Creighton Hale (born Patrick Fitzgerald; 24 May 1882 â€" 9 August
1965) was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose
career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the
end of the 1950s.Born in County Cork, Ireland,[citation needed] Hale
was educated in Dublin and London, and later attended Ardingly College
in Sussex. He emigrated to America in 1910,[citation needed] with a
company headed by Gertrude Elliott. He was initially billed as Pat
Creighton Hale in the United States. Remaining in the country, he
acted in stock theater in Hartford, Indianapolis, and other cities.
While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian
Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film
Company.[citation needed] He eventually became known professionally as
Creighton Hale, although the derivation of those names remains
unknown. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine (1914). He starred
in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat
and the Canary.[citation needed]It was thought that in 1923 Hale
starred in an early pornographic "stag" film On the Beach (a.k.a.
Getting His Goat and The Goat Man). In the film, three nude women
agree to have sex with him, but only through a hole in a fence.
Photographs of the scene clearly show that the man in the film is not
Hale, but is another actor who also wore glasses.
1965) was an Irish-American theatre, film, and television actor whose
career extended more than a half-century, from the early 1900s to the
end of the 1950s.Born in County Cork, Ireland,[citation needed] Hale
was educated in Dublin and London, and later attended Ardingly College
in Sussex. He emigrated to America in 1910,[citation needed] with a
company headed by Gertrude Elliott. He was initially billed as Pat
Creighton Hale in the United States. Remaining in the country, he
acted in stock theater in Hartford, Indianapolis, and other cities.
While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian
Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film
Company.[citation needed] He eventually became known professionally as
Creighton Hale, although the derivation of those names remains
unknown. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine (1914). He starred
in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat
and the Canary.[citation needed]It was thought that in 1923 Hale
starred in an early pornographic "stag" film On the Beach (a.k.a.
Getting His Goat and The Goat Man). In the film, three nude women
agree to have sex with him, but only through a hole in a fence.
Photographs of the scene clearly show that the man in the film is not
Hale, but is another actor who also wore glasses.
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