Milt kogan actor

All All. Sign In. Milt Kogan Actor. Play trailer Maydeleh and the Prisoner Joseph earned a degree as a pharmacist from Temple University and after one year moved his family across the Delaware River to Camden, New Jersey, where he set up a pharmacy that lasted for 40 years and became a neighborhood icon. Milt found success at Woodrow Wilson high school as a basketball player, winning choice on Camden, N.

City All-Star Basketball Team in He won acceptance to prestigious Cornell University in Ithaca, N. In his first game, the next year, for the varsity, unfortunately, he suffered a severe knee injury, before modern knee surgery, which essentially ended his high caliber performances.

Milt Kogan (born April

Still, in , he was voted Captain of the Cornell Basketball Team. Milt went on to medical school, instead, and graduated with a D. It was in those early years that he serendipitously fell into acting in Hollywood. Early success in TV commercials brought him much respect, especially since his early roles were as dumb, working-class characters that incited much laughter.

Two children followed, Magavin and Teidi, and because his TV career never floundered, he soon felt embarrassed about his success and decided to repay someone He joined the United States Peace Corps and brought his young family to West Africa, now Burkina Faso, where he served the poor there for two and a half years.