Hal England

He was born on October 23, 1932^[1][2] to W. F. England^[1] and Della Irene England^[3] in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.^{[1][3][4][5][6]} He attended Kings Mountain High School and graduated with honors.^[1] After graduating from high school, he enrolled at Mars Hill Junior College to study for the ministry, but left a year later to study pre-law^[1] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[7] After a year of pre-law, he switched to dramatics and joined the campus theater group Carolina Playmakers.^[1] He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in dramatic arts.^[1] He died on November 6, 2003, of heart failure at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center.^[8] Fred W. Bennett, a producer, was his life partner for forty years.^[3]

After graduating from university, England went to New York and starred in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Candide and The Seagull.^[9] He understudied Robert Morse for two years in the Broadway production How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,^[10] and then starred in several Broadway productions including Love Me Little, Say Darling,^[8] and The Beggars Opera.^[11] He was a life member of the Actors Studio.^[3]

England also had over 100 guest starring roles in television,^[3] and appeared in over 200 TV commercials.^[7] He once had a lawsuit brought against him for $25,000 by Kentucky Fried Chicken, which he had completed a commercial for, for breach of contract, because he had also completed a commercial for their rival McDonald's; it was later settled out of court.^[7]

On November 5, 1970, he played the character warlock, Waldo, in the Bewitched episode, "Samantha's Bad Day in Salem."