Linden, Hal [né Harold Lipshitz] (b. 1931), actor and singer. A native New Yorker, the genial leading man with a perennial smile and pleasant singing voice was educated at the High School of the Performing Arts, Queens College, and City College before studying acting. After summer stock and a show that closed out of town, Linden made his Broadway debut in 1958 as a replacement for the leading man in Bells Are Ringing. He was applauded for his Billy Crocker in the long‐running Off‐Broadway revival of Anything Goes (1962), but he did not get recognition on Broadway until he played the ambitious patriarch Meyer in The Rothschilds (1970). After a very successful television career, Linden returned to the New York theatre in character parts.
Hal Linden
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| Actor: Hal Linden |
- Born: Mar 20, 1931 in Bronx, New York City, New York
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: '70s-2000s
- Major Genres: Comedy, Romance
- Career Highlights: When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, Dream Breakers, The Other Woman
- First Major Screen Credit: Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside (1973)
Biography
A former band clarinettist and vocalist, Hal Linden studied drama at the American Theatre Wing. His big Broadway break came in 1958, when he was engaged to understudy Sydney Chaplin in the musical comedy Bells are Ringing; Linden played Chaplin's character, Jeffrey Moss, a handful of times on Broadway and on a full-time basis in the touring company (reportedly, he also showed up in the 1960 film version of Bells are Ringing, though the "official" starting point of his film career was 1979's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?) During the 1960s, Linden's time was occupied by his stage work in musicals like Wildcat, The Apple Tree and Illya Darling; from time to time, he'd pop up on a Manhattan-filmed TV series like Car 54 Where Are You? or The Defenders and was a regular on the CBS daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.In 1974, Linden won a Tony award for his work in the Broadway musical The Rothschilds. The next year, Barney Miller, a sitcom for which Linden had lensed a pilot in 1972, was picked up as a mid-season replacement by ABC. Linden would play harried Greenwich village police captain Barney Miller from 1975 through 1980, collecting five Emmy nominations, but-astonishingly -- no actual awards. Hal Linden's subsequent TV series work has included hosting stints on the ABC informational weeklies Animals, Animals, Animals and FYI, and top-billed starring roles on Blacke's Magic (1988), Jack's Place (1992) and One of the Boys (1994); he co-starred in the latter with another perennial Emmy Awards bridesmaid, Suzanne Pleshette. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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| Born | Harold Lipshitz March 20, 1931 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Spouse(s) | Francis Martin (1958-present) |
Hal Linden (born March 20, 1931) is an American stage and television actor and television director, best known for his Emmy-nominated role in the television comedy series Barney Miller, and as presenter on the ABC educational series Animals, Animals, Animals.
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Life and career
Linden was born Harold Lipshitz in New York City, the son of Frances (née Rosen) and Charles Lipshitz, a printer.[1] His family was Jewish.[citation needed] Linden graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. He began his career as a clarinetist and dance band singer. He and his violinist brother Bernie chose their stage names after spotting a gas storage tank in Linden, New Jersey written in huge letters.
His break-through on the New York stage came in 1962 when he was cast as Billy Crocker in the revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. He went on to a highly successful stage career, winning a Tony Award for his performance in the musical The Rothschilds.
In 1984 Hal carried the Olympic Torch and ran a portion of the Los Angeles segment. A close friend of the late Alan Jay Lerner, Linden performed in a tribute concert of his works in 1988, singing some of Lerner 's finest songs including I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore and One More Walk Around the Garden.
He is currently the national spokesperson for the Jewish National Fund. He is married to Frances Marie Martin, and they have five children.
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He has also provided voice-overs for such imported films as Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, and Destroy all Monsters.
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External links
- Hal Linden at the Internet Broadway Database
- Hal Linden at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Hal Linden at the Internet Movie Database
- Hal Linden at TV.com
- Gary Brumburgh (2008). "Hal Linden Biography". The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511604/bio. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
- Hal Linden. (.SWF). Tony Memory: Hal Linden. [Video]. American Theatre Wing. Event occurs at 00:00:00-00:02:37 (inclusive). http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html#l. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
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- Guarneri String Quartet: The Beethoven Cycle (1986 Music Film)
- I Do! I Do! (1984 Musical Film)
- Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside (1973 Crime Film)
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- How to Break up a Happy Divorce (1976 Comedy Film)
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