Albert W. Hale

For the politician, see Albert Hale.

Albert W. Hale (January 1, 1882 – February 27, 1947)^[1][2] was a French-born American early film director and producer.^[3] He directed some 35 films from 1912 until 1915. He worked for Majestic Film Company studio,^[4][5] and the National Film Corporation.^[4]

The No Account Count (1914)

Background

Hale was born in Bordeaux, France on January 1, 1882.^[6]

He married Julia F. Johnson.^[1]

Filmography

• The Birth of the Lotus Blossom (1912)
• For the Mikado (1912)^[7]
• Miss Taqu of Tokio, also called Miss Tagu of Tokio^[8] for the British release, (1912) with Tokuko Takagi, a Thanhouser film^[9]
• Letters of a Lifetime (1912)
• The Light of St. Bernard (1912)^[10]
• Three Girls and a Man (1912)
• Roland's Escapades^[11]
• Days of Terror (1912)
• Three Girls and a Man (1912)
• She Cried (film) (1912)
• The Irony of Fate (film) (1912)
• A Fortune in a Teacup
• A Persistent Lover (1912)
• Her Old Sweetheart (1912)
• Roland's Lucky Day
• Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913)
• An Accidental Clue (1913)
• The Iceman's Revenge (1913)
• A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1913)
• The Mystery of Tusa (1913) starring J. Warren Kerrigan^[12][13]
• Tom Blake's Redemption (1913)
• At the Half-Breed's Mercy (1913)
• Quicksands (1913), starring J. Warren Kerrigan^[14]
• Calamity Anne Takes a Trip (1913)
• A Husband's Mistake (1913)
• Reward of Courage (1913)
• Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913)
• The No Account Count (1914), Kalem
• Tough Luck Smith (1914)
• Fatty and the Shyster Lawyer (1914)
• The Widow's Might (1914)
• A Wise Rube (1914)
• Tough Luck Smith (1914)
• Percy Pimpernickel, Soubrette (1914), a Kalem film^[15][16]
• For the Love of Mike (1914)
• Jones' Wedding Day (1914)
• Easy Money (1914) from a story by Frank Howard Clark
• The Winking Zulu (1914)
• Was She a Vampire? (1915)

Producer

• The Prisoner of Zenda (1913)^[17]

References

1. Vazzana, Eugene Michael (May 3, 2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland. ISBN 9780786410590 – via Google Books.
2. "The Final Curtain". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. March 15, 1947 – via Google Books.
3. "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette". 1913.
4. "Exhibitors Contribute". Motography. May 3, 1916. p. 48 – via Google Books.
5. "The Moving Picture World". Chalmers Publishing Company. May 3, 1914 – via Google Books.
6. "HALE, Albert, W." www.thanhouser.org.
7. "FOR THE MIKADO". www.thanhouser.org.
8. Exley, Charles (2017). "Popular Musical Star Tokuko Takagi and Vaudeville Modernism in the Taishõ Asakusa Opera". Japanese Language and Literature. 51 (1): 63–90. JSTOR 44508506.
9. "Miss Tagu of Tokio". Motion Picture News. Vol. 6. Motion Picture News Incorporated. May 3, 1912. p. 30 – via Google Books.
10. "Albert W. Hale". BFI. Archived from the original on January 28, 2020.
11. McQuade, Jas S. (May 3, 1916). "Chicago News Letter". The Moving Picture World and View Photographer. World Photographic Publishing Company. p. 2119 – via Google Books.
12. "The Adventures of Jacques in Two Parts". Exhibitors' Times. W.A. Johnston. May 3, 1913 – via Google Books.
13. "The Mystery of Tusa". To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette. Amer. Company, Limited. May 3, 1913 – via Google Books.
14. The Moving Picture World, July 5, 1913{{full citation needed|date=November 2024}
15. Gifford, Denis (April 5, 1971). Science fiction film. Studio Vista. p. 136. ISBN 9780289700037 – via Google Books.
16. Torres, Sandy (May 3, 2004). Les temps recomposés du film de science-fiction [The recomposed times of the science fiction film] (in French). Presses Université Laval. p. 379. ISBN 9782747564557 – via Google Books.
17. "The Prisoner of Zenda". Turner Classic Movies.