Alan Dale
Date of birth: 1947-05-06
Place of birth: Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Alan Hugh Dale, Άλαν Ντέιλ, آلن دیل
Biography
Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a rugby player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27. With work limited in New Zealand, Dale moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played for eight years. The character is the role Dale is most associated with in Australia and the United Kingdom. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. After leaving Neighbours, Dale became typecast as Robinson in Australia and struggled to find work. His career was revitalised after he relocated to the United States in 2000. Since then he has had roles in many American series including prominent parts in The O.C. (as Caleb Nichol) and Ugly Betty (as Bradford Meade), as well as recurring and guest roles in Lost, 24, NCIS, ER, The West Wing, The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen. Dale has also appeared in minor roles in films such as Star Trek Nemesis, Hollywood Homicide and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as well as the London West End production of Spamalot. Dale has been married to former Miss Australia Tracey Pearson since 1990 and has four children.
Movie Credits
Star Trek: Nemesis
2002-12-13
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jea
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008-05-21
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal s
After the Sunset
2004-11-12
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may -
Hollywood Homicide
2003-06-09
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011-02-03
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling
Priest
2011-05-05
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War,
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010-11-06
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home
Happy New Year
2011-09-15
A war-torn marine returns home to face his fiercest battle yet - the one against himself.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011-12-14
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece fr
Alien Cargo
1999-01-28
After eight months of hyper-sleep, when Christopher 'Chris' McNiel (Jason London) and Theta Kaplan (
Doomsday Prophecy
2011-08-13
With the government agents on their trail, journalist Eric Fox and archaeologist Brook Calvin race a
Houseboat Horror
1989-06-30
A rowdy rock group are accompanied by a film crew to desolate Lake Infinity to produce a music video
The Extreme Team
2003-01-01
A secret Black Ops rescue team made up of Gen X extreme sport athletes go to New Zealand to save a f
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014-03-20
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is liv
First Daughter
1999-08-15
A female Secret Service agent goes against protocol to save the U.S. president from an assassination
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021-09-17
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humb
Tangled Ever After
2012-01-13
The kingdom is in a festive mood as everyone gathers for the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn. Ho
Entourage
2015-06-03
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in busi
Grace
2014-10-28
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college fre
Playing Mona Lisa
2000-05-01
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her fl
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017-03-10
Rapunzel grapples with the responsibilities of being a princess and the overprotective ways of her f
Rent Control
2003-10-22
Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her che
Beauty and the Beast
2012-05-02
The Applicant
1982-05-02
Straight Eye: The Movie
2004-10-16
Renaissance
2009-04-03
London is in the grips of a huge pandemic as zombies terrorize a plane on an emergency landing near