British postcard. (American) Pathé Freres.
Creighton Hale (1882–1965) was an Irish-American stage, screen, and TV actor, whose career spanned more than half a century, from the early 1900s to the end of the 1950s. Born Patrick Fitzgerald in County Cork, Ireland, Hale moved to the US with a troupe of actors and was spotted on Broadway by a Pathé representative. From 1914, Hale worked under his new name at Pathé, having his breakthrough with the serial The Exploits of Elaine (1914), followed by the subsequent Pathé serials The New Exploits of Elaine, The Romance of Elaine, and The Iron Claw. He also provided comic sidenotes to D.W. Griffith's prestigious dramas Way Down East (1920) and Orphans of the Storm (1921), while he was Florence Vidor's unlucky suitor in the comedy The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924), the comic hero in the horror comedy The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, 1927), and the male lead in Benjamin Christensen's Seven Footprints to Satan (1929), released both as silent film and part-talkie.
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