Wally CoxAKA:
Wallace Maynard Cox
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
12/06/1924 Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan Death Date:
02/15/1973
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Wally Cox once confessed "I used to consider myself insignificant and anonymous-looking". With his slight build, receding hairline, bespectacled visage and reedy voice, Cox confounds most notions of what a leading man should be. However that's exactly what he was on American TV for a significant chunk of the 1950s. Cox first gained fame as Robinson Peepers, a mild-mannered high school science teacher in the once beloved sitcom "Mr. Peepers" (NBC, 1952-55).By today's standards, "Mr. Peepers" was improbably gentle. Whereas contemporary TV comedy is dominated by wisecracking urbanites, this 50s
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Milestone
Parents divorced when Cox was a youth
Moved from Detroit to NYC with mother and sister Eleanor
1942
Enrolled in the City College of New York to study botany
Left school when mother striken by partial paralysis; became the family's primary breadwinner
Worked variously as a shoe-weaver, silversmith and puppeteer apprentice
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