21st Life Achievement Award Recipient
Iggie Wolfington:
Courage In the Face
of Danger
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WORLD WAR II, LATE NOVEMBER 1944: Had the
German machine-gunner been more accurate, 25 year-
old Sgt. Ignatius J. "Iggie" Wolfington — nicknamed
the "fighting fat boy of the 102nd" — would have died
near Linnich, Germany. His medical report detailed the
wound through his left shoulder: "Thorax, thoracic wall;
Supraclavical region; Causative agent: Bullet, machine gun."
Already a professional character actor, acting coach
Wolfington with Screen Actors
Guild president Ed Asner, who had
just handed him the Award. Left,
Wolfington as Marcellus Washburn in
Broadway's The Music Man (1958).