Alan Hale, Jr.
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Alan Hale, Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan; ✦March 8, 1921 – †January 2, 1990) was an American actor and restaurateur. He was the son of actor Alan Hale Sr.[Note 2] His television career spanned four decades, but he was best known for his secondary lead role as Captain Jonas Grumby, better known as The Skipper, on the 1960s CBS comedy series "Gilligan's Island" (1964–1967), a role he reprised in three Gilligan's Island television films and two spin-off cartoon series.
Hale appeared in more than 200 films and television roles from 1941. He appeared primarily in Westerns, portraying the Sundance Kid in The Three Outlaws (1956) opposite Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy, performing with Kirk Douglas in The Big Trees (1952), Audie Murphy in Destry (1954), Ray Milland in A Man Alone (1955), Robert Wagner in The True Story of Jesse James (1957), and Hugh Marlowe in The Long Rope (1961). He also appeared in musical comedies opposite Don DeFore in It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947), James Cagney in The West Point Story (1950), and Judy Canova in Honeychile (1951). He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.
Early life
Alan Hale MacKahan was born in Los Angeles, California. His father was character actor Rufus Edward MacKahan, who used the stage name of Alan Hale, and his mother was silent film actress Gretchen Hartman. His father appeared in more than 235 films and had a successful screen career, both as a leading man in silent films and as a supporting actor in sound movies. Hale Jr. was in the silent movies as a baby.
Hale served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. He dropped the "Junior" from his name after his father died in 1950.
Theater
- Wikipedia article: Alan Hale, Jr. Theater
Filmography
- Wikipedia article: Alan Hale, Jr. Filmography
Alan Hale, Jr. is included on the list of actors in western films
Personal life
Hale was married twice; his first marriage was on March 12, 1943, in Hollywood to Bettina Reed Doerr, with whom he had four children: Alan Brian, Chris, Lana, and Dorian. The couple later divorced. In 1964, Hale married former singer Naomi Grace Ingram, to whom he remained married until his death.
Death
Hale died on January 2, 1990, of thymus cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 68. His body was cremated, and his ashes were sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. His Gilligan's Island co-star Dawn Wells was in attendance, representing the surviving members of the cast.
For his contribution to the television industry, Alan Hale Jr. has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6653 Hollywood Boulevard.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Alan_Hale,_Jr. ]
External links
- Alan Hale, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database
- Alan Hale, Jr. at the Internet Broadway Database
- Alan Hale, Jr. at the Turner Classic Movie Database
- Alan Hale, Jr. at All Music Guide
- Alan Hale, Jr. at Rotten Tomatoes
- Hale and his father
- LA Times article about Alan Hale
Notes
- ↑ as Captain Jonas Grumby (The Skipper)
- ↑ In the mid-’70s, Hale became co-owner of Alan Hale’s Lobster Barrel on La Cienega Boulevard on Los Angeles’ Restaurant Row. Hale helped run the business until 1982, when he was “phased out” of the operation, Stevens said. The actor then opened Alan Hale’s Quality and Leisure Travel office, where, among other things ironically, he arranged for travelers to take boat cruises.