Wiseguy - "Day Seven" - 7:00 pm Tuesday, December 16 on WSKC

Ken Wahl (Actor) .. Vinnie Terranova

Born: October 31, 1962

Trivia: Broad-shouldered American actor Ken Wahl has proven time and again that he's more than just a mass of muscle. After a handful of supporting roles, Wahl entered cult-film Valhalla with his starring role as a Bronx-Italian highschooler in The Wanderers (1979). Arguably, his best screen role was as the "see no evil" partner of conscience-stricken cop Paul Newman in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981). His many film appearances aside, Wahl's popularity rests with his three-year performance as underground cop Vinnie Teranova in Wiseguys (1987-90), which was impressive enough to make viewers forget Wahl's earlier series-TV stint in the unlamented adventure series Double Dare (1985).

Kim Greist (Actor) .. Katherine Gallagher

Born: May 12, 1958

Trivia: Born in Connecticut, Kim Greist spent her late teen years in Europe as a professional model. She returned to the U.S. at age 20, launching an acting career in the off-Broadway comedy Second Prize, Two Months in Moscow; her later stage credits included appearances in the New York Shakespeare Festival. In 1984, Greist made her movie bow in the scuzzy horror epic CHUD; the following year, she was cast in what remains her best film role: the elusive blonde "fantasy girl" of futuristic bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce in director Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Kim Geist has continued to appear in films and television into the 1990s, with substantial roles in such productions as Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and Roswell (1994).

Norman Lloyd (Actor) .. Leland Masters

Born: November 08, 1914
Birthplace: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Trivia: After graduating from NYU, New Jersey-born actor Norman Lloyd worked with Eva LeGalleine's company, then joined Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. He also appeared in the WPA's progressive Living Newspaper show, and was cast in the Broadway musical Johnny Appleseed. In Hollywood in 1941, Lloyd began a long friendship and professional association with director Alfred Hitchcock. Lloyd's first film was Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), in which he played the squirrelly Nazi spy Fry, who came to a spectacular end by plummeting from the Statue of Liberty. After a few more villainous film roles, Lloyd was given his first behind-the-scenes production job by director Lewis Milestone, working as an assistant on Milestone's Arch of Triumph (1948). A peripheral victim of the Hollywood blacklist, Lloyd was rescued professionally by Hitchcock, who utilized Lloyd as an actor, director and executive producer on Hitchcock's long-running TV series. Teamed with producer Joan Harrison, Hitchcock's "right arm," Lloyd co-produced a 1968 Broadway TV anthology, Journey to the Unknown. He continued directing episodic television throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and was the first-season producer of the syndicated weekly Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected. Still pursuing acting (though now as a "second career"), Norman Lloyd played the kindly Dr. Esterhaus on the 1980s TV drama St. Elsewhere.

Ray Stricklyn (Actor) .. Sen. Pickering

Born: January 01, 1930
Died: May 14, 2002

Trivia: One of many handsome studio contractees of the '50s, American actor Ray Stricklyn seldom rose any farther than "second lead" status. After a few years' stage work and his film debut in Paramount's Proud and the Profane (1956), Stricklyn signed with 20th Century-Fox, where he offered steadfast support to such larger luminaries as Richard Widmark (The Last Wagon [1956]), Gary Cooper (Ten North Frederick [1957]) and Claude Rains (The Lost World [1960]). Good-looking in an assembly line way, Stricklyn was a stalwart of second-feature westerns in the '60s like Young Jesse James (1960) and Arizona Raiders (1965). Ray Stricklyn never quite achieved full stardom, but it certainly wasn't from lack of exposure.

Ford Rainey (Actor)

Born: August 08, 1908
Died: July 25, 2005
Birthplace: Mountain Home, Idaho

Trivia: In films since 1949's White Heat, American actor Ford Rainey most often played judges, doctors and police officials. Rainey's weekly TV roles included small-town newspaper editor Lloyd Ramsey in Window on Main Street (1961), research director Dr. Barnett in Search (1972) James Barrett in The Manhunter (1974) and Jim in The Bionic Woman (1975). Undoubtedly his most rewarding TV-series assignment was The Richard Boone Show (1963), in which, as a member of Boone's "repertory company," he was allowed to essay a different role each week. When last we saw Ford Rainey, he was playing a big-time counterfeiter on Wiseguy (1987).

Wiseguy: Day Seven

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Today on WSKC (22.4)

Day Seven

Season 3, Episode 11