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name: "Jeff Conaway"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-conaway"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 October 1950"
died: "27 May 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:17:06.888334+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jeff Conaway

Actor. Born 5 October 1950 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 27 May 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 October 1950, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 27 May 2011
- **Also known as:** Jeffery Charles William Michael Conaway, Jeff Conway

## Biography

Jeff Conaway was an American actor. He was born Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway on 5 October 1950 in New York City and died on 27 May 2011 in Encino, California.

As a child he appeared in the Broadway production of *All the Way Home* (1960). He later studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and New York University. Conaway was an understudy and then replacement for Danny Zuko in the original Broadway cast of the musical *Grease*; he played Kenickie in the 1978 film adaptation.

He is also known for playing Bobby Wheeler in the television series *Taxi* (1978–1982) and Zack Allan in *Babylon 5* (1994–1998). Other film credits include *Pete's Dragon* (1977), *The Eagle Has Landed* (1976) and *Elvira: Mistress of the Dark* (1988).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Grease* (1978), Fi1m 76, as Kenickie — [page](https://film.one/film/grease.md)

## Also known for

- *Man on the Moon* (1999), Self (uncredited)
- *Pete's Dragon* (1977), Willie
- *Elvira: Mistress of the Dark* (1988), Travis
- *Babylon 5* (1994), Zack Allan
- *Jawbreaker* (1999), Marcie's Father
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Nolan Walsh, Tom Powell, Howard Griffin
- *The Eagle Has Landed* (1976), Frazier
- *Happy Days* (1974)

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