Actors - Arch Hall Jr.

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Arch Hall Jr. (born December 2, 1943) was a teen actor and musician who acted in a number of films in the 1960s, all of which were produced by his father Arch Hall Sr. Most of Arch Hall Jr.'s films feature his musical abilities, particularly a teenage tenor and swamp blues inflected, guitar riffs. Arch was also the frontman for the rock n' roll combo Arch Hall Jr. and the Archers. The band played Sunset Strip clubs such as the Whisky A Go-Go and Pandora's Box.

For the most part the films produced by the Halls and their associates, which at one point included cult director Ray Dennis Steckler, are considered B-movies. Arch's roles ranged from dunebuggy-driving teenager to a rock n' roll singing spy in a white dinner jacket.

It is perhaps Arch's second movie, 1962's Eegah
, which has won him the most recognition, due in part to the long-running television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 featuring the movie in an episode in 1993. Arch starred as Californian teenager Tom Nelson; his most notable co-star is 7'1" Richard Kiel who played the eponymous Eegah, a prehistoric caveman who happened to live in California's Palm Desert. The movie begins one night when Eegah meets Tom's upper class girlfriend Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) on a lonely stretch of highway near the desert.

In 1963's The Sadist Arch portrayed a psychopathic killer based in part on teenage murderer Charles Starkweather.

After his acting career Arch went on to become an airline pilot. In 1967 he went to work for Flying Tiger Airlines, the industry's foremost all-cargo carrier. Hall started as an apprentice co-pilot on the L-1049H and eventually became a Captain flying the Boeing 747. In 1989 Flying Tiger was purchased by FedEx and Arch flew the DC-10 until he retired in 2003. He is now flying again for a private company with businesses in the U.S. and Japan.

Arch has also written an action-packed novel Apsara Jet, which was published in 2001 under the pen name Nicolas Merriweather (a name often used by his father). The book draws on Arch's knowledge of both commercial airlines and South East Asia in telling the story of a Vietnam War vet who gets involved in the illegal drugs trade.

Arch Hall's anthology, Wild Guitar, was released on Norton Records . This twangy anthology, with liner notes and biography, collects the original '60s output of Arch Hall Jr. and the Archers, much of which was unreleased until now.

Filmography

(1961) The Choppers
(1962) Eegah
(1962) Wild Guitar
(1963) The Sadist
(1964) The Nasty Rabbit
(1965) Deadwood '76

Discography

(2005) Wild Guitar — recording as Arch Hall, Jr. and the Archers

Books

(2001) Apsara Jet — ISBN 0970886209; writing as Nicolas Merriweather

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