Kenneth Tobey(1917-2002)
- Actor
Born in Oakland, California, Kenneth Tobey was headed for a law career
when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little
Theater. That experience led to a year and a half of study at New
York's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included Gregory Peck,
Eli Wallach and Tony Randall. Throughout the 1940s Tobey acted on Broadway and
in stock; he made his film debut in a 1943 short, "The Man on the
Ferry." He made his Hollywood film bow in a Hopalong Cassidy Western,
and has since appeared in scores of features and on numerous TV series.
He even had his own series, Whirlybirds (1957), in which he played an adventurous
helicopter pilot.