Hello to any of Charles Hallahan's family. I've just stumbled across this page; hard to believe it's almost ten years since his death. I met him in 1973, and ran across him a time or two in subsequent years. He was my acting teacher, during a summer training program at ACT in San Francisco. I was 17 at the time. He was one of the best teachers I ever had, a title I don't bestow lightly, as I have subsequently spent much of my life as a teacher (visual art, not acting). I recall him as a smart, insightful, free-spirited guy who was very engaged with his students, his work as an actor, and the pleasures of life. I have a memory of visiting him in the hospital--he had an emergency appendectomy that summer, and he told the story of his trip to the hospital vividly, for all it was worth. He also told us (myself and another of his students) how his girlfriend or wife at the time was smuggling specially fortified cookies into the hospital, to assuage his "existential angst." A wonderful, inspiring, funny guy, who made a large impression, even on those, like me, who crossed paths with him only briefly.