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

Known For: Acting

Born: Lebanon, Oregon, USA, 1940-02-27

Died: 2022-01-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Petulia	Hippie (uncredited)	59
2	1969	A Session with the Committee	(as Don Sturdy)	0
3	1969	Some Kind of a Nut	Bartender	37
4	1971	Billy Jack	Drama Teacher	59
5	1971	The Christian Licorice Store	Last Party Guest	44
6	1972	Cisco Pike	Recording Engineer	57
7	1973	Jory	Santa Rosa bartender	73
8	1973	Steelyard Blues	Frank Veldini	48
9	1973	Kid Blue	Confectionary Man (as Howard Hessman)	69
10	1973	The Blue Knight		58
11	1975	Shampoo	Red Dog	60
12	1975	Hustling	Detective	60
13	1975	The Blue Knight	Resident	0
14	1975	Prisoners		0
15	1975	Whiffs	Dr. Gopian	71
16	1975	The Sunshine Boys	Mr. Walsh, Commerical Director	68
17	1976	Tunnel Vision	Senator McMannus	48
18	1976	Jackson County Jail	David	55
19	1976	Silent Movie	Executive	65
20	1976	The Big Bus	Jack	52
21	1977	Tail Gunner Joe	Lt. Ted Cantwell	60
22	1977	The Amazing Howard Hughes	Jenks	60
23	1977	The Other Side of Midnight	O'Brien	58
24	1977	Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo	Fred	50
25	1978	The Ghost of Flight 401	Bert Stockwell	57
26	1978	The Comedy Company	Roger Dustleman	0
27	1978	Loose Shoes	Ernie Piles, War Correspondent	37
28	1978	More Than Friends	Avery Salminella	0
29	1978	Outside Chance	David	20
30	1979	You Can't Take it With You	Wilbur C. Henderson	0
31	1979	Americathon	Kip Margolis	36
32	1979	The Jerk	Carnival Worker (uncredited)	69
33	1980	John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body	Self / The Rock Doctor	70
34	1980	The Fantastic Funnies	Dr. Johnny Fever	0
35	1980	Gridlock	Señor Smooth (voice)	60
36	1980	Skyward	Koup Trenton	70
37	1981	Private Lessons	Lester	58
38	1981	Honky Tonk Freeway	Snapper	52
39	1982	Victims	Charles Galloway	53
40	1982	One Shoe Makes it Murder	Joe Hervey	65
41	1983	Doctor Detroit	Smooth Walker	51
42	1983	Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever	Johnny Caravella (Doctor Johnny Fever)	82
43	1984	This Is Spinal Tap	Terry Ladd	74
44	1984	Mister Roberts	Doc	68
45	1984	Best Kept Secrets	Jim Osborne	75
46	1984	Silence of the Heart	Carl Lewis	80
47	1985	Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment	Pete Lassard	61
48	1985	Clue	The Chief (uncredited)	72
49	1986	My Chauffeur	McBride	59
50	1986	Flight of the Navigator	Dr. Louis Faraday	69
51	1986	The Princess Who Had Never Laughed	King	0
52	1986	Heat	Pinchus Zion	58
53	1987	Six Against the Rock	Joseph 'Dutch' Cretzer	49
54	1987	Inside Out	Jack	63
55	1987	Amazon Women on the Moon	Rupert King (segment "Titan Man")	59
56	1988	The Diamond Trap	Det. Rollings	50
57	1990	Call Me Anna	John Ross	57
58	1991	Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story	Paul Maggioto	54
59	1992	Hot Chocolate	Mr. Cassidy	20
60	1992	Quiet Killer	Congressman Calvin Phillips	52
61	1992	Rubin & Ed	Ed Tuttle	64
62	1993	Lethal Exposure	Taylor Cochran	0
63	1993	Little Miss Millions	Nick Frost	54
64	1994	Munchie Strikes Back	Munchie (voice)	31
65	1995	Out-of-Sync	Det. Caldwell	43
66	1997	Gridlock'd	Blind Man	66
67	1997	High Stakes	Wayne Dreyer	40
68	1997	On the 2nd Day of Christmas	David	60
69	2001	The Sky is Falling	Yogi Cook	80
70	2002	The Mesmerist		40
71	2002	Teddy Bears' Picnic	Ted Frye	30
72	2002	About Schmidt	Larry Hertzel	68
73	2005	Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock	narrator	0
74	2005	Crazy for Christmas	Fred Nickells	55
75	2006	Man About Town	Ben Giamoro	52
76	2007	Martian Child	Dr. Berg	67
77	2008	The Rocker	Gator	60
78	2009	All About Steve	Mr. Horowitz	49
79	2009	Halloween II	Uncle Meat	53
80	2011	Salvation Boulevard	Billy	53
81	2012	Bigfoot	Mayor Tommy Gillis	30
82	2015	Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon	Self	56
83	2016	Wild Oats	Vespucci	62
84	2016	Silver Skies	Billy	62
85	2016	A Christmas in Vermont	Nick Harper	52
86	2019	Valerie	Self	20
87	2020	For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close	Himself	67
88	2020	Life After The Navigator	Himself	81
89	2022	Who Done It: The Clue Documentary	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	55

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Counter Boy	76
2	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Harry	76
3	1967	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour	Various	69
4	1967	Mannix	Ray Bennett	67
5	1972	Sanford and Son		75
6	1972	The Bob Newhart Show		74
7	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Craig Plager	74
8	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	Augie (voice) (uncredited)	74
9	1974	Firehouse		50
10	1974	Rhoda		62
11	1974	Harry O		46
12	1974	The Rockford Files	Al Steever	75
13	1975	Switch	M.W.	67
14	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
15	1975	One Day at a Time	Sam Royer	67
16	1976	Laverne & Shirley		72
17	1976	Quincy, M.E.	D.A. Jerry Douglas	75
18	1976	Battle of the Network Stars		72
19	1977	Soap	Mr. Franklin	73
20	1978	WKRP in Cincinnati	Dr. Johnny Fever	75
21	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	King	82
22	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Sheldon Greenberg	75
23	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater		69
24	1985	George Burns Comedy Week	Andy Pace	0
25	1986	Head of the Class	Charlie Moore	62
26	1991	The New WKRP in Cincinnati		70
27	1994	Burke's Law	Chuck Mason	67
28	1994	ER	Dr. James Broderick	78
29	1994	Touched by an Angel	Flynn Hodge	72
30	1995	The Outer Limits	Dr. Emory Taylor	77
31	1996	The Pretender	Landlord	74
32	1997	The Practice		77
33	1998	Two Guys and a Girl	Mr. Bergen	72
34	1998	That '70s Show	Max	80
35	1999	Family Law	Howard Thomas / Randall	82
36	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dr. Aden	76
37	2000	Level 9		0
38	2001	Three Sisters	Jerry Keats	60
39	2001	Crossing Jordan	Barney Reynolds	72
40	2001	Thieves		65
41	2002	Boomtown	Mel Castle	65
42	2003	Celebrities Uncensored	Self	25
43	2004	Boston Legal	Judge Robert Thompson	79
44	2004	House	Henry Errington	86
45	2006	Psych	Barry Saunder	79
46	2007	John from Cincinnati		65
47	2009	Drop Dead Diva	Cole Lamburt	77
48	2010	Mike & Molly	Otis	67
49	2015	Fresh Off the Boat	Mr. Royce	71
50	2015	Chicago Med	Clyde Glickman	83