Ken Wahl

Name: Ken Wahl
Date of Birth: October 31, 1954
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mini-bio: Born in October 1954, Ken Wahl was one of 10 siblings and left school at age 17 to drift through a variety of jobs such as pumping gas before heading to California with a burning desire to succeed in ...( read more)

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Ken Wahl mini-bio: Born in October 1954, Ken Wahl was one of 10 siblings and left school at age 17 to drift through a variety of jobs such as pumping gas before heading to California with a burning desire to succeed in the dramatic arts. Wahl was tall, handsome and athletically gifted, plus he oozed on screen appeal to both sexes. Talented Wahl's first key role was as the lead character of "Richie Genaro", the head of a Bronx, NYC street gang, in the scintillating The Wanderers (1979).

Within two more movies he was appearing alongside his onscreen hero 'Paul Newman' in the explosive cop drama _Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981)_. Wahl headlined again in his next film The Soldier (1982), about a covert assassin tracking down stolen nuclear arms and eliminating the opposition! He appeared alongside Cheryl Ladd in the Vietnam war romance of Purple Hearts (1984) and roles in several other films, before landing the key TV role of undercover FBI agent "Vinnie Terranova" in _Wiseguy (1987)_. Wiseguy ran successfully from 1987 to 1990 scoring Wahl a Golden Globe Award, and it was resurrected again briefly for a TV movie in 1996.

Unfortunately, Wahl was involved in a terrible accident in 1992 with near life threatening neck injuries and for many years battled several addictions in an attempt to ease the chronic pain. Thankfully, he overcame these demons and presently he is managing his pain with professional medical assistance and sharing his life with his third wife, Shane Barbi, plus his four children Louie, Raymond, Cody & Kyra. One can only hope that one day we see this exciting, passionate and sensitive actor back in front of the cameras.

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alkassimfr2002

WHEN I WAS IN AFRICA, I USED TO BE A BIG FAN OF THE wiseguy. MAY ALLAH BLESS TONTON-KEN WAHL.
www.myspace.com/kassimalassane
www.youtube.com/kassimalassane
kassim.1979@hotmail.com
K-SIM

posted 193 days ago
yesjaide

Commenter Jack J- is that "you"- Big Jack? If so- thank you for linking that! (and if not, thank you too, of course!)

It's nice to see some new faces on this page. I was sort of subsiding in to the ether myself :)

posted 489 days ago
jackj1231

Here's the link everybody was discussing:

http://www.epinions.com/content_80026504836

posted 507 days ago
enjoadinha2005

Hello everybody! I am so happy to meet this page, I am Ken's fan a long time ago but I had no news about it anymore. Here I saw that we can share all information we got.

posted 532 days ago
yesjaide

Just saying hello to the rest of the Ken Wahl fan club! Happy start of summer... let's find some news on Ken to report!

posted 570 days ago
yesjaide

Hope that wasn't too annoying to have to read those posts backwards! I figure everyone knows to scroll up on this site...

Interesting that Ken's site was active and he (maybe) was answering fan mail at one time. Wish that were still so!

Nothing new in the news about Ken lately. We'll keep looking!

posted 644 days ago
yesjaide

(CONTINUED BIGJACK EMAIL FROM KEN)

Oh,well, you can't hit a home run every time at bat. Even DeNiro and Pacino have had their share of bombs; not to mention even the true all-time greats like Brando, Newman, Gable, Cagney,etc. It takes a large group of people working together to make a good movie, but it takes only a very few people to ruin one, and that was the case with TTOBH. Take Care,KW.

posted 644 days ago
yesjaide

(CONTINUED BIGJACK EMAIL WITH KEN)
Ken Wahl (or someone pretending to be him, I don’t care):

This movie was made in between seasons of Wiseguy. I didn't want to do it. I turned it down at least 5 times, and they kept throwing more money at me. I finally relented, but only with the proviso that I had the head writer of Wiseguy re-write a great portion of the movie, to enhance the characterizations. As it turned out, the production company edited any semblance of characterization out of the movie, and turned it into a terrible so called action movie. Not surprisingly, this production company went out of business, as they had a bad habit of cutting their movies to seemingly make them as bad as possible. I had creative control on Wiseguy, but not on this movie, and that's why it turned out the way it did.

posted 644 days ago
yesjaide

BigJack: (ASKING KEN WAHL VIA EMAIL about his movie)

The movie was made shortly after your great success with Wiseguy - right
around the same time you were winning a Golden Globe. What attracted you to
this movie? Certainly it's not your best work, and yet it was made at a time
when you were arguably at your peak, at least in star power? Did Sidney Furie screw it up? Was its budget cut? What happened?!?!

posted 644 days ago
yesjaide

(FROM EPINIONS BIGJACK)
So why in god’s name would Vinnie Terranova deign to star in such a horrendous piece of gutter trash as The Taking of Beverly Hills? Well, Curious George that I am, I asked him, via email. See, Wahl set up a website, www.kenwahl.com, to sell a commemorative flag he designed to honor all the victims of September 11 and to raise funds to help the families of all those lost or injured. The website also allows you to email Ken Wahl, so I did.

posted 644 days ago