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- George Hall (November 19, 1916 – October 21, 2002) was a Canadian theatre, television, and film actor. He had an over 50-year career as a Broadway character actor, making his Broadway debut in 1946 and working steadily in New York theatrical productions for decades thereafter.
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George Hall (November 19, 1916 – October 21, 2002) was a Canadian theatre, television, and film actor. He had an over 50-year career as a Broadway character actor, making his Broadway debut in 1946 and working steadily in New York theatrical productions for decades thereafter.
George Hall was born on 19 November 1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Remember WENN (1996), Big Daddy (1999) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992). He was married to Cordelia. He died on 21 October 2002 in Hawthorne, New York, USA.
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Hawthorne, New York, USA
George Hall was born on November 19, 1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Remember WENN (1996), Big Daddy (1999) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992). He was previously married to Cordelia. He died on October 21, 2002 in Hawthorne, New York, USA.
- November 19, 1916
- October 21, 2002
- Overview
- Appearances as Old Indy
- Notes and references
- External links
George Hall (November 19, 1916 – October 21, 2002) was an actor who played Old Indy in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
In preproduction meetings for the series, George Lucas indicated his desire to have Old Indy boast a facial scar and eyepatch, "but gave no backstory for the decision", though Hall chose which eye would be covered and stated that Lucas gave him no direct suggestions for playing the character beyond his physical appearance. Despite "an intense scrutiny" of how Harrison Ford portrayed the role and initially adapting some of his facial expressions, Hall "felt artificial" and ultimately avoided using Ford's mannerisms, advising his co-stars Corey Carrier and Sean Patrick Flanery to do the same in relation to him:
They shouldn't look to me, because I'm a life they don't even know. I've experienced their lives; they haven't experienced mine. That would be imposing something upon them that would be totally foreign to them.
To that end, Hall instead offered his own interpretation of Indy at this point in his life:
He's heroic in the sense that he's past the age of caring whether people appreciate what he's saying or not. He's old enough to know that truisms are truisms and should be believed because they are true. He's a good storyteller and he makes people want to listen to him and learn from listening to him. And then they go off and learn something else and continue the process of learning.
During the original run of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Hall was featured in bookend segments for most of its episodes, including two ("Florence, May 1908" and "Transylvania, January 1918") which went unaired in the United States before the show was cancelled by ABC. Although this included bookends for the episodes "Chicago, April 1920" and "Chicago, May 1920" as shown in some territories, new bookends with Harrison Ford were shot so the two segments could be edited together and aired on ABC as the TV movie Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues. Similarly, Hall filmed bookends for "New York, June 1920" and "New York, July 1920," episodes which were edited together and aired as Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 without bookends.
••"London, May 1916"
•"British East Africa, September 1909"
•"Verdun, September 1916"
•"German East Africa, December 1916"
•"Congo, January 1917"
•"Austria, March 1917"
1.Stephens, Lynne. "The Old Indiana Jones Chronicles." Starlog #185 (December 1992), pp. 45-48, 65.
2.The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, On the Set and Behind the Scenes, pp. 22-24.
3.Young Indiana Jones - Mystery of the Blues Bookends
4.The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Chicago, April 1920"
5.The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Chicago, May 1920"
6.The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "New York, June 1920"
•George Hall at the Internet Movie Database
•George Hall on Wikipedia
Dec 1, 2002 · George Hall, a character actor who performed for more than six decades on Broadway and stages elsewhere, on television and in movies, died on Oct. 21 in Hawthorne, N.Y. He was 85 and lived in...
Nov 25, 2002 · George Hall, veteran character actor who appeared in more than 20 Broadway productions and in many TV, film and regional theater performances over his 60-year career, died Oct. 21 of...
Dec 2, 2002 · George Hall, 85, a character actor on stage, television and film last seen in this year's Broadway revival of "The Boys From Syracuse," died of a stroke Oct. 21 in Hawthorne, N.Y.
