born 1968), American actor Michael Hall (Texas musician) (fl. 1985–present), American singer-songwriter Michael C. Hall (born 1971), American actor Mike Hall (bassist) (born 1989), American bassist Politics [ edit ] Michael H. Hall (1890–1957), Wisconsin state assemblyman Mike Hall (West Virginia politician) (born 1948), member of
72-417: A Holiday (1934); Les Misérables (1935) with Charles Laughton ; Anna Karenina (1935) with Greta Garbo ; Anthony Adverse (1936) with Olivia de Havilland ; and as the original Norman Maine in A Star is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor , for which he received his third Academy Award nomination. March resisted signing long-term contracts with the studios, enabling him to play roles in films from
108-619: A Hollywood great who "rejected the Hollywood studio system" and "built a brilliant stage and film career" despite lacking the "instant name recognition" of contemporaries like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant . March is also remembered for his later character roles such as those in Inherit the Wind , Seven Days in May , and The Iceman Cometh , roles he played during what was considered a downturn in his film career at
144-399: A Salesman (1951). March gained popularity after establishing himself with leading man roles in films such as Honor Among Lovers (1931), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), Design for Living (1933), Death Takes a Holiday , The Barretts of Wimpole Street (both 1934), Les Misérables , Anna Karenina , The Dark Angel (all 1935), Nothing Sacred (1937), and I Married
180-478: A Witch (1942). His later film roles include Executive Suite , The Bridges at Toko-Ri (both 1954), The Desperate Hours (1955), Inherit the Wind (1960), and Seven Days in May (1964). He made his final film appearance in The Iceman Cometh (1973). March was also known for his stage roles; he made his Broadway debut in the play The Melody Man (1926), and during his stage career he twice won
216-520: A character in a British soap opera Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Michael Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Hall&oldid=1223208136 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
252-777: A devout Presbyterian Church elder who worked in the wholesale hardware business. March attended the Winslow Elementary School (established in 1855), Racine High School , and the University of Wisconsin–Madison , where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi . March served in the United States Army during World War I as an artillery lieutenant. He began a career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to re-evaluate his life and, in 1920, he began working as an "extra" in movies made in New York City, using
288-549: A friend and traveling companion of the heiress Doris Duke . According to Hall, the character he played in Best Years of Our Lives was not developed further because his contract ended in the middle of filming, and Samuel Goldwyn refused to pay extra to rehire him. In a 1947 interview with the Boston Globe , Hall told the newspaper that he didn't really enjoy acting and would rather be a rancher . He said that he acted because he
324-499: A gallery at 6 East 79th Street. His early mentors in art collecting included Wilhelm Valentiner and John Pope-Hennessy . He ran his gallery from what has been described as "a series of progressively larger apartments and townhouses that he occupied on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, each of them filled to bursting with his ever-growing collections." Pieces from his collections would be included in exhibits and museums such as
360-473: A role modeled on John Barrymore . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 5th Academy Awards in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (tied with Wallace Beery for The Champ , although March accrued one more vote than Beery ). This led to roles in a series of classic films based on stage hits and classic novels like Design for Living (1933) with Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins ; Death Takes
396-414: A shortened form of his mother's maiden name. He appeared on Broadway in 1926, and by the end of the decade, he signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures . "March's special ability was to suggest genuine mental pain. As a portrayer of tortured and distressed men, he has no equal. The complete physical control which allows him convincingly to sag, stoop and collapse is assisted by a face suggesting at
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#1732863216529432-657: A variety of studios. He returned to Broadway after a ten-year absence in 1937 with a notable flop, Yr. Obedient Husband , but after the success of Thornton Wilder 's The Skin of Our Teeth , he focused as much on Broadway as on Hollywood . He won two Best Actor Tony Awards : in 1947 for the play Years Ago , written by Ruth Gordon , and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill 's Long Day's Journey Into Night . He also had major successes in A Bell for Adano in 1944 and Gideon in 1961, and he played in Ibsen's An Enemy of
468-417: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michael Hall (actor, born 1926) Maurice Everett Hall Jr. , known professionally as Michael Hall (September 7, 1926 – May 24, 2020) was an American actor who later was an art dealer and collector. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Rob Stephenson, the son of Fredric March 's character in
504-683: The 26th Annual Academy Awards ceremony from New York City, with co-host Donald O'Connor in Los Angeles. March's neighbor in Connecticut, playwright Arthur Miller , was thought to favor March to inaugurate the part of Willy Loman in the Pulitzer Prize –winning Death of a Salesman (1949). However, March read the play and turned down the role, whereupon director Elia Kazan cast Lee J. Cobb as Willy and Arthur Kennedy as one of Willy's sons, Biff Loman . Cobb and Kennedy were two actors with whom
540-661: The Army Air Forces based in Denver. Hall won the declamation contest at Denver High School in 1943, and in 1947 the Boston Globe reported that he was attending the University of California at Los Angeles . Hall also said that he didn't like girls his age and found Radcliffe undergraduates to be "typical giggly undergraduates." He said that he preferred older women but that they did not like him. Studio publicity called his mother "his best pal." Later in life he reportedly became
576-620: The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the hunt for Communists in the film community. In July 1940, he was among a number of individuals who were questioned by a HUAC subcommittee which was led by Representative Martin Dies Jr. Later, in 1948, he and his wife sued the anti-communist publication Counterattack for defamation , seeking $ 250,000 in damages. The suit was settled out of court. March died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles on April 14, 1975, at
612-735: The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play , for his performances in the Ruth Gordon play Years Ago (1947) and in Eugene O'Neill 's Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). He and Helen Hayes are the only actors to have won both the Academy Award and the Tony Award twice. March was born in Racine, Wisconsin , the son of Cora Brown Marcher (1863–1936), a schoolteacher from England, and John F. Bickel (1859–1941),
648-691: The Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He was considered an expert in Renaissance and mannerist sculpture. Hall died at his home in Miami Beach, Florida , on May 24, 2020. He was survived by his husband, Thomas Malmberg. Fredric March Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel ; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975)
684-551: The 1950s. His last credited role as an actor was in a 1960 episode of Johnny Midnight . Hall's friendship with the actress Marion Davies granted him access to William Randolph Hearst's art collection as it was being dissolved. He thus was able to acquire early Chinese stone sculptures and "the purported marriage bed of the 16th-century Florentine noblewoman Maria Salviati, on which Hall subsequently slept for many years." In 1963, following his acting career, Hall moved to New York City to work as an art collector and dealer, opening
720-482: The 1960 Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind , in which he played a dramatized version of famous orator and political figure William Jennings Bryan . March's Bible-thumping character provided a rival for Tracy's Clarence Darrow -inspired character. In the 1960s, March's film career continued with a performance as President Jordan Lyman in the political thriller Seven Days in May (1964) in which he co-starred with Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , and Edmond O'Brien ;
756-607: The People on Broadway in 1951. During this period, he also starred in films, including I Married a Witch (1942) and Another Part of the Forest (1948). March won his second Oscar in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives . March also branched out into television, winning Emmy nominations for his third attempt at The Royal Family for the series The Best of Broadway as well as for television performances as Samuel Dodsworth and Ebenezer Scrooge . On March 25, 1954, March co-hosted
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#1732863216529792-1348: The West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates Mike Hall (British politician) (born 1952), Labour member of Parliament Science [ edit ] Michael B. Hall (fl. 1966–present), American chemist Michael N. Hall (born 1953), American and Swiss molecular biologist Sports [ edit ] Michael Hall (cricketer) (1935–2019), English cricketer Mike Hall (powerlifter) (born 1956), American powerlifter Mike Hall (rugby union) (born 1965), Welsh rugby union international Mike Hall (speed skater) (born 1970), Canadian speed skater Michael Hall (archer) (born 1975), British Paralympic archer Mike Hall (cyclist) (1981–2017), British cyclist and race organiser Mike Hall (sportscaster) (born 1982), American sportscaster Mike Hall (basketball) (born 1984), American-Irish basketball player Michael Hall Jr. (born 2003), American football player Others [ edit ] Michael G. Hall (born 1926), American historian Mike Hall (journalist) (born 1974), British journalist Schools [ edit ] Michael Hall (school) , independent school in East Sussex, England See also [ edit ] Mickey Hall ( Emmerdale ) ,
828-463: The age of 29, and by the end of the decade, he had signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures . He made seven pictures in 1929. He went on to receive two Academy Awards , for his performances in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). His other Oscar-nominated performances were in the films The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), A Star is Born (1937), and Death of
864-461: The age of 77. He was buried at his estate in New Milford, Connecticut . March is regarded as one of the most eminent Hollywood actors of the 1930s and 1940s. Critic and Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz opined that "two actors from Hollywood’s golden age really stand in a tier above the rest ... Spencer Tracy and Fredric March". Boston Globe writer Joan Wickersham described March as
900-427: The collegiate organization was named, the (later national) KKK was a small regional organization. As the national KKK became better known, the collegiate organization changed its name in 1922. False rumors based on a misunderstanding of the organization of which March was a member were spread on social media and alleged that March was a white supremacist . The 500-seat theater at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
936-606: The director had worked in the film Boomerang (1947). March later regretted turning down the role and finally played Willy Loman in Columbia Pictures 's 1951 film version of the play , directed by Laslo Benedek . March earned his fifth and final Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe Award . He also played one of two leads in The Desperate Hours (1955) with Humphrey Bogart . Bogart and Spencer Tracy had both insisted upon top billing, and Tracy withdrew, leaving
972-453: The film The Best Years of Our Lives . Hall was born Maurice Everett Hall Jr. on September 7, 1926, in Wichita, Kansas the only child of Maurice Everette Hall, Sr. (1897–1959) and Vera Elizabeth Bray Hall (1901–1994). His father worked in the petroleum industry and the family moved between California and Missouri during his childhood. In 1947, Maurice Sr. was reported to be a Major in
1008-552: The part available for March. In 1957, March was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for "distinguished contribution to the art of film". On February 12, 1959, March appeared before a joint session of the 86th United States Congress , reading the Gettysburg Address as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln 's birth. March co-starred with Spencer Tracy in
1044-694: The part earned March a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor. March made several spoken word recordings, including a version of Oscar Wilde 's The Selfish Giant issued in 1945 in which he narrated and played the title role, and The Sounds of History , a twelve volume LP set accompanying the twelve volume set of books The Life History of the United States , published by Time-Life . The recordings were narrated by Charles Collingwood , with March and his wife Florence Eldridge performing dramatic readings from historical documents and literature. Following surgery for prostate cancer in 1970, it seemed his career
1080-589: The philanthropist Wallis Annenberg and the actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston . Throughout his life, March and Eldridge were supporters of the Democratic Party . In July 1936, March co-founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL) , along with the writers Dorothy Parker and Donald Ogden Stewart , the director Fritz Lang , and the composer Oscar Hammerstein . In 1938, March was one of many Hollywood personalities who were investigated by
1116-436: The same time both intelligence and sensitivity"—Australian-born film historian John Baxter . Like Laurence Olivier , March had a rare protean quality to his acting that allowed him to assume almost any persona convincingly, from Robert Browning to William Jennings Bryan to Dr Jekyll - or Mr. Hyde. He received an Oscar nomination for the 4th Academy Awards in 1930 for The Royal Family of Broadway , in which he played
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1152-571: The time. March was briefly a member of an interfraternity society composed of leading students formed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1919 and 1920 named the Ku Klux Klan which is not believed to have been affiliated with the notorious organization of that name. In actuality, March was an outspoken proponent of the civil rights movement for five decades, and worked closely with the NAACP . When
1188-574: Was "good at it," and that he had just turned down an offer to do a film in Great Britain for the Rank Organization . Hall said that he hoped to appear on Broadway in Hamlet or L'Aiglon . In addition to The Best Years of Our Lives , Hall had credited roles in three films, The Last Musketeer , Black Hills Ambush , and Blood of Dracula . He also appeared in numerous television programs in
1224-473: Was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards , a Golden Globe Award , and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards . March began his career in 1920, by working as an extra in movies filmed in New York City. He made his stage debut on Broadway in 1926 at
1260-613: Was formerly named after March. The University of Wisconsin–Madison had named the 168-seat at the Memorial Union as the Fredric March Play Circle Theater ; however, in 2018, his name was removed, after student protests following reports of March's membership in a student fraternal organization calling itself Ku Klux Klan. UW–Oshkosh pulled March's name from what is now the Theatre Arts Center shortly before
1296-538: Was over; yet, he managed to give one last performance in The Iceman Cometh (1973) as the complicated Irish saloon keeper, Harry Hope. March was married to actress Florence Eldridge from 1927 until his death in 1975, and they had two adopted children. They appeared in seven films together, the last being Inherit the Wind . March and Eldridge commissioned Wallace Neff to build their house in Ridgeview Drive , Bel Air , in 1934. It has subsequently been owned by
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