![]() ![]() He died on June 6, 1979, at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 81. On Friday June 1, 1979, Haley suffered a heart attack. Haley remained active until a week before his death. Their son, Jack Haley Jr., is buried next to them. Final years and death Jack and Florence Haley's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. His nephew Bob Dornan served as a Republican congressman for California. He was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California. Personal life Haley (second from left) at the National Film Society Convention on May 30, 1979, (one week before his death) The other was Pick a Star, a 1937 Hal Roach production distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Oz was one of only two films Haley made for MGM. It was work!" For his role as the Tin Woodman, Haley spoke in the same soft tone he used when reading bedtime stories to his children. Interviewed about the film years later by Tom Snyder, he related that many fans assumed making the film was a fun experience. Haley did not remember the makeup or the costume fondly. Haley also portrayed the Tin Man's Kansas counterpart, Hickory Twicker, one of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmhands. Surgical treatment averted serious or permanent damage to Haley's eyes. For Haley, to avoid the same problem, the dust was converted into a paste-even so, the paste caused an eye infection that sidelined Haley for four shooting days. He replaced song-and-dance comedian Buddy Ebsen, who had suffered a severe allergic reaction after inhaling aluminum powder from his silver face makeup, which triggered a congenital bronchial condition the dust settled in Ebsen's lungs and, within a few days of principal photographic testing, he found himself struggling to breathe. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Haley for the part of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger and Jack Haley reunited in 1970 ![]() "The Tin Man" in The Wizard of Oz Haley as the Tin Man in the MGM feature film The Wizard of Oz, 1939 film. He subsequently went into real estate, taking guest roles in television series over the next couple of decades. He left the studio in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO's Seven Keys to Baldpate. Most of his '40s work was for RKO Radio Pictures. Haley returned to musical comedies in the 1940s. During the second season the show featured Gale Gordon and Lucille Ball as regular radio performers. The next season (1938-1939), the show was sponsored by Wonder Bread and was known as The Wonder Show. The first season (1937-1938), the show was sponsored by Log Cabin Syrup and was known as The Log Cabin Jamboree. Haley hosted a radio show from 1937 to 1939 known to many as The Jack Haley Show. Haley was under contract to them and appeared in the Fox films Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Pigskin Parade, marking his first appearance with Judy Garland. Both Poor Little Rich Girl and Alexander's Ragtime Band were released by Twentieth Century-Fox. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression gained him supporting roles in musical feature films, including Poor Little Rich Girl with Shirley Temple, Higher and Higher with Frank Sinatra and the Irving Berlin musical Alexander's Ragtime Band. Haley made a few phonograph records in 1923, and in the early 1930s starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. ![]() Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air. One of his closest friends was Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Haley headlined in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. ![]() Career Haley (far left) in a trailer for Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) He had one older brother, William Anthony "Bill" Haley, a musician, who died of pneumonia in 1916 at the age of twenty-one after contracting tuberculosis. Briggs at Nahant, Massachusetts on February 1, 1898, when Jack was almost six months old. He died in the wreck of the schooner Charles A. His father was a waiter by trade, and later a ship's steward. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. (Aug– June 6, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. ![]()
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