Alan Hale Jr.

Highest Rated: 92% Hang 'em High (1968)

Lowest Rated: 38% The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Birthday: Mar 8, 1921

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California

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.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Surviving Gilligan's Island	Actor	—	2002
71%	Back to the Beach	Bartender's Buddy	—	1987
No Score Yet	Terror Night	Jake Nelson	—	1987
No Score Yet	Bloody Movie	Actor	—	1987
44%	Johnny Dangerously	Desk Sergeant	—	1984
No Score Yet	Hambone and Hillie	McVicker	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Red Fury	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island	The Skipper	—	1981
No Score Yet	The Fifth Musketeer (Behind the Iron Mask) (The 5th Musketeer)	Porthos	—	1979
78%	The North Avenue Irregulars	Harry the Hat	—	1979
No Score Yet	Angels Brigade	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Evidence of Power	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Rescue from Gilligan's Island	Skipper	—	1978
No Score Yet	Giant Spider Invasion	Sheriff	—	1975
No Score Yet	Revenge of Red Chief	Actor	—	1975
82%	There Was a Crooked Man	Tobaccy	—	1970
92%	Hang 'em High	Stone	—	1968
No Score Yet	Tiger by the Tail	Billy Jack Whitehorn	—	1968
No Score Yet	Bullet for a Badman	Leach	—	1964
No Score Yet	Advance to the Rear	Sgt. Beauregard Davis	—	1964
No Score Yet	The Crawling Hand (Don't Cry Wolf) (The Creeping Hand)	Sheriff Townsend	—	1963
No Score Yet	Thunder in Carolina	Buddy Schaeffer	—	1960
No Score Yet	Up Periscope	Lt. Pat Malone	—	1959
No Score Yet	Battle Hymn	Mess Sergeant	—	1957
88%	The True Story of Jesse James	Cole Younger	—	1957
38%	The Amazing Colossal Man	Sgt. Beauregard Davis	—	1957
No Score Yet	Canyon River	Lynch	—	1956
No Score Yet	All Mine to Give	Tom Cullen	—	1956
60%	The Killer Is Loose	Denny	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Cruel Tower	Rocky	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Indian Fighter	Will Crabtree	—	1955
No Score Yet	Many Rivers to Cross	Luke Radford	—	1955
No Score Yet	A Man Alone	Anderson	—	1955
No Score Yet	Rogue Cop	Johnny Stark	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Sea Chase	Wentz	—	1955
86%	Young at Heart	Robert Neary	—	1954
No Score Yet	Destry	Jack Larson	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Law vs. Billy the Kid	Bob Ollinger	—	1954
No Score Yet	Silver Lode	Kirk	—	1954
No Score Yet	Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl	Jerry Simpson	—	1954
No Score Yet	Captain John Smith and Pocahontas	Fleming	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Man Behind the Gun	Olof	—	1953
No Score Yet	Springfield Rifle	Mizzell	—	1952
No Score Yet	The Big Trees	Tiny	—	1952
No Score Yet	At Sword's Point	Porthos Jr.	—	1952
No Score Yet	Home Town Story	Slim Haskins	—	1951
No Score Yet	The West Point Story	Bull Gilbert	—	1950
No Score Yet	Kill the Umpire	Harry Shay	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Blazing Sun	Ben Luber	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Underworld Story	Schaeffer	—	1950
No Score Yet	Riders in the Sky	Marshal Riggs	—	1949
86%	It Happens Every Spring	Schmidt	—	1949
No Score Yet	Rim of the Canyon	Matt	—	1949
No Score Yet	Homecoming	M.P.	—	1948
No Score Yet	My Girl Tisa	Dugan	—	1948
No Score Yet	One Sunday Afternoon	Marty	—	1948
No Score Yet	It Happened on 5th Avenue	Whitey	—	1947
No Score Yet	Monsieur Beaucaire	Courier	—	1946
80%	Watch on the Rhine	Boy	—	1943
No Score Yet	No Time for Love	Union checker	—	1943
88%	Wake Island	Sight Setter	—	1942
No Score Yet	To the Shores of Tripoli	Tom Hall	—	1942
No Score Yet	Dive Bomber	Pilot	—	1941
No Score Yet	I Wanted Wings	Cadet	—	1941
No Score Yet	All-American Co-Ed	Tiny	—	1941

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
87%	Mystery Science Theater 3000 1989-1999	Actor	1989
No Score Yet	ALF 1986-1990	The Skipper	1988 1987
No Score Yet	Growing Pains 1985-1992	Actor	1987
No Score Yet	Simon & Simon 1981-1989	Silk McNab	1987 1982
No Score Yet	Magnum, P.I. 1980-1988	Russell Tate	1986
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Fenton Harris	1986
No Score Yet	The Love Boat 1977-1986	Jack McTigue Gus Dolan	1982 1979
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Jake Bull Bannock Guest	1974 1966 1961
No Score Yet	Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969-1976	Actor	1971
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Lawrence Dreshner	1970 1968
No Score Yet	Green Acres 1965-1971	Sheriff	1969
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Brown	1969
72%	Batman 1966-1968	Mike	1967
90%	Gilligan's Island 1964-1967	The Skipper Jonas Grumby (The Skipper)	1967 1966 1965 1964
No Score Yet	My Favorite Martian 1963-1966	Omar Keck	1964
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Lon Snyder Barclift	1963 1961
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Wagon Master	1962
No Score Yet	The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968	Jeff Pruitt Guest	1962
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Capt. Jim Pattishal Big Jim Watson	1962 1960
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Swede Lundberg	1959
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 1952-1966	Harry	1959

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