Billy Halop
Actor

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Billy Halop was a successful actor who began his career in radio in the 1920s and went on to star in the Broadway hit "Dead End" and its film adaptation. He and some of the other teenage cast members then went on to star in a series of films at Universal and Monogram. Halop left the group in the 1940s to pursue a solo career, but only managed to get parts in B pictures. His career was further hindered by personal and financial issues, and he eventually found a recurring role in All in the Family (1971). In his later years, he worked as a male nurse to make a living.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day February 11, 1920
Birth Place  New York City, New York, United States
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Died On November 9, 1976(1976-11-09) (aged 56)\nBrentwood, California, United States
Birth Sign Pisces
Cause of death Heart attack
Resting place Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation Actor, registered nurse
Years active 1931-1976
Spouse(s) Suzanne Roe (m.1960-1967; divorced) Barbara Hoon (m.1948-1958; divorced) Helen Tupper (m.1946-1947; divorced)

💰 Net worth: $6 Million (2024)

Biography/Timeline

1933

In 1933, he was given the lead as Bobby Benson in the popular new radio show The H-Bar-O Rangers, an early credit of Don Knotts as well. From 1934 to 1937, he starred in one of his first radio series, playing Dick Kent, the son of Fred and Lucy Kent, in "Home Sweet Home".

1935

After several years as a radio Juvenile, he was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End and traveled to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937. Usually called Tommy in the films, he had the recurring role of a gang leader in a series of films that featured the Dead End Kids, later billed Little Tough Guys. In his later years, he claimed that he was paid more than the other Dead End actors, which had contributed to bad feelings in the group, and that he was tired of the name "Dead End Kids". He played with James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and he also played the bully Flashman, speaking with an English accent, in the 1940 film Tom Brown's School Days opposite Cedric Hardwicke and Freddie Bartholomew.

1946

Halop was married at least four times, according to interviews given near the end of his life. Helen Tupper was his first wife from 1946 until their divorce in 1947. On Valentine's Day, 1948, he married Barbara Hoon. Their marriage lasted ten years until their divorce in 1958. His third marriage in 1960 to Suzanne Roe, who had multiple sclerosis, lasted until their divorce in 1967.

1970

In the 1970s, he played the character Bert Munson, cab driver and close friend to Archie Bunker on the television series "All in the Family", appearing in episodes from 1971-75.

1976

Halop died on November 9, 1976 at the age of 56 from a heart attack and is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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