. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans, I hope that everyone had a nice Thanksgiving yesterday! Today, it's back to business, and time to find out whatever happened to actor Reginald VelJohnson. He is best known for playing Carl Winslow on the ABC series Family Matters, which used to be part of the TGIF lineup. I watched TGIF every week when I was younger, and I think I've seen every episode of Family Matters that was made! I'm excited to see what VelJohnson is up to now!
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Eli Wallach: He has appeared in many, many movies in a long Hollywood career, including "Baby Doll", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Misfits", and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Jack Nance: He appeared in many of David Lynch's movies, including starring in "Eraserhead"
Elaine Joyce: Guest starred on numerous TV series as well as being a panelist on many TV game shows, including "Match Game", played Mavis Neff on the TV series "The Andy Griffith Show"
(Answer at the bottom)*Reginald VelJohnsonLearn More About Reginald VelJohnson on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: August 16, 1952, Queens, New York
Nickname: Reggie
CLAIM TO FAME: He is best known for his role as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters.
INFO: VelJohnson got his start playing cops in several films and on television. He appeared briefly as a jail guard in Ghostbusters. He portrayed Sgt. Al Powell in the 1988 film Die Hard and the 1990 sequel Die Hard 2. He co-starred with Tom Hanks in 1989's Turner & Hooch, once again playing a police officer.
His most famous role was that of Carl Winslow on the TV sitcom Family Matters, which he starred in from 1989 until 1998.
After Family Matters ended, VelJohnson mainly focused on theater work. He wrote a critically acclaimed series of short stories called Division Street, one of which was made into a short film in 2005, and which he starred in.
TRIVIA: Obtained a Bachelor of Arts from New York University.
Was high school classmates with George Tenet, and porn star Ron Jeremy.
Enjoys singing and dancing in his free time.
Avid marathon runner.
WHERE IS HE NOW: VelJohnson has appeared on a number on TV series over the years. He appeared as his Sgt. Al Powell character from Die Hard in an episode of NBC's Chuck in 2007. In 2010, he played the principal in a recurring role on the Disney sitcom I'm in the Band and on Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns as Cora's possible father.
More recently he has appeared on Glory Daze, Mike & Molly, General Hospital, and TRON: Uprising. In 2011-2012, he appeared in 19 episodes of the TV series Hart of Dixie as Dash DeWitt. VelJohnson is currently filming the TV movie The Mistle-Tones.
CREDITS:2012 The Mistle-Tones (TV movie) (filming)
2012 The Formula (post-production)...Professor Millan
2012 Strike One (post-production)...Judge Morris
2011-2012 Hart of Dixie (TV series)...Dash DeWitt
2012 Childrens Hospital (TV series)...Judge Harrison
Childrens Lawspital (2012)
2012 TRON: Uprising (TV series)...Able
2012 General Hospital (TV series)...Reverend Love
Episode #1.12632 (2012)
2011-2012 Mike & Molly (TV series)...Brother Heywood
2012 Air Collision (video)...Bob Abbot
2012 Brother White...Hill
2011 Imagination Movers (TV series)...Bernie
The Idea Cafe (2011)
2011 Marriage Retreat...Pastor Wexley
2010 Glory Daze (TV series)...Stan Turley
Papa Don't Pre-Game (2010)
2010 Sex Tax: Based on a True Story...Merle
2010 You Again...Mason Dunlevy
2010 Meet the Browns (TV series)...Ernie Wilson
Meet the Baby Daddy (2010)
2010 The Bold and the Beautiful (TV series)...Ed
2010 Funny or Die Presents... (TV series)...Cast (Just 3 Boyz)
Episode #1.10 (2010)
2009-2010 I'm in the Band (TV series)...Principal Strickland
2010 Jelly...Joe Woods
2010/I Penny (short)...Sergio
2009 The Three Gifts (TV movie)...Rodney
2009 Steppin: The Movie...Mr. Shavers
2008 Chuck (TV series)...Sgt. Al Powell
Chuck Versus Santa Claus (2008)
2007 Bones (TV series)...Dale Owens
The Santa in the Slush (2007)
2007 Time Upon a Once (TV movie)...Blue Husband
2007 Nerve Endings (TV short)...Doctor
2007 Out at the Wedding...Dexter
2007 Three Days to Vegas...RJ Jackson (as Reginald Vel Johnson)
2006 Hidden Secrets...Norman Wexler
2006 Monk (TV series)...Todd
Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion (2006)
2006 Waitin' to Live...Willard Loggins
2006 Eve (TV series)...Rev. Everett
Oh, Brother (2006)
2005 Ghost Whisperer (TV series)...Danny Small
Undead Comic (2005)
2005 Death to the Supermodels (video)...Tom
2005 Suits on the Loose...Steedman
2005 Sunday Evening Haircut (short)...O.C.
2005 That's So Raven (TV series)...Ambassador
The Royal Treatment (2005)
2004 The Big House (TV series)...The Reverend
Almost Touched by an Angel (2004)
2003 The Parkers (TV series)...Sterling Oglevee
A Sterling Relationship (2003)
2002 Die Hard: Vendetta (Video Game)...Captain Al Powell (voice)
2002 Will & Grace (TV series)...Dr. Kaplan
It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (2002)
2002 In-Laws (TV series)...Chester - the Matress King
The Mattress Kings (2002)
2002 The King (short)...Slutzky
2002 Like Mike...Mr. Boyd
2002 Crossing Jordan (TV series)...Kirk Holden
Someone to Count On (2002)
2002 Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza (Video Game)...Sgt. Al Powell
2001 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)...Dr. Philip Kane
2001 The Fugitive (TV series)...Maurice Beaumont
Lagniappe (2001)
2000 Twice in a Lifetime (TV series)...Dr. David Bryant / Gene Fitzsimmons
Whistle Blower (2000)
2000 Ground Zero...Burt Green
1999 The Hughleys (TV series)...Rev. Bennett
Daddy's Going to Hell (1999)
1998 Diagnosis Murder (TV series)...Dr. Sinclair
The Last Resort (1998)
1989-1998 Family Matters (TV series)...Carl Otis Winslow / Big Daddy Urkel / Carl Winslow
1996 Deadly Pursuits (TV movie)...Ed Conroy
1996 Limp Fangs (video)...Reverand Shields
1994 On Our Own (TV series)...Nick
1994 One of Her Own (TV movie)...Det. Bob Hymes
1993 A Cool Like That Christmas (TV movie)...Dad (voice)
1993 Dream On (TV series)...Santa
1993 Posse...Preston
1993 Full Contact...Fighter #2 (as Reginald Johnson)
1992 Tales from the Crypt (TV series)...Mercedes' Husband
Werewolf Concerto (1992)
1992 Grass Roots (TV movie)...Mickey Henderson
1991 A Fond Little Memory (short)
1990 The Bride in Black (TV movie)...Barry Gates
1990 Die Hard 2...Sgt. Al Powell
1990 The Great American Sex Scandal (TV movie)...Judge
1990 ABC TGIF (TV series)...Carl
1989 Turner & Hooch...Det. David Sutton (as Reginald Veljohnson)
1989 Perfect Strangers (TV series)...Carl Otis Winslow
Crimebusters (1989)
1988 Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (TV movie)
1988 227 (TV series)...Santa #1
The Night They Arrested Santa Claus (1988)
1985-1988 The Equalizer (TV series)...Arthur Williams / Harmon Hunter
1988 Die Hard...Sgt. Al Powell (as Reginald Veljohnson)
1988 Plain Clothes...Captain Graff
1987 Magic Sticks...Licorice
1986 Doing Life (TV movie)...Taylor (as Reginald Vel Johnson)
1986 Crocodile Dundee...Gus
1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins...Ambulance driver
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV movie)...Policeman at courtroom (uncredited)
To see Then & Now pictures of Reginald VelJohnson, visit: Celebrity Nooz *--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Eli Wallach - ALIVE
Born: 12/07/1915
Jack Nance - DEAD
Born: 12/21/1943 Died: 12/30/1996
Elaine Joyce - ALIVE
Born: 12/19/1945
*WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...11/20
Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Pablo (1967-1995).
Ivan Kusan, 80, Croatian writer.
Flora Martirosyan, 55, Armenian singer, complications following gall bladder surgery.
Christopher Mercer, 88, American civil rights attorney, legal adviser for the Little Rock Nine.
11/19
John Hefin, 71, Welsh television director, producer, and creator (Pobol y Cwm, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George), cancer.
Anton Kovalyov, 28, Russian reality television star, winner of 2008 Russian Dancing with the Stars, cancer.
Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
Warren Rudman, 82, American politician, Senator from New Hampshire (1980-1993), lymphoma.
Boris Strugatskiy, 79, Russian science fiction author, pneumonia.
11/18
Emilio Aragon Bermudez, 83, Spanish clown, accordionist, and singer.
Caren Bohrman, 56, American literary agent (The Fugitive, Crazy/Beautiful), lung cancer.
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, 55, Russian-born American chess grandmaster.
Phoebe Hearst Cooke, 85, American businesswoman (Hearst Corporation) and philanthropist, pneumonia.
Ian Kirkpatrick, 82, South African rugby union player and coach.
Neva Jane Langley, 79, American beauty pageant queen, Miss America (1953), cancer.
Sir Philip Ledger, 74, British classical musician and academic.
William McCarthy, Baron McCarthy, 87, British politician and life peer.
Kenny Morgans, 73, Welsh footballer (Manchester United), Munich air disaster survivor.
Eddie Munji III, 57, Filipino folk musician, stroke.
Kyrillos Oikonomopoulos, 82, Cypriot-born Zimbabwean Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Zimbabwe (2001-2002).
Ed Richards, 83, American Olympic fencer.