Wally Cox

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Wallace Maynard Cox (December 6, 1924 – February 15, 1973) was a television and motion picture actor. <p>Cox was born in Detroit, MI. He moved with his divorced mother, mystery author Eleanor Atkinson and a younger sister to Evanston, Illinois, when he was about 10, where he met and became close friends with another neighborhood child, Marlon Brando. Cox's family moved fairly frequently, eventually to Chicago, then New York City, then back to Detroit where he finished high school at Denby High. <p>During World War II he and his family returned to New York City, where Cox attended CCNY, had four months of Army service, and then attended New York University. He supported his invalid mother and sister by making and selling jewelry, in a small shop, and at parties — where he started doing comedy monologues for the guests, which were well-received enough to lead to regular performances at nightclubs such as the Village Vanguard, beginning in December of 1948. At one point, he became the roommate...