Wesley Thompson

Wesley Thompson born October 2 1956 appeared as an Army Corpsman in the Season 11 episode of MASH titled As Time Goes By Wesleys other TV series guest appearances include The White Shadow The Larry Sanders Show Boston Legal and Seinfeld He has degrees in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University UCLA Born in Chicago IL and raised in Pasadena CA Wesley began his career on the stage He was voted Best Actor in college for his leading role in prolific playwright and director George C Wolfes very first play Up For Grabs hes performed all over the Southland in such roles as Honey in A Member of the Wedding with Virginia Capers convicted felon Ice in Miguel Pineros prison drama Short Eyes and in three longrunning productions at West LAs Odyssey Theater Filtch in Molières The Miser with George Murdock soldier McGlade in a Vietnam drama The Bridgehead directed by Stephen Tobolowsky and wisecracking relief pitcher Duke in the baseball comedy hit Bullpen which moved after its initial run to Bostons Hasty Pudding Theater at Harvard He has since gone on to do dozens of plays all over but none as rewarding as his supporting role as the lovable loan shark Jumbo in the 2000 production of the romanticcomedy Panache It opened at the Pasadena Playhouse but within two months was swiftly moved to offBroadway to the Players Theater in Greenwich Village in which The New York Times called Wesley an electric onstage presence He was a series regular on two ABC programs Hes the Mayor 1986 and Pursuit of Happiness 1987 His most recent stints include Friends 1994 Providence 1999 Just Shoot Me 1997 Malcolm in the Middle 2000 and recurring roles on ER 1994 and Grounded for Life 2001 He has been very fortunate to have done over 200 commercials over the years His first audition for film was for a lowbudget drama intended as a documentary where the actors had to be believed as real people The director a young newcomer to feature filmmaking hired him on the spot The director Taylor Hackford An Officer and a Gentleman The Devils Advocate The film Teenage Father 1978 won the Academy Award as Best Live Action Short From there he has appeared such films as the Walter Hill film Brewsters Millions 1985 with Richard Pryor and John Candy Gremlins 2 The New Batch 1990 directed by Joe Dante and working alongside Alfre Woodard in the Ivan Passer film Pretty Hatties Baby 1991 Other film roles include the stage manager in LA Story 1991 with Steve Martin Christina Riccis teacher Mr Curtis in the Brad SilberlingdirectedSteven Spielbergproduced Casper 1995 as John Travoltas boss in Desmond Nakanos White Mans Burden 1995 with Harry Belafonte and the winner of the Discovery Award at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival Smiling Fish Goat on Fire 1999 produced by Martin Scorsese He was last seen with Vivica A Fox in Two Can Play That Game 2001 written and directed by Mark Brown writer of Barbershop 2002 mash wikia