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Billy Halop
Age: 56 (passed away Nov. 9th, 1976)
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Feb. 11th, 1920
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BIOGRAPHY: Billy Halop's show business career started on radio in the 1920s and carried over to stage work on Broadway. There, in 1937, he and other teenage cast members of the stage hit "Dead End" were brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn for the film version of the play, which was a tremendous hit. Halop and the other teenage cast members went on to do a series of films at Universal and then at Monogram as the Dead End/East Side Kids. Halop left the group in the early 1940s to seek a career on his own, but could only land parts in B pictures. His career was also hampered by a long string of marital and financial problems and a lifelong struggle against alcoholism. Toward the end of his career, he had a recurring role as Munson, the owner of the cab company where Archie Bunker worked part time, in "All in the Family" (1971). His last years were spent making a living as a male nurse.
TRIVIA:
- Interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA Specific Interment Location: Garden of Sher Mot, Crypt 64181.
- He became a registered nurse (RN) at St. John's Hospital in Malibu, California.
- His wife, Suzanne Roe, was a multiple sclerosis victim when he married her in 1960. The nursing skills he learned while taking care of his wife led him to steady work as a registered nurse at St. John's Hospital in Malibu.
- Brother of actress 'Florence Halop' (qv).
- His wife suffered from multiple sclerosis.
- Dead End Kid Billy Halop did not work with Dead Ender 'Leo Gorcey' (qv) after 1939, but did work with other members of the original gang.
- Worked as an electric dryer salesman for the Leonard Appliance Company of Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. He was named "Most Creative Salesman in the U.S." by the National Association of Manufacturers.
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