Throughout the early 1960s, Hale continued in guest-starring roles on episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, The Real McCoys, Mister Ed, Green Acres, Assignment: Underwater, Hawaiian Eye, Adventures in Paradise, Lock Up, The Andy Griffith Show, Lassie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Route 66 and Hazel.
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Hale also returned to the series Cheyenne in 1960 to portray the character Tuk in the episode "Road to Three Graves". Then, from 1958 to 1960, he was cast in a recurring role on Rory Calhoun's CBS Western The Texan. Later that year Hale landed another starring role in the syndicated television series Casey Jones, which lasted for thirty-two half-hour episodes before its cancellation in 1958. In addition to performing the role of Shawnee Bill on the Western Wanted Dead or Alive, he played a folksy rancher, Les Bridgeman, in "Hired Gun", an episode of the ABC/ Warner Brothers series Cheyenne. The year 1957 proved to be an especially busy one for Hale on television series. He continued his career on the small screen by appearing in guest spots on a variety of other series, such as The Range Rider (five times), Annie Oakley, Fireside Theater, Frontier, Matinee Theater, Fury, Northwest Passage, and The Man from Blackhawk. In 1952 he landed the starring role in CBS's Biff Baker, U.S.A., but the series was canceled in 1954. īy the early 1950s, Hale began to work in television. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he frequently appeared in Gene Autry films and also had a recurring role from 1950 to 1952 on The Gene Autry Show. He later appeared in roles in To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Yanks Ahoy (1943), Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1946), and When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950). Although his role was deleted from that film's final release, he still received screen credit for his performance. He made his screen debut in Wild Boys of the Road which was released in 1933. The play opened on November 4 and closed later that month. In 1931, Hale made his Broadway stage debut in Caught Wet. Hale and Celeste Holm in Follow the Sun (1961) He also appeared on several talk and variety shows. 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 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). Hale appeared in more than 200 films and television roles from 1941.
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. (born Alan Hale MacKahan Ma– January 2, 1990) was an American actor and restaurateur.
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