1. Hal Skelly was an American Broadway and film actor.
12 Facts About Hal Skelly
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Hal Skelly was born James Harold Skelley in Alleghenyville, Pennsylvania to James and Martha Skelley.
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Hal Skelly's family moved to Davenport, Iowa when he was four.
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Hal Skelly left home at the age of 15 and joined the circus.
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Hal Skelly acted in his first stage production, The Time, the Place and the Girl, at the LaSalle Theater in Chicago when he was 16.
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Hal Skelly became a veteran of medicine shows, musical comedy, burlesque, Lew Dockstader's minstrels and opera.
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Hal Skelly joined the AM Zinn musical comedy company in San Francisco where his eccentric dancing ability earned him the nickname "Tumbling Harold Skelly".
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Hal Skelly toured China and Japan with a musical comedy troupe, the Raymond Teale Company.
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Hal Skelly made his Broadway debut in Fiddler's Three and went on to appear in ten other shows on Broadway.
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Stanwyck turned down the offer, while Hal Skelly accepted, reprising his role as "Skid Johnson".
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Hal Skelly would make a total of ten films, including the Woman Trap, Behind the Make-Up, and The Shadow Laughs, and was featured on two movie soundtracks.
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Hal Skelly was killed in a train-auto accident in West Cornwall, Connecticut when the truck he was driving was struck by the New York to Pittsfield train of the New Haven Railroad at a crossing.