John Wheeler

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.

Known For

Telegraph Operator

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid

Dancer

Sweet Charity

Newman

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Mr. Fields

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Black Angels

Lawyer

Big Bad Mama

Bumper (uncredited)

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Judge Bregoff

Mame

Bell Captain

With This Ring

Second Townsman

The Silent Gun

Henry

The Wild Wild West Revisited

William Frawley

Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter

Security Guard

The Richard Pryor Special?

Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)

Newman's Law

Judge Ciglio

Runaway Father

Dub Douchette

Bad Georgia Road

Reporter

Apollo 13

Brown Package

Move

Trammer

Seed of Innocence

Bank Manager

Honky Tonk

Croupier

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Officer Lonigan

Wonderful Town

Studio Guard

Rescue from Gilligan's Island