![]() My gunny was affronted by the fact that I was wearing a short-hair wig and wasn't following, to the letter, the short, short hair." And then once, I think after about two and a half years, I forget how it got out. " play counterculture hippies, I let my hair grow and put on a short hair wig when I would go to my Reserve unit," Matheson said. Having recently left the Marines, his hair was short, prompting him to don a wig for the "spoof on hippies" flick. ![]() In 1969, Matheson starred in "How to Commit Marriage" alongside Jackie Gleason and Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's former wife. ![]() "So they mobilized the entire base basically and shipped them over, office workers and all. "I found out the 4th Marine Division, which is what was based at Camp Pendleton, was en masse moved out and sent to Vietnam," Matheson said. Ultimately, a friend who served in the 4th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, outed him - to little ado for the future "Animal House" star. In a twist of irony, Matheson once marched by the base theater, which was showing his first film, "Divorce American Style." But because his role as Mark Harmon was minor, nobody was the wiser. I went into boot camp and made sure I didn't mention anything about it." "So I did not want to be called a Hollywood Marine. " was always kidding me about Hollywood Marines, and Elvis Presley had enlisted in the Army," Matheson said. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Los Angeles in Chavez Ravine, Matheson aimed to keep his acting career quiet. ![]() And I thought they might go easier on me if I was a squad leader," he said with a laugh. "I was a squad leader in boot camp because I didn't mind taking charge of a situation. He didn't work out much but was in decent shape. "We were lower middle class, but I smoked, and I didn't run." The experience, he said, was "shocking and enlightening." ![]()
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