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Howard Hesseman

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2/27/1940, Lebanon, Oregon, USA

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Howard Hessman, Don Sturdy

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Howard Hesseman was born on February 27, 1940 in Lebanon, Oregon. He was a founding member of the San Francisco-based improv troupe The Committee, for ten years in the sixties and seventies. He started out as a character actor in shows since the 1960s, and had small parts…more

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Star (30)

Role
- Bigfoot
  Star
  2012
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
  Star
  2010
- All About Steve
  Mr. Horowitz
  2009
- Nanny Insanity
  Star
  2006
- About Schmidt
  Larry Hertzel
  2002
- The Mesmerist
  Star
  2002
- Gridlock'd
  Blind Man
  1997
- Out of Sync
  Star
  1995
- Head of the Class
  Charlie Moore
  - S 4: Ep 26 Teacher's Pet
    5/2/90
  - S 4: Ep 25 Cement Hi-Tops
    4/25/90
  - S 4: Ep 24 The Reel Charlie Moore
    4/11/90
  - S 4: Ep 23 Politics of Love
    4/4/90
  - S 4: Ep 22 Queen, Queen, Queen for a Day
    3/21/90
  - + 87 More Credits
- The Diamond Trap
  Star
  1988
- Six Against The Rock
  Star
  1987
- Head of the Class
  Charlie Moore (1986-1990)
- My Chauffeur
  Star
  1986
- Inside Out
  Star
  1986
- Heat
  Star
  1986
- Flight of the Navigator
  Dr. Faraday
  1986
- One Day at a Time
  Sam Royer (1983-1984)
  - S 9: Ep 21 Off We Go
    5/21/84
  - S 9: Ep 19 Meaning of Life
    5/2/84
  - S 9: Ep 18 Up in Smoke
    4/25/84
  - S 9: Ep 12 Never Hire a Relative
    1/15/84
  - S 9: Ep 10 Sam's Apartment
    1/1/84
  - + 8 More Credits
- Mister Roberts
  Star
  1984
- Doctor Detroit
  Smooth Walker
  1983
- WKRP in Cincinnati
  Johnny "Fever" Caravella
  - S 4: Ep 22 Up and Down the Dial
    4/21/82
  - S 4: Ep 21 To Err is Human
    4/14/82
  - S 4: Ep 20 The Impossible Dream
    4/7/82
  - S 4: Ep 19 The Creation of Venus
    3/31/82
  - S 4: Ep 18 Dear Liar
    3/24/82
  - + 84 More Credits
- Private Lessons
  Star
  1981
- Honky Tonk Freeway
  Star
  1981
- Gridlock
  Voice of Senor Smooth
- Americathon
  Kip Margolis
  1979
- Tunnel Vision
  Senator McMannus
  1976
- Shampoo
  Red Dog
  1975
- The Sunshine Boys
  Mr. Walsh, Commerical Director
  1975
- Steelyard Blues
  Star
  1973
- Silence of the Heart
  Star
- The Bob Newhart Show
  Craig Plager/Prager (1974-1978) The TV show developer patient.
  - — Original Pilot
Recurring Role (5)

Role
- John from Cincinnati
  Erlemeyer
  - S 1: Ep 10 His Visit: Day Nine
    8/12/07
- One Day at a Time
  Sam Royer
  - S 8: Ep 26 Honeymoon II
    5/23/83
  - S 8: Ep 25 Second Time Around
    5/16/83
  - S 8: Ep 17 The Good Life
    2/20/83
  - S 8: Ep 13 Pride and Privacy (3)
    1/2/83
  - S 8: Ep 12 Pride and Privacy (2)
    12/26/82
  - + 2 More Credits
- Soap
  Mr Franklin
  - S 1: Ep 25 Episode 25
    3/28/78
  - S 1: Ep 24 Episode 24
    3/21/78
  - S 1: Ep 23 Episode 23
    3/14/78
  - S 1: Ep 21 Episode 21
    2/21/78
  - S 1: Ep 20 Episode 20
    2/14/78
  - + 1 More Credits
- Soap
  Mr. Franklin (uncredited)
  - S 1: Ep 22 Episode 22
    2/28/78
- The Bob Newhart Show
  Craig Plager
  - S 6: Ep 16 Group on a Hot Tin Roof
    1/28/78
  - S 6: Ep 15 Son of an Ex-Con Job
    1/21/78
  - S 5: Ep 3 Some of My Best Friends Are...
    10/9/76
  - S 4: Ep 6 Carol's Wedding
    10/18/75
  - S 3: Ep 23 Emily Hits the Ceiling
    2/22/75
  - + 2 More Credits
Guest Star (60)

Role
- Mike & Molly
  Otis
  - S 2: Ep 17 Mike Likes Lasagna
    2/27/12
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  Dr. Aden
  - S 11: Ep 16 Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead
    2/24/11
- Lie to Me
  Sam Hendricks
  - S 2: Ep 11 Beat the Devil
    6/7/10
- ER
  Dr. James Broderick
  - S 14: Ep 1 The War Comes Home
    9/27/07
- Boston Legal
  Judge Robert Thompson
  - S 3: Ep 15 Fat Burner
    2/13/07
  - S 2: Ep 22 Ivan the Incorrigible
    4/18/06
- House
  Henry Errington
  - S 2: Ep 14 Sex Kills
    3/7/06
- TV Land Top 10
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 11 Top 10 Holiday Moments
    12/11/05
- Boomtown
  Mel Castle
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Big Picture
    12/28/03
- It's All Relative
  Monty
  - S 1: Ep 8 Road Trippin'
    11/19/03
- Maybe It's Me
  Mr. Finn
  - S 1: Ep 18 The Crazy-Girl Episode
    3/29/02
- Crossing Jordan
  Barney Reynolds
  - S 1: Ep 7 Sight Unseen
    11/12/01
- Thieves
  Hal
  - S 1: Ep 6 Jack's Back
    11/9/01
- That '70s Show
  Max
  - S 4: Ep 4 Hyde Gets the Girl
    10/9/01
  - S 3: Ep 14 Radio Daze
    2/6/01
- Three Sisters
  Jerry Keats
  - S 1: Ep 5 The In-Laws
    2/6/01
- Level 9
  General Richard Scheffer
  - S 1: Ep 8 Wetware
    1/19/01
- Touched by an Angel
  Flynn Hodge
  - S 6: Ep 23 Monica's Bad Day
    4/30/00
- The Pretender
  Landlord
  - S 4: Ep 6 Extreme
    12/4/99
- Family Law
  Howard Randall
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Fourth Trimester
    11/15/99
- Tracey Takes On...
  Todd
  - S 4: Ep 2 Drugs
    1/13/99
- The Practice
  Judge Williams
  - S 3: Ep 12 A Day in the Life
    1/10/99
- Two Guys and a Girl
  Mr. Bergen
  - S 1: Ep 12 Two Guys, a Girl and a Dad
    7/15/98
- The Outer Limits
  Dr. Emory Taylor
  - S 3: Ep 14 Music of the Spheres
    5/9/97
- Burke's Law (1994)
  Chuck Mason
  - S 2: Ep 3 Who Killed the Gadget Man?
    4/22/95
- Burke's Law (1994)
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 1 Who Killed the World's Greatest Chef?
    3/21/95
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
  Walter Bayes
  - S 6: Ep 21 Downwind from Gettysburg
    10/17/92
- The Arsenio Hall Show
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 32 October 24, 1991
    10/24/91
- People's Choice Awards
  Himself
  - S 14: Ep 1 The 14th Annual People's Choice Awards
    1/1/88
- Learn to Read
  Himself
- Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre
  the King
  - S 5: Ep 2 The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
    8/11/86
- Murder, She Wrote
  Sheldon Greenberg
  - S 2: Ep 1 Widow, Weep for Me
    9/29/85
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
  Bayes
- Love, Sidney
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Shrink
    5/30/83
- Saturday Night Live
  Himself
  - S 8: Ep 14 Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges/Randy Newman
    2/26/83
  - S 8: Ep 13 Howard Hesseman/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    2/19/83
  - S 8: Ep 4 Howard Hesseman/Men at Work
    10/23/82
  - S 5: Ep 6 Howard Hesseman/Randy Newman
    12/8/79
- Battle of the Network Stars
  CBS Team
  - S 4: Ep 1 Special #7
    11/2/79
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself
  - S 19: Ep 40 Week of October 29, 1979
    10/29/79
- Dinah!
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 174 May 28, 1979
    5/28/79
  - S 5: Ep 59 December 6, 1978
    12/6/78
- The Rockford Files
  Al Steever
  - S 4: Ep 21 The House on Willis Avenue (1)
    2/24/78
- Quincy, M.E.
  D.A.
  - S 3: Ep 3 A Dead Man's Truth
    9/30/77
- Soap
  Mr. Franklin
- Blansky's Beauties
  Dr. Berg
  - S 1: Ep 13 Nancy Breaks a Leg
    6/27/77
- Westside Medical
  Buz Canfield
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Witch Of Four West
    3/24/77
- Laverne & Shirley
  Dr. Grayson
  - S 2: Ep 10 Oh Hear the Angels' Voices
    12/21/76
- Baretta
  Tommy Walker
  - S 3: Ep 4 Street Edition
    10/13/76
- Switch
  M. W. Huffman
  - S 2: Ep 1 The Pirates Of Tin Pan Alley
    9/21/76
- Family
  Store Manager
  - S 1: Ep 3 A Special Kind of Loving
    3/23/76
- Grady
  Professor Stoneham
- Harry O
  Senator Lawler
  - S 2: Ep 8 Tender Killing Care
    10/30/75
- The Blue Knight
  Resident
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot (90 min)
    5/9/75
- Sanford and Son
  Professor Stoneham
  - S 4: Ep 25 The Family Man
    4/25/75
- Mannix
  Ray Bennett
  - S 8: Ep 17 A Ransom for Yesterday
    2/9/75
- Baretta
  Walker
- Rhoda
  Kirk Stevens
  - S 1: Ep 3 I'll Be Loving You, Sometimes
    9/23/74
- Firehouse
  Unknown
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Hottest Place In Town
    1/31/74
- Learn to Read
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 14 Consonant Slides
- Oliver Beene
  Dr. Fenniger
  - S 2: Ep 15 Superhero
- My Friend Tony
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 4 Let George Do It
    1/26/69
- Dragnet
  Jesse Chaplin (as Don Sturdy)
  - S 3: Ep 1 Public Affairs - DR-07
    9/19/68
- The Andy Griffith Show
  Harry
  - S 8: Ep 27 Sam for Town Council
    3/11/68
- The Andy Griffith Show
  Counterboy
  - S 8: Ep 22 Goober Goes to an Auto Show
    2/5/68
- Dragnet
  Jesse Chaplin
Special Guest Star (5)

Role
- Drop Dead Diva
  Cole Lamburt
  - S 3: Ep 4 The Wedding
    7/17/11
- Psych
  Barry
  - S 2: Ep 5 And Down the Stretch Comes Murder
    8/10/07
- That '70s Show
  Max
  - S 3: Ep 24 Backstage Pass
    5/15/01
- The New WKRP in Cincinnati
  Johnny Fever
  - S 2: Ep 18 Johnny Goes Hollywood
    2/20/93
  - S 2: Ep 17 Fever All Through the Night
    2/13/93
  - S 2: Ep 16 Fever in the Morning
    2/6/93
- The New WKRP in Cincinnati
  Dr. Johnny Fever
  - S 2: Ep 12 Flimm Flam Man
    11/21/92
  - S 2: Ep 11 Moss Dies
    11/14/92
  - S 1: Ep 19 Mamma Was a Rolling Stone
    2/22/92
  - S 1: Ep 10 Here Comes Everybody (2)
    11/9/91
  - S 1: Ep 9 Here Comes Everybody (1)
    11/2/91
  - + 1 More Credits
Writer (1)

Role
- WKRP in Cincinnati
  Writer
  - S 3: Ep 21 Till Debt Do Us Part
    4/5/81
Director (2)

Role
- The New WKRP in Cincinnati
  Director
  - S 2: Ep 14 Herb's Lost Weekend
    1/23/93
  - S 2: Ep 13 Nancy's Old Man
    1/16/93
- WKRP in Cincinnati
  Director
  - S 4: Ep 11 You Can't Go Out of Town Again
    1/13/82

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- Howard was twice nominated for a Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Variety or Music Series for WKRP in Cincinnati in 1980 and 1981.
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- Howard is 6' (1.83m) tall.
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- Howard married actress Caroline Ducrocq on July 22, 1989.
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- Before acting was his job, Howard Hesseman was a real radio D.J. Hence.
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