Career
Interested in acting since he was a child, young Brett was employed as a page at CBS Television studios, where he met Jack Benny and Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone. They introduced him to the head of Universal Pictures, who placed him in a school with other aspiring actors for the studio.
In 1958, Halsey guest-starred in the episode "The Imposter" of Richard Carlson's syndicated western television series Mackenzie's Raiders, a fictional account of cavalry Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, set at Fort Clark, Texas. That same year, Halsey had the lead role of a life-saving sailor in an episode of another syndicated series, Highway Patrol, starring Broderick Crawford. Halsey also appeared in Wendell Corey's Harbor Command, a military drama about the United States Coast Guard. In 1959 he had a co-starring role in the science-fiction film The Atomic Submarine with Arthur Franz and Dick Foran. Halsey appeared in the episode "Thin Ice" in 1959 of NBC espionage series, Five Fingers, starring David Hedison and Halsey's second wife, Luciana Paluzzi.
From 1961–1962, Halsey starred with Barry Coe, Gary Lockwood, and Gigi Perreau in the ABC adventure television series Follow the Sun, a story of two free-lance magazine writers living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In 1961 Halsey won the Golden Globe Award for "New Star of the Year". His Follow the Sun co-star, Barry Coe, had won the same honor in 1960. The award was discontinued in 1983.
Halsey played supporting and co-starring roles in Hollywood, having appeared in such films as Return of the Fly (1959) with Vincent Price. By the early 1960s, he relocated to Italy where he found himself in demand in adventurous films such as Seven Swords for the King or The Avenger of Venice, being often cast a swashbuckling hero. He also appeared in a few Spaghetti Westerns and Eurospy films.
He returned to the United States in the early 1970s and worked in film and television. He appeared in the soap operas General Hospital and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. He had supporting roles in higher-profile films such as The Godfather Part III. He appeared as the captain of a luxury space liner in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Cruise Ship to the Stars".
Halsey worked with Italian horror director Lucio Fulci on Touch of Death, A Cat in the Brain and Demonia.
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