Dale was born on 6 May 1947 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.[1][2] One of four children, Dale enjoyed his childhood, but his family was relatively poor.[3] Growing up in New Zealand without television, Dale loved rugby union, the theatre and amateur dramatics.[4] His first performance was for a school concert, at the age of 13, doing an impression of comedian Shelley Berman. After moving northwards, his parents became founding members of an amateur theatre in Auckland called 'The Little Dolphin Theatre'. Dale often operated the stage equipment used to produce weather effects,[3][1]
Dale was a skilled rugby player, but opted to move into drama instead because "the acting fraternity didn't like footballers and the footballers didn't like actors. [...] Acting gave me the same buzz and there was the chance of a longer career."[4] He gave up rugby at the age of 21 because it was not considered a workable career at the time, and he had to support his family.[3] Acting roles were limited in New Zealand so Dale worked in multiple jobs, including as a male model,[5] a car salesman and a realtor.[4] While working as a milkman he heard the disc jockey at his local radio station resign during a broadcast. Dale went over to the station and told the managers he could do a better job. They gave him a trial and then signed him up for the afternoon show.[4] At the age of 27, he decided to become a professional actor.[3]
"When I was 27, I started to get really jumpy and thought, what could I do that would give me the same buzz rugby did? Acting was what came to mind. I told my first wife, 'Look, I really can't stand it any more. I'm going to have to go and be an actor'."
— Dale on why he turned to acting professionally.[3]
Acting career
Early roles and Neighbours
Dale's first professional acting job was playing an Indian in a production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun at the Grafton Theatre in Auckland.[1] His first on-screen role came in the New Zealand television drama Radio Waves, which although not successful, he described as "nine months of solid work and great fun."[1] In the late 1970s, Dale moved to Australia at the age of 32,[3][4] due to the limited acting work in New Zealand. He applied to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, but was rejected because he "was a lot older than anybody else on the course."[1] He was soon cast as Dr. John Forrest in the Australian soap opera The Young Doctors, where he remained for three-and-a-half years until 1982.[1]
In 1985, Dale was cast in the continuing role of Jim Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. He appeared on the show from the first episode and stayed for eight years before his character was killed off in 1993.[4] He found working on Neighbours "exciting" and it enabled him to provide for his sons, but he said: "You were a totally replaceable commodity; [the production company] didn't put any value on any of the people appearing in the show."[3] He expanded: "I didn't like it there, they were not nice people. When we decided that we hated each other, the company and me, one of the things the company did was to market everything they could out of us and pay us nothing."[5] Dale and the company (Grundy Television) parted on "bad terms", although he would later go on to appear on the show again in 2018 and 2019.[6]
After Neighbours, Dale struggled to find work in Australia because he was typecast as Jim Robinson.[3] His only regular sources of income were voice-overs,[4] and publishing magazines about his former show which he "made quite a lot of money out of". He lost most of his profits investing in a failed children's magazine.[5] In 1999, he was cast in the American television film First Daughter, which was filmed in Australia. After discovering he could perform a convincing American accent, Dale attended the film's premiere, finally moving with his family to the United States permanently in January 2000.[4] Dale, his second wife Tracey, and their then two-year-old son Nick moved into an "awful little flat" in Los Angeles and found an agent. Dale recalled telling his wife in Melbourne that "there's no way this is going to work. But if it does, it proves you can do anything."[3]
At the age of 52, he began to revive his career and started taking acting classes,[4] something he had not thought about after being cast in Neighbours.[1] He described his age, unknown status and willingness to work for a relatively low fee as being his main assets for getting work in America. His drama teacher, whom he has remained with ever since,[1] told him "that you might want to play great roles, but truth is you will get cast as a specific type. Just work out your type. The others in the class said I was a bit Anthony Hopkins and a bit Sean Connery and that went into my head. I thought if I go for roles those guys would go for I'm more likely to get them."[4] The first role he was offered was a part in a series called Sign of Life, a show about a rock band, which eventually fell through.[1] Dale only received a couple of auditions during his first year in America, but his break came when he was cast as the South African Al Patterson in four episodes of ER.[3] Since then, Dale has been "busier than ever".[4]
He has appeared in many television series including guest appearances on The West Wing, Torchwood, The Lone Gunmen, Californication,[7] and The Practice.[1] Many of these have been recurring roles, such as the part of Tom Morrow in JAG and its spin-off NCIS, as well as appearing in three episodes, including the series finale, of The X-Files, playing the "Toothpick Man".[1] He played the recurring role of Vice President of the United States Jim Prescott for seven episodes of the second season of 24, a part which was originally supposed to be a single scene.[3] Dale had recurring roles in the serial Midnight Man and the Australian series Sea Patrol in 2008.[1] He also had recurring parts on Undercovers, Entourage as John Ellis, the fictional owner of Warner Bros., and the British series Moving Wallpaper as a fictional version of himself.[7][8][9] He had a recurring role as King George in the series Once Upon a Time,[7][10] and Emmett in Hot in Cleveland,[11] before joining the main cast of Dominion in 2014, playing General Edward Riesen.[12]
From 2003 to 2010, Dale appeared in his longest running American roles. He starred in the Fox TV series, The O.C. playing Caleb Nichol, a wealthy tycoon. The producers saw that the character had further potential, and made his initially recurring role a regular character in the series.[5] After 35 appearances,[13] Caleb was killed off in the second-season episode "The O.Sea" in 2005. Dale was disappointed that Caleb was written out and described it as a mistake by the production staff.[14] In 2006, Dale was cast in the starring role of Bradford Meade, the owner of Meade Publications in the ABC show Ugly Betty.[14] Although he impressed the producers in his audition, he initially lost the role to a "bigger star". After said star began "causing trouble" and was fired, Dale was given the part.[5] Bradford was killed off during the show's second season.[15] Dale appeared in the second-season finale of Lost, "Live Together, Die Alone", as Charles Widmore, a businessman and leader of the Others.[7][14] Dale's publicist was initially worried that Widmore (who was an integral part of the show's mystery) would become a starring role, meaning it would be hard for Dale to appear in both Lost and Ugly Betty at the same time.[14] The part became a recurring role, with Dale appearing numerous times between seasons two (2006) and six (2010). He enjoyed the role but often found it difficult due to his character's unclear motivation.[16]
In March 2008, Dale replaced Peter Davison in the lead role of King Arthur in the London West End production of Monty Python's Spamalot at the Palace Theatre.[17] He accepted the role because he was a huge fan of Monty Python and considered that "life's too short" for him to have turned down a West End part.[4] Although he has seen all of the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches and Life of Brian, Dale had never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail (from which Spamalot is "lovingly ripped off") and had to buy a copy to prepare for the role.[1] It was not his first experience in musical theatre because he appeared in a 1984 Australian production of Applause, but Dale found the comic timing of the part to be the hardest task. "On stage, the battle is to find all of the humorous moments and not skip over them. [...] There's an art to Python humour and I'm aiming to try and get every single joke just right."[1] He was succeeded in the role by Sanjeev Bhaskar on 23 June 2008.[18]
Despite his mainstream success upon his move to America, Dale remained primarily known for his role as Jim Robinson in Neighbours in the United Kingdom and Australia for several years.[4][20][21][22] This was spoofed in a promotional ident for the UK's Channel 4 in 2007 which sees Dale taking part in a mock interview about the sudden upturn in his career, before being accosted by an Australian fan, who recognises him as Jim Robinson.[20] Discussing this association after Ugly Betty's 2007 Golden Globe win, Dale noted: "Every article I read I'm always, 'Ex-soap star Jim Robinson'. Maybe now people will just get to know me as actor Alan Dale."[23] In 2007, Amazon.co.uk reported that they had sold more DVDs of films and television shows featuring Dale than any featuring other ex-Neighbours cast members.[24]
Dale's characters on most of the American television shows he has appeared on have shared similar character traits, which Dale describes as the "go-to powerful guy".[5] "I either play rulers of the world or the guy who kills the ruler of the world", he said, recalling that his age benefited him after moving to the US, because "A lot of the American middle-aged faces were too familiar, I came along and people were saying 'Who is this great new guy?' And I was cheap".[4] Following his appearance as Senator Eaton in The Killing in 2011,[7] reviewers commented on his tendency to play powerful, wealthy and mysterious characters in many shows.[25][26] Maureen Ryan of TV Squad wrote that it was "lovely to see Alan Dale playing a typically Alan Dale-ian character. He's always so great at playing That Sketchy Wealthy Guy With a Hidden Agenda, which he has now played on, I believe, 87 different shows. And he always does it well."[27] Coincidentally, Dale's characters in Neighbours, The O.C. and Ugly Betty have all been killed off by a fatal heart attack.[6] Christopher Rosen of The New York Observer wrote in 2008 that "with his square jaw and seemingly no nonsense attitude, Mr. Dale is the go-to actor when casting directors need a conservative-looking authoritarian. When he comes onto the screen, audiences immediately take him seriously, since he radiates rich, smug and serious. He demands your respect." Rosen says that Dale is "not even...a particularly good actor" but is "fine enough" and "bring[s] a no frills, no gimmicks style to his roles," and "manages to give a consistent performance in every show he appears on."[28]
Jayne Nelson, writing in magazine SFX, named Dale the second most "serial" science-fiction guest star after Mark Sheppard. She wrote: "The thing is, soap-opera origins aside, Dale is always good. Which is why he keeps getting so much work....Dale never lets you down, always (well, usually) summoning up a pitch-perfect accent, too. There's something comforting about his presence on a show, as though the fact he's in it has lent it some weight."[22] In a profile of his work on "cult shows", Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy called Dale an "institution".[29]
Personal life
"I like both places [Australia and New Zealand] but I get a lot more respect and recognition from Australia than I do in New Zealand. New Zealanders don't want to know me at all, really. I've been Australian for 20-odd years. Everywhere I went I was the guy from Neighbours so I was Australian. Then when I came here [Hollywood], because I have a New Zealand passport I became a New Zealander again. It's odd."
In 1968, Dale married his girlfriend, Claire. The couple had two children, Simon and Matthew,[30][31] both of whom are involved in the entertainment industry, Simon as a radio announcer at Kiss 100[1] and Matthew as a writer, film maker and actor.[32] The marriage ended in divorce in 1979.[33] At the time, Dale lived in Auckland but after the divorce he moved to Sydney with his sons.[3]
On 8 April 1990,[33] he married Tracey Pearson, the 1986 Miss Australia, whom he met at the 1986 Australian Grand Prix, when she was 21 and he was 39. Dale described it as "the most appropriate relationship I've ever had."[3] Dale also has two children from this marriage, Daniel and Nick.[3]
He and his family now live in Manhattan Beach, California[34] and also owns property in Australia.[1] Dale sold his holiday home in New Zealand in 2011 for $1.25m.[35] Both of Dale's parents died in 2007.[1][6] Dale describes his life philosophy as being Winston Churchill's quote "Never, never, never give up",[3] and counts Gene Hackman as his "big acting hero".[1]
^Stransky, Tanner (13 November 2007). "Ugly Betty: Dead Meade". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
^ abRuby, Jamie (5 May 2010). "Alan Dale on 'Lost'". MediaBlvd Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
Mike Josef dan Rolf Hosfeld di Pameran Buku Frankfurt 2015 (mempersembahkan: Tod in der Wüste. Völkermord an den Armeniern karya Rolf Hosfeld) Rolf Hosfeld (lahir 22 Juni 1948) adalah Direktur Akademik Rumah Lepsius Potsdam di Jerman, yang berfokus pada Pusat Penelitian Studi Genosida. Ia juga dikenal sebagai penulis dan sejarawan independen. Setelah menyelesaikan pendidikannya di Johannes Althusius Gymnasium di Bad Berleburg, Hosfeld memulai karier di bidang jurnalisme dengan pelatihan di ...
Keling nuri Thalassoma trilobatum Status konservasiRisiko rendahIUCN187707 TaksonomiKerajaanAnimaliaFilumChordataKelasActinopteriOrdoPerciformesFamiliLabridaeGenusThalassomaSpesiesThalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) Tata namaSinonim takson Labrus trilobatus Lacépède, 1801 Labrus fuscus Lacépède, 1801[1] ProtonimLabrus trilobatus lbs Keling nuri ( Thalassoma trilobatum ) adalah spesies ikan bersirip pari, keling dari famili Labridae yang berasal dari Samudra Hindia dan barat. ...
Brazilian military unit who fought with the Allies in the Mediterranean Theatre of WWII Brazilian Expeditionary ForceForça Expedicionária BrasileiraBrazilian Expeditionary Force shoulder sleeve insignia (Army component) with a smoking snakeActive1942–1945Country BrazilAllegianceUnited NationsBranchBrazilian ArmyBrazilian Air ForceTypeExpeditionary ForceRoleAerial warfareCombined armsExpeditionary warfareSize25,900Engagements World War II Italian campaign Gothic Line offensive Battle of Mo...
Central SS administrative and managerial authority for the concentration camps of the Third Reich Concentration Camps InspectorateGestapo headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße in Berlin, 1933. The CCI moved into these offices in May 1934OperationFormedMay 1934Disbanded1945 The Concentration Camps Inspectorate (CCI) or in German, IKL (Inspektion der Konzentrationslager; German: [ɪnspɛkˈt͡si̯oːn deːɐ̯ kɔnt͡sɛntʁaˈt͡si̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ] ⓘ) was the central SS administrat...
Japanese company This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Vixen telescopes – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) VixenVixen refracting telescopeHeadquartersJapanWebsitevixen.co.jp Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars,...
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1992) This article is about the baseball player. For the Chilean footballer, see Wilson Contreras. Baseball player Willson ContrerasContreras with the St.Louis Cardinals in 2023St. Louis Cardinals – No. 40CatcherBorn: (1992-05-13) May 13, 1992 (age 31)Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, VenezuelaBats: RightThrows: RightMLB debutJune 17, 2016, for the Chicago CubsMLB statistics (through April 15, 2024)Batting average.258Home runs139Runs batted in437...
Mary Fallin pada Mei 2015 Mary Fallin /ˈfælɪn/ (née Copeland; lahir 9 Desember 1954)[1] adalah seorang politikus Amerika Serikat yang menjabat sebagai gubernur Oklahoma ke-27 dari 2011 sampai 2019. Sebagai anggota Partai Republik, ia terpilih pada 2010 dan terpilih lagi pada 2014. Referensi ^ Wilson, Linda D. Fallin, Mary Newt Copeland. Oklahoma Historical Society. Diakses tanggal July 18, 2018. Pranala luar Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Mary Fallin. Governor Mar...
The WhirlwindAlbum studio karya TransatlanticDirilis23 Oktober 2009DirekamApril 2009GenreProgressive rock, symphonic rockDurasi77:54LabelMetal Blade Records[1]ProduserTransatlanticKronologi Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever(2001)Bridge Across Forever2001 The Whirlwind(2009) Kaleidoscope(2014)Kaleidoscope2014 Penilaian profesional Skor ulasan Sumber Nilai Lords of Metal (92/100)[2] Allmusic (not rated)[3] The Whirlwind adalah album studio ketiga oleh band Transatl...
Urban contemporary radio station in Hazelwood, Missouri This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: WHHL – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message) WHHLHazelwood, MissouriUnited StatesBroadcast areaGreater St. LouisFrequency104.1 MHz (HD Radio)Bra...
Oscar alla migliore colonna sonora 1936 Oscar alla migliore colonna sonora 1943 Oscar alla migliore colonna sonora 1945Max Steiner, pseudonimo di Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner[1] (Vienna, 10 maggio 1888[1] – Hollywood, 28 dicembre 1971[1]), è stato un compositore austriaco naturalizzato statunitense, autore di colonne sonore. Indice 1 Biografia 2 A Hollywood 3 Filmografia 3.1 Colonne sonore (parziale) 4 Discografia scelta 5 Note 6 Altri progetti 7 Collegamenti es...
SDN 09 BotumoitoSekolah Dasar Negeri 09 BotumoitoInformasiJenisSekolah DasarAkreditasiCNomor Pokok Sekolah Nasional40500243Kepala SekolahAnis mantuModeratorIyan DjakataraJumlah kelas12Rentang kelasI-VIKurikulumkurikulumStatusNegeriAlamatLokasi, Boalemo, Gorontalo, IndonesiaTel./Faks.085240212577/0443211123Koordinat0°30′05″N 122°12′32″E / 0.5015000°N 122.2088000°E / 0.5015000; [email protected] SD Negeri 09 Botumoito atau n...
عيد البربارة حلوى خاصًة بمناسبة عيد القديسة بربارة. البلد صربيا روسيا أوكرانيا بيلاروس بلغاريا بولندا جمهورية التشيك سلوفاكيا سلوفينيا كرواتيا يحتفل به المسيحيون العرب في لبنان سوريا فلسطين إسرائيل الأردن تركيا (محافظة هتاي) نوعه احتفال ديني واجتماع�...
Seorang astronom trotoar sedang melakukan kegiatan pengamatan Astronomi trotoar adalah salah satu metode kegiatan astronomi dimana seorang astronom menggunakan tempat publik (misalnya alun-alun) untuk melakukan kegiatan pengamatan astronomi. Orang pada umumnya akan menganggap bahwa hanya bisa melihat benda langit saat berada di tempat yang gelap, tetapi hal itu tidak selamanya berlaku karena objek yang diamati mereka adalah objek yang kecerahannya bisa dilihat oleh mata.[1] Benda lang...
مسجد ومشهد السيدة رقية إحداثيات 30°01′32″N 31°15′07″E / 30.02558°N 31.25182°E / 30.02558; 31.25182 معلومات عامة القرية أو المدينة القاهرة الدولة مصر معلومات أخرى تعديل مصدري - تعديل مشهد السيدة رقية، هو أحد المساجد التي بنيت في العصر العثماني في مصر على يد الأمير عبد الرحمن �...
维克托·丘卡林出生1921年11月9日 Khreshchatytske 逝世1984年8月25日 （62歲）利沃夫 安葬于利查基夫公墓 就讀學校Lviv State University of Physical Culture 職業竞技体操运动员、體操運動員 僱主Lviv State University of Physical Culture 政党苏联共产党 维克托·伊万诺维奇·丘卡林（俄語：Виктор Иванович Чукарин，烏克蘭語：Віктор Іванович Чука...
Grade II listed road bridge in London, United Kingdom Lambeth BridgeRiver Thames; Lambeth Bridge with Vauxhall Bridge in the distance (as seen from London Eye)Coordinates51°29′40″N 0°07′23″W / 51.49444°N 0.12306°W / 51.49444; -0.12306CarriesLambeth RoadCrossesRiver ThamesLocaleLondonMaintained byTransport for LondonPreceded byVauxhall BridgeFollowed byWestminster BridgeCharacteristicsDesignArchHistoryOpened(first bridge) 10 November 1862; 161 y...
Australian television soap opera For other uses, see Home and Away (disambiguation). Home and AwayTitle cardGenreSoap operaCreated byAlan BatemanStarringCastTheme music composerMike PerjanikOpening themeHome and Away(short theme)Ending themeHome and Away(international broadcasts)Country of originAustraliaOriginal languageEnglishNo. of seasons37 (+ pilot TV film and 5 specials)No. of episodes8,363ProductionExecutive producersJohn HolmesJulie McGauranProducersJohn Holmes (1988–1989)Andrew How...
.jpg)
.jpg)
