Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011), known as Jeff Conaway, was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the U.S. television series Taxi and Babylon 5. He directed the 1992 film Bikini Read more...
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011), known as Jeff Conaway, was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the U.S. television series Taxi and Babylon 5. He directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer II.
Conaway began acting on Broadway at age two. He appeared in the play All the Way Home in 1960. He attended North Carolina School of the Arts. He appeared in the 1977 Disney film, Pete's Dragon. He is best known for playing Kenickie in the 1978 motion picture musical Grease and for his role on the television series Taxi, where he played cocky, vain, struggling actor Bobby Wheeler from 1978 to 1981. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1978 for his role as Wheeler. Conaway left Taxi after the third season. Taxi writer Sam Simon recalled in 2008 that during production of Simon's first script for that show, an absent Conaway was found in his dressing room too high on drugs to perform, and that his dialogue for that episode was divided between his co-stars Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd. This contributed to Conaway's eventual firing.
Conaway starred in the short-lived 1983 fantasy-spoof series, Wizards and Warriors. He made guest appearances on such shows as Barnaby Jones, George and Leo and in four episodes of Murder, She Wrote. He appeared in films such as Jawbreaker, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Do You Wanna Know a Secret?. From 1994-1999, he played Sergeant Zack Allan, on Babylon 5. From 1989-90, he was cast on The Bold and the Beautiful, in the role of "Mick Savage". In 1993, he appeared onstage in Real Life Photographs.
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i was shocked to hear of the passing of jeff rip kinikki
Andy Bailey ,
June 02, 2011
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I was so saddened to hear about Jeff's passing.. I was lucky to meet Jeff back in 2003 and we became friends for a short while..we sang Christmas songs at at Christmas sing a long event..he was really trying to get clean and sober back then..we had lunch and dinner several times too and he was a really down to earth person with a big heart...RIP Jeff...see you on the other side!
Penny Framstad ,
May 29, 2011
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