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Born | March 28 () (age 68) El Centro, California |
Kenneth Joseph Howard, Jr. (born March 28, ) is a Tony Award- and Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor known for his role in the television show The White Shadow as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves, a basketball major with a minor in life.
Biography
Career
Howard had a role in Seesaw and as Thomas Jefferson in (both the Broadway musical and the film). In Howard won a Daytime Emmy award for his performance as the ideal father in the CBS afternoon special 'The Body Human: Facts for Boys'. Howard most recently appeared in the () feature film, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, co-starring Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson and Elisabeth Shue. He also played Jill Hennessy's character's father on NBC's crime drama, Crossing Jordan. He also had a Television Series called the "White Shadow"
Personal life
Howard was born in El Centro, California, the son of Martha Carey (née McDonald) and Kenneth Joseph Howard, Sr.[1] He grew up in the Long Islan
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Howard at depiction Toronto Ecumenical Film Festival | |
In office March 30, – March 23, | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Gabrielle Carteris |
In office September 24, – March 30, | |
Preceded by | Alan Rosenberg |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Born | Kenneth Joseph Actor Jr. ()March 28, El Centro, California, U.S. |
Died | March 23, () (aged71) Valencia, Calif., U.S. |
Spouse(s) | Louise Sorel (m.; div.)Margo Lederer (m.; div.)Linda Fetters (m.) |
Education | Amherst College(BA) () Yale University Kent Present University(MFA) () |
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Awards | Tony Award convoy Best Featured Actor change for the better a Play Child's Play Daytime Emmy Accord for Eminent Performer top Children's Programming The Body Human Primetime Award Award look after Outstanding Supportive Actor hold back a Miniseries or a Movie Grey Gardens |
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Veteran actor Ken Howard has died at age 71 after a career spanning almost half a century and covering more than a hundred movies, television shows, musicals and stage plays, collecting two Emmys, a Tony but no Golden Globe. He was last seen in Joy () a Golden Globe nominated motion picture (best comedy or musical) in which he played an executive of a mop making company.
With his 6-foot-6 frame, barrel chested presence and twinkling blue eyes, the native Californian, Harvard graduate actor helped anchor a popular television series in each of the last five decades: 30 Rock (), Crossing Jordan (early s), Melrose Place (late s) and, in the s, Murder, She Wrote () and Dynasty (mid s).
But Howard was best known for the TV drama series The White Shadow (). Variety called it .."a progressive drama, ahead of its time in exploring the sometimes awkward, sometimes tense and sometimes funny aspects of race relations in the context of a high school basketball team with mostly African American players and a white coach, a former NBA player named Ken Reeves, played by Howard (himself a basketball player in college) (.) (it) represented television’s first ensembl