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Joel Higgins(I)

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Joel Higgins
Higgins was born in Bloomington, IL, attended Parkway Central High School in St. Louis, MO, graduated from Michigan State University in 1966 and served in the Army in Korea and Georgia from 1967-70.

Best known as a TV (Silver Spoons, Best Of The West, etc.) and Broadway (Shenandoah, Oklahoma, City Of Angels, etc.) actor, he has also written numerous Musicals and over 100 commercial jingles and theme songs. He wrote the book and lyrics and starred in "The Fields Of Ambrosia" which premiered at the George St. Playhouse in 1993. He reprised the role at the Aldwych Theatre on London's West End in 1996.

He subsequently co-wrote and directed "Johnny Guitar, The Musical" which opened at the Century Center For The Performing Arts in New York where it garnered numerous Drama Desk, Drama League and Lucille Lortel Award nominations and won the Outer Critics' Circle Award as Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2004 and has gone on to tally over 30 Productions around the country.

Higgins was also in the first touring company of "Grease" and has starred in many regional and stock musicals and plays around the country, including "Brigadoon", "Showboat", "Kiss Me Kate", " Guys & Dolls", "The Music Man" and "Side by Side With Sondheim".
BornSeptember 28, 1943
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Erin Gray, Bobby Fite, Joel Higgins, Johnny Lozada, Charlie Massó, Corky Pigeon, Miguel Cancel, Ricky Melendez, Menudo, and Ray Reyes in Silver Spoons (1982)
Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Frank Hamilton and Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
John Ritter, Joel Higgins, and Todd Susman in Have Faith (1989)
John Ritter and Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Joel Higgins and Francesca P. Roberts in Have Faith (1989)
Eric Christmas and Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
Eric Christmas, Joel Higgins, and Nancy Morgan in Have Faith (1989)
Joel Higgins and Francesca P. Roberts in Have Faith (1989)

Known for

Erin Gray, Ricky Schroder, and Joel Higgins in Silver Spoons (1982)
Silver Spoons
6.1
TV Series
  • Edward Stratton III
  • Russian Ambassador
Jane Krakowski, Matthew Ashford, Domini Blythe, Colleen Dion, Terri Eoff, David Forsyth, Louan Gideon, Lee Godart, Marcia McCabe, Jeffrey Meek, Jacqueline Schultz, and Mary Stuart in Search for Tomorrow (1951)
Search for Tomorrow
7.3
TV Series
  • Bruce Carson #5
  • Bruce Carson
Salvage 1 (1979)
Salvage 1
7.4
TV Series
  • Skip Carmichael
Tom Ewell, Leonard Frey, Joel Higgins, Meeno Peluce, and Carlene Watkins in Best of the West (1981)
Best of the West
7.7
TV Series
  • Marshal Sam Best

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Actor

  • No Pay, Nudity (2016)
    No Pay, Nudity
  • Dante and Beatrice: A Family Film
  • Dead Canaries (2003)
    Dead Canaries
  • Pictured - (top/back) Josh Randall, JanaMarie Hupp; (bottom, clockwise from center top) Tom Cavanagh, Michael Ian Black, Rachel Cronin, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Justin Long, Lesley Boone, Julie Bowen.
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  • Crossing Jordan (2001)
    Crossing Jordan
  • Catherine Bell and David James Elliott in JAG (1995)
    JAG
  • Tim Allen, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson, Zachery Ty Bryan, Earl Hindman, and Taran Noah Smith in Home Improvement (1991)
    Home Improvement
  • Traylor Howard, Ryan Reynolds, Suzanne Cryer, Nathan Fillion, and Richard Ruccolo in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998)
    Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
  • Reginald VelJohnson, Jaimee Foxworth, Telma Hopkins, Rosetta LeNoire, Bryton James, Darius McCrary, Jo Marie Payton, Jaleel White, and Kellie Shanygne Williams in Family Matters (1989)
    Family Matters
  • Heather Locklear, Deborah Adair, Suzanne Somers, and Larry Wilcox in Rich Men, Single Women (1990)
    Rich Men, Single Women
  • Ron Carey, Stephen Furst, Frank Hamilton, and Joel Higgins in Have Faith (1989)
    Have Faith
  • Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
    Laura Lansing Slept Here
  • Erin Gray, Ricky Schroder, and Joel Higgins in Silver Spoons (1982)
    Silver Spoons
  • Threesome (1984)
    Threesome
  • Melissa Sue Anderson in First Affair (1983)
    First Affair

Director

  • Erin Gray, Ricky Schroder, and Joel Higgins in Silver Spoons (1982)
    Silver Spoons

Soundtrack

  • Erin Gray, Ricky Schroder, and Joel Higgins in Silver Spoons (1982)
    Silver Spoons
    • ("Fishin' Hole Theme", uncredited) ...
  • The 34th Annual Tony Awards
    • ("People Will Say We're In Love")

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    • September 28, 1943
    • Bloomington, Illinois, USA
    • 1983 - present (1 child)
  • Other works
    Wrote the Book and Lyrics and starred in the London musical THE FIELDS OF AMBROSIA.
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    A songwriter on the sly, he wrote jingles for such commercials as "Kool-Aid" and "M&M's" candy, and wrote the theme song for Lucille Ball's last, short-lived TV sitcom "Life with Lucy".

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