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Jeff Conaway
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease, and the US TV series Taxi and Babylon 5. He also directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer 2. Jeff spent some of his time living with his grandparents in South Carolina, which gave him enough of a Southern accent that when he accompanied his mother to a casting call for director Arthur…
Known for
- Dante's Inferni — Circles Introduction (archive audio)2025
- Hollywood Demons — Self (archive footage)2025
- The Grease Story — Kenickie (archive footage)2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive)2017
- Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales — Kenickie (archive footage)2015
- Dante's Hell Animated — Narrator (voice)2013
- Dark Games — Tom Doyle2011
- 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift — (archive footage)2010
- Naked Movie — Self2008
- Wrestling — Franklin Conner2008
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950
- Active to
- 2011
Discography
- Jeff Conaway1980
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,703
- Total plays
- 12,838
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation
· 2014 · cited 23,701x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,380x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,238x
- Activating Mutations in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Underlying Responsiveness of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Gefitinib
· 2004 · cited 9,523x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,915x
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Key facts
- Born
- Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway , ( 1950-10-05 ) October 5, 1950, Manhattan , New York , U.S.
- Died
- May 27, 2011 (2011-05-27) (aged 60), Encino , California , U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1971–2011
- Spouses
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- Image
- JeffConaway1998.jpg
- Number of children
- 0
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- Jeff Conaway
- birth name
- Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway
- date of birth
- 1950-10-05
- date of death
- 2011-05-27
- start of work period
- 1971-00-00
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Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011) was an American actor. He portrayed Kenickie in the film Grease and had roles in three television series: struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in Taxi (1978–1982), Prince Erik Greystone in Wizards and Warriors, and security officer Zack Allan on Babylon 5. Conaway was featured in the first and second seasons of the reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
Early life, family and education