Hal Le Roy was a dancer, actor and singer appearing on stage, in film and on television.

Career

Le Roy was born John LeRoy Schotte in Cincinnati in 1913. He broke into New York theater as a dancer, and quickly worked his way into Broadway roles where his dance style created a sensation in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....

. On 12 April 1934, he married Ruth Hedwig Dod (born 13 March 1911, died 1 July 1979), who had been one of his dance partners. He also began doing a series of musical film shorts for Vitaphone

Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

 and Warner Brothers Pictures

Warner Bros.

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.

Aside from his work on Broadway and in film, he also performed in revues, vaudeville and as a featured entertainer in New York's nightclub scene. Le Roy died in 1985 of post-operative complications following heart surgery.

Broadway

• The Gang's All Here (1931)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 (1931)
• Strike Me Pink (1933)
• Thumbs Up! (1934–1935)
• Count Me In (1942)

Partial Filmography

• Follow the Leader (1931)
• Tip Tap Toe (1932) as Hal Evans
• Use Your Imagination (1933)
• Mr. Broadway
  Mr. Broadway (1933 film)
  Mr. Broadway is a 1933 comedy film written by Abel Green and Ed Sullivan. The film was directed by Johnnie Walker and stars Ed Sullivan along with a cast of celebrity walk-ons.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (1933) as himself
• Picture Palace (1934) as Hal
• Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar is a 1934 pre-code movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley...
  
  (1934) as dancer in blackface
• Harold Teen
  Harold Teen
  Harold Teen was a popular, long-running comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed . Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested, and certainly approved, the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen. Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip,...
  
  (1934) in the title role
• Private Lessons (1934) as himself
• Syncopated City (1934) as himself
• In the Spotlight (1935) as Hal
• Oh, Evaline! (1935)
• Wash Your Step (1936) as Hal Rogers
• Rhythmitis (1936) as Hal
• Swing for Sale (1937)
• Ups and Downs
  Ups and Downs (1937 film)
  Ups and Downs is a 1937 film released by Warner Brothers Pictures. It was part of Warner's "Broadway Brevities" series of 2-reel musical shorts , starred Broadway dancer Hal Le Roy and was directed by Roy Mack...
  
  (1937) as Hal Smith
• Start Cheering
  Start Cheering
  Start Cheering is a musical motion picture starring Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly and Joan Perry. It is best remember today for a cameo appearance by The Three Stooges as Campus Firemen, who were Columbia Pictures' short subject headliners at the time...
  
  (1938) as 'Tarzan' Biddle
• The Prisoner of Swing (1938) as Rudolph, King of Sulvania, and Mr. Razzenstill
• The Knight Is Young (1938) as Hal
• Public Jitterbug No. 1 (1939) as Hal Sturges
• Too Many Girls
  Too Many Girls (musical)
  Too Many Girls is a Broadway musical comedy and a 1940 film version of the show, starring Lucille Ball.-Broadway version:Too Many Girls opened October 18, 1939, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by George Marion Jr. It was produced by George Abbott...
  
  (1940) as Al Terwilliger

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