Hal Baylor papers, 1948-1978.

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Hal Baylor papers, 1948-1978.

The Hal Baylor collection contains photographs taken on working sets or behind the scenes from the 1940s through the 1970s, in both black-and-white and color, for example, photographs from "The Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) with John Wayne. A second series contains scripts for motion pictures and television shows in which Baylor played a role, the earliest being "Winner Take All" (1948), and "The Young Lions" (1958) through "The Bears and I" (1976). Other scripts include: "The Grissom Gang" (1971), "Death Valley Days" (1966-1968), and "Cheyenne" (1956-1960).

1.0 cubic ft. (1box)

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Ryan, Robert, 1909-1973

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Baylor, Hal

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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...