
John Wheeler graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, earning a bachelors degree in Music. A singer and character actor most familiar from television, he appeared on episodes of The Odd Couple, Green Acres, The Brady Bunch, and on Star Trek (as the tellarite Gav in the episode "Journey To Babel"). Wheeler sang with the City Center Opera in New York and performed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel and Bernstein, Comden, and Green's Wonderful Town at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, repeating his role in the latter work in its television premier that same year. On Broadway, he appeared in The Happiest Girl in the World, Kean, Cafe Crown, I Had a Ball, and Sweet Charity (as "Herman", the dance hall proprietor, a role that went to Stubby Kaye in the movie adaptation; Wheeler played a smaller role in the film). He remained active into the 1990s.
24 movies · 8 shows

Mrs. Santa Claus
1996·6.2

Apollo 13
1995·7.5

Runaway Father
1991·7.4

Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
1991·9.0

Seed of Innocence
1980·7.0

The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979·5.4

Rescue from Gilligan's Island
1978·4.6

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978·4.3

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978·7.0

With This Ring
1978·10.0

Bad Georgia Road
1977·5.8

The Richard Pryor Special?
1977·7.2

Big Bad Mama
1974·5.7

Newman's Law
1974·6.6

Honky Tonk
1974·8.0

Mame
1974·5.9

Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971·6.6

Black Angels
1970·4.8

Move
1970·5.5

The Silent Gun
1969·6.5

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969·5.8

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969·5.5

Sweet Charity
1969·6.9

Wonderful Town
1958·7.0