Editing Billy Halop (section)

==Personal life==
Halop was married at least four times, according to interviews given near the end of his life. Helen Tupper was his first wife from 1946 until their divorce in 1947. On Valentine's Day, 1948, he married Barbara Hoon. Their marriage lasted ten years until their divorce in 1958. His third marriage in 1960 to Suzanne Roe, who had multiple sclerosis, lasted until their divorce in 1967.

The nursing skills he learned while taking care of his third wife led him to steady work as a registered nurse at St. John's Hospital in [[Santa Monica, California]]. His fourth marriage, to a nurse coworker, whose name has not been publicized, was quickly annulled after she allegedly attacked him. He later moved back in with his second wife Barbara, but they chose not to remarry. {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

Following two [[myocardial infarction|heart attacks]], Halop underwent open-heart surgery in the fall of 1971.<ref name=BDE />

He died of a heart attack on November 9, 1976, in Hollywood at the age of 56.<ref name="NYT"/> He is interred at [[Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Los Angeles, California]].