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Michael McKean
Age: 62
Height: 6' 0"
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Oct. 17th, 1947
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Michael McKean's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: [no bio found]
TRIVIA:
- 'Olympia Dukakis' (qv) was his acting teacher at New York University. Learned improvisation from 'Omar Shapli' (qv). The improvisation class played some dates as a comedy group called Section 10.
- Has co-starred with wife 'Annette O'Toole' (qv) as a married couple in at least two TV shows: _"Boy Meets World" (1993)_ (qv) and _"Law & Order" (1990)_ (qv).
- Did celebrity impersonations of 'Robert Evans (I)' (qv), 'Gary Busey' (qv), 'Howard Stern (I)' (qv) and 'Bill Clinton (I)' (qv) on _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv).
- Gilbert and Ruth McKean, his parents, hailed from Louisiana. Gilbert was a recording executive who worked for RCA and Columbia as well as being one of the founders of Decca Records. Ruth was a library clerk at North Shore High School. The couple, along with Michael's grandmother, attended Louisiana Tech University. He has an older sister, also.
- At age 46, was the oldest man to join the cast of _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv).
- Engaged to 'Annette O'Toole' (qv) in 1998.
- The song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," performed by Mitch & Mickey in _A Mighty Wind (2003)_ (qv), was written by McKean and his wife, 'Annette O'Toole' (qv), as a love song to each other after the movie was conceived. 'Christopher Guest (I)' (qv) asked McKean and O'Toole to write the duet. He almost turned it down after the McKeans performed it. 'Jamie Lee Curtis' (qv) convinced her husband (Guest) to use it in the film.
- Turned down a regular role on _"Married with Children" (1987)_ (qv) because he felt the show wouldn't be a hit with him in it. Passed on the recurring character of Dean Cyrus O'Dell of Hearst College on _"Veronica Mars" (2004)_ (qv), also. He decided to do the West End production of "Love Song" by John Kolvenbach instead.
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