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Date of Birth

11 April 1951, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Kenny Morse Schaffel

Mini Biography

Kenny Morse literally grew up in show business as the son of a famed New York production executive (who brought us such television classics as "Howdy Doody", "Naked City" and "The Defenders" and movies such as "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Main Event"). As a child actor, Kenny had many parts on episodic television shows, commercials and was one of the original cast members of the National Tour of the Broadway show "Grease" and "Pontius Pilate" in the Los Angeles company of "Jesus Christ Superstar". A graduate of Boston University School of The Arts, he continued acting in commercials and also behind the scenes in production management through the '80's as an Assistant Production Manager or Location Manager on many television movies. Kenny was offered an opportunity in 1987 to take his acting and management experience to help make better drivers at a school that originated "Comedy" traffic school. In 1990, Kenny created "Ask Mr. Traffic" as a Los Angeles television and talk radio show. As a regular contributor on KFI Radio in LA, Kenny made the "Mr.Traffic" name famous in LA he was honored with the Southern California Cable Association's "Diamond Award" for "Best Live Call-in Show and The show ran from 1990-2008 as the longest running Live Call-in Show on Southern California Cable. Being "Mr. Traffic" got Kenny noticed by world wide press, and Mr. Traffic has appeared on many local and national television shows ranging from "Good Morning America," "Talk Soup," and profiles done on him on "Extra", CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX news, and was profiled in August 2009 in a 5 page article in The New Yorkers Magazine. He hosted his own radio show "The Driving Show with Mr. Traffic", on KRLA in Los Angeles, and a regular fill-in host on TalkRadio 790 KABC in addition to contributing to many other local, national and international TV & Radio shows. For the past 4 years, Kenny is featured on the Premiere Radio Network's Sirius/XM channels, hosting "Drivetime with Mr. Traffic" where he interviews the biggest driving safety officials in our government.

Kenny played "Dr. Culkin" in 2004's "Tales From Beyond," and in the meantime has been producing the most popular singing show in Los Angeles called Karaoke With Kenny (named "Best Karaoke in LA" by L.A. Magazine) while continuing his radio, TV and teaching work as "Mr. Traffic." In 2010, he acted in the new feature film "The Newest Pledge" and has been working as an AFTRA performer for all rehearsals of American Idol,So You Think You Can Dance, and as Howie Mandel's stand-in for all rehearsals on America's Got Talent.

IMDb Mini Biography By: mrtraffic@aol.com