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Albert Hall
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Miami Vice Character
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Federal Agent Joe Dalva ("Definitely Miami")
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Born
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November 10, 1937, Brighton, Alabama
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Active
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1970-present
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Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor, who appeared in the show Miami Vice as Federal Agent Joe Dalva of the Organized Crime Task Force, sent to "bring out" crime lord Sergio Clemente by using his "weight" to force his sister Maria Rojas (played by Kamala Lopez) out of the Witness Protection Program, only to see both killed (Sergio by Maria, then Maria by a Clemente sniper) in the episode "Definitely Miami".
Career/Selected Filmography[]
Hall was born in Brighton, Alabama. He is a 1971 graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts, and has appeared in the theater. Below is a selected filmography:
- Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970, movie debut)
- If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972, TV debut, with Laurence Fishburne)
- Roots, The Next Generation (TV, 1979, with Georg Stanford Brown & Pam Grier)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, with Jack Thibeau & Laurence Fishburne)
- Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (TV, 1980, with Veronica Cartwright)
- The Long Hot Summer (TV, 1985, with Don Johnson & William Russ)
- Matlock (TV, 1989-90, 6 episodes)
- The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989, with Xander Berkeley)
- Malcolm X (1992, with Lonette McKee & Giancarlo Esposito)
- Roc (TV, 1993, with Charles S. Dutton)
- Rookie of the Year (1993, with Dan Hedaya)
- New York Undercover (TV, 1996, with Keith Szarabajka & Patti D'Arbanville)
- Courage Under Fire (1996, with Lou Diamond Phillips)
- The Practice (5 episodes, 1998)
- Ali (2001, with Bruce McGill, Giancarlo Esposito, Joe Morton, and Mykelti Williamson)
- Ally McBeal (50 episodes, 1998-2002)
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006)
- Not Easily Broken (2009, most recent movie appearance)
- Men of a Certain Age (2009-11, most recent TV appearance)