Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson's biography at IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002099/bio). Billy Halop Online (http://home.comcast.net/~shelga/index.html). 1. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide. Air Force as an intelligence officer. For the rest of his life, Billy Halop supplemented his nursing income with small TV and movie roles, gaining a measure of latter-day prominence as Archie Bunker's cab-driving pal Bert Munson on the '70s TV series All in the Family. During the 1950s, Gibson served in the U.S. John's Hospital in Malibu.

Gibson spent three years as part of the Laugh-In cast, often reciting poems with "sharp satirical or political themes" 1 (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002099/bio). In 1960, he married a multiple sclerosis victim, and the nursing skills he learned while taking care of his wife led him to steady work as a registered nurse at St. Gibson was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won the National Film Critics award for his role of "smarmy" country music singer named Haven Hamilton [1] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002099/bio). Diminishing film work, marital difficulties and a drinking problem eventually ate away at Halop's show business career. Other notable film roles were in Nashville (starring Ned Beatty and Keith Carradine) and The Incredible Shrinking Woman (starring Lily Tomlin). A long-standing rivalry between Halop and fellow Dead-Ender Leo Gorcey (both actors wanted to be the leader of the gang) led to Billy's breakaway from the Dead End Kids and its offspring groups, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys, though Halop briefly starred in Universal's "Little Tough Guys" films. After serving in World War II, Halop found that he'd grown too old to be effective in the roles that had brought him fame; at one point he was reduced to starring in a cheap "East Side Kids" imitation at PRC studios, Gas House Kids (1946). A graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Gibson's acting career began when he as cast in the 1963 Jerry Lewis film The Nutty Professor. After several years as a well-paid radio juvenile, Billy was cast as Tommy Gordon in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End (1935), where thanks to his previous credentials he was accorded star status. Traveling to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937, Billy had no trouble lining up important roles, specializing in tough kids, bullies and reform school inmates in such major pictures as Dust be My Destiny (1939) and Tom Brown's School Days (1940).

1935) is an American actor who was famous as a cast member of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. The original leader of the original "Dead End Kids," American actor Billy Halop came from a theatrical family; his mother was a dancer and his sister Florence Halop was a busy radio actress. Henry Gibson Bateman (born September 21. February 11, 1920 - November 9, 1976.