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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.
As actor
Mrs. Santa Claus
Apollo 13
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Runaway Father
Seed of Innocence
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With This Ring
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
The Richard Pryor Special?
Bad Georgia Road
Big Bad Mama
Mame
Newman's Law
Honky Tonk
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Black Angels
Move
Sweet Charity
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
The Silent Gun
Wonderful Town