Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as burned out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He appeared regularly on television and in film from the 1970s to 2010s, with other noteworthy roles including Sam Royer (the husband of lead character Ann Romano) in the last two seasons of One Day at a Time, and a supporting role as Captain Pete Lassard in the film Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Hesseman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Halloween II
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This Is Spinal Tap
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The Big Bus
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The Sunshine Boys
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Martian Child
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In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty...
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Billy Jack
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Man About Town
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About Schmidt
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Shampoo
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The Jerk
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All About Steve
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Heat
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Wild Oats
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Salvation Boulevard
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Doctor Detroit
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Silent Movie
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Rubin & Ed
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Petulia
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On the Second Day of Christmas
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Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
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Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has...
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Honky Tonk Freeway
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Life After The Navigator
as HimselfA feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic "Flight of the Navigator", but also looks at...
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The Other Side of Midnight
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Crazy for Christmas
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Victims
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Tunnel Vision
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Inside Out
as JackAn agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal...
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Kid Blue
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Jory
as Santa Rosa bartenderJory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard....
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Bigfoot
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Some Kind of a Nut
as BartenderA New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his...
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Cisco Pike
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Six Against the Rock
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Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
as SelfDel Close was never a household name, but any comedy enthusiast is aware of his impact. From...
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You Can't Take it With You
as Wilbur C. HendersonEmmy winner Jean Stapleton and Academy Award winner Art Carney star in the Pulitzer...
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Munchie Strikes Back
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For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close
as HimselfComedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his...
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
as FredAn airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of...
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Whiffs
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Steelyard Blues
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The Amazing Howard Hughes
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The Ghost of Flight 401
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The Comedy Company
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Little Miss Millions
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Silence of the Heart
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My Chauffeur
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Gridlock
as Señor Smooth (voice)A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in...
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One Shoe Makes it Murder
as Joe HerveyRobert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner...
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Tail Gunner Joe
as Lt. Ted CantwellSenator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order...
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Skyward
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Out-of-Sync
as Det. CaldwellA DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss.
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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
as Johnny Caravella (Doctor Johnny Fever)Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in...
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Mister Roberts
as DocSet aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts...
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Americathon
as Kip MargolisIn a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a...
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The Diamond Trap
as Det. RollingsWhen streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed...
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The Blue Knight
as uncreditedBumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after...
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Best Kept Secrets
as Jim OsborneBlaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic...
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Hustling
as DetectiveBased on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine...
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Quiet Killer
as Congressman Calvin PhillipsOn her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late...
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The Sky is Falling
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Hot Chocolate
as Mr. CassidyB.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons....
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The Christian Licorice Store
as Last Party GuestA tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in...
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Lethal Exposure
as Taylor CochranAmbitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an...
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Silver Skies
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Valerie
as SelfA documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.
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Loose Shoes
as Ernie Piles, War CorrespondentBroad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and...
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High Stakes
as Wayne DreyerA former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother....
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The Blue Knight
as ResidentIn this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the...
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The Mesmerist
as uncreditedBased on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old...
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The Fantastic Funnies
as Dr. Johnny FeverIn this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews...
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More Than Friends
as Avery SalminellaMatty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes...
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John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body
as Self / The Rock DoctorJohn Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.
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Call Me Anna
as John RossPatty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star...
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Prisoners
as uncreditedMelodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant,...
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The Princess Who Had Never Laughed
as KingThere was once a very serious kingdom. So serious, that the King demanded to be addressed as...
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A Session with the Committee
as (as Don Sturdy)A Session with the Committee
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Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock
as narratorThis documentary pays tribute to the contributions and importance of the title watering hole in...
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House
as Henry ErringtonDr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Dr. AdenA Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...
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Psych
as Barry SaunderThanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...
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Chicago Med
as Clyde GlickmanAn emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and...
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Saturday Night Live
as Self - HostA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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That '70s Show
as MaxCrank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the...
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The Andy Griffith Show
as Counter BoyThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...
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The Andy Griffith Show
as HarryThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...
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ER
as Dr. James BroderickER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...
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Murder, She Wrote
as Sheldon GreenbergAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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Quincy, M.E.
as D.A. Jerry DouglasLos Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
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Boston Legal
as Judge Robert ThompsonAlan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston...
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Fresh Off the Boat
as Mr. RoyceA '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando,...
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The Practice
as uncreditedA provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...
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Crossing Jordan
as Barney ReynoldsCrossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan...
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Touched by an Angel
as Flynn HodgeMonica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who...
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Mannix
as uncreditedMannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....
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The Rockford Files
as Al SteeverCranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...
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Mike & Molly
as OtisA comedy about a working class Chicago couple who find love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
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Drop Dead Diva
as Cole LamburtA shallow model suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a...
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Switch
as M.W.Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...
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The Pretender
as LandlordRaised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can...
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Sanford and Son
as uncreditedThe misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
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The Outer Limits
as Dr. Emory TaylorAnthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end,...
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Soap
as Mr. FranklinThe antics of a wealthy family, the Tates, and a working-class family, the Campbells, in the...
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Two Guys and a Girl
as Mr. BergenThis story revolves around the lives of three teenagers, Berg, Pete and Sharon and how their...
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Rhoda
as uncreditedRhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over...
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Family Law
as Howard Thomas / RandallFamily attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm...
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Faerie Tale Theatre
as KingA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Laverne & Shirley
as uncreditedLaverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May...
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WKRP in Cincinnati
as Dr. Johnny FeverWhen a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of...
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The Bob Newhart Show
as uncreditedThe Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired...
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The Bob Newhart Show
as Craig PlagerThe Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired...
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The Bob Newhart Show
as Augie (voice) (uncredited)The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired...
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Harry O
as uncreditedAfter being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego...
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One Day at a Time
as Sam RoyerThe misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and new building superintendent...
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Burke's Law
as Chuck MasonBurke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from...
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The Ray Bradbury Theater
as uncreditedA Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray...
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Head of the Class
as Charlie MooreHead of the Class is an American sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television...
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Boomtown
as Mel CastleEach episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many...
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Battle of the Network Stars
as uncreditedBattle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS,...
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John from Cincinnati
as uncreditedIn Imperial Beach, California, the Yosts—a dysfunctional family of surfers—intersect with two...
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as VariousThe Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show hosted by the Smothers...
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Level 9
as uncreditedLevel 9 is an American television program broadcast on UPN, first aired in 2000. The plot...
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The New WKRP in Cincinnati
as uncreditedThe New WKRP in Cincinnati is a sequel/spin-off of the original CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati....
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Thieves
as uncreditedTwo high-class thieves caught red-handed strike a deal with the FBI to avoid imprisonment: put...
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George Burns Comedy Week
as Andy PaceGeorge Burns Comedy Week is a comedy anthology television series broadcast in the United States...
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Firehouse
as uncreditedFirehouse is an American drama/adventure series that aired on ABC television series in early...
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Celebrities Uncensored
as SelfCelebrities Uncensored is a TV program on the E! network that edited together amusing paparazzi...
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