Alan Brian Hale was born on February 10, 1892, in Washington D.C. At birth, his name was Rufus Edward. Alan Hale Sr. died on January 22, 1950, in Hollywood, California, at the age of 57, from liver disease and viral infection. He is buried next to his wife in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Alan Brian’s Private Life.
Gretchen Hartman (1897–1979), a former child actress, silent cinema performer, and mother of the couple’s three children, was Hale’s wife of nearly 30 years. He was the father of actor Alan Hale Jr., who played “the Skipper” on the television series Gilligan’s Island. After Hale Sr. died, Hale Jr. omitted the Jr. from his name, causing some misunderstanding. Hale Sr. and Hale Jr. both played Porthos the musketeer in films released 40 years apart. Alan Hale Sr. portrayed him in the 1939 film Man in the Iron Mask, and Alan Hale Jr. in the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer
Alan Brian’s career.
He was an actor and a director by profession. He was in the industry for 40 years. He starred in films with other actors, such, as Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, and Ronald Reagan. In 1911, he secured his first acting role in the movie The Cowboy and The Lady.
In 1913 he was given a role as the lead actor in a film directed by Abraham Erlanger. His other films include The Trap (1922) with Lon Chaney, Skyscraper (1928), Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis, Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley, The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn, and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (all released in 1934); Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome (both 1937). During the 1920s and 1930s, Hale directed eight films and appeared in a total of 235 theatrical films.
Hale was also a successful inventor. A sliding theater chair (to allow viewers to move back to welcome newcomers rather than standing), a hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips were among his inventions.
His son, Alan Hale Jnr.
Alan Hale MacKahan was born on March 8, 1921, in Los Angeles, California. His father was a successful screen actor who starred in over 235 films, both as a leading man in silent films and as a supporting actor in sound pictures. As a child, Hale Jr. appeared in silent films.
During World war II, Hale served in the United States Coast Guard. After his father died in 1950, he eliminated the “Junior” from his name.
His Networth.
During his life, he had made $6 million.