Don Stroud: From Hawaii to Hollywood, Survival & Sobriety
Hollywood character actor Don Stroud has lived the kind of life that sounds scripted — except every word of it is real.
From surfing in Hawaii to the Sunset Strip, the Whiskey A-Go-Go, Universal Pictures, and more than four decades in film and television, Don's story moves through some of Hollywood's most iconic corners. His credits include Coogan's Bluff and Joe Kidd with Clint Eastwood, The Buddy Holly Story, The Amityville Horror, the James Bond film Licence to Kill, and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
But what makes this conversation so powerful is not just the résumé. It's the…
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