He started working for his father at Star Waggons in 2002. He first worked a career in the oil business and banking. In Jason’s profile, he shared that he hadn’t always worked with the company. With time, he became the head of manufacturing. He told CNBC that he started studying architecture and taught himself design.
He joked that his nickname then was “Ty-D-Beau.” At one point, a position was available for sanitation, a position he managed for seven years.
My father didn’t put me into a position, I had to earn the position.” He explained that he started working there by washing trailers and repairing them. In a 2016 CNBC profile of the company, Beau said in his interview that “I started 27 years ago with my father. There's nothing wrong with that.Sharon and Lyle have two sons together, Jason and Beau Waggoner. In contrast to the image the magazine struggled to portray, he told The Chicago Tribune in 1974, "I think there are subscribers from the gay community. He described getting that job "probably the luckiest thing that could've happened to anybody." Soon, he demonstrated his comedy chops, and appeared in many classic sketches, including as a POW in "The Interrogator" with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway, in a parody of Olympian Mark Spitz, and in the show's send-ups of "Sunset Boulevard."ĭuring his run on the show, Waggoner appeared in the debut issue of Playgirl magazine as its first celebrity centerfold. He went on to make his TV debut on an episode of "Gunsmoke" in 1966, narrowly missing out as the lead on "Batman" that same year, a part that went to similarly square-jawed, deadpan Adam West.Īlmost immediately, Waggoner landed a spot among the cast of "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967-1974), often as announcer and as straight man to the show's star and her cast of comics. Modeling and studying acting, he became a part of 20th Century Fox's new-talent program with Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck and James Brolin.
Waggoner had run the business with his family for nearly 40 years.īorn April 13, 1934, in Kansas City, Kansas, Waggoner was led into acting by his physique - following a stint in the army and as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, a shirtless appearance in a local production of "Li'l Abner" gave him the courage to move to L.A. Waggoner had also become known in Hollywood for his successful business Star Waggons, a manufacturing and equipment-rental firm featuring over 800 custom-built trailers used in the film industry. 'Carol Burnett Show' Comic Tim Conway Dead at 85
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