Before Bob Denver became an actor and took on roles like Dobie Gillis and the shipwrecked Gilligan, he had a different job. What was he?

Bob Denver earned his degree from Loyola University, where he acted in college productions. After graduating, he coached PE and and taught both math and history at a Roman Catholic school in California called Corpus Christi. While at Loyola, he befriended Dwayne Hickman, his co-star in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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