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John Wheeler
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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 Cha…
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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.
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John Wheeler's Filmography
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Mrs. Santa Claus
as Man in Santa Suit
Apollo 13
as Reporter
Runaway Father
as Judge Ciglio
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
as William Frawley
Seed of Innocence
as Trammer
The Wild Wild West Revisited
as Henry
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
as Studio Guard
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as Mr. Fields
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Telegraph Operator
With This Ring
as Bell Captain
Bad Georgia Road
as Dub Douchette
The Richard Pryor Special?
as Security Guard
Big Bad Mama
as Lawyer
Newman's Law
as Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)
Honky Tonk
as Bank Manager
Mame
as Judge Bregoff
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Croupier
Black Angels
Move
as Brown Package
The Silent Gun
as Second Townsman
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Newman
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
as Bumper (uncredited)
Sweet Charity
as Dancer
Wonderful Town
as Officer Lonigan