Sammy Davis Jr.
The odds might have been against Sammy Davis Jr., but he knew how to look past the challenges and go for gold. He had to deal with racism when he joined a special forces unit of the army. However, he said that he did not let it get to him. “My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man’s thinking,” he explained.
Sammy Davis Jr.
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Steve McQueen
If you watch The Great Escape, you will see Steve McQueen help POWs get out of a German camp. But he did even more than that in real life. While on an Arctic exercise, he saved five fellow marines from a sinking tank after it crashed into an ice cap. This is even more epic than his roles!
Steve McQueen
