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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- Pennick joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served, with the Pekin Legation Guard, in China in 1912 and in World War I
- World War II interrupted his young career in 1942 but he returned to the stage after his hitch in the army was over three years later
- During World War II he served in the RNVR as an officer. He was appointed to HMS Hood
- World War II, House served in the U.S. Army Air Corps Air Sea Rescue section as a small boat operator
- During World War II he served with the Durham Light Infantry (1942-45) until he was invalided out suffering from shellshock
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- He enlisted in U.S. Navy during World War II, lying about his age and was assigned to the 1267th Medical Detachment at a Veterans hospital for psychiatric patients
- During World War II he joined the National Service with the RAF
- Price joined the Royal Artillery, where he served in Worlde War II until being wounded in 1942. His brother Arthur, who had joined the RAF, was shot down and killed in the Battle of Britain
- He joined the Army Combat Engineers at age 18 during World War II and formed a theatrical group which put on a hit production of the play The Hasty Heart
- He was a British army Major during World War II
- He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II
- Randall then served for four years with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, refusing an entertainment assignment with Special Services
- He served in the Army Air Force during WWII
- Rawlins joined the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He stayed in the Marine Reserves after the war ended and was called up for service during the Korean conflict
Jack Pennick (1895-1964) [The Lone Eagle (1927); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Mister Roberts (1955)] was an American film actor, a familiar face, primarily in the movies of John Ford. He was born in Portland, Oregon, the son of gold miner Albert R. and Bessie (Murray) Pennick. After himself working as a gold miner, Pennick joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served, with the Pekin Legation Guard, in China in 1912 and in World War I. He and his first wife, Grechin, had two children by the time he was twenty. He had a third child with his second wife, Nona Lorraine. After the First World War, Pennick worked as a horse wrangler and got work as such in various film productions. His rather unforgettably unattractive face caught the attention of filmmakers, particularly Ford, and Pennick began to work as an actor, as well as occasionally as a military technical adviser. Pennick reenlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942, at the age of 46. He served as Chief Petty Officer under Commander John Ford in the Field Photographic Unit and, according to Ford, was decorated with the Silver Star medal for action in which he was wounded at Majaz al Bab, Tunisia during World War II. He continued to appear in films after the war, his career waning simultaneously with Ford's. He died in Manhattan Beach, California. 
Nehemiah Persoff (1919- ) [The Naked City (1948) (uncredited); 4 Faces (1999)] was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and emigrated with his family to America in 1929. Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life. He joined amateur groups and subsequently won a scholarship to the Dramatic Workshop in New York. This led to what would have been his Broadway debut in a production of Eve of St. Mark, but he was fired before the show opened. He made his official New York debut in a production of The Emperor's New Clothes in 1940. World War II interrupted his young career in 1942 but he returned to the stage after his hitch in the army was over three years later. 
Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) was born John Devon Roland Pertwee. He is most famous for his roles in the science fiction television series Doctor Who as the third Doctor (see List of Doctor Who serials) and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge. During World War II he served in the RNVR as an officer. He was appointed to HMS Hood from which he was extremely fortunate to be returned to shore shortly before that vessel was sunk by the Bismarck. He was also a talented comedian, his most famous comedy role being the conniving Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio. He also appeared in Carry on Cleo (1964), Carry On Screaming! (1966), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and Carry On Cowboy (1965). 
House Peters Jr (1916-2008) [The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936); Sheriff of Wichita (1949); The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)] spent over 32 years in Hollywood as a well-respected, journeyman character actor and occasional star of B-movies. Beginning his career in the 1935 film Hot Tip, he went on to portray mostly supporting characters and a host of baddies in a large number of stage roles, films, serials, TV shows and commercials. House was born into an acting family; the son of silent screen star House Peters Sr. and actress Mae King Peters. Affectionately known as "Junior" or "Juny" by friends and relatives, he grew up in Beverly Hills, attended local schools with many children of Hollywood's elite, and dove into the acting business upon graduation from Beverly Hills High with modest success. With his new career put on hold because of World War II, House served in the U.S. Army Air Corps' Air Sea Rescue section as a small boat operator. Meeting and subsequently marrying Lucy Pickett during his tour in the Phillipines, he returned home after the war and resumed his career. 
Leslie Phillips (1924- ) [The Woman with No Name (1950); Out of Africa (1985)] is a comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School. During World War II he served with the Durham Light Infantry (1942-45) until he was invalided out suffering from shellshock. He returned to acting, and it was during the 1950s that he established himself as a notable player in British movies. His greatest claim to fame to this day are the "Doctor" series of movies, which he inherited from Dirk Bogarde. He also worked on radio, most notably "The Navy Lark" for the BBC. In later life, he returned to playing supporting roles and even appeared in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. He continues to make cameo appearances in films. 
Paul Picerni (1922- ) []. Born on Long Island, New York, Paul Picerni had aspirations to become an attorney until he acted in an eighth grade play and later learned that the school principal liked his performance and called him "a born actor". He next appeared in little theater productions, then on the stage at Loyola University after World War II. During his enlistment as a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Forces, he flew 25 combat missions and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was the bombardier on the plane that bombed and destroyed the real bridge made famous in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Picerni was acting in a play in Hollywood when he was spotted by Solly Biano, head of talent at Warner Brothers; brought out to the studio, the young actor was given a role in Breakthrough (1950). This WWII actioner turned out to be aptly named, as it led to a Warners contract for Picerni and a long succession of roles at that studio. Picerni may be best known for his second banana role on the TV classic "The Untouchables" (1959) with Robert Stack. 
Edward Platt (1916-1974) [Police detective Ray Fremick in Rebel Without A Cause (1955); North by Northwest (1959); tv: The Chief in Get Smart (1965-1970)]. Served as a radio operator with the U.S. Army in WWII. 
Donald Pleasence (1919-1995) [The Great Escape (1963)]. An R. A. F. pilot in WWII, he was shot down, held prisoner, and tortured by the Germans. The only actor to have appeared in both The Great Escape (1963) and its TV sequel, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) (TV). Ironically, he played one of the would-be great escapees in the first film and one of the German executioners in the second. Strangely he even played the role of the SS and Gestapo chief, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in the film The Eagle Has Landed (1976). 
Sidney Poitier (1927- ) [Blackboard Jungle (1955); In the Heat of the Night (1967)] was born in Miami during a mainland visit by his parents who were native of Cat Island, The Bahamas. At 18, he went to New York, did menial jobs and slept in a bus terminal toilet. He enlisted in U.S. Navy during World War II, lying about his age and was assigned to the 1267th Medical Detachment at a Veterans hospital for psychiatric patients. Poitier was discharged one year and eleven days after enlisting, all prior to his eighteenth birthday. 
Eric Porter (1928-1995) [The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)] was born and died in London, England. He was a highly respected Shakespearean actor for five decades until his death of colon cancer. Ironically, Porter's claim to international fame would be outside the classical realm, with one superb portrayal in one superb miniseries, The Forsyte Saga (1967), in which he won the BAFTA award. During World War II he joined the National Service with the RAF. 
Tom Poston (1921-2007) was born in Columbus, Ohio and spent his early years in Ohio, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Following high school, he enrolled in West Virginia's Bethany College as chemistry major. At the outbreak of World War II, he and his brother Richard enlisted in the Air Force and served as pilots. Based in France, Captain Poston happened upon a magazine article about Charles Jehlinger, then the creative head of the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Upon returning, he was admitted to the academy's two-year program and began his training as an actor. Poston has starred in several top television series over the past three decades earning numerous Emmy Award nominations. He won the Emmy for his portrayal of his befuddled everyman on The Steve Allen Show, and was nominated for his roles as Mr. Bickley on Mork and Mindy -- as well as his lovable handyman on Newhart. He also starred on the series Grace Under Fire and in the Castle Rock feature The Story of Us. 
Tyrone Power (1914-1958) [Jesse James (1939); The Sun Also Rises (1957)]. Was an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Nevertheless he joined the U.S. Marines, became a pilot and flew supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He returned to the states in Nov 1945 and was released from active duty in Jan 1946. He was promoted to Captain in the reserves on May 8, 1951 but was not recalled for service in the Korean War. 
Robert Preston (1918-1987) [Beau Geste (1939); The Last Starfighter (1984)] appeared in many Hollywood films, but is probably best remembered as Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's musical, The Music Man, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1958. In 1962, he starred in the film version. In 1946, after serving in England with the Army Air Corps, Preston married Kay Feltus (aka Catherine Craig) whom he had known in Pasadena. Although he was not a singer, he appeared in several other film musicals, notably Mame in 1974 and Victor/Victoria (1982), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His last major film role was in 1984's The Last Starfighter. 
Dennis Price (1915-1973) [A Place of One's Own (1945); The World of Wooster (1965)] was born Dennistoun John Franklyn Rose-Price in Berkshire, England. The son of a brigadier-general, he was expected to abide by his family wishes and make a career in the army or the church. Instead he became an actor. First on stage (Oxford University Dramatic Society) where he debuted with John Gielgud in Richard II in 1937, he was further promoted in the theatre by Noel Coward. In 1940, Price joined the Royal Artillery, where he served in Worlde War II until being wounded in 1942. His brother Arthur, who had joined the RAF, was shot down and killed in the Battle of Britain. Returning to England in 1942, he resumed his career, touring with Noel Coward in This Happy Breed, and other plays Coward's company produced. 
Bernard Punsly (1923-2004) [Dead End (1937); Tough As They Come (1942)] was born in New York City, the son of a tailor. Punsly reportedly only tried out for the original stage production of Dead End on a whim, joining Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop and Gabriel Dell in the show's gang of street urchins. Once the play was a hit, producer Samuel Goldwyn was keen to adapt the gritty drama to film and brought the six young actors to Hollywood to reprise their roles. After appearing in his final film of the Dead End Kids series, Mug Town (1943), Punsly left show business and enlisted in the Army, where he received some medical training during World War II. Upon leaving the military, he enrolled in the University of Georgia's Medical College. After graduation Punsley opened a practice in Torrance, California as a doctor of internal medicine. He also served as chief of staff at South Bay Hospital in Redondo Beach, California. 
Denver Pyle (1920-1997) made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types but he was actually born in Colorado to a farming family. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. When that didn't pan out he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to the shrimp boats in Texas. In 1940 he moseyed off to Los Angeles and briefly found work as an NBC page. That particular career was interrupted by World War II, and Pyle enlisted in the navy. Wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal, he received a medical discharge in 1943. Working for an aircraft plant in Los Angeles as a riveter he was introduced to the entertainment field after receiving a role in an amateur theater production and getting spotted by a talent scout. Training with such renowned teachers as Maria Ouspenskaya and Michael Chekhov, he made his film debut in The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947). Prematurely white-haired (a family trait), he developed a close association with actor John Wayne, appearing in many of Wayne's later films, including The Horse Soldiers (1959), The Alamo (1960), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). He settled easily into hillbilly / mountain men types in his later years and became a household face for his crotchety presence in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). 
Robert Quarry (1925-2009) [Count Yorga, Vampire (1970); Rollercoaster (1977)] was born in Santa Rosa, California. His father was a doctor. Robert's grandmother first introduced him to the world of theater. Quarry was on the swimming team in high school which he finished at age 14. In the early 40s he was a busy juvenile actor on the radio; he even had a regular part on the Dr. Christian program. He joined the Army Combat Engineers at age 18 during World War II and formed a theatrical group which put on a hit production of the play The Hasty Heart that Quarry both acted in and helped produce. Quarry made his film debut with a small role in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He acted alongside Paul Newman in both Winning (1969) and WUSA (1970). 
Anthony Quayle (1913-1989) [Lawrence of Arabia (1962); The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)] was born John Anthony Quayle in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire (now Aindale, Sefton, Merseyside), England, UK. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1952 and awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 for his services to drama. He was a British army Major during World War II and then played one in The Guns of Navarone (1961). He was nominated for Broadway's 1956 Tony Award as Best Featured or Supporting Actor (Dramatic) for his role in the play, Tamburlaine the Great. He formed his own theatre company, 'Compass' which toured the provinces introducing theatre to new audiences. 
Ford Rainey (1908-2005) [White Heat (1949) (uncredited); Purgatory Flats (2002)] was an American character actor of stage, films, and television. A native of Idaho, Rainey was the son of a colorful character who was, among many other things, a champion of local dance contests. As a boy, Rainey was painfully shy, but found an outlet in school plays. He pursued stage work in regional companies, then went to New York to study with the legendary Michael Chekhov. He worked numerous "civilian" jobs while attempting to make a career as an actor, including work as a logger, a lineman, and a licensed carpenter. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, then went to California where he helped start the Ojai Valley Players and then acted in his first film in 1949. He became a familiar face in films and television shows of all sorts during the next five decades while maintaining a deep attachment to the theatre. In his ninetieth year, he played Giles Corey in "The Crucible" at Theatricum Botanicum, the Topanga, California theatre founded by his friend, the late Will Geer. 
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) [Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); The Odd Couple TV series (1970-1975); Down with Love (2003)] was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer. He attended Tulsa Central High School and then Northwestern University for a year before traveling to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He studied under Sanford Meisner and choreographer Martha Graham around 1935. As Anthony Randall, he worked onstage opposite stars Jane Cowl in George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ethel Barrymore in Emlyn Williams's The Corn Is Green. Randall then served for four years with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, refusing an entertainment assignment with Special Services. Then he worked at the Olney Theatre in Montgomery County, Maryland before heading back to New York City. Prior to his appearance in Candida, Randall worked as an announcer at radio station WTAG, Worcester MA. 
Ron Randell (1918-2005) [It Had to Be You (1947); Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961)] was born in Sidney, Australia hwere he began his six-decade-long career in his teens on radio for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He promptly moved to stage where he acted with the Minerva Theatre Group from 1937 to 1946, while intermittently appearing in Australian films, which was interupted for service as a fighter pilot in the Australian Air Force during WW II. He shot down five Japanese planes in combat. 
John Randolph (1915-2004) [The Naked City (1948); Prizzi's Honor (1985)] was born Emanuel Cohen in the Bronx, NY. He was a Tony Award-winning character actor whose union and social activism in the '40s and '50s caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was not a household name, but he was a regular face in movies and TV for over four decades. He began his dramatic training in the '30s, studying under Stella Adler and changing his name to the less ethnic moniker of "John Randolph". He served in the Army Air Force during WWII. He married actress Sarah Cunningham in Chicago in 1945 while performing in Orson Welles's stage production of Native Son.
Monte Rawlins (1907-1988) [Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935); Across the Plains (1939] was born Dean Spencer in Yakima, Washington. His job as an aerial barnstormer in the 1930s landed him some aerial stuntwork in a few films. His big break came when he got the starring role in The Adventures of the Masked Phantom (1939), but the film, an independent effort, didn't have major studio backing and wound up being distributed via the states-rights system. After a few more small roles, Rawlins joined the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He stayed in the Marine Reserves after the war ended and was called up for service during the Korean conflict. In civilian life he had given up acting and took up a career in the sound recording field, first at Monogram Pictures and then at Walt Disney Studios. After retiring from Disney he moved to Hawaii, where he lived until his death. 
Aldo Ray (1926-1991) [Battle Cry (1955); The Naked and the Dead (1958)] was born Aldo DaRe in the borough of Pen Argyl, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of California at Berkley, served as a US Navy frogman during WWII and saw action on Iwo Jima. While constable of Crockett, California, Ray drove his brother Guido to an audition for the film Saturday's Hero (1951). Director David Miller hired him for a small role as a cynical football player. Ray's husky frame, thick neck and raspy voice made him perfect for playing tough sexy roles. He was one of the reminiscing lovers in George Cukor's The Marrying Kind (1952) and starred opposite Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson (1953). Ray died of throat cancer on 27 March 1991. -- [Excerpted from IMDB] 
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