Luke Halpin
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Luke Austin Halpin (born April 4, 1947) is an American former actor.
He became a child actor at the age of eight and is perhaps best known for his role as Sandy Ricks in the feature films Flipper and Flipper's New Adventure, as well as for reprising his role for the NBC television series adaptation, also called Flipper.
Early life
Halpin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, the son of Eugene A. Halpin and Helen Joan (Szczepanski) Halpin. His father was of Irish and German descent, and his maternal grandparents were Polish. He grew up with his family in Long Island City. He has an older brother, Eugene Jr., and an older sister, Joan. He and his siblings were reared as Roman Catholics.
Career
Halpin's career began when a music teacher, impressed by Halpin's "all-American" appearance, encouraged him to try acting. In 1955, he co-starred with Natalie Wood in a Studio One episode titled "Miracle at Potter's Farm." Halpin had appeared in numerous television series since his youth, and by his mid-teens, he had appeared on many of the day's most popular TV shows including Armstrong Circle Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, Kraft Television Theatre, The Eagle, The Honorable Bartender, The Champions, Naked City, The Everglades, and he appeared on several of the soap opera Young Doctor Malone.
Halpin's early career included several television appearances. Jackie Gleason appeared in Take Me Along as himself, as well as Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun and Peter Pan. Halpin appeared in plays that were televised on The Play of the Week, including performances by Burgess Meredith and Zero Mostel in the critically acclaimed avant-garde play Waiting for Godot.
Halpin's most well-known role came when he was chosen to appear in Ivan Tors' 1963 feature film Flipper (filmed in the Florida Keys and Miami), starring Chuck Connors, Sandy's father and fisherman Porter Ricks. Flipper's New Adventure, a hit film that was shot mainly in the Bahamas), was released in 1964, and Porter Ricks, a new park ranger who has completed his training, is sent to the fictitious Coral Key Park. Kelly played a widowed father to Sandy (although Halpin was only sixteen years older than Kelly). Kelly and Halpin appeared in the same roles as the television series that debuted in 1964, including younger brother Bud, played by Tommy Norden.
Halpin was chosen by Tors for the role of Sandy Ricks due to his water skills as well as his extensive acting experience. He was also able to bond quickly with the dolphins who appeared in the role of Flipper. After the two feature films, this chemistry opened the way for the production of the television series. Halpin had become an advanced skin and scuba diver by the time filming of the TV series began, and he had an effortless athleticism that allowed him to perform many of his own stunts on and off the sea, including a number of dangerous scenes involving sharks. Many water-activity-related plots characterized his famous TV character, with him often wearing nothing more than his signature cut-off blue jeans shorts.
The television show ran for eighty-eight episodes from 1964 to 1967 (with Halpin appearing in only three episodes) and is currently in syndication. At the Ivan Tors (now Greenwich) Studios and the Miami Seaquarium, it was shot in the park and waters around Key Biscayne, Florida. In its debut 1964-65 season, the series did well in the burgeoning Saturday night television slot, ranked in the Top 25 of all television shows. Halpin, especially among adolescent viewers, made him a teen idol. He has appeared in such magazines as Bravo, Teen Life, 16 Magazine, and the first issues of Tiger Beat. Halpin appeared on the original Flipper feature films and was a guest 'contestant' on CBS' To Tell the Truth just before the shooting of the Flipper (1964 TV series) began on March 30, 1964. On April 15, 1965, he appeared on the program for the second season right before the show's filming.
Halpin appeared in films after Flipper's closing, including as Bo (student radical who befriends a teenage girl on a European bus tour) in Ivan Tors' Island of the Lost (1967), as Keith (first Mate) and as Ken Wilson in Flipper's Mr. No Legs (1979). Halpin's guest appearances on television in the years after Flipper appeared on television; as Kenny Carter, Jr., in Bracken's World (1968), as Greg in Ivan Tors' Primus (1972), and as Eric Bates in Caribe (1975).
He appeared in "A Mule" of the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days, in which he was played as the outlaw Sandy King, the youngest member of the "Curly Bill" Brocius family. King is befriended by a United States Army lieutenant, played by Sam Melville, in the story line. "Curly Bill" was Robert Yuro's role.
In the 1980 television film The Ordeal of Dr. Muddd, a dramatization about Samuel Muddd's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, where Halpin played David Herold, the assassination attempt on Lincoln's Booth, where he suffered from a fractured leg sustained in the process of assassinating Lincoln, to Dr. Muddd for medical care.