Howard Hesseman actor died Saturday due to complications from colon surgery, his manager said.
LOS ANGELES -- Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom"WKRP in Cincinnati" and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on"Head of the Class," has died. He was 81.
Hesseman, who had himself been a radio DJ in the '60s, earned two Emmy nominations for playing Johnny Fever on CBS'"WKRP in Cincinnati," which ran for four seasons from 1978-1982. The role made Hesseman a counterculture icon at a time when few hippie characters made it onto network television.CBS via Getty Images
Hesseman played a hippie in one of his first roles, on"Dragnet," in 1967, and also in the 1968 Richard Lester film"Petulia." Born in Lebanon, Oregon, Hesseman wasn't so disconnected to some of the characters he played. In 1983, he told People magazine that he had conducted"pharmaceutical experiments in recreational chemistry." He was jailed in San Francisco in 1963 for selling marijuana.
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