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The posts on X are short. These are the full stories behind them.
Sir Patrick Stewart, who has died at 86, left school at 15, spent 16 years on the Shakespeare stage, and almost didn't sign on to the show that made him Captain Picard.
You have seen Jack Elam's face in dozens of westerns. Before that, he was an accountant who kept the books for Hopalong Cassidy and audited Samuel Goldwyn.
Lee Majors planned to be a football coach. One hit in his first college game changed everything, and it led to The Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy.
William Conrad was Matt Dillon on radio for nine years. Then Gunsmoke went to television, and CBS cast someone else. What happened next is better than the story you may know.