The Professor

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Russel Johnson known as Roy Hinkley "The Professor" from the popular 1960's comedy Gilligan's Island. Led an interesting and heroic life before hand.

• Flew 44 bomber missions during WW2 in the Pacific.  
• Shot down over the Philippines in March of 1945. Bailed out and broke both ankles upon landing.
• Earned a Purple Heart.
• Besides Gilligan's Island appeared in over 150 films and TV shows. Including the sci-fi classics This Island Earth and It Came from Outer Space.

Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Russel Johnson (This Island Earth- 1955)

At a speaking engagement at MIT he was once quipped, "...the Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!"

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