Biography
John Wheeler graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, earning a bachelors degree in Music. A singer and character actor most familiar from television, he appeared on episodes of The Odd Couple, Green Acres, The Brady Bunch, and on Star Trek (as the tellarite Gav in the episode "Journey To Babel"). Wheeler sang with the City Center Opera in New York and performed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel and Bernstein, Comden, and Green's Wonderful Town at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, repeating his role in the latter work in its television premier that same year. On Broadway, he appeared in The Happiest Girl in the World, Kean, Cafe Crown, I Had a Ball, and Sweet Charity (as "Herman", the dance hall proprietor, a role that went to Stubby Kaye in the movie adaptation; Wheeler played a smaller role in the film). He remained active into the 1990s.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Apollo 13
Character: Reporter
MOVIE • 1995
ER
Character: Mr. Resnick
TV • 1994
Runaway Father
Character: Judge Ciglio
MOVIE • 1991
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Character: William Frawley
MOVIE • 1991
The Golden Girls
Character: Patron
TV • 1985
Night Court
Character: Mr. Perine
TV • 1984
Seed of Innocence
Character: Trammer
MOVIE • 1980
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Character: Henry
MOVIE • 1979
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Character: Studio Guard
MOVIE • 1978
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Character: Mr. Fields
MOVIE • 1978
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Character: Telegraph Operator
MOVIE • 1978
With This Ring
Character: Bell Captain
MOVIE • 1978
Bad Georgia Road
Character: Dub Douchette
MOVIE • 1977
The Richard Pryor Special?
Character: Security Guard
MOVIE • 1977
Big Bad Mama
Character: Lawyer
MOVIE • 1974
Newman's Law
Character: Eastman's dinner guest (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1974
Honky Tonk
Character: Bank Manager
MOVIE • 1974
Mame
Character: Judge Bregoff
MOVIE • 1974
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Character: Croupier
MOVIE • 1971
Black Angels
Character:
MOVIE • 1970