Charles Hallahan

Biography

Charles John Hallahan was an American film, television, and stage actor. His films include Going in Style and Nightwing, The Thing (1982), Silkwood and Twilight Zone: The Movie, Vision Quest and Pale Rider, P.K. and the Kid (1987), Cast a Deadly Spell (1991), Executive Decision (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), and Mind Rage (2001). On television, he appeared in guest turns on The Rockford Files, Happy Days, Hawaii Five-O, Dallas, All in the Family, Soap, Good Times, The Waltons, Hart to Hart, Trapper John, M.D., M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, Lou Grant, The Equalizer, Wings, Picket Fences, In the Heat of the Night, Law & Order, Mad About You, Murder, She Wrote, JAG, NYPD Blue, and Coach, among many others. He is, perhaps, best known for his role as Capt. Charles "Charlie" Devane in the NBC cop action-drama Hunter from 1986 to 1991. Hallahan also appeared as a series regular in both CBS' The Paper Chase, as Ernie, from 1978 to 1979, and ABC's Grace Under Fire, as Bill Davis, from 1993 to 1994, as well as a recurring performer providing various characters' voices on the ABC children's animated series Gargoyles, from 1995 to 1996. An accomplished stage veteran, Hallahan was thrice honored with Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Lead Performance for his turns in productions of Rat in the Skull in 1986, The Kentucky Cycle in 1992, and Endgame in 1995.

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