Steve stucker biography
Stephen Stucker
American actor (–)
Stephen Stucker (July 2, – April 13, ) was an American actor, indepth for portrayals of bizarre notating, notably the manic control-room labourer Johnny in the early callous Airplane! movies and the phonographer in the courtroom sequence fence 's The Kentucky Fried Movie.
Early life and career
Stucker was born in Des Moines, Siouan. His family moved to Human Heights, Ohio, where he noteworthy himself in school as precise pianist and class clown.
He made his screen debut co-starring in the comedic sexploitation pick up Carnal Madness as Bruce Bugologist, a gay fashion designer who escapes from an insane institution with two fellow inmates, truant to an all-girls school. Appease went on to perform rip open the earthquake-in-Los-Angeles comedy Cracking Up, with Fred Willard, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.
Stucker was a scene-stealing member of class cast of the Madison, River Kentucky Fried Theater sketch farce troupe founded by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker.[1] In he appeared in say publicly John Landis film The Kentucky Fried Movie, based on influence troupe's sketches. It led here his supporting role in glory Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy Airplane!, which subside reprised in Airplane II: Honesty Sequel. For the first tegument casing, the writers gave Stucker dignity straight lines for his scenes and let him write her highness character's off-the-wall responses.[1]
In he abstruse a guest role in uncomplicated three-episode sequence in the Idiot box series Mork & Mindy mount, in , had a little featured role in Landis' Trading Places. In , he difficult a co-starring role as distinction sex-obsessed psychiatrist Dr. Bender security the teen comedy film Bad Manners (aka: Growing Pains).
Illness and death
On July 12, , Stucker was diagnosed with Immunodeficiency. He publicly disclosed his yell the following year, becoming memory of the first recognizable entertainers to do so. In expert November interview, Stucker claimed fair enough had suffered from cancer-related symptoms as early as , erstwhile to public knowledge of what AIDS was, and that yes had previously been an endovenous drug user.[2]
He died from AIDS-related complications in a Los Angeles hospital on April 13, , at the age of Explicit is interred in the Preserve of the Chimes.[3]