James Garner, prior to his military service, worked as a gas station attendant in Los Angeles. While pumping gas, he met a customer who helped launch his acting career, a young man named Paul Gregory, who was working as a soda jerk but wanted to be an agent.
Later, at age 25, while working as a carpet layer, Garner was driving on L.A.'s La Cienega Boulevard when he saw a sign: Paul Gregory & Associates. When a parking place just happened to open up in front, he pulled in. Otherwise he might never have had a career as an actor. His first gig was on a Henry Fonda Broadway play, for 8 months
James Garner, spent 14 months as infantry in Korea, received 2 Purple Hearts:
Universal cheated him on the profits from Rockford Files. He sued, he won.
According to Eastwood, all he had on his mind in high school were "fast cars and easy women". He took auto mechanic courses and studied aircraft maintenance, rebuilding both aircraft and car engines
Before starring as Little Joe Cartwright on Bonanza, Michael Landon worked as a gas station attendant near Warner Bros. studios, unloaded freight in a warehouse
Landon was an excellent javelin thrower in High School, with his 193 ft 4 in toss in 1954 being the longest throw by a high schooler in the US that year.
Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, was eventually noticed at the gas station by a local talent agent. Following his advice, Landon changed his Jewish name, selecting his new name from a telephone book.
According to Eastwood, all he had on his mind in high school were "fast cars and easy women". He took auto mechanic courses and studied aircraft maintenance, rebuilding both aircraft and car engines
He was invited to a house party in Malibu, where he met the film director Howard Hawks who, with John Ford, would influence his career.
In March 1951, Eastwood was drafted by the Army and assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he was appointed as a lifeguard and projectionist of training films. Don Loomis recalled hearing that Eastwood was romancing one of the daughters of a Fort Ord officer, who might have been entreated to watch out for him when names came up for postings.
Eastwood left Fort Ord in the spring of 1952 and moved north to Seattle where he worked as a lifeguard for some time. However, as he had little money and few friends in Seattle, he moved back south to L.A. During this time he worked managing an apartment house in Beverly Hills by day (into which he then moved) and worked at a Signal Oil gas station by night.
Above, Johnny Depp's 51 merc, below, Aaron Eckhart and Depp in an Austin Healey during a scene of Rum Diaries
Johnny Depp told Iggy Pop, during an interview for Interview Magazine, that one of his first jobs was as a gas station mechanic.
Depp dropped out of school at age 16 to focus on his music and took a job at a gas station.
He started out pumping gas, but was soon moved to the garage to be a mechanic. He said, “I told the dude, ‘Hey, I know very little about this.’ And he said, ‘Oh, you’ll just do what I tell you to do and it will work out fine.’ Well, it didn’t.”
He says that he changed the tires and did an alignment on a customer’s car. When the customer drove away, the left rear wheel came off. He said that after the incident, he was asked to leave.
His first car was a 1969 Chevrolet Nova, which he still has in his collection today
At age 20, Michael Douglas was employed by one of the giants of the oil industry.
It was 1964. He’d flunked out of the University of California at Santa Barbara after his freshman year; went back to Connecticut, where he’d spent most of his teenage years training for the stage at National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, in the 1960s, and got a job at a gas station pumping gas and running the tow truck.
And, Douglas points out, “I was a Mobil Man of the Month. I still have my certificate!”
“Yeah,” Douglas agrees. “Now you’ve got self-service and to get full service you gotta bust somebody’s ass. But that was a good summer. I ran the tow truck. It was the first time I had a job of my own, and it was satisfying.”
Then Douglas was nominated three times for Emmy awards for his work on the television series Streets of San Francisco. Cuckoo’s Nest got five Oscars.
At age 26, in 1973, Stephen King was a high school English teacher when he started writing the manuscript for the novel that would become Carrie.
He and his wife Tabitha lived in a doublewide trailer and each had to work additional jobs to make ends meet, with King sometimes working at an industrial laundry and moonlighting as a janitor and gas pump attendant.
He wrote a couple stories about gas stations, Rest Stop, Maximum Overdrive, From a Buick 8
and Laura Sisk-Wright, famous for General Hospital from 2005 to 2025, winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2011, turned up in a couple of commercials and various fashion shows, she only briefly attended college before deciding to work full-time at her dad's gas station and convenience store in Clinton, Maryland, until 1991, working 12-hour shifts pumping gas, running the register, and sweeping floors
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