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09-06-2008, 04:14 PM
Bill Bixby - lifeguard
Edgar Buchanan - dentist
Bill Dana - NBC page
Gene Barry - band singer
Buster Crabbe - Olympic swimmer
Peter Graves - clarinet/saxophone player
James Gregory - Wall Street messenger
Alfred Hitchcock - movie technician
John McIntire- bronc champ (at 16)
Dan Blocker - school teacher
Pernell Roberts - butcher
Lorne Greene - newscaster (in Canada)
Jim Arness - announcer
Hugh O'Brian - Marine drill instructor
John Payne - pro wrestler
Scott Brady - lumberjack
Sid Caesar - saxophone player
Don Adams- Marines
Orson Bean - magician
Shelley Berman - Navy
George Gobel - Air Force
Allan Sherman - comedy writer
Jack Benny - violinist (really!)
Jonathan Winters - commercial artist
Dick Van Dyke - Air Force
Ozzie Nelson - band leader
Harriet Nelson - band singer
Fred MacMurray - violinist; saxophone player
Larry Fine - violinist
John Forsythe - truck driver; waiter
Joey Bishop - Army
Lee Marvin - plumber
Ted Mack - saxophone player
Jack Paar - radio announcer
Johnny Carson - magician
Ed McMahon - Marine fighter pilot
Frank Sinatra - boxer
Dean Martin - boxer
Bob Hope - boxer
Perry Como - barber
Bill Cullen - midget auto racer; airplane pilot
Paul Ford - caterer
Russell Johnson - Air Force
Frank Sutton - Marines
Ron Ely - oil field hand (in Texas)
Joe E. Ross - singing waiter (at 16)
Adam West - truck driver; milkman
Burgess Meredith - reporter; haberdasher; vacuum cleaner salesman