- Birthday
- 1925-07-09
- Deathday
- 2002-04-20
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Alan Dale
ActingBiography
The man many consider to have possessed the greatest voice ever in popular music, Alan Dale had a career that spanned three decades and 16 record labels. At age 17 he was a big-band vocalist, first with Carmen Cavallaro, then George Paxton. In 1948 he achieved stardom via CBS' musical quiz show Sing It Again (1950) (this is the program referred to in the James Stewart film Un Sacco d'oro (1941))). His own The Alan Dale Show (1948) (Dumont and CBS) was the first television program kinescoped for showing in other parts of the country. By 1951 Dale was one of the hottest singers around. Then ...