Howard Hesseman

At 84 years old, Howard Hesseman has this physical status:

Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for his role as DJ Dr.

Johnny Fever of WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time, and Head of the Class Charlie Moore.

Early life

On February 27, 1940, Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon. His parents divorced when he was five years old, and his father and stepfather, a police officer, raised him. In 1958, he graduated from Silverton High School. Hesseman attended the University of Oregon and was later a founding member of San Francisco-based improvisational comedy troupe The Committee with fellow actor David Ogden Stiers. Don Sturdy, the name he used as a radio DJ on underground FM station KMPX in San Francisco in the late 1960s, appeared early in his career.

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Career

Hesseman made his first television appearances under Don Sturdy's alias, including the episode "Public Affairs: DR-07" of the show Dragnet in 1968. Jesse Chaplin, the editor of an underground newspaper, was depicted as a hippie. His character in this Dragnet episode was a panelist on a television show opposite Sgt. Officer Gannon and Friday.

In two final-season episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, he appeared in a little bit. In the episode "Sam for Town Council," Hesseman has an exchange with Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman), who is competing for town council against Sam Jones played by Ken Berry. According to Emmett, Hesseman is a playwright who is seen preparing fishing tackle outside a sporting goods store and raging about how bad the fishing has been at a nearby fishing spot. In exchange for Harry's vote, Emmett promises to stock the pond with a slew of trees. Harry agrees and wears a campaign button that promotes Emmett in the election. Hesseman, also known as Don Sturdy, appears in the episode "Goober Goes to an Auto Show," where he and his old trade school rival Roy Swanson, played by Noam Pitlik, are served hot dogs and root beer to Goober and his old trade school rival Roy Swanson.

He appeared in many sketches on The Dick Cavett Show on July 18, 1969, including one with guest Janis Joplin.

On The Bob Newhart Show, Mr. Plager, a member of the group therapy group, made several appearances as Mr. Plager, and later in the series, he was revealed to be gay. In the sixth season of the show, he played a script about the characters. In several other episodes of the show, Hesseman's voice can be heard as a TV announcer.

Hesseman is best known for his appearance as anti-disco disc jockey John "Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati from 1978 to 1982, a role Hesseman prepared for by working as a DJ in San Francisco at KMPX-FM for several months. In 1980 and 1981, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In nine episodes of The New WKRP in Cincinnati, he reprised his role as Caravella, as well as several episodes of the 1991-1993 series revival.

On One Day at a Time from 1982 to 1984, Sam Royer, the man who married Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin), was depicted.

He appeared in the Disney Film Flight of the Navigator in 1986.

From 1986 to 1990, Hesseman appeared on ABC's Head of the Class.

In 1994, Hesseman lost footage of Janis Joplin in a Woodstock documentary. He made three appearances on Saturday Night Live, one in which he paid tribute to, and told jokes about, John Belushi's recent death, as well as the other in which NBC published a portrait of US president Ronald Reagan, which Hesseman mooned off-camera. He also advised the viewing audience to moon the picture and send images to NBC. In 1995, Hesseman appeared in Quills as the Marquis de Sade, a scene in which he was completely naked. In 2001, Hesseman appeared on three episodes of That '70s Show.'

He appeared on three episodes of Boston Legal and also in a House episode in 2006. Hesseman paid homage to his role as a mentor in his earlier ABC series by sitting atop the judge's bench, just as Mr. Moore taught his class atop his desk. On HBO's John From Cincinnati, he appeared on "The Chemist" in 2007. In the episode "And Down the Stretch Comes Murder," he appeared as an announcer on a horse track on Psych. On the 2007 season premiere of NBC's ER, Hesseman performed a man tripping on magical mushrooms that may or not have been an orthopedist from another hospital. From September to November 2010, Hesseman appeared in The Sunshine Boys at the New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas. In the eleventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead," he played Dr. Elliot D. Aden in February 2011. Dr. Aden was the head of a Department of Defense initiative at W.L.V.U., which conducted studies in fringe psychological topics such as E.S.P. Out-of-body experiences and out-of-body experiences.

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