Alan Hale Jr.
- Birthday
- Mar 8, 1921
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California
Bio: One look at Alan Hale Jr. and no one could ever assume he was adopted; Hale Jr. so closely resembled his father, veteran character actor Alan Hale Sr., that at times it appeared that the older fellow had returned to the land of the living. In films from 1933, Alan Jr. was originally cast in beefy, athletic good-guy roles (at 6'3", he could hardly play hen-pecked… More Bio: One look at Alan Hale Jr. and no one could ever assume he was adopted; Hale Jr. so closely resembled his father, veteran character actor Alan Hale Sr., that at times it appeared that the older fellow had returned to the land of the living. In films from 1933, Alan Jr. was originally cast in beefy, athletic good-guy roles (at 6'3", he could hardly play hen-pecked husbands). After the death of his father in 1950, Alan dropped the "Junior" from his professional name. He starred in a brace of TV action series, Biff Baker USA (1953) and Casey Jones (1957), before his he-man image melted into comedy parts. From 1964 through 1967, Hale played The Skipper (aka Jonas Grumby) on the low-brow but high-rated Gilligan's Island. Though he worked steadily after Gilligan's cancellation, he found that the blustery, slow-burning Skipper had typed him to the extent that he lost more roles than he won. In his last two decades, Alan Hale supplemented his acting income as the owner of a successful West Hollywood restaurant, the Lobster Barrel. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Alan Hale Jr. Pictures
Alan Hale Jr. Videos
Back To The Beach
Johnny Dangerously
The Gunfighters
Hambone And Hillie
There Was A Crooked Man
Filmography
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Young at Heart (2007)
- Robert Neary
- 83%
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Terror Night (2005)
- Actor
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Surviving Gilligan's Island (2002)
- Actor
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Back to the Beach (1987)
- Bartender's Buddy (uncredited)
- 71%
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The Gunfighters (1987)
- First Brother
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