Al K. Hall

born: 29 May 1882 Paris, France

died: (after 19 May 1950) (age >62)

French-born actor and vaudevillian with a punny stage name. During 1915-16, he performed alongside Don Barclay as the featured comedians in the "Maids of America" show. He immigrated with his family from his native France to the United States in his early youth; on his 1943 petition for naturalization, he guesstimates that his arrival was in 1886, while a pair of existing passenger lists seem to point to 1887. Al married Carrie Kupfer (b. 1889; d. after 1950), known on stage as "Dainty Carrie Cooper," on 6 December 1906 in Washington, D.C. They had three children: Al K. Hall, Jr. (Alfred Kenneth Hall, 1916-1980), Roy Edwin Hall (1924-1972), and Eileen M. Hall (m. Sundstrom, 1930-2018), all of whom followed their parents into the entertainment business; Al, Jr. also became a noted pilot, and Eileen later joined the theatrical travel agency Pickwick Travel and then became a real estate agent.

Real name: Rafeal Kahn Height: 5'8½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter Suspect MISCELLANEOUS (click any image to enlarge) Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSV-P9S7 (1887 pass. list) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSV-PMRX (1887 pass. list) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWMQ-BTB (1906 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL7N-JYL (1906 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9T8-LDM (1915 NY Census) https://archive.org/search?query=%22al+k+hall%22+%22don+barclay%22&sin=TXT&sort=date&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1915+TO+1916%5D ('Maids of America' with Barclay) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WXYP-59W2 (WWI draft reg. card) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJR2-83F (1920 Census) https://archive.org/details/nvasouvenir192307nati/page/n15/mode/1up?view=theater (National Vaudeville Artists Souvenir, 13 May 1923) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19240601.1.46 (Illustrated Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 01 Jun 1924) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19240608.1.16 (Illustrated Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 08 Jun 1924) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAEVEX19260109-02.1.18 (Los Angeles Evening Express, 09 Jan 1926) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4VL-P5P (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CR-WKH (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4DC-125 (WWII draft reg. card) Rafeal Kahn, "California, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1888-1991" (Ancestry.com) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXQ3-JGK (CA Nat. Index) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H3Q-V64 (1945 pass. list) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H3Q-JN8 (1945 pass. list) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WBTD-L9W2 (1946 pass. list) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XT1-2FNN (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K4Q-JZ22 (Social Security Numident File) Alfred Kahn Hall, "Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents" (Ancestry.com) https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vaudeville-vintage-signed-photo-al-4842693736 (signed photo) https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/al-k-hall-snr-as-a-down-and-out-in-the-film-you-only-live-news-photo/3299917 (photo from 'You Only Live Once,' 1937) https://libarchives.utdallas.edu/repositories/2/resources/71 ("Al K. Hall, Jr. Collection," University of Texas at Dallas -- includes bio of son Al K. Hall, Jr.) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K82F-NPX (son Roy Edwin Hall's 1st marriage, 1943) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8K7-8QT (son Roy Edwin Hall's 2nd marriage, 1946) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K368-SSD (son Roy Edwin Hall's death certificate, 1972) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMJT-BDSK (daughter Eileen Hall Sundstrom's obituary, 2018) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in The Housekeeper's Daughter) This page was last updated on: 21 September 2025