Wally Cox

Birth Name:

Wallace Maynard Cox

Birth Place:

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack

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
Enjoyed riding motorcycles, though he preferred ones that were slow
Hung brass rings from the rafters of his living room, garden and workshop so that he could swing around his house like Tarzan
Often went rock hunting in Death Valley with Marlon Brando

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