John Wheeler
Born: 1930-06-20 in Houston, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Wheeler graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, earning a bachelors degree in Music. A singer and character actor most familiar from television, he appeared on episodes of The Odd Couple, Green Acres, The Brady Bunch, and on Star Trek (as the tellarite Gav in the episode "Journey To Babel"). Wheeler sang with the City Center Opera in New York and performed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel and Bernstein, Comden, and Green's Wonderful Town at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, repeating his role in the latter work in its television premier that same year. On Broadway, he appeared in The Happiest Girl in the World, Kean, Cafe Crown, I Had a Ball, and Sweet Charity (as "Herman", the dance hall proprietor, a role that went to Stubby Kaye in the movie adaptation; Wheeler played a smaller role in the film). He remained active into the 1990s.
Filmography
1996
- Mrs. Santa Claus as Man in Santa Suit
1995
- Apollo 13 as Reporter
1994
- ER as Mr. Resnick
1993
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Shop Owner
1991
- Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter as William Frawley
- Runaway Father as Judge Ciglio
1990
- Beverly Hills, 90210 as Greg Redborn
1985
- The Golden Girls as Patron
1984
- Night Court as Mr. Perine
1980
- Seed of Innocence as Trammer
1979
- The Wild Wild West Revisited as Henry
1978
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as Mr. Fields
- Rescue from Gilligan's Island as Studio Guard
- With This Ring as Bell Captain
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Telegraph Operator
1977
- The Richard Pryor Special? as Security Guard
- Bad Georgia Road as Dub Douchette
1974
- Big Bad Mama as Lawyer
- Mame as Judge Bregoff
- Honky Tonk as Bank Manager
- Newman's Law as Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)
1971
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Croupier
1970
- The Odd Couple as Herbert Murphy
- Move as Brown Package
- Black Angels
1969
- Then Came Bronson as Herb Perry
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Newman
- Sweet Charity as Dancer
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Bumper (uncredited)
- The Silent Gun as Second Townsman
1966
- Star Trek as Gav
1958
- Wonderful Town as Officer Lonigan