Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 106 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, and died in Tiburon, California.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Just Show Folks
2022
A day in the life of a family of circus performers.

Frisco Jenny
1933
as Willie Gleason
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the ...

Sporting Blood
1931
as Bill Ludeking
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

Too Many Cooks
1931
as Frank Andrews
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Soup to Nuts
1930
as Mr. D. Quincy Throckmorton
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for...

Oh, Sailor, Behave!
1930
Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality....

What Men Want
1930
as Bunch
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

Holiday
1930
as Seton Cram
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Back Pay
1930
as Al Bloom
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

Wedding Rings
1929
as Wilfred Meadows
Two sisters battle for the love of a man.

So Long Letty
1929
as Clarence de Brie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets ...

Tonight at Twelve
1929
as Bill Warren
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry ...

Paris Bound
1929
as Peter
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a...

Black Waters
1929
as Chester
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.

Stolen Kisses
1929
as Hal Lambert
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-h...

Fancy Baggage
1929
as Diuckey
In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complication...

The Little Wildcat
1928
as Victor Sargeant
A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In...

Her Wild Oat
1927
as Tommy Warren
In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, wh...

Ladies Must Dress
1927
as Art
Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talkin...

No Place to Go
1927
as Ambrose Munn
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.

Naughty But Nice
1927
as Ralph Ames
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first...

Ladies at Play
1926
as Terry
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man...

Forever After
1926
as Jack Randall
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.

Free to Love
1925
as Jack Garner
An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minister. Trouble ensues when a criminal gang catch up ...
Seven Days
1925
as Tom Harbison
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is comp...

Stop Flirting
1925

The Monster
1925
as Amos Rugg
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

The White Sin
1924
as Spencer Van Gore
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an...

Sporting Youth
1924
as Walter Berg
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Ro...

Going Up
1923
as Hopkinson Brown
Going Up (1923)

Are You a Failure?
1923
as Emmett Graves
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follo...
The Kingdom Within
1922
as Will Preston
Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger

One Week of Love
1922
as Francis Fraser
Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.

Up and at 'Em
1922
as Bob Everett

Rose o' the Sea
1922
as Roger Walton
Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York. Her lack of guile and sophist...

Her Night of Nights
1922
as Ted Bradley (as Hal Cooley)
Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping cler...

Beauty's Worth
1922
as Henry Garrison
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disda...

Playing with Fire
1921
as Kent Lloyd
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society gi...

What Do Men Want?
1921
as Yost
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor...

The Foolish Age
1921
as Homer Dean Chadwick
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an ...

An Old Fashioned Boy
1920
as Fredie (as Hal Cooley)
David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals the...

A Light Woman
1920
as Paul Evans
Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. ...

Trumpet Island
1920
as Allen Marsh
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.

Pinto
1920
as Armand Cassel
When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never...

The Long Arm of Mannister
1919
as Gaston Sinclair
Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued ...

Upstairs
1919
as Harrison Perry
While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz ...

One of the Finest
1919
as Teddy
Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a ...

Happy Though Married
1919
as Jim Montjoy

The Girl Dodger
1919
as Harry Travistock

The Brass Bullet
1918
as The Mystery Man
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial

The Deciding Kiss
1918
as Jimmy Sears
The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich o...

A Dog Catcher's Love
1917
as F.P. Ketchum - Film Director
The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck...