Alan Hugh Dale is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale developed a love of theatre and also became a rugby player. After retiring from the sport he took on a number of professions to support his family, before deciding to become a professional actor at the age of 27. With work limited in New Zealand, Dale moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played for eight years. The character is the role Dale is most associated with in Australia and the United Kingdom. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. After leaving Neighbours, Dale became typecast as Robinson in Australia and struggled to find work. His career was revitalised after he relocated to the United States in 2000. Since then he has had roles in many American series including prominent parts in The O.C. (as Caleb Nichol) and Ugly Betty (as Bradford Meade), as well as recurring and guest roles in Lost, 24, NCIS, ER, The West Wing, The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen. Dale has also appeared in minor roles in films such as Star Trek Nemesis, Hollywood Homicide and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as well as the London West End production of Spamalot. Dale has been married to former Miss Australia Tracey Pearson since 1990 and has four children.

Filmography

• The Killings at Parrish Station — Older Callum Parrish
• The Assassin — Aaron Cross
• Wreck — Owen Devereaux
• Dynasty — Joseph Anders
• 2017Tangled: Before Ever After — The Vicar (voice)
• Graves — Trevor Lloyd
• Secret City — Martin Toohey
• CSI: Cyber — Richard Margolin
• 2015Entourage — John Ellis
• Top Coppers — Frank
• 2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Councilman Rockwell
• Dominion — General Rysen
• 2014Grace — Father John
• House of Lies — Jonathan Strauss
• 2012Tangled Ever After — Priest (voice)
• The Mindy Project — Alfred
• Unsupervised — Sid (voice)
• 2011A Little Bit of Heaven — Dr. Sanders
• 2011Doomsday Prophecy — General Slate
• 2011Happy New Year — Bill
• Homeland — President Morse
• Once Upon a Time — King George / Albert Spencer
• Person of Interest — Ulrich Kohl
• 2011Priest — Monsignor Chamberlain
• 2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Detective Isaksson
• 2010Don't Be Afraid of the Dark — Jacoby
• Hot in Cleveland — Emmet
• 2009Renaissance — John
• 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — General Bob Ross
• Moving Wallpaper — Alan Dale
• Burn Notice — Ken Bocklage
• Californication — Lloyd Alan Philips Jr.
• Flight of the Conchords — Australian Ambassador
• Torchwood — Copley
• Ugly Betty — Bradford Meade
• E-Ring
• 2004After the Sunset — Security Chief
• Entourage — John Ellis
• Lost — Charles Widmore
• 2004Straight Eye: The Movie — Kelly's Dad
• 2003Hollywood Homicide — Commander Preston
• NCIS — Tom Morrow
• 2003Rent Control — George
• 2003The Extreme Team — Richard Knowles
• The O.C. — Caleb Nichol
• American Dreams — Captain Andrews
• CSI: Miami — Dubay
• 2002Star Trek: Nemesis — Praetor Hiren
• 24 — Vice President Jim Prescott
• Crossing Jordan — Carl Logan
• The Lone Gunmen
• 2000Playing Mona Lisa — Uncle Joe
• 1999Alien Cargo — Eichhorn, Explorer Dolphin
• 1999First Daughter — Daly
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Joshua Koehler
• The Lost World — Phelan
• The West Wing — Mitch Bryce
• The Practice — Judge Robert Brenford
• JAG — Tom Morrow
• Space: Above and Beyond — Colonial Governor Borman
• ER — Al Patterson
• Janus — Richard Issacs
• Blue Heelers
• The X-Files — Toothpick Man
• 1989Houseboat Horror — Evans
• Neighbours — Jim Robinson
• 1982The Applicant
• The Young Doctors — John Forrest

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2021The Eyes of Tammy Faye — Self (archive Footage)
• Alan Carr: Chatty Man — Self
• On Air with Ryan Seacrest — Self - The O.C.