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After ''Flipper'' ended, Halpin appeared in feature films, including as Stu MacRae (teen son of [[Richard Greene]]'s starring character) in Ivan Tors' ''Island of the Lost'' (1967), as Bo (student radical who befriends a teenage girl travelling on a European bus tour) in ''[[If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium]]'' (1969), as Keith (First Mate on a shabby vessel chartered for a tour that stumbles on 'living dead' Nazis) in iconic niche horror movie ''[[Shock Waves (film)|Shock Waves]]'' (1977) and as Ken Wilson in ''Flipper'' co-creator [[Ricou Browning]]'s ''[[Mr. No Legs]]'' (1979). Halpin's guest appearances on television in the years shortly after ''Flipper'' were; as Kenny Carter, Jr., in the [[Carl Betz]] series ''[[Judd, for the Defense]]'' (1968), as a celebrity contestant on ''[[The Dating Game]]'' (1968), as Ben Cabot, Jr., in ''[[Bracken's World]]'' (1969), as Greg in Ivan Tors' ''[[Primus (TV series)|Primus]]'' (1972), and as Eric Bates in ''[[Caribe (U.S. TV series)|Caribe]]'' (1975).
He appeared in the 1968 episode, "A Mule … Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated [[anthology series]] ''[[Death Valley Days]]'', in which he was cast as the outlaw [[Sandy King]], the youngest member of the [[William Brocius|"Curly Bill" Brocius]] gang. In the story line, King is befriended by a [[United States Army]] lieutenant, played by [[Sam Melville (actor)|Sam Melville]]. Robert Yuro was cast as "Curly Bill".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959693/|title=''Death Valley Days'': "A Mule ... Like the Army's Mule", October 5, 1968|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database]]|
A notable later appearance was in the 1980 television movie ''The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd'', a dramatization about [[Samuel Mudd]] (played by [[Dennis Weaver]]), the [[Maryland]] physician who was imprisoned as an accomplice to [[John Wilkes Booth]] in the [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln]], where Halpin played [[David Herold]], the conspirator who brought Booth, suffering from a broken leg incurred in the process of assassinating Lincoln, to Dr. Mudd for treatment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081281/|title=The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd|publisher=Internet Movie Database|
==After acting==
Following an acting career that spanned three decades, Halpin began working as a stuntman, marine coordinator, diver, and [[speedboat]] pilot for such feature films as ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'', ''[[Porky's Revenge!]]'', ''[[Flight of the Navigator]]'' and ''[[Speed 2: Cruise Control]]'' as well as for the television series ''[[Miami Vice]]''.<ref name="The Palm Beach Post">{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF3F86BAE197FD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Will The Real Flipper Please Swim By?|author=Kevin D. Thompson|date=May 17, 1996|work=The Palm Beach Post}}</ref><ref name="South Florida Sun-Sentinel">{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/650291591.html?dids=650291591:650291591&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+12%2C+2004&author=Sally+Kestin+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=SWIMMING+IN+NOSTALGIA+STARS+FROM+THE+FLIPPER+TV+SERIES+RETURN+TO+MIAMI+TO+REMINISCE+AND+PROMOTE+SEAQUARIUM+SHOWS.+BUT+THOSE+GOOD+OLD+DAYS+ARE+OVER%2C+CRITICS+SAY.&pqatl=google|title=Stars From The Flipper TV Series Return To Miami|author=Sally Kestin|date=June 12, 2004|work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel}}</ref> He also continued to make [[cameo appearance]]s, most notably, on the television series ''[[Key West (TV series)|Key West]]'', ''[[Miami Vice]]'' and in the 1996 feature film remake, ''[[Flipper (1996 film)|Flipper]]'', starring a 15-year-old [[Elijah Wood]] as Sandy Ricks.<ref name="The Palm Beach Post"/><ref name="Bangor Daily News">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1KhJAAAAIBAJ
Halpin lives on the west coast of [[Florida]] with his wife, Deborah.<ref name="Ocala Star-Banner">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RuJPAAAAIBAJ
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