Haunted by Hales

If you spend enough time studying someone you start to see his likeness everywhere...

Here are a few of the characters/actors whose performances have reminded me of Sonnie Hale at one point or another in his life:

• John Van Eyssen as 'Hewitt' of the Foreign Office in "Carlton Browne of the F.O.", 1959
• From http://www.listal.com/john-van-eyssen

• Prince William on a Royal Wedding souvenir mug from David Bradbury China (what can I say? that Sonnie gets everywhere!)
• From http://www.davidbradburychina.co.uk/product.php?xProd=53&xSec=1

• Roger May as 'Father' in the 2010 play "The Railway Children"
• From http://cdn.techietalk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Railway-Children2_courtesy-of-AKA_.jpg

• Marius Goring (on the right) as 'Julian Craster' in "The Red Shoes", 1948 and as 'Reggie' in "The Flying Dutchman", 1951
• From http://www.silverwhistle.co.uk/cinema/CinemaPics/Boris_Julian.jpg

• Jimmy Hanley (on the left) as 'Peter Rogers' in "Murder in Reverse", 1945
• From http://legacyeditorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=3382366&cdi=0

• Ben Welden as 'Washington Roosevelt Lincoln' in "His Lordship", 1932
• From http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Ben%20Welden.jpg
  (Compare with http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87241/caricature-sonnie-hale-in-the-perfect/?print=1)

• John Meillon as 'Bedford' in "The Valiant", 1962
• From http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/Rovers/44.jpg

• Walter Catlett (on the right) as 'Benjy Baker' in "Platinum Blonde", 1931
• From http://www.notrecinema.com/images/cache/la-blonde-platine-wallpaper_7396_8237.jpg
  Oddly enough, Catlett had been the original 'Watty Watkins' in "Lady Be Good", the role in which Sonnie starred in a much-lauded revival in 1956.

• A young Franklin Pangborn as 'Howard Drake' in "The Cradle-Snatchers", 1927
• From http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c109/john91722/franklinpangborn.jpg

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