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In October of 1942, Chuck Connors dropped out of school (Seton Hall) on his senior year to enlist in the US Army. He served as an instructor at the tank-warfare school at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, followed by a posting at West Point. He was discharged in 1946.

Contents 1 Underground film career? 2 Infobox birthplace flagicon 3 Brezhnev presents 4 Confusion re' 1942

[edit] Underground film career?

Haven't there been rumors that he played in stag films (as they were then called) at some point in his career? --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I, too have heard these rumors. From the best I can tell, they are not true. It stems from an early 70's male-on-male porno involving a man who looked similar to (but was not) Chuck Connors. Interestingly, the real Chuck Connors has a foreskin whereas this look-a-like did not. Or so teh internets tell me. 71.205.13.162 04:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Chuck Connors played baseball with my father in Cuba in the early 50's. Chuck taught me how to swim! We have shots of him on old home films my dad took in Havana.

Mike Anderson (obcpastor@comcast.net)

I Just Seen him On A Episode Of The Night Gallery Dated 1973, Titled "The Ring With The Red Velvet Ropes", Staring Gary Lockwood, Joan Van Ark, With Chuck Connors. A Heavyweight champion must fight one more bout.

haley sparks was a long relitive —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.113.13.229 (talk) 19:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox birthplace flagicon

I've just changed the flagicon in the infobox for his birthplace, since Newfoundland wasn't in Canada at the time. -- Arwel (talk) 01:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Numerous sources [1] [2], [3], [4] list his place of birth as Brooklyn, New York. Why is Placentia Bay, Dominion of Newfoundland listed here? Hirolovesswords 23:48, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Brezhnev presents

Brezhnev once personally presented Connors with a set of two ancient pistols. As Connors' role name in the international version of "The Rifleman" was John McLean it was said that Brezhnev was fond of this character because of the similarity to a Western spy of the same name who worked for the Soviet Union. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.5.99.252 (talk) 11:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion re' 1942

Two differing accounts. In one he enlisted in the army; the second is he left to play for Yanks, but after a year army grabbed him. Both can't be correct. Will someone please change.Mwinog2777 (talk) 04:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)