Creighton Hale (May 24, 1882 - August 9, 1965), born as Patrick Hale FitzGerald in County Cork, Ireland, was an American movie actor who worked in the silent film era.
While starring in Charles Frohman's Broadway production of Indian Summer, Hale was spotted by a representative of the Pathe Film Company. His first movie was The Exploits of Elaine. Since he rise to stardom, Hale starred in hit films such as Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, and The Cat and the Canary. In 1923 he starred in an early pornographic "stag" film "On the Beach" (a.k.a. "Getting His Goat"). In the film, three nude women agree to have sex with him, but only through a hole in the fence. The women trick him by backing up a goat to the hole in the fence. [1] However, when talkies came about, his career didn't hold up. He had very small roles in other major talking films such as Larceny, Inc., The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. His final film was the 1949 Bette Davis vehicle, Beyond the Forest. Hale married Kathleen Bering, the daughter of a Texas oil man, in Los Angeles in 1931.
He died in 1965 in South Pasadena, California, and was buried in Duncans Mills Cemetery, in Duncans Mills, N.California.
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