Charles Hallahan
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| Charles Hallahan | |
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| Born | Charles John Hallahan July 29, 1943  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 25, 1997 (aged 54) Los Angeles, California |
| Years active | 1972–1997 |
| Spouse | Barbara Gryboski (1983-1997) (his death) 2 children Elizabeth Widmann (1970-1974) (divorced) |
Charles John Hallahan (July 29, 1943 – November 25, 1997) was an American film, television and stage actor best known for his performances in Going in Style, The Thing, and Dante's Peak.
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[edit] Life and career
Hallahan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Rutgers University, then going on to Temple University to earn a Master's degree in fine arts. During his acting career he was often cast as a police officer, and is possibly best known to TV viewers as LAPD Captain Charlie Devane on Hunter. He was memorable for his portrayal of the nameless "Coach" in Vision Quest, opposite Matthew Modine. He also served in the US Navy in the early 1960s, including time as a Navy hospital corpsmen stationed in Puerto Rico.
His two most famous film roles, arguably, were as the doomed geologist Vance Norris in John Carpenter's The Thing and as the also-doomed vulcanologist Dr. Paul Dreyfus in Dante's Peak.
Hallahan also co-starred as a regular cast member in two popular television series, Grace Under Fire and the long-running The Paper Chase. He has a brother, Kenneth Hallahan, who is a Roman Catholic priest in New Jersey.
[edit] Death
In 1997, Hallahan was cast as Liam Bilby in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Honor Among Thieves", but on November 25, 1997, he was involved in an auto accident caused by a heart attack while driving, and died. Nick Tate agreed to assume the role in Hallahan's memory.
Hallahan is buried in Cobh Harbor in the south of Ireland where his grandparents originated from.
[edit] See also
- Back Stage West Garland Awards, first annual awards dedicated honor to Hallahan
[edit] Selected filmography
- Nightwing (1979)
- Going in Style (1979)
- Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
- The Thing (1982)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- The Star Chamber (1983)
- Silkwood (1983)
- Two of a Kind (1983)
- Kidco (1984)
- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- Vision Quest (1985)
- Pale Rider (1985)
- P.K. and the Kid (1987)
- Fatal Beauty (1987)
- True Believer (1989)
- Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
- Body of Evidence (1993)
- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
- Roswell (1994)
- Dave (1995)
- Executive Decision (1996)
- The Fan (1996)
- The Rich Man's Wife (1996)
- Dante's Peak (1997)
- The Pest (1997)
- Ambushed (1998)
[edit] Television
- The Rockford Files
- Happy Days
- Hawaii Five-O
- All in the Family
- Dallas
- Soap
- The Paper Chase
- Good Times
- The Waltons
- Hart to Hart
- Trapper John, M.D.
- M* A* S* H
- Hill Street Blues
- Bret Maverick
- Lou Grant
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
- The Equalizer
- Civil Wars
- Wings
- Hunter
- Picket Fences
- In the Heat of the Night
- Sirens
- Law & Order
- Wild Palms
- Roswell
- Grace Under Fire
- Mad About You
- Murder, She Wrote
- JAG
- Coach
- Gargoyles
- Sisters
- Almost Perfect
- Players
- NYPD Blue
