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Alan Dale

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Biography

Recent Role:
Jonathan on House of Lies
Gender:
Male
Born:
5-6-1947
Birthplace:
Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Birth Name:
Alan Hugh Dale
Alan Dale was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, where, at the young age of 12, he started appearing in his parents' amateur theater group.

After school, he moved to Auckland. He married at twenty-one to a woman named Claire, with whom he had two children. Soon afterwards, he got a job as a radio announcer.

In 1979, at age 31, he got divorced and moved to Sydney, Australia to further his career as an actor. Ten days after arriving, he landed his first television role in The Young Doctors. After three years playing Dr. John Forest, he went on to star in



More the Australian soap, Neighbours as Jim Robinson for eight years. In 1990, at the age of 43, he married former Miss Autralia, Tracey Pearson.

After his eight year role in Neighbours ended, he and his wife moved to Los Angeles. Since then Alan has starred in a large number of U.S. television programs, including ER, Navy NCIS, The X Files, The O.C. and The Practice, as well as movies such as Star Trek: Nemesis and X-Men.

Two of his children, Simon & Matthew are very famous like their parents. Matthew is a writer, musician and, like his father, an actor. He spends his time in both Melbourne and Los Angeles. Simon Dale, another of his sons, is a radio announcer in the United Kingdom.

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    The biggest reason why The O.C. is such a success is because it is one of those rare shows where its supporting cast is just as strong as its main cast. The main characters are amazing enough, but The O.C. wouldn't be The O.C. if it weren't for guys like Caleb Nichol played by Alan Dale. Overly serious, will get whatever he wants because he has all the money he desires, liar, deceitful, etc. To have to burden all of these sins in just one character, Alan Dale pulls it off as well as anyone else. Not familiar with his other roles outside of Caleb Nichol, but he's just fantastic in The O.C.

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    In the O.C. a very underated actor hide show

    In the middle of all the teenage angst, good looking adults and teenagers good acting i feel is overlooked. He conveys scheming amongst other traits very believibly. He also conveys change and emotion in the middle of the second serious which is a side previously we presummed Caleb didn't posess. He is not a main character in the characters the show follows but is a very major character if that makes sense. All lives he is invloved in means that the show wouldn't be the same without him.

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