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English Movie Actor Jeff Conaway
  • DOB : 05-10-1950
  • Date of death: 27-05-2011
  • Lived For : 60 Years
  • Star Sign : Libra
  • Gender : Male
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Jeff Conaway was an American actor. He was born on 5 October 1950 in a town of Manhattan, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . Jeff’s parents were Charles and Helen. His father was a publisher, an actor, and a producer. His mother was an actress. His parents separated when Jeff was of three years. Jeff’s two elder sisters and Jeff used to live with his mother, Helen. Jeff had very close relations with his grandparents. As Jeff enjoyed their company, he has enough Southern accents. It gave him an opportunity to act with his mother in a play named 'All the Way Home'. At the age of 10, Jeff played a starred role in the show.

Jeff became popular. It was nominated for the best play in Tony Award. He did one preview and 333 performances. He completed his studies from Quintano School for Young Professionals. He had also worked as a model. He performed with a rock band. Then at the age of 15, Jeff studied at the North Carolina School of Arts. Later, he moved to New York University.

Coming to his career, Jeff acted in television ads the NYU. He played a lead role in 'The Threepenny Opera', a school production. He had his first romantic drama in 1971 titled as 'Jennifer on My Mind'. Coming up, he played a lead ingénue of Danny Zuko in 'Grease'. He played that role for more than two years but his friend, John Travolta John Travolta is a true legendary figure as he was >> Read More... left. In 1978, both of them reunited in the movie Grease. John appeared as Danny Zuko and Jeff as his friend Kennickie. In 1975, Conaway came up in various series on television and three movies. He then portrayed the character of Bobby Wheeler, a struggling boy but handsome in a comedy series 'Taxi'. He featured in 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'. After the third season of Taxi, Jeff left. Conaway presented himself as a guest on many shows like 'George & Leo', 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Barnaby Jones'. Jeff had acted in films such as 'Do You Wanna Know a Secret?', 'Jawbreaker', 'Mistress of the Dark' and much more. Jeff also starred as Mick Savage in 'The Bold and the Beautiful' from 1989 to 1990. In the film ' Babylon 5 Babylon 5 first came out back in 1994. A sci-fi sp >> Read More... ', he acted as Sergeant Zack Allan.

Jeff was a great singer and a guitarist of a rock band. In the 1960s, he came up with his many Cameo records. In 1979, a self-titled album came up for Columbia records. Jeff married three times. At the age of 21, he married to a dancer. However, after two years it revoked to break. Jeff then married to Rona Newton-John. In addition, his last one was with Kerri Young.

Coming to his achievements, Jeff was nominated as the best supporting actor for Taxi in the year 1978 and for Golden Globe Awards in the year 1979.

Conaway died on 27 May 2011. The reason for his death was pneumonia and overdose of drugs. Jeff was addicted to drugs, cocaine, alcohols, and painkillers.

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