Randolph Hale

born: 26 July 1909 San Francisco, California, United States of America

died: 09 August 1974 Van Nuys, California, United States of America (cancer, age 65)

American actor and theatrical producer. He was the son of Marshall Hale, founder of the Hale Brothers Department Store in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Harvard University before pursuing a principally stage-based acting then producing career. In the early 1930s, he ran a stock company with Ferdinand Munier in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was married to Marjorie Lord (with whom he shares a birthday) from 1958 to his passing in 1974.

Real name: Randolph Miller Hale Height: 6'1½"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1930 Fast Work Nightclub patron 1930 Dollar Dizzy Hotel desk clerk Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGF4-WFC3 (WWII draft reg. card) https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/97FF-MB6 (family tree, FamilySearch.org) https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/memories/97FF-MB6 (family tree, FamilySearch.org) https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/11/archives/randolph-hale.html (New York Times obituary) https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1974-08-14_276_1/page/n54/mode/1up?q=%22randolph+hale%22 (Variety, 14 Aug 1974) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DNLA19301115.1.20 (Illustrated Daily News [Los Angeles, CA], 15 Nov 1930) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-may-1931/page/276/mode/1up?q=%22randolph+hale%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Mar 1931) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-jun-1931/page/270/mode/1up?q=%22randolph+hale%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Jun 1931) https://www.ebay.com/itm/176420046720 (1937 press photo) https://www.ebay.com/itm/176420046864 (1937 press photo) https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22randolph+hale%22&sort=date&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1929+TO+2017%5D (Internet Archive, search) https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/randolph-hale-23521 (IBDb) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in Fast Work, Dollar Dizzy) This page was last updated on: 03 April 2026