Don Abney (1923-2000) [Pete Kelly's Blues (1955); Cindy (1978) (TV)] was born in Baltimore, Maryland and became a jazz pianist accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Thelma Carpenter, and the Billy Williams Quartet
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- He served in the U.S. Army during World War II
- Beutel served in the Navy during WWII
- Cabot worked for Army intelligence overseas during World War II
- Cabot travelled to battle fields to entertain troops during World War II
- When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent
- During World War II Caesar was assigned as a musician in the Coast Guard, taking part in the service show Tars and Spars
- During World War II Campanella served in the U.S. Navy and became one of the youngest-ever skippers in the wartime navy
- J.D. Cannon
- After a brief stateside stint in the navy during World War I
- Too old to serve in World War II
- Served in WWII. After the war, it was hard for him to find a job.
- World War II veteran, he was stationed in France as an infantryman and wounded in leg by shrapnel. He was hospitalized for nine months and walked with a limp for the rest of his life
- Carroll interrupted his movie career during World War II and served as an Air Force pilot in North Africa. He broke his back in a crash
- Pennsylvania (BB-38) which was underway to a combat station when the A-bombs ended the war
- His next role would be that of an officer in World War II. He enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor and saw 4 years of service
Tony Bennett (1926- ) [The Oscar (1966); Christmas Dream (2000, TV)] was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in the Astoria section of Queens in New York City. His father was a grocer and his mother a seamstress. By age 10 the young Benedetto was already singing, performing at the opening of the Triborough Bridge. He attended New York's High School of Industrial Arts where he studied music and painting (an interest he would always return to as an adult), but dropped out at age 16 to help support his family. He then set his sights on a professional singing career. This was interrupted when Benedetto was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 during World War II. He served in a combat position in the 63rd Infantry Division in France and Germany, until some remarks he made against racial segregation led to his being reassigned. Subsequently he sang with the Army military band and studied music at Heidelberg University. [Text excerpted from filmbug.com] 
John Beradino (1917-1996) [The Kid from Cleveland (1949); Seven Thieves (1960)] was born in Los Angeles. He was a major league baseball player from 1939 to 1953, except for three years of military service in WW II (1942-1945). He played second base and shortstop for the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians, and Pittsburgh Pirates. His team, the Indians, won the World Series in 1948. After injuring his leg in 1953, he retired from baseball and returned to acting. He had appeared in his first film in 1948, The Winner's Circle. After appearing in more than a dozen B-movies, as well as the espionage series I Led Three Lives (1953-1956), he was offered the role of Dr. Steve Hardy on the soap opera General Hospital. He played the role from the show's inception in 1963 until his death. -- [Excerpted from IMDB] 
Carl Betz (1921-1978) [Inferno (1953); That Lady from Peking (1975)] was born in Pittsburgh, PA. He formed a repertory theatre company while still in high school, then worked in summer stock. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, then attended Carnegie Tech. (Was tailback in the 1938 Sugar Bowl of Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) versus Texas Christian University.) Following graduation, he worked as a radio announcer. He made his Broadway debut in The Long Watch. He was given a contract at Twentieth Century-Fox and appeared in supporting roles in a number of films before moving to TV. After a brief period working in soap operas, he was cast as Dr. Alex Stone on the popular "The Donna Reed Show" (1958) and spent eight years there. He followed that show with another series, "Judd for the Defense" (1967), in which he played a masterful attorney. He worked primarily in TV, in both guest appearances and TV movies, throughout the 1970s, though he continued to work on stage in the U.S. He fought a gallant fight against early cancer but died in 1978. -- [Excerpted from IMDB] 
Jack Beutel (1915-1989) [The Outlaw (1943); Best of the Badmen (1951)]. No, contrary to what you see on the Web, it is not spelled Buetel. The credits on The Outlaw is Beutel. Born Warren Higgins in Dallas, Texas, Beutel moved to Los Angeles, California in the late 1930s with the intention of establishing a film career. Unable to find such work, he was employed as an insurance clerk when he was noticed by an agent who was impressed by his looks. Introduced to Howard Hughes, who was about to begin filming The Outlaw, Beutel was signed to play the lead role as Billy the Kid. Beutel served in the Navy during WWII. -- [Text excerpted from Wikipedia and IMDB] 
Bruce Cabot (1904-1972) [The Roadhouse Murder (1932); The Undefeated (1969)] was born with the unlikely name Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the son of French Colonel Etienne de Bujac and Julia Armandine Graves, who died shortly after giving birth. Although Cabot was prominently featured in the blockbuster King Kong in 1933, he never did make the step to stardom, though he enjoyed a thriving career as a supporting player. He was a heavy in the '30s, playing a gangster boss in Let 'Em Have It (1936) and the revenge-minded Native American brave Magua after Randolph Scott's scalp in The Last of the Mohicans (1936). Over at MGM, he ably supported Spencer Tracy as the instigator of a lynch mob in Fritz Lang's indictment of domestic fascism, Fury (1936). A freelancer, he appeared in movies at many studios before leaving Hollywood for military service. Cabot worked for Army intelligence overseas during World War II; after the war, he continued to work steadily, with and without his friend and frequent co-star, John Wayne. 
Sebastian Cabot (1918-1977) was a British-born film and television actor, known for his portly figure and deep, melodious voice. Born in London, he began his acting career in Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent (1936), and continued to star in British films before moving to Hollywood. His best-known film work was in Ivanhoe (1952), but he was generally typecast as an Englishman in America. Cabot is best remembered for his television role as Mr. French, the butler who cares for three orphans in the comedy series Family Affair (1966-1971) starring Brian Keith, and for his role as the narrator in the Disney animated Winnie the Pooh series (1966). He was also featured as a voice actor in Disney's Jungle Book (1967). Cabot travelled to battle fields to entertain troops during World War II. 
Frank Cady (1915- ) [Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Hearts of the West (1975)] was born in Susanville, California. Although his most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965-TV) and Petticoat Junction (1963-TV), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. The acting bug bit him when he sang in an elementary school play, and after graduating from Stanford University he headed to London, England, to train in the theater. When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent. After his discharge he returned to the US and headed for Hollywood. 
Sid Caesar (1922- ) has conquered every medium. A multiple emmy award winner, Sid went on to win the Tony Award for the Broadway production, Little Me, and starred in such classic films as Grease and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. During World War II Caesar was assigned as a musician in the Coast Guard, taking part in the service show Tars and Spars, where producer Max Liebman overheard him improvising comedy routines among the band members, and switched him over to comedy. Sid later made his film debut in the adaptation of his stage hit Tars and Spars. Later, as super-hip jazz musician "Cool Cees" in television skits, he played tenor saxophone, and sang with the satirical trio "The Hair Cuts" (with Carl Reiner and Howard Morris). Joining ASCAP in 1955, his popular song compositions include "I Wrote This Song for Your Birthday" and "Was That You?". 
Joseph Campanella (1927- ) [The Young Lovers (1964); Steele Justice (1987)] is an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955. During World War II Campanella served in the U.S. Navy and became one of the youngest-ever skippers in the wartime navy. He graduated from Manhattan College in the Bronx, NY and went on to attend Columbia University, then began his acting career on the New York stage and in TV soap operas. His father, a Sicilian immigrant, was an early member of the American Federation of Musicians. As a result, Campanella remained active in liberal "underdog" political causes all his life. He is the honorary sheriff of Toluca Lake, California. 
J.D. Cannon (1922-2005) [Cool Hand Luke (1967); Heaven with a Gun (1969)] was born John Donovan Cannon in Salmon, Idaho and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He may be best remembered as Dennis Weaver's NYPD chief on the "McCloud" series in the 1970s. He retired in 1991 following an appearance on "Law & Order" and then died only one day before Stephen Elliott who he appeared with in the "Law & Order" episode "The Secret Sharers". Cannon wore a toupee in most of his later roles. The exception was an episode of Remington Steele (TV series 1982-86) from "McCloud" producer Michael Gleason. Here Cannon played a TV news anchor who only wore his toupee while broadcasting. The rest of the time, he gloried in his dome. The toupee showed up when it shouldn't have, solving the case. 
Yakima Canutt (1895-1986) [The Oregon Trail (1936); The Showdown (1950)] was born on a ranch on Penewawa Creek in the Snake River Hills, 16 miles from Colfax, Washington. Canutt grew up riding and roping. He entered his first rodeo at 16 and proved to be a natural bucking-bronc rider and bulldogger. After a brief stateside stint in the navy during World War I, he continued a record-breaking career as a saddle-bronc rider and picked up the nickname "Yakima." Canutt's skill as a rider and stunt fighter led to a contract starring in a series of western silents. However, a case of flu had damaged his vocal cords, and when sound came into vogue, his raspy voice was unsuited to the heroics performed by cowboys in sound films. He focused on stunt work and, although he continued to play roles as heavies, quickly became known as Hollywood's premier stuntman during the 1930s. He and John Wayne created a new technique for filming screen fights more believably, and Canutt created or refined most of the stunt techniques used in westerns and action films for years to come. Too old to serve in World War II he continued to work in film. He was severely injured performing stunts in Boom Town (1940) and again in In Old Oklahoma (1943), and after that film retired from active stunting and concentrated on directing second units, the crews responsible for filming stunts, action sequences and other scenes not necessarily requiring the principal cast members. He created some of the most dynamic and memorable action sequences in film history, culminating in the famed chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959). He was awarded a special Oscar in 1966 for his contributions to film. 
Harry Carey Jr. (1921-2012) [Red River (1948); The Searchers (1956); Tombstone (1993)] was a reliable character actor for decades, mostly in Westerns. He is the son of the actor Harry Carey and the actress Olive Carey. He was born on his parents' 1000-acre ranch near Saugus, in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, which is now next door to Santa Clarita, a large town that certainly did not exist in 1921 or for decades longer. Thus young Harry Carey, Jr. grew up among cattle and horses at the ranch. Because of a large group of Navajo Indians that worked on his parents' ranch, he learned to speak the Navajo language at the same time that he was learning to speak English. During the World War II, Carey enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and served in the Pacific Theater, first as a Navy medical corpsman. However, he was transferred back to the United States (against his wishes) to serve under his father's good friend, the director John Ford, in making Navy training films and films for the O.S.S. After World War II, Carey tried to make a career in singing, but he was not successful. Hence, he moved to acting, and after a couple of small acting parts, he was given a chance to work in a motion picture, the John Wayne classic, Red River (1948). After that he was frequently called to appear in John Ford movies. 
Philip Carey (1925-2009) was a fan favorite as One Life to Live's wheeler-dealer business tycoon, Asa Buchanan from 1979 till Carey's death. One of daytime television's most-married men, Asa, a towering Texan, is a man with little conscience, but he will always protect his family, no matter what the cost. Mr. Carey, a former U.S. Marine in World War II and the Korean War, spent a large portion of his professional career starring in motion pictures. His first feature film, Operation Pacific (1951), starred John Wayne and led to a long-term contract with Warner Bros. During his time at Warner's and later at Columbia Pictures, Mr. Carey starred with some of Hollywood's legendary actors, including Gary Cooper in Springfield Rifle (1952), Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak in Pushover (1954), Tyrone Power in The Long Gray Line (1955), Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955) and Peter Fonda in Fighting Mad (1976). 
Richard Carlson (1912-1977) [The Young in Heart (1938); King Solomon's Mines (1950)]. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6333 Hollywood Blvd. Served in WWII. After the war, it was hard for him to find a job. His early ambition was to be a playwright, but his first paying job was as an English Instructor at the University of Minnesota. He was active in television becoming nationally famous for I Led 3 Lives (1953), which was about an FBI agent infiltrating Communist cells in the United States. 
Ian Carmichael, CBE, (1920- ). Unassuming, innocent-eyed and always ingratiating, Brit comedy actor Ian Carmichael was quite the popular chap in late 50s and early 60s film. He was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, the son of Arthur Denholm Carmichael, an optician, and his wife Kate (Gillett). After receiving his schooling at Bromsgove High School and Scarborough College, he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and trained there, making his stage debut as a mute robot in RUR (1939). That same year he also appeared as Claudius in Julius Caesar and was appearing a revue production of Nine Sharp (1940) when his young career was interrupted by World War II. He served in Europe for many years with the Royal Armoured Corps as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons. Ian returned to the theatre in 1947 with roles in four productions: She Wanted a Cream Front Door, I Said to Myself, Cupid and Mars and Out of the Frying Pan. 
Art Carney (1918-2003) was born Arthur William Matthew Carney in Mount Vernon, NY. He gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the popular television comedy show The Honeymooners (1955-1956). Carney also had many screen and stage roles, including the portrayal of Felix Unger in The Odd Couple. He was nominated for seven Emmy Awards. In 1973 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as an elderly man going on the road with his pet cat in Harry and Tonto. He appeared in such films as W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), The Late Show (1977), House Calls (1977), Movie Movie (1978) and Going in Style (1979). He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6627 Hollywood Blvd. A World War II veteran, he was stationed in France as an infantryman and wounded in leg by shrapnel. He was hospitalized for nine months and walked with a limp for the rest of his life. 
John Carroll (1906–1979) [Hi, Gaucho! (1935); Ride in a Pink Car (1974)] was born Julian LaFaye in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died of leukemia in Hollywood, California. Carroll was 6' 5" tall and was married to Steffi Duna for two years, 1935-1936. They had 1 daughter, Julianna Benito. He later married Lucille Ryman Carroll and that lasted till his death on 24 April 1979. As did so many other actors, Carroll interrupted his movie career during World War II and served as an Air Force pilot in North Africa. He broke his back in a crash. He had appeared in several Western films in the 1930s, including the role of Zorro in Zorro Rides Again (1937). Probably his best known role was as Woody Jason in the movie Flying Tigers (1942) with John Wayne. He was also notable as a Cajun soldier, aptly nicknamed "Wolf", in the comedy A Letter for Evie (1945). Carroll worked steadily through the mid-1950s, but his work began to fade out in the latter half of the decade. His last role was in Ride a Pink Car (1974). -- Trivia: He studied opera in Italy and drove racing cars before turning to acting. His cousin, Rayel "Jack" LaFaye is the grandfather of filmmaker Troy Antoine LaFaye. He was a friend of Erroll Flynn and gained a reputation as an adventurous playboy, even joining Flynn in a trip in which they lived with Fidel Castro in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. In 1956 he became the first actor to be paid a percentage of his film's gross. In 1959, he agreed to pay a settlement of $176,000 to an 81 year old widow who alleged he had romanced her out of her fortune. In 1965, he gave up a position on the Louisiana Tourist Development Commission amid allegations of improprieties. 
Jack Carson (1910-1963) was born in Carman, Manitoba, Canada. When he arrived in Hollywood in 1937, he found work at RKO as an extra. After a few years he developed into a popular character actor who would be seen in a large number of comedies, musicals and a few westerns. Not happy with the direction his career was heading, he went to Warner Brothers in 1941, where the quality of his supporting roles improved. It also did not hurt to be in films that starred James Cagney, such as The Strawberry Blonde (1941) and The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941). After three years he starred with Jane Wyman in Make Your Own Bed (1944) and again in The Doughgirls (1944). Carson was a pilot and during World War II volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps but was rejected due to his height. He was turned down by the Army because he had flat feet but he later entertained Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops in the South Pacific. Was writing a book about religion when he died of stomach cancer in Encino, California. 
Johnny Carson (1925-2005, photo c.1966) [TV: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962-1992)] was born in Corning, Iowa, to Homer "Kit" Lloyd Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson. He lived in southwest Iowa until age 8, then the family moved to Norfolk, Nebraska where he grew up. There he learned to perform magic tricks, debuting as "The Great Carsoni" at 14. After HS he joined the Navy and served 1943-1946. He was sent to Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he received V-12 officer training. In the final months of World War II Ensign Carson served on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) which was underway to a combat station when the A-bombs ended the war. After discharge, Carson attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where he joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in radio and speech with a minor in physics in 1949. [Excerpted from Wikipedia.] 
Jeff Chandler (1918-1961) [Broken Arrow (1950); Raw Wind in Eden (1958); A Story of David: The Hunted (1961)]. was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended Erasmus High School. After HS, he took a drama course and worked in stock companies for two years. His next role would be that of an officer in World War II. He enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor and saw 4 years of service. After discharge he became busy acting in radio dramas and comedies until he was signed by Universal. It was in the fifties that he became a star making westerns and action pictures. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950) and followed that by playing the role of Cochise in two sequels: The Battle at Apache Pass (1952) and Taza, Son of Cochise (1954). His premature gray hair and tanned features served him well in his westerns and action pictures but the studio erred by putting him in soaps and costume movies. In his films, his leading ladies included Maureen O'Hara, Rhonda Fleming, Jane Russell, Joan Crawford, and June Allyson. Shortly after his last film, Merrill's Marauders (1962), Jeff died, at 42, in Culver City, California, of blood poisoning following surgery for a disc herniation. 
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