Billy Halop
Biography
Billy Halop was an American actor whose career moved from radio to Broadway and film. Born in New York City into a theatrical family, he started on radio in the 1930s, playing Bobby Benson on The H-Bar-O Rangers and Dick Kent on Home Sweet Home. While attending the Professional Children's School, he won the role of Tommy Gordon in Sidney Kingsley's 1935 Broadway play Dead End and traveled to Hollywood for Samuel Goldwyn's 1937 film version with the Dead End Kids. Usually cast as a gang leader in their films, later billed as the Little Tough Guys, he appeared with James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). After serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, his screen roles declined. In the 1970s he played Bert Munson, Archie Bunker's cab driver friend, in ten episodes of All in the Family from 1971 to 1975.
56years old at death
- Born New York City
- Died Brentwood
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as William Halop
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 25 years1937 to 1962
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First role
Halop was studying at New York's Professional Children's School when he won the role of Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway staging of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End. In 1937 Samuel Goldwyn turned the play into a film, and Halop headed to Hollywood with the other Dead End Kids.
A change of course
Halop served in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II. He found he had grown too old for the roles that had brought him fame, and at age 26 he starred in Gas House Kids (1946), a low budget imitation at PRC studios.
Getting ready for a role
In the 1940 movie Tom Brown's School Days, Halop took the role of Harry Flashman, a bully, and used an English accent. Cedric Hardwicke and Freddie Bartholomew also appeared in the film.
Billy Halop movies on Netflix
Best known for
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Most often with
Lewis Seiler directed two of these films. Bobby Jordan appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Lewis SeilerDirector, 2 films, 1939
All films by Lewis Seiler
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Official profiles and reference pages.