Looking Back
Mr. T. Turns 60: A Look Back at His Rise to Fame, from Bodyguard to Superstar
Mr. T never let anything get him down. He might have sometimes had a "bad attitude" when he served in the military as a young man, then later in his breakout role on The A-Team, but his winning personality and desire to beat all the odds made him the most popular bodyguard on the planet. By Romi Stepovich
Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library
Mr. T. (Laurence Tureaud), Homecoming, Senior Year, Dunbar Vocational High School, 1970
Sports wasn’t Laurence’s only interest in high school. Here we see him as an escort for his school’s homecoming festivities. Who would have thought this football hero would become the world’s most well-known bodyguard a decade later?
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