Personal Life and Death
Hall met actress Alaina Reed while taping a guest spot on the television show 227. The couple would marry both on the show and in real life.
While working on the series Harry and the Hendersons, Hall announced that he had contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion. On April 10, 1991, Hall died from pneumonia. He was 35 years old.
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