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John Agar married actress Shirley Temple (she was 17, he was 24) and both acted in Fort Apache. He later had fame in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Sands of Iwo Jima.

Mark Anthony was Bob Hope's personal/business manager for 50 years, and was also a close pal of mobster Jimmy 'The Weasel' Frattiano. He was also a Navy veteran of World War II.

George Baker was a cartoonist, creator of The Sad Sack, a dimwitted soldier, which became the image of the downtrodden G.I. doomed to perpetrate a losing battle with his own top sergeants.

Norman Barthold was an actor in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Westworld, and Capricorn One. His notable TV roles include Adam's Rib, Laverne & Shirley, Falconcrest, and as Skip Hollings on Mr. Belvedere.

Donald Bevan was a playwright whose works include the Broadway play Stalag 17, co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and later adapted as the famous movie. He was a waist-gunner in WWII and was shot down, spending time in a German stalag. He was also the caricaturist for Sardi's restaurant in New York City for over 20 years.

Tommy Bond was the mean kid Butch in the Our Gang comedies. After his child acting career Tommy went behind the camera into local TV directing, and managed the props on TV's Laugh-In.

Bill Burrud was a child actor in the 1930s, and later produced and hosted TV nature/travel documentaries in the 70s and 80s.

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Will 'Dub' Jones was an R&B/doo-wop singer with The Cadets, and The Jacks, then with The Coasters, replacing Bobby Nunn and Leon Hughes.

Robert Karvelas was the cousin of actor Don Adams, and is best remembered as Larrabee on TVs Get Smart.

Lillian Keil was flight nurse and in England treated wounded bomber crewmen. She flew on 425 evac missions, took part in 11 major campaigns, including D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and in the Korean War.

William Lasky, son of producer Jesse L. Lasky, received an oscar nomination for Best Short Subjects, Two Reel for 'Boy and the Eagle' (1949).

Salvador Lopez, as Alberto Morin, acted in Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, Chisum and The Milagro Beanfield War.

Frank Lubin was an American-Lithuanian basketball player for the UCLA Bruins, then the US Olympic team in 1936, winning the gold. He then coached in Lithuania as their first national coach, winning in 1937 and 1939. He played until he was 54.

John McKeel was a Marine sergeant at the US Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun by Iranian militants in 1979. He and 51 other Americans were held hostage at the embassy for 444 days. In 1991, he was shot twice during a robbery of a woman who lived in the apartment complex he and his wife managed, and was later removed from life support at the hospital.

Charles Mitchell acted in TV's Remington Steele, General Hospital, Bret Maverick and The Fall Guy. Films include Hollywood Zap, Hateman, Hollywood Monster, Better Off Dead, The Winds Of War, Box Office, Frightmare, Good-bye Cruel World, Bret Maverick, The Hearse, Don't Answer The Phone!, and Penitentiary. He was also bar owner Porky in the Porky's series of movies.

Richard Nelson is notable as the radio operator aboard the B-29 Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 6, 1945. He appears in the 1996 TV documentary Men Who Brought the Dawn.

Sydney O. Kimmelman was the famous astrologer, Sydney Omarr.

Wyott Ordung is probably best known as B.B.-Eyes in the Dick Tracy TV series in 1950-51. Other film roles include Fixed Bayonets!, Dragon's Gold, and Walk The Street. He also was a writer, director, and producer.

Earl Palmer was a session drummer on Little Richard's 'Tutti-Frutti', Fats Domino's 'I'm Walking', Bobby Day's 'Rockin' Robin', Ritchie Valens's 'La Bamba' and Sam Cooke's 'Twistin' The Night Away'.

James Pash was a member of the Surf Rock group The Surfaris, best known for their 1963 instrumental hit, Wipe Out. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Pash went on to a somewhat successful solo career.

Ruby (later adding an "e") Blevins, as Patsy Montana, was a country music singer, songwriter and actress. She was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. She made one full-length movie, with Gene Autry. Husband Pete Rose was a stage manager for Gene Autry's show.

Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode was an actor, notably as the gladiator fighting Spartacus in that movie. Friend of John Ford, he slept on the directors floor for months as his caregiver near the end of Ford's life and was directed by him in his favorite movie in the title role of Sergeant Rutledge. The 6 ft 4 inch native American/black actor was a college decathlete, played football at UCLA with other (rare) blacks Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington. He later played for the LA Rams, and the Calgary Stampeders championship team. He also was a pro wrestler between acting jobs. Golden Globe nomination for Spartacus, Nominated for a Saturn award, and won a Golden Boot.

Ed Townsend was an attorney, songwriter, and producer. He was best known for performing his composition, For Your Love, a rhythm and blues doo wop classic, and as the co-writer of Let's Get It On with Marvin Gaye.

William Walker acted as Reverend Sykes in To Kill a Mockingbird, and appeared in The Killers, The Far Horizons, The Big Knife and Hush... Hush... Sweet Charlotte.

Skip Ward was an actor and producer, known for The Dukes of Hazzard, The Night of the Iguana, Hombre, V (TV movie) and the Kung Fu (TV movie). He was married briefly to Michelle Triola (later of Lee Marvin palimony-suit fame).

Noble Willingham acted in many TV shows including Walker, Texas Ranger; Home Improvement; Ann Jillian, and the A-Team. His movies included Paper Moon, and City Slickers. He also had an unsuccessful run in politics.

Michael Winkelman was an actor best known as Little Luke McCoy from TVs The Real McCoys. Afterward, Winkelman found few acting jobs and entered the US Navy during the Vietnam War. He was later a groundskeeper at Universal Studios.

Born Ronald Plumstead, Skip Young was in radio before his role as Wally, a buddy of the Nelson boys on TVs The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, from 1957 to 1966.