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Bob Denver

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Bob Denver Fast Facts:

Before breaking into acting, worked as a cashier in a grocery store across from Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, as a mailman for the U.S. Postal Service and as a high-school gym teacher.
Originally aspired to become an attorney.
Breakout role came in 1959, when he joined the cast of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Maynard G. Krebs.
Drafted in 1959, just after he started work on Dobie Gillis; the Army didn't accept him due to a neck injury sustained in a car accident years earlier.
Landed iconic role of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island in 1964, playing "little buddy" to Alan Hale Jr.'s Skipper.
Replaced Woody Allen in the lead role in his 1970 Broadway play, Play It Again, Sam.
Penned his own memoir in 1993, Gilligan, Maynard & Me.
Along with wife Dreama, hosted a radio show called Weekend With Denver and Denver.