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An American vaudeville actor, comedian, radio host, singer and dancer, best known for his role as the tin man in MGM's timeless masterpiece The Wizard of Oz (1939). Jack Haley was born to Irish parents. His father died when he was 6 months old. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 10, 1897 and died in Los Angeles, California on June 6, 1979, of a heart attack. Jack Haley received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his radio work. He married Florence McFadden (1921-1979), they had two children, and she remained with him until his death. He began his career as a singer and dancer at the vaudeville theater, and in the late twenties he worked in cinema, where he presented a group of short comedies, then worked on feature films, where he appeared in Sitting Pretty (1933) with Ginger Rogers, and Pigskin Parade (1936) with Patsy Kelly and Judy Garland, Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) with Tyrone Power and Alice Fay, and Higher and Higher (1943) with Frank Sinatra, and in the mid-1940s he presented Vacation in Reno (1946), then he retired from acting and worked in real estate until the early fifties, when he was a guest on some TV shows.
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