Doug Hale

Doug Hale
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Portrays:	Major Grimsley
Date of Birth:	June 11,1940
Date of Death:	April 25, 2014
Age at Death:	73
Nationality:	USA
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Paul Douglas Hale (credited as Doug Hale) was an American actor who portrayed Major Grimsley, a United States Air Force officer, in Galactica 1980's "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III". He was born on June 11, 1940, in Athens, Georgia, and died on April 25, 2014, in Woodland Hills, California, following a brief illness.

Career

Hale began performing as a child, appearing in a University of Georgia stage production at age eight. He trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner and at the HB Studio under Herbert Berghoff and Uta Hagen, and performed in New York theater and elsewhere in productions including A View from the Bridge, King Lear, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Arsenic and Old Lace.

Film career

On film, Hale appeared in Michael Mann's Ali (2001), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), The Brass Ring (1975), The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's (1975), Claude Lelouch's Another Man Another Chance, Tony Richardson's The Border (1982), and The Cable Guy. His earlier film work included the English dub for Kang Fu's dialogue in the martial arts feature Blood of the Dragon (1971).

Television career

On television, Hale held recurring roles on Hart to Hart and Hotel, and made guest appearances on Kojak, The Bionic Woman, Simon & Simon, Highway to Heaven, Max Headroom, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Night Court, Babylon 5, Seinfeld, My Name Is Earl, The West Wing, and Mad Men.

Personal life

Hale began studying cornet and trumpet at age five and played the instrument professionally with the University of Georgia Dance Band by age twelve, later spending two college summers playing trumpet in Las Vegas with the Glenn Miller Orchestra under Ray McKinley. He attended the University of California, Berkeley before completing a B.A. in English at the University of Georgia in 1963, followed by a postgraduate degree in Medieval Literature and Linguistics in 1966. He subsequently taught English at the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Columbus College, where he helped establish the English department's graduate program, before leaving academia to pursue acting full time.

In the fall of 1965, Hale joined the United States Air Force Reserves and served as a cargo pilot during the Vietnam War, receiving an honorable discharge as a captain in March 1978.

He was survived by his wife, Mary Anne, a stepson, and a grandson.

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