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Hal Linden (born March 20, 1931) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated role in the television comedy series Barney Miller
Barney Miller

Barney Miller is a sitcom television series set in a New York City Police in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on American Broadcasting Company....
 and as presenter on the ABC educational series Animals, Animals, Animals
Animals, Animals, Animals

Animals, Animals, Animals was an educational television series on American Broadcasting Company about different species of animals. The program, produced by ABC News, was hosted by Hal Linden....
.

Born Harold Lipshitz in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Linden graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. He began his career as a clarinetist and dance band. He and his violinist brother Bernie chose their stage names after spotting a gas storage tank in Linden, New Jersey
Linden, New Jersey

Linden is a City in southeastern Union County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area, being about 13 miles southwest of Manhattan, New York, and bordering Staten Island, New York, a borough of New York City....
 written in huge letters.

In 1984 Hal carried the Olympic Torch and ran a portion of the Los Angeles segment.

He is currently the national spokesperson for the Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund

The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit corporation owned by the World Zionist Organization...
.






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Hal Linden (born March 20, 1931) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated role in the television comedy series Barney Miller
Barney Miller

Barney Miller is a sitcom television series set in a New York City Police in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on American Broadcasting Company....
 and as presenter on the ABC educational series Animals, Animals, Animals
Animals, Animals, Animals

Animals, Animals, Animals was an educational television series on American Broadcasting Company about different species of animals. The program, produced by ABC News, was hosted by Hal Linden....
.

Born Harold Lipshitz in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Linden graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. He began his career as a clarinetist and dance band. He and his violinist brother Bernie chose their stage names after spotting a gas storage tank in Linden, New Jersey
Linden, New Jersey

Linden is a City in southeastern Union County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area, being about 13 miles southwest of Manhattan, New York, and bordering Staten Island, New York, a borough of New York City....
 written in huge letters.

In 1984 Hal carried the Olympic Torch and ran a portion of the Los Angeles segment.

He is currently the national spokesperson for the Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund

The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit corporation owned by the World Zionist Organization...
. He is married to Frances Marie Martin, and they have five children.

Work


Television

  • Barney Miller
    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller is a sitcom television series set in a New York City Police in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on American Broadcasting Company....
  • Blacke's Magic
    Blacke's Magic

    Blacke's Magic was a short-lived American TV show about a Magician , Alexander Blacke , who, with some help from his con-man father, Leonard , solves mysteries that get in the way of his performances....
  • Animals, Animals, Animals
    Animals, Animals, Animals

    Animals, Animals, Animals was an educational television series on American Broadcasting Company about different species of animals. The program, produced by ABC News, was hosted by Hal Linden....
  • FYI
    FYI (TV series)

    FYI was an information series seen on the American Broadcasting Company network in the early 1980s. Hosted by Hal Linden , the program features answers to questions that many viewers ask, from common questions such as, "What's the leading cause of burns in children?", to questions not many ask, but may be interesting to know, like "Can a...
  • Golden Girls
  • The Drew Carey Show
    The Drew Carey Show

    The Drew Carey Show is an United States sitcom that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its "everyman" characters and themes....
  • The Bold and The Beautiful
    The Bold and the Beautiful

    The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
  • Jack's Place
  • Gilmore Girls
    Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls is a Creative Arts Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, Television in the United States comedy-drama television program created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel....
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an United States television program set in New York City. Criminal Intent premiered on September 30 2001....
  • Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • The King of Queens
    The King of Queens

    The King of Queens is an United States sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia Pictures Television , Columbia TriStar Television , Sony Pictures Television and filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver Cit...
  • The Muppet Show
    The Muppet Show

    The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of The Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street....

Film

  • Time Changer
    Time Changer

    Time Changer is an independent Christian film directed by Rich Christiano and released by Five & Two Pictures in 2002. In the movie, Dr. Norris Anderson invents a time machine to send his colleague, Bible professor Russell Carlisle , into the early 21st century....
     (2002)
  • When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)
  • Out to Sea
    Out to Sea

    Out to Sea is a 1997 in film romantic comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Rue McClanahan, Dyan Cannon & Brent Spiner. The film was directed by Martha Coolidge....
     (1997)
  • Bells Are Ringing (film)
    Bells Are Ringing (film)

    Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 in film romantic comedy film-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli....
     (1960)


Stage

  • The Rothschilds
    The Rothschilds

    The Rothschilds is a musical theater with a book by Sherman Yellen, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock.Based on The Rothschilds by Frederic Morton, it tells of the rise of the Rothschild family from humble beginnings in Germany, to their founding of their financial empire and growing political influence under the guid...
  • The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game

    The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....
  • I'm Not Rappaport
    I'm Not Rappaport

    I'm Not Rappaport is a play by Herb Gardner originally staged by Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1984. Its Broadway theatre debut production, directed by Daniel Sullivan , starring Judd Hirsch, Cleavon Little, Jace Alexander, and Mercedes Ruehl, opened on November 19, 1985 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 891 performances....
  • The Sisters Rosensweig
    The Sisters Rosensweig

    The Sisters Rosensweig is a Play by Wendy Wasserstein....
  • Anything Goes
    Anything Goes

    Anything Goes is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
  • A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas is a book by Charles Dickens that was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech ....


He has also provided voiceovers for such imported films as The Last Days of Planet Earth, Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. Megalon

is a 1973 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed and co-written by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. It was the thirteenth film to be released in the Godzilla franchise....
, and Deathquake.

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