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Ted McGinley
Born	May 30 1958 (1958-05-30) (age 50) Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Gigi Rice (21 June 1991 - present) 2 children

Theodore Martin McGinley (born May 30, 1958) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jefferson D\'Arcy on the television series Married... with Children, and as Charley Shanowski on the former ABC sitcom Hope & Faith.

Biography

Personal life

McGinley was born in Newport Beach, California. He is married to Gigi Rice and they have two children. He took Brooke Shields to her prom when she was 16 years old. He attended the University of Southern California where he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and captain of the water polo team.Happy Days: Where are they now?

Ted graduated Newport Harbor High School in 1976 and played water polo. Ted was slated to play on the US Olympic water polo team^{[citation needed]}.

Career

McGinley first found fame in comedy series Happy Days as Roger Phillips, a role he played from 1980 until 1984. He made his film debut in the Revenge of the Nerds series where he played Stanley Gable, the head of the jock-run Alpha Beta fraternity and the primary antagonist of the Lambda Lambda Lambda nerd fraternity. He then went into the role of Jefferson D\'Arcy on Married... with Children from 1991 to 1997. From 2003 until 2006, he played Charley Shanowski on Hope & Faith.

McGinley has been called the patron saint of "jumping the shark" by jumptheshark.com founder Jon Hein.Ted McGinley in Shark Categories in Jump The Shark This is a reference to the popular and enduring shows which have featured him in their declining years. Such shows include Happy Days, The Love Boat, and Dynasty. Hein writes that this is not a comment "on Ted\'s fine acting skills" and that "he has a great sense of humor about it, too".jumptheshark.com FAQ McGinley was also a replacement character on Married... with Children. In this series his tenure was ultimately much longer than that of his predecessor, David Garrison. McGinley himself spoofed the fact by momentarily breaking the fourth wall on one Married with Children episode where he is taking pictures for Al and asks "Another picture, captain? I mean, Fonzie? ....Al?"

Selected filmography

• Revenge of the Nerds - 1984, as Stanley Gable

• Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation - 1992, as Stanley Gable
• Wayne\'s World 2 - 1993, as Mr. Scream
• Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love - 1994 (TV movie) .... Stan Gable
• Major League: Back to the Minors-(1998)
• Pearl Harbor - 2001, as an Army Major
• The Note - 2007 (TV movie), as King

Television roles

• Happy Days - (1974–1984), as Roger Phillips (1980-1984)
• The Love Boat - (1977-1986), as Ashley "Ace" Covington Evans (1984-1986)
• Dynasty - (1981–1989), as Clay Fallmont (1985-1987)
• Married... with Children - 1987–1997, as Jefferson D\'Arcy (1991-1997)
• Sports Night - (1998–1999), as Gordon Gage
• Hope & Faith - (2003–2006), as Charley Shanowski
• The West Wing - (1999-2006) recurring role as host Mark Gottfried of TV show Capital Beat
• \'Til Death - (2007), as Webby

References

External links

• Ted McGinley at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted McGinley at JumpTheShark.com

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