John Wheeler
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 20, 1930
- Place of birth
- Houston, Texas, USA
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.
Movies with John Wheeler
- Apollo 13 1995 · ★ 7.5
- Sweet Charity 1969 · ★ 6.9
- Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971 · ★ 6.6
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 1969 · ★ 5.8
- Big Bad Mama 1974 · ★ 5.7
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1978 · ★ 4.4
- Mame 1974 · ★ 5.9
- Rescue from Gilligan's Island 1978 · ★ 4.6
- Mrs. Santa Claus 1996 · ★ 6.2
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1969 · ★ 5.5
- The Wild Wild West Revisited 1979 · ★ 5.4
- Newman's Law 1974 · ★ 6.6
- Bad Georgia Road 1977 · ★ 5.4
- Black Angels 1970 · ★ 4.8
- The Richard Pryor Special? 1977 · ★ 7.2
- Runaway Father 1991 · ★ 7.4
- Move 1970 · ★ 5.5
- Wonderful Town 1958 · ★ 7.0
- Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid 1978 · ★ 7.0
- The Silent Gun 1969 · ★ 6.5
- Seed of Innocence 1980 · ★ 7.0
- With This Ring 1978 · ★ 10.0
- Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter 1991 · ★ 9.0
- Honky Tonk 1974 · ★ 8.0