Ray Pourchot

Ray Pourchot had an interesting life starting out in Arizona but was drafted by the Marines during his senior year of high school. Because he was a football player in high school, it was only natural for him to be on the marine's football team at Goleta Air Base during his tenure in the service playing one of the ends on the football team. Once his enlistment was up, he went to USC and played on the 1947 USC Trojans football team once again starting at an end. During this time, Pourchot started occasionally appearing in movies that needed football players for extras and this was his introduction into the motion picture industry. By the mid 1950s, Pourchot was working as a bit player and film extra on a full time basis. His premature balding look and his stern demeanor got him jobs as prisoners, workmen, and occasionally cowboys. Like most extras of the day, he found his niche not only as a workman but also as a stand-in for actors like Robert J. Wilke who needed bigger extras to stan