Stephen Hall (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian actor, writer and producer.
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Career
Television
Hall's career in television includes acting, writing and production duties. He was the host of Under Melbourne Tonight, a weekly live variety hour television program produced by RMITV that broadcast on C31 Melbourne from 1993 to 1998. He has appeared in the long-running television series Neighbours, and in 2008 he performed the role of Warren in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television comedy series The Hollowmen.
He has also appeared in telemovies, including The King (2007), playing the role of Bert Newton.
As a producer, he worked on the Australian version of the game show Deal or No Deal.
As a TV writer he has worked on many Australian comedy and light entertainment TV productions, such as BackBerner, Big Bite, Full Frontal, and Spicks and Specks. He was a writer on the third series of the weekly satirical comedy programme Newstopia, broadcast on SBS in 2008. From 2009 to 2012, Hall served as head writer on the comedy game show Talkin' 'bout Your Generation. In 2013, he wrote for ABC-TV's weekly satirical comedy show Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, and Adam Hills Tonight series 2, of which he was also the Studio Producer.
From 2014 to 2022, Hall was a regular cast member on Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, with popular characters including the political spokesman Darius Horsham.
Film
Hall's movie career includes appearances in Romper Stomper, The Wog Boy, Now Add Honey, That's Not My Dog! and Fraud Festival.
Theatre
Hall starred in the original Australian professional production of Monty Python's Spamalot in 2007, playing the roles of Lancelot, The French Taunter, Tim The Enchanter and The Head Knight of "Ni".
In 2011, Hall co-wrote (with Michael Ward) the comedy stage show Bond-A-Rama! Every James Bond Film Live On Stage, in which he played the roles of Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. The show sold out, prompting a second season in 2012.
In 2023, Hall wrote, produced and performed in the one-man stage show LETTERS FROM MY HEROES... if they'd actually bothered to write back, for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The show was then revived for a successful tour of regional Victoria in June and July of 2024.
In March 2016, John Cleese cast Hall as Basil Fawlty in Cleese's own stage adaptation of his TV series Fawlty Towers. Fawlty Towers Live opened in Sydney at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in August 2016, and toured Australia, running for 157 performances before finishing in Brisbane on 22 January 2017. The show received favourable reviews in each city it played in.
In 2023, Hall wrote, produced and performed in the one-man stage show LETTERS FROM MY HEROES... if they'd actually bothered to write back for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Quiz show champion
In August 2005, Hall completed seven nights on the quiz show Temptation, becoming the program's second Grand Champion, and the second largest quiz or game show winner in Australian television history (at that time), winning $672,357 in cash and prizes. The following year, he won the title of "Australia's Brainiest Quiz Master" on the Australian TV program of the same name and donating $20,000 to RSPCA, and appeared as part of The Brains Trust on The Einstein Factor.
Since 2013, he has run the blog www.HowToWinGameShows.com, which aims to provide tips and hints for winning game shows.