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 as a captain in the Army Air Corps
- Richard Egan
- Erickson took four years off to serve in World War II and was twice wounded
- Evans served as a navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and appeared in the service show This Is the Army
- John Fiedler
- During World War II, he served in the Armys Special Services Branch (formerly the Morale Branch) entertaining the troops in the United States
- Henry Fonda
- Ford enlisted in U.S. Navy and became head of photograpic unit with the rank of commander. He was on the USS Hornet and filmed the departure of Doolittles Raiders for their
- Phil joined the Army during World War II and, at one point, served as the military band leader while also seeing action
- Prior to the war he had a contract with Warner Brothers studio but he left his movie career for service in the US Army Air Corp during World War II
Charles Durning (1923-2012) [Dog Day Afternoon (1975); The Choirboys (1977)]. A genuine World War II hero, Durning served in the U.S. Army in WW II. Drafted early in the war at age 21, he was first assigned as a rifleman with the 398th Infantry Regiment, and later served overseas with the 3rd Army Support troops and the 386th Anti-aircraft Artillery (AAA) Battalion. He participated in the Normandy Invasion of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was among the first troops to land at Omaha Beach. For his valor and the wounds he received during the war, Durning was awarded the Silver Star and three Purple Heart medals. 
Dick Van Dyke (1925- ) was born in West Plains, Missouri but grew up in Danville, Illinois with brother Jerry Van Dyke and fellow celebrities Gene Hackman and Bobby Short. Was a graduate of Danville High School, where he was in the drama club. He was launched to stardom in the 1960 musical Bye-Bye Birdie, for which he won a Tony Award, and then later in the movie based on that play, Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He has starred in a number of films throughout the years including Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and Fitzwilly (1967), as well as a number of successful television series which won him no less than four Emmys and three made-for-CBS movies. He enlisted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, but initially did not make the cut because he failed to meet the weight requirement, as he was underweight. He tried 3 times to enlist, before barely making the cut. He actually served as a radio announcer during the war, and he did not leave the U.S. -- Text excerpted from IMDB 
Richard Eastham (1916-2005) [Man on Fire (1957); Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)] was originally headed for a musical career. He was born Dickinson Swift Eastham in Opelousas, Louisiana. A student at Washington University, he was gifted with a fine sturdy baritone and performed with the St. Louis Grand Opera in the days before World War II. After finishing his wartime four-year army service, Eastham moved to New York and studied at the American Theatre Wing. His musical peak came after understudying singer Ezio Pinza as plantation owner Emile DeBecque in South Pacific, sharing the stage in the role with the likes of Mary Martin and (later) Janet Blair while using the name Dickenson Eastham. He also co-starred in an Ethel Merman production of Call Me Madam in the early 1950s and made his minor non-singing film bow with Merman in the Fox film musical There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). His TV debut came with a musical appearance on Toast of the Town (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show) in 1949. 
Charles Eaton (1910-2004) [Forever (1921); Under Your Hat (1940)] was born in Washington D.C., the youngest scion of a one-time respected family of stage and film actors. He was certainly the most prominent male performer of a clan that was once referred to as "The Seven Little Eatons." In 1940, he went into business with his sister Doris, who operated a thriving Arthur Murray Dance Studios franchise in Detroit. The franchise eventually grew to 18 studios. He served as a captain in the Army Air Corps and it may be that the service was during World War II. 
Sam Edwards (1915-2004) [East Side Kids (1940); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)] was born in Macon, Georgia, and grew up in a show business family, having made his debut on stage while he was just a baby (his mother, the actress Edna Park, was holding him). With his family, he acted on radio in The Adventures of Sunny and Buddy, and on his family's show, The Edwards Family. He worked in radio drama throughout the 1930s and 1940s and entertained troops in Africa, Italy, and Asia during his three-year tour of service during World War II. 
Richard Egan (1921-1987) was an American actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Egan served in the United States Army during World War II. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, he studied and taught at Northwestern University for a time. Having studied theatre, he took a bit role in the 1949 Hollywood film The Story of Molly X. This start would lead to his signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox where his rugged physique and good looks made him an early 1950s leading man in mainly B-movies. In 1956, he starred as Elvis Presley's older brother in Presley's first film, Love Me Tender and in 1959 was the male lead opposite Dorothy McGuire in A Summer Place. In 1960, Egan appeared in such films as Pollyanna and with Joan Collins in Esther and the King. 
Robert Ellenstein (1923- ) [The Garment Jungle (1957); Love at First Bite (1979)] is an American TV and film actor. The son of a Newark dentist, Robert grew up in that New Jersey city and saw his father go on to become its two-term mayor. He got his feet wet as an actor prior to serving the Air Corps during World War II. He was awarded a Purple Heart. After service, he began acting, directing and teaching in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of the Golden Age of live TV (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Ellenstein made his first movie in 1954 (MGM's Rogue Cop) and is still going strong with jobs in TV and regional theater. He played the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). 
Leif Erickson (1911-1986) [Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)] was born William Y. Wycliffe Anderson in Alameda, California and died of cancer at age 74 in Pensacola, Florida. He was a brawny, blond second lead and had the looks of a Viking god. He worked as a band vocalist and trombone player, then gained a small amount of stage experience before debuting onscreen in a bit part (as a corpse) in Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). Billed by Paramount as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns. Because of his Nordic looks he was renamed Leif Erikson, which he later changed to Erickson. He played intelligent but unexciting second leads and supporting parts in many films. Erickson took four years off to serve in World War II and was twice wounded. He made few films after 1965 and retired from the screen after 1977. Also working on Broadway and in TV plays, he played the patriarch Big John Cannon in the TV series High Chaparral (1967-1971). From 1934 to 1942, he was married to actress Frances Farmer, with whom he co-starred in Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); later, he was briefly married to actress Margaret Hayes (aka Dana Dale). ~ Rovi (Edited to insert other info.) 
Gene Evans (1922-1998) began his acting career while serving in World War II and performing with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. [He served as a combat engineer and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for bravery in action.]. Evans, raised in Colton, California, made his film debut in 1947 and ended up appearing in dozens of movies and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys like cowboys, sheriffs, convicts and Army sergeants. The near-sighted actor rarely wore his thick glasses in films, he did wear them while playing a doctor in the B-movie Donovan's Brain (1953).
Michael Evans (1920-2007) [The Six Men (1951); Olivia (1983)] was born John Michael Evans in Sittingbourne, England, to A.J. Evans, who wrote the 1926 novel The Escaping Club about his escape from a WWI prisoner of war camp, and the former Marie Galbraith, a concert violinist. Michael decided to become an actor at the age of 12 after seeing the great John Gielgud in one of his signature roles, Shakespeare's King Richard the Second (1978) (TV). Evans served as a navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After studying acting at the Old Vic School in London, he made his theatrical debut on in the West End in 1948. By 1962 he was in Hollywood working in both tv and film and eventually died in Woodland Hills, California. 
Jason Evers (1922-2005) [House of Women (1962); Dawn of Victory (1966)] was born Herb Evers in New York, New York. Although most of us know him as playing Dr. Bill Corter in the cult film The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Evers has done much more than meets the eye. Originally quitting school to join the Army during World War II, Evers later decided to act after seeing many Hollywood stars like John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart. His first big break was in 1960 in a TV series called Wrangler followed by several roles in Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), House of Women (1962) and another TV series called Channing (1963). 
Tom Ewell (1909-1994) was born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Kentucky. His family tried to steer him towards a law career but he chose the path of acting instead after becoming involved in college productions at the University of Wisconsin. Ewell made an inauspicious film debut with an unbilled bit in the comedy They Knew What They Wanted (1940) and continued that same year just as bleakly in the westerns Back in the Saddle (1941), Desert Bandit (1941) and The Kid from Kansas (1941). Better suited for Broadway, he found more challenging roles back East in Suzanna and the Elders (1940), Liberty Jones (1941) and Sunny River before his career was suddenly interrupted by World War II service. A return to The Great White Way happened almost immediately upon his discharge and Tom scored with the comedy hits Apple of His Eye (1946) and John Loves Mary, the latter earning him the Clarence Derwent Award. 
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) [Gunga Din (1939); The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)]. During World War II Fairbanks became a lieutenant in the British Navy (where he made his way up to captain in 1954). He was posted to Lord Louis Mountbatton's staff where he devised gadgets to confuse the Germans. He later led a commando assault on the Casquet lighthouse on the coast of France. Two months later he conducted a desert raid on Sened Station in North Africa. He took part in the Allies' landing in Sicily and Elba in 1943. He also commanded a detachment of PT boats that sailed toward the coast of France to deceive the Germans about an invasion. He was awarded the Silver Star and the British Distinguished Service Cross. 
Peter Falk (1927- ) [Murder, Inc. (1960); Columbo (tv 1971~)]. Falk lost his right eye as a child due to a tumor. In 1945 he tried to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps by memorizing the eye chart so that he could pass the physical. The examiner became suspicious since his right eye didn't move. The Marines would not let him join so he became a cook in the Merchant Marine. 
Norman Fell (1924-1998) [Inherit the Wind (1960); The Naked Truth (1992)] was an American TV & film actor most famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the popular sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers. Fell was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied drama at Temple University after serving in the Pacific as a tail gunner in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Though he mostly acted on television he also had small roles in several motion pictures including Ocean's Eleven (1960), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Graduate (1967), in which he also played a landlord, and Catch-22 (1970). He appeared alongside Ronald Reagan in Reagan's last film, The Killers (1964). Norman Fell died of cancer at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, and was interred there at the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.
Cliff Ferre (1920-1996) [About Face (1952); The Helen Morgan Story (1957)] was born in Waitsfield, Vermont as Clifford R. Ferre and became an actor, composer, dancer, singer and author, educated at Deerfield Academy. He was a singer and dancer in Billy Rose's Aquacade and in many other Broadway musicals. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and appeared in the service show This Is the Army. After his Army service he joined The Dunhills, and appeared in nightclubs and on television throughout 1949. He also was a staff announcer for a Miami television station between 1957 and 1962, and was program director for WKBN in Youngstown, Ohio. 
John Fiedler (1925-2005) served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A versatile actor on stage, in film and television, Fiedler is perhaps most recognized for his recurring roles on television's "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Odd Couple." He also performed in the Broadway, film and TV productions of A Raisin in the Sun. He made his Broadway debut in The Seagull with Montgomery Clift, and since appeared there in Our Town, The Crucible and Little Hotel on the Side. His first feature film was opposite Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men (1957). Other film roles among his 37 features include That Touch of Mink (1962), The World of Henry Orient (1964), True Grit (1969) and Sharkey's Machine (1981). His television credits include the series Star Trek, Cheers, The Golden Girls, L.A. Law, Buffalo Bill and the soap opera One Life to Live. 
Joe Flynn (1924-1974) [The Babe Ruth Story (1948); The Strongest Man in the World (1975)] was born in Youngstown, Ohio and after attending Northwestern University, Flynn began his entertainment career as a ventriloquist and as a radio performer. During World War II, he served in the Army's Special Services Branch (formerly the Morale Branch) entertaining the troops in the United States. After the war, Flynn moved to Hollywood. He made his film debut as Joseph Flynn in the bottom-of-the-barrel, beneath-B-picture potboiler The Big Chase (1954), which co-starred Lon Chaney Jr., which he followed up with a part as a priest in The Seven Little Foys (1955) starring Bob Hope. 
Henry Fonda (1905-1982) [12 Angry Men (1957); On Golden Pond (1981)]. Fonda enlisted in the U.S. Navy in August 1942. He was stationed on the destroyer USS Satterlee as a quartermaster third class. He was later commissioned a Lt.(j.g.) in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific. 
Glenn Ford (1916-2006) [Blackboard Jungle (1955); The Fastest Gun Alive (1956); Cade's County (tv 1971-72)]. Ford's career was interrupted when he volunteered for duty in WW II with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. On Dec 13, 1942 he became a photographic specialist with the rank of Sergeant. In March 1943 he went to active duty at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego and later served at Quantico, Virginia and in Europe. During his service he helped build safe houses in France for those hiding from the Nazis. He was honorably discharged from the Marines on Dec 7, 1944. In 1958, he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and was commissioned as a lieutenant commander. He was promoted to commander in 1963 and captain in 1968. Ford went to Vietnam in 1967 for a short tour as a location scout for combat scenes in a training film entitled Global Marine. He traveled with a combat camera crew from the demilitarized zone south to the Mekong Delta. For his service in Vietnam, the Navy awarded him a Navy Commendation Medal. His WW II decorations are: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Rifle Marksman Badge, and the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Medal. He retired from the Naval Reserve in the 1970s with the rank of captain. In 1992 France awarded him the French Legion of Honor Medal for his WW II service. 
John Ford (1894-1973) (Movie Director) [My Darling Clementine (1946), many John Wayne movies]. Ford enlisted in U.S. Navy and became head of photograpic unit with the rank of commander. He was on the USS Hornet and filmed the departure of Doolittle's Raiders for their Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Ford was wounded during the Battle of Midway and received a Purple Heart. He moved to the ETO as head of the photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services. In preparation for D-Day he crossed the English Channel on the USS Plunkett (DD-431) and anchored off Omaha Beach at 0600. He observed the first wave land on the beach from the ship, landing on the beach himself later with a team of US Coast Guard cameramen who filmed the battle from behind the beach obstacles with Ford directing operations. After the war, Ford became a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy Reserve. -- Ford's war-time footage was used for many of the action scenes in Midway; Tora, Tora, Tora; In Harm's Way; The Longest Day; as well as other films about WWII.
Phil Ford (1919-2005) [The World Premiere of Finian's Rainbow (1968); Fake-Out (1982)]. Comedian Phil Ford was the epitome of the never-say-die entertainer who, over the course of a seven-decade-long career, played every place there was to play--from the most obscure dives to the top Vegas showrooms. The wily, energetic vaudeville performer was born in San Francisco and started out young (age 12) playing "big band" clarinet. A college student at the University of California at Berkeley, Phil joined the Army during World War II and, at one point, served as the military band leader while also seeing action. Following his discharge he returned to show business and hit the boards as a song-and-dance man and musician. 
Steve Forrest (1924- ) [Take the High Ground! (1953); The Wild Country (1970); tv -- S.W.A.T.] is the younger brother of actor Dana Andrews. Forrest was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II while his brother (17 years Steve's senior) was starring in such films as The Purple Heart (1944) and Laura (1944). Upon his return to America, Steve went to Hollywood to pay a social call on Dana, decided he liked the movie colony, and opted to stick around for a while. Though he'd previously played bits in such films as Crash Dive (using his given name of William Andrews), Forrest never seriously considered acting as a profession until enrolling at UCLA. He tried regional theatre work and scriptwriting then received a brief but showy bit part in MGM's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). This led to further film work in second leads then several years' worth of villainous roles. When asked why he accepted so many bad-guy assignments, Forrest would cite the comment once made to him by Clark Gable: "The hero gets the girl but the heavy gets the attention". [Text excerpted from Answers.com] 
John Forsythe (1918-2010) [The Captive City (1952); ...And Justice for All (1979)] was born John Lincoln Freund in Penn's Grove, New Jersey. He is probably best known for his role of Blake Carrington on the ABC prime-time soap opera, Dynasty (1981-1989). He attended the University of North Carolina, after graduation he moved to New York City and studied with the Actor's Studio. He began his career as an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly moving on to radio soap operas. He eventually drifted towards Broadway. Prior to the war he had a contract with Warner Brothers studio but he left his movie career for service in the US Army Air Corp during World War II. He made his first film during this time, Destination Tokyo (1943) with Cary Grant. In 1957 he moved to Hollywood to star in the television program, Bachelor Father (1957-1962). 
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