Ken Wahl

Acting

Ken Wahl

Born

1954-10-31 (71)

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career. Wahl's best known movies are probably The Wanderers and The Taking of Beverly Hills.

Known for

Wiseguy poster
6.6

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.

Wiseguy

1987

The Wanderers poster
7.0

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

The Wanderers

1979

Purple Hearts poster
5.8

A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.

Purple Hearts

1984

The Soldier poster
5.3

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

The Soldier

1982

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission poster
6.3

Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985

Fort Apache, the Bronx poster
6.5

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tough cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.

Fort Apache, the Bronx

1981

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 10 titles

Purple Hearts poster
5.8

A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.

Purple Hearts

1984

The Soldier poster
5.3

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

The Soldier

1982

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission poster
6.3

Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.

The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

1985

Fort Apache, the Bronx poster
6.5

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tough cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.

Fort Apache, the Bronx

1981

Jinxed! poster
4.5

Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.

Jinxed!

1982

Race for the Yankee Zephyr poster
5.9

In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand, hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When word gets around, a gang of crooks turns up and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there is 50 million dollars of gold in the wreck. Gibbie, his partner and helicopter pilot Barney, and his daughter Sally, are caught up in a race for the Yankee Zephyr.

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

1981

The Gladiator poster
5.6

A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.

The Gladiator

1986

Omega Syndrome poster
4.8

An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.

Omega Syndrome

1986

Wiseguy: Pilot poster
9.0

This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wiseguy”, a specially trained deep undercover agent. To help support his cover, Vinnie has just finished serving 18 months in a New Jersey prison…

Wiseguy: Pilot

1987

Running Scared poster
4.9

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

Running Scared

1980

Series credits