Ted McGinley Biography
Born: May 30, 1958
Dividing his time more or less equally between big- and small-screen work, actor Ted McGinley enjoyed a considerably successful tenure as a character player, almost always appearing as beefcake heartthrob types. He began his career in the early '80s, with small roles in Garry_Marshall's satirical farce Young Doctors in Love (1982) and the lurid Joan_Collins telemovie Making of a Male Model (1983), but achieved his first significant break in the sitcom venue, as English teacher-cum-basketball coach Roger Phillips on the final four seasons of Happy_Days (1980-1984). Fortuitously, at about the same time that Days folded, the producers of The_Love_Boat (on the same network, ABC) tapped McGinley to play photographer Ace Evans -- a last-ditch attempt to save the program from sagging ratings. The strategy ultimately failed when Boat ended its lengthy run in 1986, but in the meantime, McGinley landed what became a recurring role as jock Stan in the first three installments of Revenge of the Nerds.
Eventually, McGinley also joined the cast of the long-running Married...With Children from 1991 through 1997, playing chauvinistic layabout Jefferson D'Arcy (second husband of the Bundys' neighbor Marcy Rhoades), and essayed roles in theatrical films including Physical_Evidence (1989), Wayne's_World_2 (1993), and Dick (1999). The late '90s and 2000s found McGinley evincing a heightened presence in television once again, first on Aaron_Sorkin's critically worshipped yet short-lived seriocomedy Sports_Night (1998-1999), then as Charley Shanowski on the sitcom Hope & Faith (2003-2006). Nathan Southern, Rovi
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