Elvis Presley To James Cameron, 7 Celebrities Who Drove Trucks For A Living Before Fame Came Calling

Not all celebrities were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Before fame came calling, many superstars, whose concerts had sold out, whose movies made billions of dollars and who had multiple Grammys and Academy Awards to their name, once had to earn a living by driving a truck!

Before he was crowned the king of Rock n Roll, Elvis Presley drew trucks for a living. According to his biographer Peter Guralnick, as cited by the New York Times, the Heartbreak Hotel hitmaker worked for a company called Crown Electric as a truck driver in 1954. That year, the youngster auditioned rockabilly icon Eddie Bond, and the latter was not impressed and told him he would be better off sticking with his day job, as he was never going to make it as a singer.

Today, he has four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards to his name, as well as a slew of hit films such as Dirty Harry, The Bridges Of Madison County, Million Dollar Baby, etc., but once Clint Eastwood drove trucks to earn a living. According to a Kalb5 report, Eastwood worked as a truck driver, furnace tender, hay baler and logger in a steel company after graduating from high school. In 1950, he was recruited into the U.S. Army and assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he worked as a swimming instructor. Eastwood worked at a petrol station and went to Los Angeles City College after being released in 1953.

Today, he is hailed as the highest-grossing film director of all time. His films, such as Titanic, Terminator, and the Avatar franchise, have grossed $10 billion at the box office. According to Business Insider, when Cameron saw the first "Star Wars" in his early 20s in 1977, he quit his job as a truck driver. It motivated him to become a filmmaker.

Known to be the first ever James Bond, Scottish star Sean Connery came from humble beginnings. According to NBC News, his father, Joseph, worked as a factory worker, while his mother, Euphemia McBain, was a cleaning lady. In reality, after dropping out of school at the age of 14, he laboured at several blue-collar occupations, including truck driver and milkman.

Today, he was one of the most renowned stars in Ireland and Hollywood, and his films have earned a whopping $11.7 billion worldwide. But once upon a time Schindler’s List star Liam Neeson made a living driving trucks. In an interview with Metro UK, the superstar said, "I was a forklift truck driver at a Guinness factory in my hometown with this guy who could make a forklift truck speak. He was so brilliant at what he did; I was the apprentice. One day, he said, Liam, what do you want to do in life? I said, 'Actually, I want to be an actor. And he said, "You could be another Roy Rogers.”

Robert Duvall was hailed as America’s Olivier for his versatility and had many hit films to his name, such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc. But before fame came calling, Robert Duvall did many odd jobs to eke out a living, including driving a truck. According to The Ringer, Duvall worked as a clerk at Macy's and sorted mail at the post office. He drove a truck for a while. He performed in plays on Long Island, off-Broadway, and Broadway. He began working on television in the late 1950s. In 1962, at the age of 31, he made his feature film debut as Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, opposite Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch.

Viggo Mortensen is now synonymous with the mega-hit Lord of the Rings film series, where he portrayed the just and noble king Aragorn, the central protagonist, who later becomes a brave and just king and rules for more than 122 years. But before his silver screen career, he worked as a truck driver. According to The Guardian, after growing up in Argentina, he moved to New York once more before moving to Copenhagen. Before making his on-screen debut as a clean-limbed Amish farmer in Witness, he worked in factories and as a truck driver.