** Hal Linden, American actor and singer

Hal Linden, born Harold Lipshitz, adopted his stage name for fear that the embedded obscenity in his original surname could cost him work.

* Alexander Blacke, the hero of the 1986 television series Blacke's Magic, played by Hal Linden.

* Hal Linden

It also provided the basis for a 1950 British television drama starring Ruth Chatterton and Walter Abel, and a 1995 musical adaptation that was staged in Fort Worth, Texas with Hal Linden and Dee Hoty.

( 1979 ) starring Hal Linden and Lee Grant.

In 1973 – 1974, Calloway was featured in an unsuccessful Broadway revival of The Pajama Game alongside Hal Linden and Barbara McNair.

* Hal Linden

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

He starred in many made-for-TV movies, including Gramps ( 1995 ), co-starring with Andy Griffith, Rob Hedden's The Colony ( 1995 ) with Hal Linden, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, and It Came From the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth, and made guest appearances on TV shows, such as " Felicity ", Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as an episode of Law & Order: SVU where the case involves the beating of a seven-months-pregnant woman, whose unborn child has been torn from her body via a primitive cesarean section.

Other television programmes have utilised the same formula of a magician helping police to solve crimes, such as the U. S .- made programmes The Magician, starring Bill Bixby, which aired in 1973-74, and 1986's short-lived Blacke's Magic, starring Hal Linden.

* Hal Linden

The cast included Hal Linden, Barbara McNair, and Cab Calloway as Hines.

* Captain ( later Deputy Inspector ) Barney Miller ( Hal Linden ): The sensible captain of the " One-Two " who tries to retain his sanity while dealing with the foibles of his staff and the unending stream of budget problems and paperwork that make up his job.

Hal Linden has told interviewers that he is still occasionally called " Captain " by working police officers.

The cast included Hal Linden as Mayer Rothschild, Leila Martin as Gutele, Jill Clayburgh as Hannah Cohen, Keene Curtis in the multiple roles of the various national leaders doing business with the Rothschild family ( Prince William of Hesse, Joseph Fouché, Herries, and Prince Metternich ), Paul Hecht as Nathan Rothschild, Chris Sarandon as Jacob Rothschild, and Robby Benson as young Solomon Rothschild.

The first tournament's finalists were Dick Gautier, James Shigeta, Peter Bonerz, and Don Galloway, with Shigeta winning the championship ; the second tournament's finalists were Richard Dawson, Bill Bixby, Hal Linden, and Betty White, with Dawson winning the championship ( Dawson had almost made it to the first tournament finals, but Gautier beat him out during their preliminary week by just one point ).

with Telly Savalas, and The Best Of Everything with Hal Linden and Dorothy Loudon.

Eden's most recent work was starring in the play Love Letters with Hal Linden, and a guest-starring role on the Lifetime series Army Wives, written and produced by her niece, Katherine Fugate.

In addition, she starred opposite Hal Linden in the 1994 sitcom The Boys Are Back.

Dean Martin took over the male leading role, and the cast also included Eddie Foy Jr., Fred Clark, Frank Gorshin, Bernie West, Hal Linden, and Gerry Mulligan.

* Hal Linden as " Midas Touch " Singer

* Hal Linden – Barney Miller

* Hal Linden – Barney Miller as Barney Miller

* James Hal Cone ( born 1938 ), an advocate of Black liberation theology

* Hal Ketchum ( born 1953 ), country music singer

World Famous Radio Air Personality, Hal Edwards, was born in Montezuma's Riverside Sanitarium.

* Hal Douglas ( born 1924 ), voice actor

Harold Gregory " Hal " Moore, Jr. ( born February 13, 1922 ) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army and author.

Harold Lee " Hal " Lindsey ( born November 23, 1929 ) is an American evangelist and Christian writer.

Hal Hartley ( born November 3, 1959 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s.

Hal Draper ( born Harold Dubinsky, 1914 – January 26, 1990 ) was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement and is perhaps best known for his extensive scholarship on the history and meaning of the thought of Karl Marx.

* Hal Holbrook ( born 1925 ), American actor

* Hal Lindsey ( born 1929 ), American evangelist and Christian writer

* Hal Sparks ( born 1969 ), American actor and comedian

* Jean Ven Robert Hal ( born 1970 ), Italian composer of electronic and new age music

Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York, the grandson of Irish Immigrants.

Harold Smith " Hal " Prince ( born January 30, 1928 ) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century.

Hal Colebatch was born in Wolferlow in Herefordshire, England, on 29 March 1872.

The Honourable Newton Rowell " Hal " Jackman, OC, O. Ont, CD ( born June 10, 1932 in Toronto, Ontario ), served as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1991 to 1997.

Harold Dallas " Hal " Rogers ( born December 31, 1937 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1981.

The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana.

* Hal Rogers ( born 1937 ), U. S. Congressman from Kentucky

Diouf was born in Louga, Senegal, the child of an Hal Pulaar mother and a Serere father.

Hal Russell ( born Harold Luttenbacher, 28 August 1926 – 1992 ) was an American free jazz musician.

Hal Douglas ( born 1924 ) is a retired American voice actor best known for his work on movie trailers and television commercials.

Hal Harry Magee Sparks III ( born September 25, 1969 ) is an American actor, comedian, musician and television personality.