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Florence Halop (January 23, 1923 - July 15, 1986) was a diminutive, mostly comic actress and the sister of Billy Halop, one of the original Dead End/East Side Kids. Born in Queens, New York, Halop had a long career on radio and got her start at age 4 when she appeared on Orson Welles' Mercury Theater of the Air.

Between 1976 - 1982, she played 6 different characters on the TV series Barney Miller. Her character in St. Elsewhere, Mrs. Hufnagel, was only supposed to be in one episode, but her role was so well received the writers found a way to get her into 15 more episodes. Halop also went uncredited in the films The Glass Bottom Boat
and Pretty in Pink
. Florence succeeded Selma Diamond on Night Court after Diamond's death from lung cancer, but succumbed herself to cancer during the run of the show. (She was replaced on Night Court by Marsha Warfield, who played Roz Russell until the series ended in May 1992.) Halop, just like Diamond, lasted one season on Night Court before dying of cancer.

Also, both she and Diamond were short, Jewish, had raspy voices from years of smoking and played the feisty female bailiff role on the show. Florence developed breast cancer that spread to, among other places, her lungs, so biographies of her alternate between her having died from breast or lung cancer, aged 63.

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