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Actor Born: December 10, 1918 Death: January 5, 1998 Biography:Character actor "Hal Baylor" made a career out of pummeling (or being pummeled by) heroes ranging from "John Wayne" to "Montgomery Clift". The 6'3", 210-pound Baylor, born "Hal Fieberling", was an athlete in school and did a hitch in the United States Marines before embarking on a boxing career. He moved into acting in the late '40s, initially by way of one of the most acclaimed boxing films ever made in Hollywood, "Robert Wise"'s "The Set-Up" (1949), playing Tiger Nelson, the young fighter in the film, whose fresh good looks stood out from the pug-worn visages of most of the men around him. His first released film, however -- a short feature done after "The Set-Up" but released first -- was a very different kind of boxing movie, "Joe Palooka in Winner Take All". He also appeared in "Allan Dwan"'s 1949 The Sands of Iwo Jima, playing Private "Sky" Choyuski, which was where he first began working with... Full Biography
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