---
name: "Grace Hayle"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/grace-hayle"
fi1m_id: "grace-hayle"
imdb_id: "nm0354916"
tmdb_id: 14030
wikidata_id: "Q3112993"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 July 1888"
died: "20 March 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:05:22.027777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Grace Hayle

## Identity

Grace Hayle

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/grace-hayle
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** grace-hayle
- **IMDb ID:** nm0354916
- **TMDB ID:** 14030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3112993
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hayle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3112993, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14030

Actor. Born 23 July 1888 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Died 20 March 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 July 1888, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 20 March 1963
- **Also known as:** Grace Hale
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 82 (1), 1940s 84 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hayle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3112993, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14030

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Great Dictator*](https://film.one/film/the-great-dictator.md) (80)

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## Biography

Grace Hayle (also credited as Grace Hale) was an American actress. She appeared as Madame Napaloni in Charlie Chaplin's *The Great Dictator* (1940).

She worked in more than 300 films between 1932 and 1957, most often in small or uncredited roles as society women, customers or comic foils. Among her other credits are *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940), *The Women* (1939) and *Don't Bother to Knock* (1952).

Hayle had earlier stage experience, appearing with the Knickerbocker Players in Philadelphia in 1917 and on Broadway in *Double Exposure* (1918) and *The Duchess Misbehaves* (1946). She was married to Agar and died in Los Angeles on 20 March 1963.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Great Dictator* (1940), Fi1m 80, as Madame Napaloni — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-dictator.md)

### Also credited (2) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940), Fi1m 88, as Plump Woman (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-around-the-corner.md)
- *Gold Diggers of 1933* (1933), Fi1m 82, as Society Reporter (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/gold-diggers-of-1933.md)

## Complete filmography (92)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Loving You* (1957), as Mrs. Gunderson (uncredited)
- *Foxfire* (1955), as Tourist (uncredited)
- *The Big Moment* (1954), as Agnes
- *Dangerous Mission* (1954), as Mrs. Alvord
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Gertrude Hanover
- *The Abbott and Costello Show* (1952), series, as Mrs. Lumpkins
- *Don't Bother to Knock* (1952), as Mrs. McMurdock (uncredited)
- *The Turning Point* (1952), as Mrs. Martin (uncredited)
- *Flesh and Fury* (1952), as Laughing Woman (uncredited)
- *Too Young to Kiss* (1951), as Woman Attending Audition (uncredited)
- *Murder in the Blue Room* (1944), as Dowager (Uncredited)
- *Beautiful But Broke* (1944), as Birdie Benson
- *True to Life* (1943), as Woman (uncredited)
- *Footlight Glamour* (1943), as Mrs. Cora Dithers
- *All by Myself* (1943), as Mrs. Stone
- *Slightly Dangerous* (1943), as Banana split customer (uncredited)
- *Madame Spy* (1942), as Heavyset Red Cross Woman
- *A Night to Remember* (1942), as Irate Tenant at Bruhl's Address (uncredited)
- *Two-Faced Woman* (1941), as Rhumba Dancer (uncredited)
- *New York Town* (1941), as Mrs. Bixby (uncredited)
- *West Point Widow* (1941), as Dowager
- *The Wagons Roll at Night* (1941), as Mrs. Grebnick (uncredited)
- *You're the One* (1941), as 2nd Woman in Ladies Steam Room
- *Remedy for Riches* (1940), as Investor in Line
- *The Great Dictator* (1940), as Madame Napaloni — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-dictator.md)
- *Third Finger, Left Hand* (1940), as Mrs. Kelland
- *Spring Parade* (1940), as Mrs. Burkhart
- *Wildcat Bus* (1940), as Fat Woman (uncredited)
- *Dr. Christian Meets the Women* (1940), as Tom's Wife
- *Maryland* (1940), as Mrs. Carrington
- *The Ghost Breakers* (1940), as Screaming Woman (uncredited)
- *Girl in 313* (1940), as Mrs. Hudson
- *'Til We Meet Again* (1940), as Fussy Woman Passenger (uncredited)
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1940), as Torsovitch (uncredited)
- *Road to Singapore* (1940), as Chaperone on Yacht (uncredited)
- *Primrose Path* (1940), as Drunk's Wife Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
- *Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!* (1940), as Mrs. Smythe (uncredited)
- *High School* (1940), as Miss Cummings
- *The Shop Around the Corner* (1940), as Plump Woman (uncredited) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shop-around-the-corner.md)
- *Charlie McCarthy, Detective* (1939), as Fat Woman
- *First Love* (1939), as Madame Margarita Catalini
- *Espionage Agent* (1939), as Mrs. O'Grady
- *The Women* (1939), as Cyclist (uncredited)
- *Coast Guard* (1939), as Stout Woman (uncredited)
- *Mr. Moto in Danger Island* (1939), as Mrs. Brown
- *Yes, My Darling Daughter* (1939), as Dibble's Customer
- *Boy Trouble* (1939), as Hefty Mother
- *Pacific Liner* (1939), as Fat Passenger (uncredited)
- *Next Time I Marry* (1938), as Fat Reporter (uncredited)
- *Arrest Bulldog Drummond* (1938), as Tourist
- *The Shining Hour* (1938), as Mrs. Briggs (uncredited)
- *Straight, Place and Show* (1938), as Stout Woman
- *Three Loves Has Nancy* (1938), as First Woman Getting Autograph (uncredited)
- *Tovarich* (1937), as Mrs. Van Hemert
- *Music for Madame* (1937), as Wedding Guest (Uncredited)
- *Topper* (1937), as Outraged Heavy Woman (uncredited)
- *Meet the Missus* (1937), as Mrs. Norton (uncredited)
- *Theodora Goes Wild* (1936), as Mrs. Cobb (uncredited)
- *Without Orders* (1936), as Fat Lady at Airport
- *Echo Mountain* (1936), as Mrs. Vandergulder
- *Ticket to Paradise* (1936), as Minnie Dawson
- *The Harvester* (1936), as Mrs. Kramer
- *The Moon's Our Home* (1936), as Miss Hambridge
- *Dancing Feet* (1936), as Mrs. Worthington
- *Mary Burns, Fugitive* (1935), as Nurse Jennie
- *Music Is Magic* (1935), as Laundry Manageress (uncredited)
- *She Married Her Boss* (1935), as Agnes Mayo (as Grace Hale)
- *Don't Bet on Blondes* (1935), as Matron Looking at Racing Sheet (Uncredited)
- *Front Page Woman* (1935), as Nell Bonnett (uncredited)
- *The Casino Murder Case* (1935), as Fat Lady at Auction (uncredited)
- *Roberta* (1935), as (uncredited)
- *Music in the Air* (1934), as Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
- *Outcast Lady* (1934), as First Gossiper
- *Chained* (1934), as Edith's Friend (uncredited)
- *Romance in the Rain* (1934), as Mrs. Crandall
- *Sing and Like It* (1934), as Miss Fishbeck - Little Theatre Stage Director
- *Laughing Boy* (1934), as Tourist from Cleveland
- *Bedside* (1934), as Mrs. Mason
- *Design for Living* (1933), as Woman on Staircase (uncredited)
- *Lady Killer* (1933), as Fido's Owner (uncredited)
- *Good-bye Love* (1933), as Lura 'Ducky' Groggs
- *Bombshell* (1933), as Mrs. Titcomb (uncredited)
- *Bureau of Missing Persons* (1933), as Lady Who Wants Her Cook Back (uncredited)
- *Mary Stevens, M.D.* (1933), as Wealthy Fat Lady (uncredited)
- *Baby Face* (1933), as Mrs. Hemingway (uncredited)
- *Gold Diggers of 1933* (1933), as Society Reporter (uncredited) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/gold-diggers-of-1933.md)
- *Diplomaniacs* (1933), as Chubby Woman
- *Hip Zip Hooray* (1933), as The Governor
- *The Intruder* (1933), as Ship Passenger
- *Hard to Handle* (1933), as Fat Lady with Vanishing Cream (uncredited)
- *The Death Kiss* (1932), as Chalmer's Nosy Neighbor
- *Back Street* (1932), as Lady in Street (uncredited)

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