Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Hale, Jr. (March 8, 1921– January 2, 1990) was an American movie and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper (Jonas Grumby) on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Hale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Terror Night
1989
as Jake Nelson
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfortunates, using various weapons.

Back to the Beach
1987
as Bartender’s Buddy
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With spec...

Johnny Dangerously
1984
as Desk Sergeant
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

The Red Fury
1984
as Doc Kaminsky
A lonely boy befriends a vicious stallion.

Hambone and Hillie
1983
as McVickers
An elderly woman searches for her lost dog. Director Roy Watts' 1984 drama stars Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O. J. Simpson, Alan Hale ...

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
1981
as Skipper
The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must ...
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.

The Castaways on Gilligan's Island
1979
as Skipper
In the second of three additional Gilligan's Island movies following the series, the gang finds a way of getting rescued from the "uncharted desert is...

The Fifth Musketeer
1979
as Porthos
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king ...

The North Avenue Irregulars
1979
as Harry, the Hat (as Alan Hale)
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get t...

Angels' Brigade
1979
as Manny
Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.

Evidence of Power
1979
When criminology student Tom Richardson returns home to Hyland for the summer break, he is shocked to learn of a series of horrible deaths and mutilat...

Rescue from Gilligan's Island
1978
as Skipper Jonas Grumby
When a decaying Russian satellite crashes on the island, the Professor uses a key component for a barometer. With that device, he learns that a massiv...
Sammy
1977
as Mike (as Alan Hale)
Delightful story of a young boy whose playful nature and love for animals spark zany incidents and a dangerous adventure. A small boy, crippled since ...

The Giant Spider Invasion
1975
as Sheriff
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! T...

The Sky's the Limit
1975
as Cholly
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974
as Walter
Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segmen...
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
Comedy movie.

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
as Tobaccy
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in...

The Andersonville Trial
1970
as Board of Military Judges
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

Tiger by the Tail
1970
as Billy Jack Whitehorn
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.

Hang 'em High
1968
as Matt Stone
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his...

Bullet for a Badman
1964
as Leach
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.

Advance to the Rear
1964
as Sgt. Beauregard Davis
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur...

The Crawling Hand
1963
as Sheriff Townsend
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote bea...

The Iron Maiden
1963
as Paul Fisher
The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jac...

The Long Rope
1961
as Sheriff John Millard
A judge in a murder trial, believing the defendant is innocent, sets out to find the real killer.

Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960
as Fred Preston
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disney...

Thunder in Carolina
1960
as Buddy Schaeffer
A stock-car veteran (Rory Calhoun) teaches a grease monkey to race in the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C.

Mission of Danger
1960
as Sam Beal
After his Rangers are caught during a raid, a major must infiltrate the French army to save his men.

Moochie of the Little League
1959
as Fred Preston
A young newspaper boy who is on a Little League team works hard to persuade an elderly Englishman, with whom he had a previous run-in, to donate land ...

Up Periscope
1959
as Lt. Pat Malone
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy ...

The Lady Takes a Flyer
1958
as Frank Henshaw
Change of pace comedy casts Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler as competing pilots who fall in love.

All Mine to Give
1957
as Tom Cullen
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become wel...

The True Story of Jesse James
1957
as Cole Younger
Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympath...

Affair in Reno
1957
as Deke (as Alan Hale)
The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler.

Battle Hymn
1957
as Mess Sergeant
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in th...

The Cruel Tower
1956
as Rocky Milliken (as Alan Hale)
The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.

Canyon River
1956
as George Lynch
A rancher's foreman schemes against him on a cattle drive from Oregon to Wyoming.

The Three Outlaws
1956
as Sundance Kid (as Alan Hale)
Ready to quit their life of crime, the three "most-wanted" outlaws in the West---Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver ---perform their final jo...

The Killer Is Loose
1956
as Detective Denny
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam W...

Man on the Ledge
1955
as Boyle
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk th...

The Indian Fighter
1955
as Will Crabtree (as Alan Hale)
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

A Man Alone
1955
as Jim Anderson
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the hors...

The Sea Chase
1955
as Wentz
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrli...

Many Rivers to Cross
1955
as Luke Radford
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this...

Young at Heart
1954
as Robert Neary
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming compo...

Destry
1954
as Jack Larson
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.

Rogue Cop
1954
as Johnny Stark
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

The Law vs. Billy the Kid
1954
as Bob Ollinger
Billy the Kid is forced to kill for the woman he loves, and is ultimately brought to justice by his old friend Pat Garrett.

Silver Lode
1954
as Kirk
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance w...

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
1954
as Jay Simpson
When Captain Kidd is reprieved from the gallows by a greedy nobelman who wants to know the location of his buried treasure, he sets off across the sev...

The Iron Glove
1954
as Patrick Gaydon
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.

Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954
as Crew Foreman
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Overcoming many other obstacles, Drake's innovatio...

Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
1953
as Fleming
With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish t...

The Man Behind The Gun
1953
as Cpl. Olaf Swenson
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionist...

Mr. Walkie Talkie
1952
as Tiny
Military comedy about two sergeant buddies constantly getting into trouble.

Springfield Rifle
1952
as Mizzell
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...

Arctic Flight
1952
as John W. Wetherby
Mike Wein, an Alaskan bush pilot operating the the Bering Sea area, makes friends with John W. Wetherby, posing as a wealthy United States businessman...

Lady in the Iron Mask
1952
as Porthos
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original ...

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952
as George Oliphant
At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character th...

Ellis in Freedomland
1952
as Male Model
Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second...

At Sword's Point
1952
as Porthos Jr.
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize pow...

The Big Trees
1952
as Tiny
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes...

Honeychile
1951
as Joe Boyd
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.

Home Town Story
1951
as Slim Haskins
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper...

Sierra Passage
1950
as Yance Carter
When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day ge...

Short Grass
1950
as Chris Christofferson
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the b...

The West Point Story
1950
as Bull Gilbert
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

The Blazing Sun
1950
as Ben Luber
Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother...

The Underworld Story
1950
as Shaeffer
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

The Gunfighter
1950
as First Brother (uncredited)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Kill the Umpire
1950
as Harry Shea (uncredited)
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Ev...

When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant at Dance (uncredited)
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home ...

Swiss Tour
1949
as Joe
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.

Riders in the Sky
1949
as Marshal Riggs
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and ...

Rim of the Canyon
1949
as Matt Kimbrough
20 years ago, 3 men robbed a stage and hid $30,000. They were caught and sent to prison by Marshal Steve Autry. 20 years later, the men bust out of pr...

It Happens Every Spring
1949
as Schmidt
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

One Sunday Afternoon
1948
as Marty
The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Ma...

Music Man
1948
Bickering brothers Phil and Freddie Russo unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.

Homecoming
1948
as Military Policeman (uncredited)
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than d...

The Spirit of West Point
1947
as Oklahoma Cutter
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.

Sarge Goes to College
1947
as Sarge
A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' re...

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947
as Whitey Temple
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the a...

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1946
as Mike Mitchell
A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.

Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
as Courtier (uncredited)
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...

No Time for Love
1943
as Union Checker (uncredited)
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

The McGuerins from Brooklyn
1942
as Alan
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an af...

To the Shores of Tripoli
1942
as Tom Hall
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

Wake Island
1942
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island b...

Rubber Racketeers
1942
as Red
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effec...

Eagle Squadron
1942
as Olsen
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

Top Sergeant
1942
as Cruxton
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
Victory Quiz
1942
A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
Military Training
1941
as Poor Instructor
Training Film No. A-3: Poor Instruction, Rifle Litter, First Aid Demonstration, Bayonet Drill, Firing Range Instruction, Drill Squad, Charts and Instr...

All-American Co-Ed
1941
as Tiny
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for th...

Wild Boys of the Road
1933
as Boy (uncredited)
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their par...