Person Details

Birthday: 1950-10-05 18:19:13

Death: 2011-05-27 18:19:13

Aliases: Jeffery Charles William Michael Conaway , Jeff Conway

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York City - New York - USA

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Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

Biography

Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway is an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease, and the US TV series Taxi and Babylon 5. He also directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer 2. Jeff spent time of his time living with his grandparents in South Carolina, which gave him enough of a Southern accent that when he accompanied his mother to a casting call for director Arthur Penn's Broadway play All the Way Home, a story set in Knoxville, Tennessee, the 10-year-old Conaway landed a featured role as one of four boys. The 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and ran 333 performances and one preview from November 29, 1960, to September 16, 1961.Conaway remained for the entire run, then toured with the national company of the play Critic's Choice. Conaway worked as a child model, and attended high school at the Quintano School for Young Professionals. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and later transferred to New York University. While at NYU, he appeared in television commercials and had the lead in a school production of The Threepenny Opera. He made his movie debut in the 1971 romantic drama Jennifer on My Mind, which also featured future stars Robert De Niro and Barry Bostwick. The following year Conaway appeared in the original cast of the Broadway musical Grease, as an understudy to several roles including that of the lead male character, Danny Zuko, and eventually succeeded role-originator Barry Bostwick. He played the role for 2 1/2 years while his friend John Travolta, with whom he shared a manager, later joined the show, playing the supporting role of Doody. After breaking into series television in 1975 with Happy Days, followed by guest spots in several other TV shows, and three more movies including Grease, he was cast as aspiring actor Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, which premiered in fall 1978. Conaway starred in the short-lived 1983 fantasy-spoof series Wizards and Warriors. He made guest appearances on such shows as Barnaby Jones, George & Leo and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared inJawbreaker, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Do You Wanna Know a Secret? He also played Mick Savage on The Bold and the Beautiful. From 1994 to 1999, he played Zack Allan on Babylon 5. In addition to acting, Conaway dabbled in music. In the mid-1960s, he was the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, The 3 1/2, which recorded four singles for Cameo Records in 1966 and 1967. On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances believed to be pain medication and was treaed in Encino, California, where he was listed in critical condition. The actor was suffering not from a drug overdose but rather from pneumonia with sepsis, for which he was placed into an induced coma. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors determined they could do nothing to revive him. Conaway died the following morning at the age of 60. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Conaway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Murder, She Wrote
Average
8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Tom Powell
Babylon 5
Average
8

Babylon 5

(1994) Zack Allan
Tales from the Darkside
Average
7

Tales from the Darkside

(1984) Peter Prentice
Kojak
Average
7

Kojak

(1973) Bert Gaines
The Eagle Has Landed
Average
7

The Eagle Has Landed

(1976) Frazier
Freddy's Nightmares
Average
7

Freddy's Nightmares

(1988) Buddy Powers
Where Are They Now?
Average
8

Where Are They Now?

(1999) Self
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
Average
5

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2017 Kenickie
2013 Circles Introduction (voice)
2011 Tom Doyle
2008 Self
N/A
2006 Sheriff Dan Patterson
Himself
2005 N/A
Agent Frank Gun
Contestant
2004 Self
N/A
Digger's Dad
2003 Self
2002 Reverend Sutter
Gavin Elliots
Zachary Mason
2001 Agent Owen Sacker
1999 Self (uncredited)
Self
Zack Allen
Jerry Parker
Marcie's Father
1998 Zack Allen
Zack Allen
Bixby
1997 Jagger
1996 N/A
N/A
1994 Self
Zack Allan
N/A
Reverend
1993 Tony
Sean
Werner Soehnen
Borman
Rinaldi
1992 Charlie Alderson
Tom Edwards
Jeffrey Blair
Stu Stocker
1991 Frank
Peter Keynes
1990 N/A
Bud Sorenson
1989 Cowboy
Tom Farrell
Taxi driver
1988 Sgt. Holt
N/A
Buddy Powers
Travis
1987 Josh McGwin
1986 Mitchell
N/A
1985 Peter Prentice
N/A
N/A
1984 Howard Griffin
Tom Powell
Nolan Walsh
Peter Prentice
N/A
T.C. Sloane
1983 Chuck Lanyard
N/A
1982 N/A
1981 Buddy Walker
1980 Russ Moran
1979 Roy Fletcher
1978 Bobby Wheeler
Kenickie
1977 Willie
Lactamaeon
Terry Nicholas
1976 Frazier
N/A
1975 N/A
1974 N/A
N/A
1973 Bert Gaines
1971 Minstrel #2
1970 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1992 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1992 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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