Baylor, Hal

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Baylor, Hal

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1948

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1978

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Hal Baylor was born Hall Brittan on December 10, 1918. He was a heavy weight boxing champion in California and a U.S. Marine in World War II, participating in landings on Saipan and Tinian. He began his movie career in earnest in 1948 and won reknown with the fist fight with Robert Ryan in "The Set-Up" (1949) as one of the best choregraphed boxing scenes in film history. He had roles, usually secondary, in more than two hundred motion pictures and television films over his thirty-six year acting career. He died January 5, 1998.

From the description of Hal Baylor papers, 1948-1978. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 65644173

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