A Conversation With Gary Tigerman

[robert_allen]

Gary Richard Tigerman grew up in California's San Fernando
Valley biking to public school, splashing around the backyard pool, and secretly reading Bradbury and Heinlein under the covers with a flashlight. He channeled his teenage confusion and angst into songwriting and guitar-playing in rock bands, until finally discovering drama in high school.

A college drop-out, Gary found work as an actor playing teenage roles in movies and in TV series like Room 222 and Dragnet, including a stint as "Oggo the Cave Boy" in the hit science fiction series Lost In Space. In protest of the Vietnam war, he applied for recognition as a conscientious objector, but ultimately was forced to refuse induction. The Supreme Court split 5-4 against taking up his case, which landed Gary in jail. When NASA came to the Arizona work camp where he was serving his time, Gary jumped at the chance to participate in a zero-G study at the Presidio in San Francisco. After a year and a day, he was a free man. But he never forgot the kindness of the recruiters from NASA.

Regards
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