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Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz; March 20, 1931) is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden is known for his role as Cpt. Barney Miller in Barney Miller. He won two special Daytime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Linden is the spokesman for the Jewish National Fund, a position he has held since 1997.
In his four-hour interview, Hal Linden talks about his early life and influences and making his Broadway debut in the musical Bells Are Ringing. He describes early television roles, doing voiceover for commercials and overdubbing for foreign films, and triumphing on Broadway with a Tony win for The Rothchilds.
Linden has since continued his career on the stage, in films and guest-starring roles on television. He released his first album of pop and jazz standards, It's Never Too Late, in 2011. Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician.
Nov 9, 2011 · Hal Linden was born Harold Lipshitz in New York City in 1931, but changed his last name—inspired by the town of Linden, New Jersey—when he got into show business. While I was interviewing ...
Nov 5, 2017 · Hal Linden will always be best known as the wry, decent captain of TV’s Barney Miller, but he’s a versatile actor whose career predates that classic sitcom and has outlasted it by a staggering...
Dec 10, 2016 · The actor: Hal Linden made his Broadway debut in 1957, after he’d been singing and playing music for more than a decade. He became one of the most famous faces on the primetime landscape when...
Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden is known for his role as Cpt. Barney Miller in Barney Miller. He won two special Daytime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. Linden is the spokesman for the Jewish National Fund, a position he has held since 1997. [1]
