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Posted: 4:47 p.m. Friday, May 27, 2011
RadarOnline.com
Actor Jeff Conaway has died at age 60, marking the end a long, sad road of addiction that made him one of Hollywood's cautionary tales.
The New York native was best known for playing T-Bird Kenickie in the iconic musical Grease, and struggling actor Bobby Wheeler on the television series Taxi.
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On TV, Conaway got his feet wet with parts in high-profile series such as Happy Days, The Mary Tyler Moore Show,Barnaby Jones and Kojak prior to landing the role in Grease. Later in his career, he starred in the 1983 fantasy spoof series Wizards and Warriors, and worked on The Bold And The Beautiful from 1989-90 and Babylon 5 from 1994-1999.
Conaway's resume included Silver screen credits in films such as 1988's Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark, 1999'sJawbreaker and and 2001's Do You Want To Know A Secret. His only directing credit came with the 1992 dud Bikini Summer II, which he starred in alongside Howard Stern regular Jessica Hahn.
Conaway's personal life was one marked by strife, broken relationships and unsteady work as admittedly he long-battled the demons of drug addiction, most notably cocaine, alcohol and painkillers.
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