Her last performance was in the 1991 television movie, Lies Before Kisses, where she portrayed the character of Veronica. Help us build our profile of Jean Hale Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. The present status of Jean Hale is unknown as she is now 81 years old. In 1984, she started a production company, Coleman-Tanasescu Entertainment, with partner Gino Tanasescu before branching out on her own in 2000. Jean Hale is a member of the following lists: American film actors, American television actors and 1938 births. Valentine’s Day Massacre opposite Jason Robards and George Segal. Her film roles include the 1967 spy parody In Like Flint - in which she co-starred opposite James Coburn - as well as Taggart, McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force, The Oscar and Roger Corman’s The St. In the early 1960’s Hale was spotted by Sandra Dee’s agent Len Luskin walking down 5th Ave and, as a result, landed a contract with 20th Century Fox. They had three children, Kelly, Randy, and Quincy, before divorcing in 1984. Born on December 27, 1938, to Mormon parents in Salt Lake City, Utah, she was raised in Darien, Connecticut and expressed an early interest in acting. She and Coleman married in New York in 1961. Mini Bio (1) Fetching, glossy-lipped, blue-eyed, white-hot blonde Jean Hale showed major promise playing superficial glamour girls, a la Carroll Baker and Virna Lisi, throughout the 1960s. After college, she became a model for the Conover Agency and the Huntington Hartford Agency and studied at the acclaimed Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York, from which she also graduated.Īt the Neighborhood Playhouse School she studied with Sydney Pollack and Martha Graham and alongside fellow students James Caan, Jerry Weintraub, Jessica Walter, Christopher Lloyd, Brenda Vaccaro, as well as future husband Dabney Coleman.
Hale was educated at the University of Utah and went on to attend Skidmore College. Her father was a major corporate leader of Mormon heritage and her great grandfather, Soloman Hale, owned a ranch with Brigham Young. Hale was born December 27, 1938, in Salt Lake City to Doris Norrell and Stanton G. Fetching, glossy-lipped, blue-eyed, white-hot blonde Jean Hale showed major promise playing superficial glamour girls, a la Carroll Baker and Virna Lisi, throughout the 1960s. Showbiz & Media Figures We've Lost In 2021 - Photo Gallery