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This week we are catching up with actor Howard Hesseman, who is known for his roles on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati in the 1970s and Head of the Class in the late 1980s. Where else has Hesseman appeared? What has he been doing in recent days? Find out here...

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Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Dick Gautier: Played Hymie the Robot on the TV series "Get Smart", starred in the series "When Things Were Rotten"

Joe Regalbuto: He played Frank Fontana on the TV series "Murphy Brown"

Barbara Bain: Played agent Cinnamon Carter in the TV series "Mission: Impossible", also starred in the series "Space: 1999"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Howard Hesseman
Learn More About Howard Hesseman on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: February 27, 1940, Lebanon, Oregon, U.S.

CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati.

FAMILY LIFE: He was married to Catherine Maison from 1964 to 1974 (divorced). He has been married to Caroline Ducrocq since 1989.

INFO: Hesseman has been in the acting business since the late 1960s. He started out in the improv group "the Committee" for ten years and then appeared on several television shows including The Andy Griffith Show, Dragnet 1967, Soap, and Sanford and Son. He appeared as Howard Johnson in the cult classic Billy Jack (1971) and frequently appeared on The Bob Newhart Show.

It was his role on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati as DJ Dr. Johnny Fever for which he is still remembered. He appeared on the show until it was canceled in 1978, and went on to star in cult classics like One Day at a Time, This Is Spinal Tap, Doctor Detroit, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Clue, and Flight of the Navigator.

His next big role was playing teacher Mr. Moore in the high school sitcom Head of the Class from 1986-1990. Since then, he has appeared in a bunch of television guest roles and films.

TRIVIA: Attended the University of Oregon.

His parents divorced when he was five, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather, a policeman.

Was a founding member of the San Francisco-based improvisational comedy troupe The Committee with fellow actor David Ogden Stiers.

used the alias Don Sturdy, the name he also used as a radio DJ.

Arrested for selling 1 ounce of marijuana in San Francisco in 1966.

Was a close friend and sometime lover of Janis Joplin in the late 1960s.

WHERE IS HE NOW: His recent films include The Rocker (2008), Dirty Politics (2009), Halloween II (2009), and All About Steve (2009). He has made recent television appearances on Lie to Me, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Drop Dead Diva. He is currently filming the TV movie Bigfoot.

WRITE TO HOWARD HESSEMAN:
Agent: Stone Manners Talent Agent
6500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Video Clips of Howard Hesseman
WKRP - Flying Turkey?...

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CREDITS:
2012 Bigfoot (TV movie) (filming)

2011 Drop Dead Diva (TV series)...Cole Lamburt
The Wedding

2011 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)...Dr. Aden
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead

2010 Lie to Me (TV series)...Sam Hendricks
Beat the Devil

2009 All About Steve...Mr. Horowitz

2009 Halloween II...Uncle Meat

2009 Dirty Politics...Big Oil

2008 The Rocker...Gator

2007 Martian Chil...Dr. Berg

2007 ER (TV series)...Dr. James Broderick
The War Comes Home

2007 John from Cincinnati (TV series)...Erlemeyer
His Visit: Day Nine
His Visit: Day Eight

2007 Psych (TV series)...Barry Saunder
And Down the Stretch Comes Murder

2006-2007 Boston Legal (TV series)...Judge Robert Thompson

2006 House M.D. (TV series)...Henry Errington
Sex Kills

2006 Man About Town...Ben Giamoro

2006 Domestic Import...Lou Kimmelman

2005 Crazy for Christmas (TV movie)...Fred Nickells

2004 Oliver Beene (TV series)...Dr. Fenniger
Superhero

2003 Boomtown (TV series)...Mel Castle
The Big Picture

2003 It's All Relative (TV series)...Monty
Road Trippin'

2002 About Schmidt...Larry Hertzel

2002 Maybe It's Me (TV series)...Mr. Finn
The Crazy-Girl Episode

2002 Teddy Bears' Picnic...Ted Frye

2002 The Mesmerist...Mr. Valdemar

2001 Crossing Jordan (TV series)...Barney Reynolds
Sight Unseen

2001 Thieves (TV series)...Hal Bloomberg
Jack's Back

2001 That '70s Show (TV series)...Max
Hyde Gets the Girl
Backstage Pass
Radio Daze

2001 The Sky Is Falling...Yogi Cook

2001 Three Sisters (TV series)...Jerry Keats
The In-Laws

2001 Level 9 (TV series)...General Richard Scheffer
Wetware

2000 Touched by an Angel (TV series)...Flynn
Monica's Bad Day

1999 The Pretender (TV series)...Landlord
Extreme

1999 Family Law (TV series)...Howard Thomas / Randall
The Fourth Trimester

1999 Tracey Takes On... (TV series)...Todd
Drugs

1999 The Practice (TV series)...Judge C. Williams
A Day in the Life

1998 Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (TV series)...Mr. Bergen
Two Guys, a Girl and a Dad

1997 On the 2nd Day of Christmas (TV movie)...David

1997 High Stakes (TV movie)...Wayne Dreyer

1997 The Outer Limits (TV series)...Dr. Emory Taylor
Music of the Spheres

1997 Gridlock'd...Blind Man

1996 Innocent Victims (TV movie)

1996 Boys Night Out (short)...Sheba/Mr. Cabot

1995 Out-of-Sync...Det. Caldwell

1995 Burke's Law (TV series)
Who Killed the World's Greatest Chef? (1995)

1994 Munchie Strikes Back...Munchie (voice)

1993 Little Miss Millions...Nick Frost

1993 Lethal Exposure (TV movie)...Taylor

1991-1993 The New WKRP in Cincinnati (TV series)...Dr. Johnny Fever
Fever in the Morning
Here Comes Everybody: Part 2
Here Comes Everybody: Part 1
Where Are We Going?

1992 Hot Chocolate (TV movie)...Mr. Cassidy

1992 The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series)...Bayes
Downwind from Gettysburg

1992 Quiet Killer (TV movie)...Congressman Calvin Phillips

1991 Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (TV movie)...Paul Maggioto

1991 Rubin and Ed...Ed Tuttle

1990 Call Me Anna (TV movie)...John Ross

1986-1990 Head of the Class (TV series)...Charles P. 'Charlie' Moore

1988 The Diamond Trap (TV movie)...Det. Rollings

1987 Amazon Women on the Moon...Rupert King (segment "Titan Man")

1987 Six Against the Rock (TV movie)...Joseph 'Dutch' Cretzer

1986 Heat...Pinchus Zion

1986 Inside Out...Jack

1986 Faerie Tale Theatre (TV series)...King
The Princess Who Had Never Laughed

1986 Flight of the Navigator...Dr. Faraday

1986 My Chauffeur...McBride

1985 Clue...The Chief (uncredited)

1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV series)
The Honeybunnies (1985)

1985 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)...Sheldon Greenberg
Widow, Weep for Me

1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment...Captain Peter 'Pete' Lassard

1984 Silence of the Heart (TV movie)...Carl Lewis

1982-1984 One Day at a Time (TV series)...Sam Royer

1984 Best Kept Secrets (TV movie)...Jim Osborne

1984 Mister Roberts (TV movie)...Doc

1984 This Is Spinal Tap...Terry Ladd

1984 The Princess Who Had Never Laughed (TV movie)...King

1983 Focus on Fishko (short)...Sy

1983 Love, Sidney (TV series)
The Shrink (1983)

1983 Doctor Detroit...Smooth Walker

1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 4 (TV movie)...Seymour Z. Fishko

1982 Nine to Five (TV series)
Home Is Where the Hart Is (1982)

1982 One Shoe Makes It Murder (TV movie)...Joe Hervey

1978-1982 WKRP in Cincinnati (TV series)...Johnny 'Dr. Fever' Caravella

1982 Victims (TV movie)...Charles Galloway

1981 Private Lessons...Lester Lewis

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway...Snapper

1981 Women Who Rate a 10 (TV movie)...Host

1980 Skyward (TV movie)...Koup Trenton

1980 Gridlock (TV movie)...Senor Smooth (voice)

1980 Loose Shoes...Ernie Piles, War Correspondent

1980 John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind & Body (TV movie)

1979 Americathon...Kip Margolis

1979 You Can't Take It with You (TV movie)...Wilbur C. Henderson

1978 Outside Chance (TV movie)...David

1978 More Than Friends (TV movie)...Avery Salminella

1978 The Comedy Company (TV movie)...Roger Dustleman

1978 Soap (TV series)...Mr. Franklin

1978 Husbands, Wives & Lovers (TV series)...Dave
Ron Moves in and Helene Steps Out

1978 The Rockford Files (TV series)...Al Steever
The House on Willis Avenue

1978 The Ghost of Flight 401 (TV movie)...Bert Stockwell

1974-1978 The Bob Newhart Show (TV series)...Craig Plager / Augie

1977 Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (TV movie)...Fred

1977 Quincy M.E. (TV series)...Asst. District Attorney Jerry Douglas
A Dead Man's Truth

1977 Blansky's Beauties (TV series)...Dr. Berg
Nancy Breaks a Leg

1977 The Other Side of Midnight...O'Brien

1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes (TV movie)...Jenks

1977 Westside Medical (TV series)...Buz Canfield
The Witch of Four West

1977 Tail Gunner Joe (TV movie)...Lt. Cantwell

1977 Delvecchio (TV series)...Goldie
Dying Can Be a Pleasure

1976 Laverne & Shirley (TV series)...Dr. Grayson
Oh Hear the Angels' Voices

1976 Baretta (TV series)...Walker
Street Edition

1976 Switch (TV series)...M.W.
The Pirates of Tin Pan Alley

1976 The Big Bus...Jack

1976 Silent Movie...Executive

1976 Jackson County Jail...David

1976 Tunnel Vision...Senator McMannus

1976 Family (TV series)...Store Manager
A Special Kind of Loving

1976 The TVTV Show (TV movie)...Ralph Buckler

1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (TV movie)...AP Man

1975/I The Sunshine Boys...Mr. Walsh, Commerical Director

1975 Harry O (TV series)...Senator Lawler
Tender Killing Care

1975 Whiffs...Dr. Gopian

1975 Prisoners

1975 The Blue Knight (TV series)...Resident
Pilot

1975 Sanford and Son (TV series)...Professor Stoneham
The Family Man

1975 Shampoo...Red Dog

1975 Hustling (TV movie)...Detective

1975 Mannix (TV series)...Ray Bennett
A Ransom for Yesterday

1974 Rhoda (TV series)...Kirk Stevens
I'll Be Loving You, Sometimes

1974 Another April (TV movie)...Dennis Webber

1974 Firehouse (TV series)...Hanley
The Hottest Place in Town

1973 The Blue Knight (TV movie)

1973 Kid Blue...Confectionary Man (as Howard Hessman)

1973 Jory...Santa Rosa Bartender (uncredited)

1973 Steelyard Blues...Frank Veldini

1972 Cisco Pike...Recording Engineer (as Don Sturdy)

1971 The Christian Licorice Store...Last Party Guest

1971 Billy Jack...Howard Johnson (drama teacher) (as Don Sturdy)

1969 Some Kind of a Nut...Bartender (uncredited)

1968 Dragnet 1967 (TV series)...Jesse Chaplin
Public Affairs: DR-07

1968 Petulia...Hippie (uncredited)

1968 The Andy Griffith Show (TV series)...Counterboy / Harry
Sam for Town Council
Goober Goes to an Auto Show

To see Then & Now pictures of Howard Hesseman, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Dick Gautier - ALIVE
Born: 10/30/1931

Joe Regalbuto - ALIVE
Born: 08/24/1949

Barbara Bain - ALIVE
Born: 09/13/1931

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
2/1
Gerlando Alberti, 88, Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.
Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.
Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (St. Louis University), complications from lung disease.
Wislawa Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize for Literature winner.

1/31
Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach.
Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer.
Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, 88, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988â??2003).
Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter.
Fabian Estape, 88, Spanish economist.
Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright.
Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author.
Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001â??2003).
Masayuki Kawakatsu, 55, Japanese writer and editor, house fire.
Mike Kelley, 58, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide.
Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.).
King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes.
Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
Kelly Timilty, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council (1992â??2012).

1/30
Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988â??1992).
Bruce Howard, 86, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, Gilligan's Island, Good Times), natural causes.
Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician.
Toshio Kuze, 81, Japanese psychologist (Nagoya University), multiple organ failure.
Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging.
Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002â??2010), apparent heart attack.
Lawrence J. Shapiro, 79, American physician, murder.