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Howard Hesseman
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Actor Born: February 27, 1940 in Lebanon, OR Biography:"Howard Hesseman"'s early credits have sometimes been hard to trace, mainly because he often billed himself as "Don Sturdy." The mustachioed, prematurely balding Hesseman was a founding member of the San Francisco-based improv troupe The Committee. During his decade-long tenure with this aggregation, he was featured in such films as "Petulia" (1968) and "A Session with the Committee" (1970), and showed up on such TV series as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and "The Dick Cavett Show". Through the auspices of his Committee cohort "Peter Bonerz", Hesseman played a recurring role on TV's The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78), playing the unsuccessful producer of such TV disasters as "The Nazi Hour." His screen roles in the 1970s included a showy part as a harried TV-commercial director in the opening sequence of "The Sunshine Boys". In 1978, Hesseman achieved celebrity in the role of counterculture deejay... Full Biography
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