Wally Cox Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended City College of New York and New York University
• Befriended Marlon Brando while attending school in Evanston, Ill
• Spent four months serving in the Army during World War II
• Supported his mother and sister by making and selling jewelry, and started doing comedy monologues at the parties where he sold it
• Quote: "The one thing I hate about acting is the loss of privacy․ I can be anonymous if I take off my glasses--no one can recognize me․ But then I can't see․"
• Best remembered for his role as the meek, owlish schoolteacher Robinson Peepers on television in the early 1950s
• Though he was athletic in real life, he was often cast as a milquetoast
• Hung brass rings from the rafters of his living room, garden and workshop so that he could swing around his house like Tarzan
• Enjoyed riding motorcycles, though he preferred ones that were slow
• Often went rock hunting in Death Valley with Marlon Brando