Kevin Peter Hall
1955 — 1991
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Actor best known for portrayal of the Predator in films by the same name.
This African-American actor attended Penn Hills High School in Pittsburgh, PA. He started his junior year at 6' 5" and finished it at 6' 9"! He played basketball throughout his high school years, and won a scholarship. He averaged 18 points a game and 10 rebounds. He played basketball during college, but not when it would interfere with his major, Theatrical Arts at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
During his college years, he met Jay Fenichel, with whom he would later make musical productions. Upon graduation, Fenichel moved to Los Angeles and Hall moved to Venezuela to play basketball. After a year, Hall lost interest and relocated to LA. Together, Hall and Fenichel put together two night club acts/musicals. One was a semi-autobiographical two-man musical, "In Five," and the other was a two-man show called "The Worst Of Friends," both of which played in night clubs throughout the LA area.
They also founded a business in which they did promotional acts in department stores for new products throughtout the LA area. While working on the set of the series "227" (1985), he met his co-star, Alaina Reed Hall, who played Rose Lee Holloway. They married both on the set, and in real life, and had two children.
Hall starred with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Predator," (1987). "Predator 2" was released to theaters in December of 1990, and in April of 1991, Hall died of complications from AIDS, which he contracted through a blood transfusion a few months before production of "Predator 2" began.
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