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Billy Halop (February 11, 1920) – (November
9, 1976) was an American actor.

He came from a theatrical family; his mother was a
dancer, and his sister Florence Halop was a radio
actress. After several years as a well-paid radio
juvenile, Billy was cast as Tommy Gordon in the
Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End
in 1935, where he was accorded star status.
Traveling to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead
End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film
version of the play in 1937, Billy had no trouble
lining up important roles, specializing in tough
kids, bullies, and reform school inmates in such
major pictures as Dust be My Destiny (1939) and
Tom Brown's School Days (1940).

A long-standing rivalry between Halop and fellow
Dead-Ender Leo Gorcey led to his break with the
Dead End Kids and its offspring groups, the East
Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.

After serving in World War II, Halop found that
he'd grown too old to be effective in the roles
that had brought him fame. At one point, he was
reduced to starring in a cheap East Side Kids
imitation at PRC studios, Gas House Kids (1946).
Diminishing film work, marital difficulties, and a
drinking problem eventually ate away at Halop's
show business career.

In 1960, he married a multiple sclerosis victim,
and the nursing skills he learned while taking
care of his wife led him to steady work as a
registered nurse at St. John's Hospital in Malibu.
For the rest of his life, Billy Halop supplemented
his nursing income with small TV and movie roles,
gaining a measure of prominence as Archie Bunker's
cab-driving pal Bert Munson on the '70s TV series
All in the Family. 

== External links ==
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* http://boweryboys.bobfinnan.com The Bowery Boys
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