
John Wheeler
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.
Known For
Credits
- 1995 · Apollo 13 as Reporter
- 1994 · ER as Mr. Resnick
- 1991 · Runaway Father as Judge Ciglio
- 1991 · Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter as William Frawley
- 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 · Rescue from Gilligan's Island as Studio Guard
- 1978 · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as Mr. Fields
- 1978 · Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid as Telegraph Operator
- 1978 · With This Ring as Bell Captain
- 1977 · Bad Georgia Road as Dub Douchette
- 1977 · The Richard Pryor Special? as Security Guard
- 1974 · Big Bad Mama as Lawyer
- 1974 · Newman's Law as Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)
- 1974 · Honky Tonk as Bank Manager
- 1974 · Mame as Judge Bregoff
- 1971 · Support Your Local Gunfighter as Croupier
- 1970 · Black Angels as
- 1970 · The Odd Couple as Herbert Murphy
- 1970 · The Odd Couple as Henry
- 1970 · The Odd Couple as Mr. Felscher
- 1970 · The Odd Couple as Mr. Flescher
- 1970 · Move as Brown Package
- 1969 · The Silent Gun as Second Townsman
- 1969 · Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Newman
- 1969 · The Good Guys and the Bad Guys as Bumper (uncredited)
- 1969 · Then Came Bronson as Herb Perry
- 1969 · Sweet Charity as Dancer
- 1966 · Star Trek as Gav
- 1958 · Wonderful Town as Officer Lonigan