Background
Harwell was born in Nashville, Arkansas.
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Bobby Harwell
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After his military service he attended and graduated from the University of Arkansas.
Career
Before serving four years in the Air Force, which included a year in a combat hospital group in of Korea, Harwell served in the merchant marines. His service there included an adventurous trip to India on a Swedish freighter that caught fire. Harwell spent the next twenty years in an eclectic potpourri of employment that included commercial fishing, drapery hanging, driving cabs, working in a skid row blood bank, and teaching school in a Miami ghetto.
In the early 1980s he began print modeling which led to television commercials.
He then landed three small roles on Miami Vice. From there he moved to Hollywood where he continued to model while acting in many more television commercials and doing small parts on television and in films (see IMDbcom).
He produced one low budget movie which was slated to be shown in the on September 11, 2001. Needless to say, it was postponed.
Harwell has published one novel, Flawed, which is partly based on his experiences in Hollywood and is currently working on his second book
He lives in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.
