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Jeff Conaway

Actor, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Died May 27, 2011 (60 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Eagle Has Landed
  • Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
  • Freddy's Nightmares
  • Tale of Two Sisters
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • Stingray (1985)
  • Dante's Hell Animated
  • Almost Pregnant
  • Bikini Summer II
  • A Time to Die
Known For
  • Grease
  • Taxi
  • Babylon 5
  • Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
  • Babylon 5: The River of Souls
  • Babylon 5: Thirdspace
  • Dante's Hell Animated
  • Almost Pregnant
  • Tale of Two Sisters
  • Wizards and Warriors
  • The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
  • Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
  • Mirror Images
  • Bay Cove
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • The Banker
  • A Time to Die
  • Curse of the Forty-Niner
  • The Sleeping Car
  • Sunset Strip
  • Covergirl
  • Alien Intruder
  • The Patriot
  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Filmography

2024
Dante's Inferno · as Circles Introduction (english)
2017
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond · as Bobby Wheeler
2017
The Grease Story · as Kenickie
2016
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales (TV Series) · as Kenickie (archive Footage)
2013
Dante's Hell Animated · as Circles Introduction (voice)
2012
2011
Dark Games · as Tom Doyle
2010
Ladron · as Commander Hill
2010
2008
Wrestling · as Franklin Conner
2006
Living the Dream · as Dick
2005
In the Cutz (TV Series) · as Guest
2005
2005
Inside Deep Throat · as Kenickie
2005
Celebrity Fit Club (TV Series) · as Contestant
2002
Curse of the Forty-Niner · as Reverend Sutter
2002
The Biz · as Gavin Elliots
2002
She Spies (TV Series) · as Zachary Mason
2001
Do You Wanna Know a Secret? · as Agent Owen Sacker
1999
S Club 7 (TV Series) · as Jerry Parker
1999
Jawbreaker · as Marcie's Father
1999
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms · as Zack Allen
1998
1998
Babylon 5: Thirdspace · as Zack Allen
1998
Shadow of Doubt · as Bixby
1997
George & Leo (TV Series)
1997
Behind the Music (TV Series) · as Kenickie
1997
Dumb Luck in Vegas · as Peter Dunn
1997
The Last Embrace · as Jagger
1996
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (TV Series)
1996
1995
Gentlemen's Club · as Cast
1995
Hope and Gloria (TV Series) · as Bud Green
1994
Burke's Law (1994) (TV Series) · as Alex Kenyon
1994
2002: The Rape of Eden · as Reverend
1994
1993
Alien Intruder · as Borman
1993
Sunset Strip · as Tony
1993
L.A. Goddess · as Sean
1993
In a Moment of Passion · as Werner Soehnen
1993
Babylon 5 (TV Series) · as Zack Allan
1992
Bikini Summer II · as Stu Stocker
1992
Almost Pregnant · as Charlie Alderson
1992
Eye of the Storm · as Tom Edwards
1992
Mirror Images · as Jeffrey Blair
1991
1991
Total Exposure · as Peter Keynes
1990
Good Grief (TV Series) · as Winston Payne
1990
The Sleeping Car · as Bud Sorenson
1989
The Banker · as Cowboy
1989
Ghost Writer · as Tom Farrell
1989
1988
Monsters (TV Series)
1988
Freddy's Nightmares (TV Series) · as Buddy Powers
1988
1988
1987
Bay Cove · as Josh Mcgwin
1987
The Bold and the Beautiful (TV Series) · as Mick Savage
1986
The Patriot · as Mitchell
1986
1986
Matlock (TV Series) · as Daniel Ward
1985
Stephen King's Golden Tales · as Peter Prentice
1985
Berrenger's (TV Series)
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Howard Griffin
1984
Who's the Boss? (TV Series)
1984
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV Series) · as Harry Farris
1983
Covergirl · as T.c. Sloane
1983
Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) · as Peter Prentice
1983
Making of a Male Model · as Chuck Lanyard
1983
Hotel (TV Series)
1983
1981
The Nashville Grab · as Buddy Walker
1980
For the Love of It · as Russ Moran
1979
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do · as Roy Fletcher
1978
Taxi (TV Series) · as Bobby Wheeler
1978
Grease Day USA · as Kenickie
1978
Grease · as Kenickie Murdoch
1977
Pete's Dragon · as Willie
1977
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Randy Jackson
1976
1975
Joe Forrester (TV Series)
1974
Movin' On (TV Series)
1974
Happy Days (TV Series)
1973
Kojak (TV Series) · as Bert Gaines
1973
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Jeff Saunders
1971
Jennifer on My Mind · as Minstrel #2
1970
1963
The Doctors (TV Series) · as Lenny Miller

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