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Ken Wahl

Actor

Ken Wahl

Born October 31, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA15 films

Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career. Wahl's best known movies are probably The Wanderers and The Taking of Beverly Hills.

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The Wanderers posterFirst watchThe Wanderers19797.0as RichieThe streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the…View film

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Fort Apache, the Bronx poster6.5Fort Apache, the Bronx1981The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission poster6.3The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission1985The Favor poster4.9The Favor1994

Filmography

15 films as actor
  1. 1996WiseguyVinnie Terranova
  2. 1994Search for GraceJohn 'Johnny' Danielli / Jake
  3. 1994The FavorTom Andrews
  4. 1991The Taking of Beverly HillsBoomer Hayes
  5. 1987Wiseguy: PilotVinnie Terranova
  6. 1986Omega SyndromeJack Corbett
  7. 1986The GladiatorRick Benton
  8. 1985The Dirty Dozen: Next MissionLouis Valentine
  9. 1984Purple HeartsDon Jardian
  10. 1982Jinxed!Willie Brodax
  11. 1982The SoldierThe Soldier
  12. 1981Race for the Yankee ZephyrBarney
  13. 1981Fort Apache, the BronxCorelli
  14. 1980Running ScaredChas McClain
  15. 1979The WanderersRichie