Actors Who Were There.....In Real Life Then In Movies.

[The Rooster]

There are too many in this link to post here so I'l just post the link.

 

http://www.ddoughty.com/hollywood-at-war.html

 

 

Cheers !

[Salvage Sailor]

On 9/12/2017 at 3:38 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

Truly an 'Actor who was there' in Korea who also appeared in a film about Korea

 

Not an American, but Michael Caine served with the Royal Fusiliers in Korea in 1951 and was in the film 'A Hill in Korea' made in 1956

 

http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/09/michael-caine-royal-fusilier_19.html

 

"Whenever I killed someone there was no guilt, no remorse - it didn't feel real. It was during the Korean War and I was just trying to stay alive. It was self-defense. It was always done at night and we never had any idea who we had killed. I didn't even think about it - we had machine guns and we just did it. I never did anything close up or hand-to-hand. It didn't give me nightmares, because the Army brutalizes you. It was like the World War I trenches - half a mile apart - and we were just firing backwards and forwards, so we never knew who any of our victims were as individuals. You never saw the whites of a man's eyes when you killed him."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truly an 'Actor who was there' in Korea who also appeared in a film about Korea

 

Not an American, but Michael Caine served with the Royal Fusiliers in Korea in 1951 and was in the film 'A Hill in Korea' made in 1956

 

http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/09/michael-caine-royal-fusilier_19.html

 

"Whenever I killed someone there was no guilt, no remorse - it didn't feel real. It was during the Korean War and I was just trying to stay alive. It was self-defense. It was always done at night and we never had any idea who we had killed. I didn't even think about it - we had machine guns and we just did it. I never did anything close up or hand-to-hand. It didn't give me nightmares, because the Army brutalizes you. It was like the World War I trenches - half a mile apart - and we were just firing backwards and forwards, so we never knew who any of our victims were as individuals. You never saw the whites of a man's eyes when you killed him."

 

More from Michael Caine, in his own words, training with the Royal Fusiliers, fighting Chinese human wave attacks and night patrolling in Korea.

 

On YouTube, from his autobiography

The Interesting Military Career of Sir Michael Caine

 

 

 

[stratasfan]

Jon Lindbergh, son of Lucky Lindy - 

 

Served as a Frogman, and then a commercial diver and became an early aquanaut. He also appeared in the TV series "Sea Hunt", about a Frogman! :)

 

[manayunkman]

3 minutes ago, stratasfan said:

Jon Lindbergh, son of Lucky Lindy - 

 

Served as a Frogman, and then a commercial diver and became an early aquanaut. He also appeared in the TV series "Sea Hunt", about a Frogman! :)

 

I loved sea hunt!

[stratasfan]

3 minutes ago, manayunkman said:

I loved sea hunt!

 

So do I! I have the DVDs of the seasons and if they'd been tapes, I'd have worn them through already! :) One of my favorite things to watch! Jon Lindbergh appears as characters in eps "The Amphibian" and "Dead Man's Cove", as well as an uncredited extra in a bunch more. 

[patches]

12 hours ago, stratasfan said:

Jon Lindbergh, son of Lucky Lindy - 

 

Served as a Frogman, and then a commercial diver and became an early aquanaut. He also appeared in the TV series "Sea Hunt", about a Frogman! :)

 

"He served for three years as a frogman with the United States Navy Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), reaching the rank of Lieutenant"

https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rrv24049

 

 

He just died last week at 88.

[stratasfan]

Aldo Ray . . . In 1944, at the age of eighteen, Aldo Ray entered the Navy, where he served as a frogman until 1946 and saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17 during World War II.

 

 

Here he is in an Airborne uniform (I assume for a film):

 

[Salvage Sailor]

We missed one of my favorite character actors, Harry Dean Stanton, 1926-1917.

(A Time for Killing, Pork Chop Hill, Kelly's Heroes, Twin Peaks, Big Love, Lucky, etc., etc.)

 

 

During World War II, Stanton served in the United States Navy, including a stint as a cook aboard the USS LST-970, a Landing Ship, Tank, during the Battle of Okinawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A life in pictures – Harry Dean Stanton

[patches]

[krautpot]

Daniel Rodriguez plays himself in the movie "The Outpost". The foto is a behind the scenes pic. He is posing with Scott Eastwood, who plays Ssgt. Romesha. 

 

The original. 

[phantomfixer]

Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army during World War II in 1943. He served 16 years, reaching the rank of captain. Kennedy served in the infantry under George S. Patton, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and earned two Bronze Stars. He re-enlisted after the war and was discharged in the late 1950s due to a back injury.[2][4][5]

 

so now I sit and watch old movies with a smart phone, googling actors.....just to see and learn more about their lives...interesting what you find at times...

[Salvage Sailor]

Martin Balsam, the crazy Colonel Cathcart of Catch-22

 

 

Trained as a Combat Engineer and then served as a Sergeant/Radio Operator on B-24's in the CBI

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Henry Richard "Huntz" Hall 

Huntz Hall of the Dead End Kids aka the Bowery Boys

 

 

Hall served in the United States Army during World War II. In 1943, he appeared in the USN training film "Don't Kill Your Friends" as moronic Ensign Dilbert the Pilot, who carelessly causes the death of a civilian and three servicemen.

 

He also played Pvt. Carraway in 'A Walk in the Sun' with Dana Andrews & Burgess Meredith

 

Enjoy

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Dick Shawn - He began his career in comedy near the end of WWII while assigned to an army tank repair unit.  To get out of the unit Shawn auditioned for a part in a military entertainment group and was reassigned to the travelling show 'Operation USA'.

 

Starring role in "What Did You Do In The War Daddy?" with James Coburn, Harry Morgan, Aldo Rey, Carrol O'Connor, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He was also in "Wake Me When It's Over" with Ernie Kovacs, Jack Warden, Don Knotts, etc.

 

 

 

 

PS - In 1950, Coburn enlisted in the United States Army, in which he served as a truck driver and occasionally a disc jockey on an Army radio station in Texas. Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz, Germany.

 

[ScottG]

Demond Wilson, born Grady Demond Wilson of Sanford and Son fame was a Sergeant in the 4th Infantry Division from 66-68 where he was wounded at Pleiku, Vietnam. Whitman Mayo who played Grady Wilson in the show was also an Army vet.    Scott

 

 

[Zack Miller]

On 8/18/2020 at 8:08 AM, patches said:

Good one on Rickles Rooster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyrene_(AGP-13)

 

Rickles donning the Navy Blue again as CPO Sharkey. He probably would of made Chief Petty Officer if he stayed in long enough Rickles first movie role was in Run Silent, Run Deep. 

[eaglerunner88]

 

Art Carney (1918-2003)

 

Before becoming Jackie Gleason’s lovable but bumbling side kick Ed Norton on the hit 1950s TV sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney served with the 28th ID, landing at Normandy in July 1944, and was involved in the fighting around St. Lo, France. On 15 August 1944, while manning a machine gun, a German mortar shell blew him into the air, severely wounding him in his right leg. He was eventually sent back to the States where he was awarded the Purple Heart and honorably discharged. He always had a limp from that wound and later quipped of his military career that he "Never fired a shot and maybe never wanted to. I really cost the government money."

[Allan H.]

Please Delete

 

 

 

[doyler]

Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennesse Ernie Ford)  was a bombardier who flew missions over Japan in B29 during the war. 

 

 

[mikie]

3 hours ago, doyler said:

Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennesse Ernie Ford)  was a bombardier who flew missions over Japan in B29 during the war. 

 

 

I used to watch a recycled version of his show  when I was a kid in the late 60s early 70s. Funny stuff. 

[patches]

Wow missed one for the real life 442 Vets that was in the movie GO FOR BROKE.

 

He is Jerry Fujikawa, he had an uncredited role as  "Communications Sergeant". Fujikawa was in Company C 100th Battalion,. Can't find a Service photo of him.

 

This from his Wiki.

"During his service, Fujikawa was wounded on July 9, 1944 near Castellina, Italy. Although his service record contains no further entries until his discharge date (May 17, 1945), Fujikawa participated in operations in France later in 1944"

[patches]

Just now, patches said:

Wow missed one for the real life 442 Vets that was in the movie GO FOR BROKE.

 

He is Jerry Fujikawa, he had an uncredited role as  "Communications Sergeant". Fujikawa was in Company C 100th Battalion,.

 

This from his Wiki.

"During his service, Fujikawa was wounded on July 9, 1944 near Castellina, Italy. Although his service record contains no further entries until his discharge date (May 17, 1945), Fujikawa participated in operations in France later in 1944"

Fujikawa was in a ton of stuff, movies and T.V. shows. like here, the Japanese Officer in that 1961 WWII Episode of The Twilight Zone A Quality of Mercy.

[patches]

Just now, patches said:

Fujikawa was in a ton of stuff, movies and T.V. shows. like here, the Japanese Officer in that 1961 WWII Episode of The Twilight Zone A Quality of Mercy.

And as "Whiplash" Hwang in MASH, the Korean old man who makes money making believe he was hit by U.S. Vehicles, Radar was one of his victims remember LOL

[Salvage Sailor]

Esmond Knight: The British Actor Who Was Injured During a Battle with the German Battleship Bismarck

 

Gunnery officer on PRINCE OF WALES in the 1940 fight against BISMARCK, badly wounded and blinded by shrapnel. (details on the link above)

 

After an astounding recovery, he resumed his career and appeared in the 1960 film 'Sink the Bismarck'

 

 

[patches]

Douglas Fowley, he was in an incredible amount of movies from 1933 on, later T.V. too he's most familiar to us as Kipp in the 1949 Classic Battleground, Kipp right he has no teeth, has dentures. Well Fowley  was wounded. lost his teeth in the recent war, he wasn't in the Army, but in the Navy. Details are lacking, but he was a crewman on a Carrier, Carrier not mentioned and an explosion onboard, Enemy Action? knocked his teeth out.

 

Fowley on the left