You're Right! A native of Santa Monica, he was born at the tail end of the Great Depression to a milkman father and a homemaker mother. Dad took work as an accountant with Standard Oil following World War II, and the family relocated to nearby Van Nuys, where the he expressed an early bent towards non-conformity by stealing hubcaps and furtively scaling tall buildings downtown. He became perhaps the most swooned over sex symbol of his generation.