Winter Hall


Winter Hall was a New Zealand actor of the silent era who later appeared in sound films. He performed in 127 films between 1916 and 1938. prior to that, he had a career as a stage actor in Australia the United States. In sound films, he was frequently typecast as a clergyman. Hall was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and died in Los Angeles, California. Hall was married to fellow-New Zealander, Katherine Young, a concert pianist. Their Australian-born son, Desmond Winter Hall, was a science fiction writer, magazine editor, and the author of I Give You Oscar Wilde, a novel about the nineteenth century dramatist and wit.

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