John Wheeler

Known for ActingBorn 1930-06-20 (age 95)Houston, Texas, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

With This Ring

Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter

Honky Tonk

ER

Star Trek

The Odd Couple

The Golden Girls

Apollo 13

Runaway Father

Beverly Hills, 90210

Night Court

The Richard Pryor Special?

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Seed of Innocence

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Sweet Charity

Wonderful Town

Newman's Law

Support Your Local Gunfighter

The Silent Gun

Mrs. Santa Claus

Mame

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Bad Georgia Road

Big Bad Mama

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Move

The Wild Wild West Revisited

Then Came Bronson

Black Angels

Rescue from Gilligan's Island

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band