Feature film and television actor and stuntman Louie Nicholas Elias Jr. was born on November 21, 1933, raised in Burbank, California, within the shadow of the Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures' studio exterior sound stages and their back-lots, forming the backdrop of his childhood, to a dad whose jobs shifted between a Hollywood caterer and a bookie, and a mom who wasn't your warm and fuzzy type. "Action Louie" learned quick and fast how to survive the Burbank streets. His charisma got him out of many scrapes, but where charm failed, he earned a reputation as a kid not to mess with, and in one shape or another that formed the story line of his life.