John Wheeler
Acting • Born 1930-06-20
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.
Filmography
35 credits
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
Telegraph Operator
Sweet Charity
Movie • 1969
Dancer
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Movie • 1969
Newman
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie • 1978
Mr. Fields
Black Angels
Movie • 1970
Big Bad Mama
Movie • 1974
Lawyer
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Movie • 1969
Bumper (uncredited)
Mame
Movie • 1974
Judge Bregoff
With This Ring
Movie • 1978
Bell Captain
The Silent Gun
Movie • 1969
Second Townsman
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Movie • 1979
Henry
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Movie • 1991
William Frawley
The Richard Pryor Special?
Movie • 1977
Security Guard
Newman's Law
Movie • 1974
Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)
Runaway Father
Movie • 1991
Judge Ciglio
Bad Georgia Road
Movie • 1977
Dub Douchette
Apollo 13
Movie • 1995
Reporter
Move
Movie • 1970
Brown Package
Seed of Innocence
Movie • 1980
Trammer
Honky Tonk
Movie • 1974
Bank Manager
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Croupier
Wonderful Town
Movie • 1958
Officer Lonigan
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Movie • 1978
Studio Guard
Mrs. Santa Claus
Movie • 1996
Man in Santa Suit
Star Trek
TV • 1966
Gav
Night Court
TV • 1984
Mr. Perine
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Herbert Murphy
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Henry
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Mr. Felscher
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Mr. Flescher
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Patron
ER
TV • 1994
Mr. Resnick
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Herb Perry
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
TV • 1993
Shop Owner
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV • 1990
Greg Redborn