Alan Hale Jr.
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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 |
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No Score Yet | Surviving Gilligan's Island |
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— | 2002 |
71% | Back to the Beach |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Terror Night |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Bloody Movie |
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— | 1987 |
44% | Johnny Dangerously |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Hambone and Hillie |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | The Red Fury |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Fifth Musketeer (Behind the Iron Mask) (The 5th Musketeer) |
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— | 1979 |
78% | The North Avenue Irregulars |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Angels Brigade |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Evidence of Power |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Rescue from Gilligan's Island |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Giant Spider Invasion |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Revenge of Red Chief |
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— | 1975 |
80% | There Was a Crooked Man |
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— | 1970 |
92% | Hang 'em High |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Tiger by the Tail |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Bullet for a Badman |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Advance to the Rear |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | The Crawling Hand (Don't Cry Wolf) (The Creeping Hand) |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Thunder in Carolina |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Up Periscope |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Battle Hymn |
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— | 1957 |
86% | The True Story of Jesse James |
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— | 1957 |
38% | The Amazing Colossal Man |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Canyon River |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | All Mine to Give |
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— | 1956 |
60% | The Killer Is Loose |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Indian Fighter |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Many Rivers to Cross |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | A Man Alone |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Rogue Cop |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Sea Chase |
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— | 1955 |
86% | Young at Heart |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Destry |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | The Law vs. Billy the Kid |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Silver Lode |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Captain John Smith and Pocahontas |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Man Behind the Gun |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Springfield Rifle |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Big Trees |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | At Sword's Point |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Home Town Story |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The West Point Story |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Kill the Umpire |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Blazing Sun |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Underworld Story |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Riders in the Sky |
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— | 1949 |
83% | It Happens Every Spring |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Rim of the Canyon |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Homecoming |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | One Sunday Afternoon |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | My Girl Tisa |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | It Happened on 5th Avenue |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Monsieur Beaucaire |
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— | 1946 |
80% | Watch on the Rhine |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Time for Love |
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— | 1943 |
88% | Wake Island |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | To the Shores of Tripoli |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Dive Bomber |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | I Wanted Wings |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | All-American Co-Ed |
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— | 1941 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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87% |
Mystery Science Theater 3000
1989-1999
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No Score Yet |
ALF
1986-1990
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No Score Yet |
Growing Pains
1985-1992
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Green Acres
1965-1971
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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72% |
Batman
1966-1968
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90% |
Gilligan's Island
1964-1967
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
Maverick
1957-1962
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
1952-1966
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