Hal Linden: Hal Linden. Actor: Barney Miller. A familiar name thanks to his handsome, brush-mustachioed titular cop on a popular '70s TV show, Bronx-born actor/singer/musician Hal Linden (né Harold Lipschitz, March 20, 1931) was the son of Lithuanian immigrant Charles Lipschitz and his wife Frances Rosen. He had one older brother, Bernard, who would become a future Professor of Music at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Similarly musical, Hal took up classical...
