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North Hollywood, California

Instructor

I began my stand-up comedy career while still in Danville High School, and then joined the Air Force Tops In Blue in 1952. During the mid-fifties, I worked at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana. In the service I performed at military bases around the world, twice winning the All Air Force Talent Show. Following my first guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show and two others on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS made me a regular on The Judy Garland Show. I turned down the offer to play Gilligan in Gilligan's Island. I finally accepted the lead role of attorney David Crabtree in the short-lived sitcom, My Mother the Car (1965), the misadventures of a man whose deceased mother Gladys (voiced by