Henry Hull est né le 3 octobre 1890 dans le Kentucky, États-Unis. Il était acteur et scénariste. Il est connu pour Les naufragés (1944), La Grande Évasion (1941) et Le rebelle (1949). Il était marié à Juliet Van Wyck Frémont. Il est mort le 8 mars 1977 à Cornouailles, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni.
Played the title role in Le monstre de Londres (1935), the first werewolf feature movie ever made. In 1913, Universal released the short film The Werewolf (1913) about a daughter who avenges her Navajo mother's murder by turning into a wolf.
Lived on an Old Lyme, Connecticut, farm with his wife for over thirty years. Following her death in 1971 and after suffering a stroke, he moved to his daughter Joan's home in Cornwall, England.
His wife, Juliet Fremont, was the granddaughter of Civil War general and explorer John C. Fremont. In a 1960 episode of Bonanza, "The Mission," Hull played an aging former Army scout who served with honor under General Fremont.
His actress wife, Juliet van Wyck Fremont (1884-1971), was the granddaughter of Civil War general and explorer John C. Fremont. The couple appeared together on Broadway in "The Man Who Came Back" in 1916.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of William Madison and Elinor (Vaughn) Hull, he moved with his family in 1902 to New York City, where his father, a newspaper editor, critic and editor, was offered a position in the Klaw and Erlanger theatre syndicate booking office.