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  • Category Television

    Address 6653 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Alan Hale
Born:
1921-03-08,
Los Angeles,
California,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1969-12-31
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Alan Hale

Alan Hale, Jr. was an American movie and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan’s Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale.

Hale was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was character actor Alan Hale, Sr. and his mother was Gretchen Hartman, a silent film actress. His father, had an extremely successful career in movies both as a leading man in silent films and as a supporting actor in sound movies, appearing in many Errol Flynn films, acting in 235 movies altogether, and playing Little John in Robin Hood films three times over a 28-year span, beginning with the silent Douglas Fairbanks version. While his father was adapting to sound films, Hale, Jr. began his career while still a baby.

During the Second World War, Hale, Jr. enlisted in the United States Coast Guard.

After the death of his father in 1950, Alan stopped using “Junior”.

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