<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1968--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for playing DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class . </P> <P> Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon, the son of Edna (née Forster) and George Henry Hesseman . His parents divorced when he was five, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather, a police officer . He graduated from Silverton High School in 1958 . Hesseman attended the University of Oregon, and was later a founding member of the San Francisco - based improvisational comedy troupe The Committee with fellow actor David Ogden Stiers . Early in his acting career, he used the alias Don Sturdy, the name he also used as a radio DJ . </P>

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