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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Fotos
Películas (60)
Dante's Inferni
2025 · Circles Introduction (archive audio)
The Grease Story
2017 · Kenickie (archive footage)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Dante's Hell Animated
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Dark Games
2011 · Tom Doyle
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010 · (archive footage)
Wrestling
2008 · Franklin Conner
Naked Movie
2008 · Self
The Utah Murder Project
2006 · Sheriff Dan Patterson
The Time, the Place, the Motion: Remembering Grease
2006 · Self – Kenickie
Living the Dream
2006 · Dick
The Pool 2
2005 · Agent Frank Gun
Y.M.I.
2004 · Digger's Dad
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
2003 · Self
Curse of the Forty-Niner
2002 · Reverend Sutter
The Biz
2002 · Gavin Elliots
Do You Wanna Know a Secret?
2001 · Agent Owen Sacker
Man on the Moon
1999 · Self (uncredited)
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
1999 · Zack Allen
Jawbreaker
1999 · Marcie's Father
Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998 · Zack Allen
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1998 · Zack Allen
Shadow of Doubt
1998 · Bixby
The Last Embrace
1997 · Jagger
The Russian Godfather
1996
Golden Tales 2
1995
2002: The Rape of Eden
1994 · Reverend
The Devil's Pet
1994
Sunset Strip
1993 · Tony
L.A. Goddess
1993 · Sean
European Night
1993 · Werner Soehnen
Alien Intruder
1993 · Borman
Golden Tales
1993 · Peter Prentice
It's Showtime
1993 · Rinaldi
Bikini Summer II
1992 · Stu Stocker, Original Story, Director
Almost Pregnant
1992 · Charlie Alderson
Eye of the Storm
1992 · Tom Edwards
Mirror Images
1992 · Jeffrey Blair
A Time to Die
1991 · Frank
Total Exposure
1991 · Peter Keynes
The Banker
1990 · Cowboy
The Sleeping Car
1990 · Bud Sorenson
Ghost Writer
1989 · Tom Farrell
Tale of Two Sisters
1989 · Taxi driver
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988 · Sgt. Holt
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988 · Travis
Bay Coven
1987 · Josh McGwin
The Patriot
1986 · Mitchell
Covergirl
1984 · T.C. Sloane
Making of a Male Model
1983 · Chuck Lanyard
Nashville Grab
1981 · Buddy Walker
For the Love of It
1980 · Russ Moran
The Cheryl Ladd Special: Souvenirs
1980
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
1979 · Roy Fletcher
Grease
1978 · Kenickie
Pete's Dragon
1977 · Willie
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977 · Lactamaeon
Delta County, USA
1977 · Terry Nicholas
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Frazier
Jennifer on My Mind
1971 · Minstrel #2
Series (38)
Hollywood Demons
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales
2015 · Kenickie (archive footage)
Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
2008 · Self
1 vs. 100
2006 · Self
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
Celebrity Fit Club
2005 · Self - Contestant
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
Living in TV Land
2004
She Spies
2002 · Zachary Mason
Where Are They Now?
1999 · Self
S Club 7
1999 · Jerry Parker
George & Leo
1997
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1996
Hope and Gloria
1995 · Bud Green
Babylon 5
1994 · Zack Allan
Burke's Law
1994 · Alex Kenyon
Shades of L.A.
1990
Monsters
1988 · Phil
Freddy's Nightmares
1988 · Buddy Powers
Matlock
1986 · Daniel Ward, Slick / Waiter
Stingray
1985
Berrenger's
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Nolan Walsh, Tom Powell, Howard Griffin
Tales from the Darkside
1984 · Peter Prentice
Who's the Boss?
1984
Wizards and Warriors
1983 · Prince Erik Greystone
Hotel
1982
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
1979 · Roy Fletcher
Taxi
1978 · Bobby Wheeler
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
Joe Forrester
1975 · Cliff
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Movin' On
1974
Happy Days
1974
Kojak
1973 · Bert Gaines
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee