Alan Hale Sr.

At 57 years old, Alan Hale Sr. has this physical status:

Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan) was a producer and director who was best known for his many supporting character roles, including as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn's, as well as films starring Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan.

Early life

In Washington, D.C., Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan. He trained to be an opera singer.

Personal life

Gretchen Hartman (1897-1999), a former child actor, silent film performer, and mother of the couple's three children, was Hale's wife of over 30 years.

In the Gilligan's Island television series "the Skipper," he was the father of actor Alan Hale Jr., better known as "the Skipper." The father and son closely resembled one another, resulting in occasional confusion after Hale Sr.'s death when Hale Jr. dropped the Jr. from his name. In films 40 years ago, Hale Sr. and Hale Jr. shared the same character, Porthos the musketeer. Alan Hale Sr. appeared in the 1939 film Man in the Iron Mask, while Alan Hale Jr. appeared in The Fifth Musketeer in 1979.

Alan Hale Sr. died on January 22, 1950 in Hollywood, California, following a liver ailment and viral infection. He is laid to rest in Glendale, California, next to his wife.

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Career

In the 1911 silent film The Cowboy and the Lady, his first film appearance was in the 1911 silent film The Cowboy and the Lady. He began to work for the Biograph Company from 1913 to 1915 in their special feature film productions that were financed and operated by Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger. Later in life, he became more of a character actor; he appeared in Robin Hood (1922) with Errol Flynn and Wallace Beery (1938) and then appeared in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with John Smith as Robin Hood's son, then in Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) as Robin Hood's son. In The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, which was portrayed by Flynn.

Clark Gable's One Night with Katharine Hepburn (1922), as well as The Grand Architect with William LeRoy and Martin Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and The Greatest Sgt (1941) with Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, and George Raft; and Manpower (1941) with George Raft and Thomas Bogart; the Cantankerous Sgt; Michael Robinson, 1922) with Larry Humphre McGee in the Army (1943) with Irving Berlin. He co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the hit western film Dodge City (1939), where he played Rusty Hart, the slightly dimwitted but amusing and comedic sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale appeared in 13 films with Errol Flynn.

Hale produced eight films in the 1920s and 1930s and appeared in 235 theatrical films in total.

Hale's success as an entrepreneur also. A sliding theater chair (to encourage newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips were among his inventions.

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