Donald Anderson tells it this way: "My first real job was World War II ... you grew up in a hurry." So, a month after high school graduation, Anderson found himself sailing the Pacific as a Merchant Marine, a service where one of every 26 died in WWII. After he was called to serve in the Korean War, Donald came stateside to work in a local pipeline company. And at night, for the Alexander Film Company, the world's largest maker of commercial films. Which would launch what became a career as a model and stunt actor for nearly half a century. From there, his life reads like the protagonist in an adventure novel, opening one of the first ski shops, becoming an Oklahoma rancher, working for Indian tribes. But he always wanted "to be remembered as a friend. A giver. And a doer."