1. Jack Haley was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz.
12 Facts About Jack Haley
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Jack Haley died in the wreck of the schooner Charles A Briggs at Nahant, Massachusetts on February 1,1898, aged 31, before Jack was born.
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Jack Haley had one older brother, William Anthony "Bill" Haley, a musician, who developed pneumonia which caused tuberculosis, and he died in 1915 at the age of twenty.
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Jack Haley made a few phonograph records in 1923, and in the early 1930s starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jack Haley was under contract to them and appeared in the Fox films Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Pigskin Parade, marking his first appearance with Judy Garland.
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Jack Haley left the studio in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO's Seven Keys to Baldpate.
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Jack Haley subsequently went into real estate, taking guest roles in television series over the next couple of decades.
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Jack Haley portrayed the Tin Man's Kansas counterpart, Hickory Twicker, one of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmhands.
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Jack Haley did not remember the makeup or the costume fondly.
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Jack Haley was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.
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Jack Haley died on June 6,1979, at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 80.
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Jack Haley is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.