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person_profile-Jeff Conaway

Jeff Conaway Died at age: 60

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jeff Conaway

Date of Birth:

Oct 05, 1950

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 27, 2011

Biography of

Jeff Conaway

    Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway was 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 some 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 treated 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.

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Jeff Conaway

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Filmography of

Jeff Conaway

Found 50 Movies in total

The Grease Story

Kenickie ( Actor )

... 2017

Dark Games

Tom Doyle ( Actor )

... 2011

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

archival footage ( Actor )

... 2010

Naked Movie

Self ( Actor )

... 2008

The Pool 2

Agent Frank Gun ( Actor )

... 2005

Y.M.I.

Digger's Dad ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

Curse of the Forty-Niner

Reverend Sutter ( Actor )

... 2002

The Biz

Gavin Elliots ( Actor )

... 2002

Do You Wanna Know a Secret?

Agent Owen Sacker ( Actor )

... 2001

Man on the Moon

Self (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1999

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms

Zack Allen ( Actor )

... 1999

Jawbreaker

Marcie's Father ( Actor )

... 1999

Babylon 5: The River of Souls

Zack Allen ( Actor )

... 1998

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

Zack Allen ( Actor )

... 1998

Shadow of Doubt

Bixby ( Actor )

... 1998

The Last Embrace

Jagger ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1996

... 1994

2002: The Rape of Eden

Reverend ( Actor )

... 1994

Sunset Strip

Tony ( Actor )

... 1993

L.A. Goddess

Sean ( Actor )

... 1993

European Night

Werner Soehnen ( Actor )

... 1993

Alien Intruder

Borman ( Actor )

... 1993

It's Showtime

Rinaldi ( Actor )

... 1993

Bikini Summer II

Stu Stocker ( Actor )

Writer

... 1992

Almost Pregnant

Charlie Alderson ( Actor )

... 1992

Mirror Images

Jeffrey Blair ( Actor )

... 1992

A Time to Die

Frank ( Actor )

... 1991

Total Exposure

Peter Keynes ( Actor )

... 1991

The Sleeping Car

Bud Sorenson ( Actor )

... 1990

The Banker

Cowboy ( Actor )

... 1989

Ghost Writer

Tom Farrell ( Actor )

... 1989

Tale of Two Sisters

Taxi driver ( Actor )

... 1989

... 1988

... 1988

Bay Coven

Josh McGwin ( Actor )

... 1987

The Patriot

Mitchell ( Actor )

... 1986

Stephen King's Golden Tales

Peter Prentice ( Actor )

... 1985

Covergirl

T.C. Sloane ( Actor )

... 1984

Making of a Male Model

Chuck Lanyard ( Actor )

... 1983

Nashville Grab

Buddy Walker ( Actor )

... 1981

For the Love of It

Russ Moran ( Actor )

... 1980

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Roy Fletcher ( Actor )

... 1979

Grease

Kenickie ( Actor )

... 1978

Pete's Dragon

Willie ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1977

The Eagle Has Landed

Frazier ( Actor )

... 1976

Jennifer on My Mind

Minstrel #2 ( Actor )

... 1971