Robert Osbourne Bob Denver was an American comedic actor. He portrayed Gilligan on the television series Gilligans Island and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 19591963 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Denver was born January 9, 1935, in New Rochelle, New York, and raised in Brownwood, Texas. He graduated from Loyola University in Los Angeles, California. He later coached physical education and taught mathematics and history at Corpus Christi School, a Roman Catholic elementary school in Pacific Palisades, California.
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