Remember him?
, in 1963, meaning they celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary this year. The couple have eight children together and 10 grandchildren.of his relationship."You just gotta have patience. Everything in a relationship isn't always 100 percent all of the time. Sometimes it dips down to 50 percent, to 40 percent, maybe even lower. But you handle it. You stay with it. You make it work."series for helping him support his big family.
"Those movies limited me, without a doubt," he said."But I didn't care. I enjoyed them. Then came a part of my career where I wanted to do other stuff, and no one would let me. It was frustrating, but I got over it. Now I think, 'Thank God for those movies.' They kept me around and put my [eight] kids through school, and they were wonderful times."Lia Beck is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia.