Actor Lyle Waggoner, who died Tuesday at 84, also started the Star Waggons company that is responsible for so many of the trailers now seen across TV and film sets nationwide
, but the job, of course, went to Adam West.
That would be the 6-foot-3, dark-haired Waggoner, whom Mackie called "a big Ken doll." He eventually was given more to do and played around in skits with Burnett, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence. Waggoner was usually there to play "the handsome guy," someone for Burnett to drool over.
Born on April 13, 1935, Kyle Wesley Waggoner was a wrestler and a high jumper at Kirkwood High School in Missouri. He briefly attended Washington University in St. Louis before enlisting in the U.S. Army and serving as a radio operator. Back home, as he worked as a door-to-door salesman, customers kept telling him, "You should be an actor." He appeared in a local production of , came to California and got into "new talent" programs at MGM and then Fox, where Tom Selleck and James Brolin were also beginning their careers.in the 1970s and appeared as himself on a 1999 episode of
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