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Ken Wahl (born October 31, 1954) is an American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s. He twice won the title of Sexiest Man on TV, earned an Emmy nomination and won a Golden Globe.
Wahl received his big break in 1979 when he was cast in the leading role of director Phil Kaufman's film The Wanderers He was subsequently cast opposite Paul Newman and Edward Asner in Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981), Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (1985). He was the lead in the movies Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) with Lesley Ann Warren, The Soldier... MORE
Ken Wahl (born October 31, 1954) is an American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s. He twice won the title of Sexiest Man on TV, earned an Emmy nomination and won a Golden Globe.
Wahl received his big break in 1979 when he was cast in the leading role of director Phil Kaufman's film The Wanderers He was subsequently cast opposite Paul Newman and Edward Asner in Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981), Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (1985). He was the lead in the movies Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) with Lesley Ann Warren, The Soldier (1982), Jinxed (1982) with Bette Midler, Purple Hearts (1984) with Cheryl Ladd, The Gladiator (1986) with Nancy Allen, Omega Syndrome (1987), The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) , Search for Grace (1994), and the The Favor (1994) with Brad Pitt and Elizabeth McGovern. In 1987, Wahl was cast in the lead role of Vinnie Terranova in the television series Wiseguy. The show ran until 1990 and brought Wahl a Golden Globe award. Wahl wrote an episode of Wiseguy in 1989 and directed an episode in 1990.
Born Anthony Calzaretta in Chicago, Illinois, of Italian and German descent, Wahl is one of eleven LESS
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