Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman ( February 27, 1940 - January 29, 2022 - Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .
Life
Howard Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon in 1940. His parents Edna Foster and George Henry Hesseman divorced when he was five years old. From then on he grew up with his mother and stepfather, a policeman. Hesseman attended the University of Oregon and co-founded the comedy group The Committee with David Ogden Stiers in San Francisco . At the beginning of his acting career he used the name Don Sturdy, which he later used as a radio DJ. He came to acting through his uncle.
Career
Howard Hessemann made his acting debut on the television series The Andy Griffith Show , playing different roles in two episodes. In the 1970s, alongside TV appearances, he got supporting roles in films, starring in The Hair-raising Journey on a Crazy Bus , Mel Brooks' Last Oddity: The Silent Movie , Raped Behind Bars and the TV movie Ghost of Flight 401 . During this time, Hesseman was often cast as a hippie.
From 1978 to 1982, Hesseman played DJ Johnny Fever in the Cincinnati sitcom WKRP in 90 episodes , which never aired in German-speaking countries but was popular in the United States. Following that television series, Hesseman co-starred in the last two seasons of the series One Day at a Time before starring as the teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class in 92 episodes from 1986-1990 . He also took on more cinema appearances over the course of the 1980s, so he mimed the role of Captain Peter "Pete" Lassard, the younger brother of the role Eric Lassard (portrayed by George Gaynes ) in the comedy film Police Academy 2. .
In the 1990s he acted in numerous television films, such as Murder in New Hampshire starring Helen Hunt and Chad Allen , and in the two French films The Chocolate Princess and Murder in the Viewfinder . In addition to guest appearances in television series such as A Trio to Bite , Pretender and Practice - The Lawyers , he starred in the comedy Gridlock'd - Voll it! a blind man and in the tragic comedy About Schmidt the father of Jack Nicholson 's future son-in-law. In the roles of a doctor, he worked in the television series Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension , Emergency Room - The ER and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation each with. Most recently, Hesseman was in front of the camera for the movie Dirty Politics in 2018.
Filmography (selection)
Movie
- 1968: Petulia
- 1971: Billy Jack
- 1973 Steelyard Blues
- 1973: The Blue Knight (TV Movie)
- 1975: Cash - The Unstoppable Career of Private Ass (Whiffs)
- 1975: Shampoo
- 1975: The Sunny Boys
- 1976 The Big Bus
- 1976: Mel Brooks' Last Weirdness: Silent Movie (Silent Movie)
- 1976: Raped Behind Bars (Jackson County Jail)
- 1977 The Other Side of Midnight
- 1978 The Ghost of Flight 401 ( TV Movie )
- 1984: Under Suspicion ( Best Kept Secrets , TV Movie)
- 1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
- 1986: Fear and Loneliness (Inside Out)
- 1986: Flight of the Navigator
- 1987 Amazon Women on the Moon
- 1991 Murder in New Hampshire ( Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story , TV Movie )
- 1992: The Chocolate Princess ( Amour et chocolat , TV Movie)
- 1993 Little Miss Millions
- 1993: Murder in the Viewfinder ( Lethal Exposure , TV Movie)
- 1997: On the 2nd day of Christmas ( TV Movie )
- 1997: Highest Risk Gamble ( High Stakes , TV Movie)
- 1997: Gridlock'd (Gridlock'd)
- 2002: About Schmidt
- 2007 Martian Child
- 2008: The Rocker - Voll der (S)Hit (The Rocker)
- 2009: Halloween II
- 2009 All About Steve
- 2012: Bigfoot - The legend lives on! (Bigfoot)
- 2016: Wild Oats
- 2018: Dirty Politics
series
- 1968: The Andy Griffith Show (two episodes)
- 1977: Quincy ( Quincy ME , episode A Dead Man's Truth )
- 1978–1982: WKRP in Cincinnati (90 episodes)
- 1978: Detective Rockford - Just Call ( The Rockford Files , episode The House on Willis Avenue )
- 1982–1984: One Day at a Time (18 episodes)
- 1985 Murder , She Wrote , Episode Widow , Weep for Me
- 1986–1990: Big Class ( Head of the Class , 92 episodes)
- 1997: Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension ( The Outer Limits , episode Music of the Spheres )
- 1998: A Biteable Trio ( Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place , Episode 1x12 Two Guys, a Girl and a Dad )
- 1999: Pretender ( The Pretender , Episode 4x06 Extreme )
- 1999: Practice - The Lawyers ( The Practice , Episode 3x12 On the Edge of Legality )
- 2000: Touched by an Angel ( Ep. 6x23 Monica's Bad Day )
- 2001: Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with Profile ( Crossing Jordan , Episode 1x07 Race Against Time )
- 2001: That ' 70s Show ( That '70s Show , three episodes)
- 2006: dr House ( House MD , TV Series, Episode 2x14 Sex Is Underrated )
- 2006–2007: Boston Legal (TV series, three episodes)
- 2007: Emergency Room ( ER , episode 14x01 panic )
- 2007: Psych (Episode 2x05 Horse Feet at the Horse Racing )
- 2010: Lie to Me (episode 2x11 Duel with the Devil )
- 2011 CSI : Crime Scene Investigation Episode 11x16 The Cabinet of Dr. Aden
- 2012: Mike & Molly (episode 2x17, Mike Likes Lasagna )
- 2016: Chicago Med (episode Withdrawal )
- 2017: Fresh Off the Boat (two episodes)
web links
- Howard Hesseman at the Internet Movie Database
itemizations
- ↑ Howard Hesseman, Dr. Johnny Fever on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' Dies at 81
- ↑ Hesseman, Howard 1940– | Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Jeff Baker | The Oregonian/OregonLive: 17 actors you (maybe) didn't know were from Oregon. 30 April 2014, retrieved 26 August 2020 (English).
- ↑ Howard Hesseman Biography (1940-). filmreference.com, accessed November 28, 2012 (English).
- ^ a b c WKRP in TV. People , November 12, 1979, retrieved November 28, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Bethy Squires: WKRP in Cincinnati Star Howard Hesseman Has Died. January 30, 2022, retrieved February 1, 2022 (American English).
- ↑ Howard Hesseman Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved February 1, 2022 (English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hesseman, Howard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hessman, Howard; Sturdy, Don (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
BIRTH DATE | February 27, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lebanon, Oregon |
DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2022 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Los Angeles , California |