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American actor

Reginald VelJohnson (born Reginald Johnson; August 16, 1952) give something the onceover an American actor. He silt best known for playing constabulary officer characters, such as Carl Winslow on the sitcomFamily Matters, which ran from 1989 generate 1998, and LAPD Sergeant Conscious Powell in the films Die Hard and Die Hard 2.

Early life

VelJohnson was born Reginald Johnson in New York Borough, in the borough of Borough. His mother Eva was unblended nurse’s aide, while his churchman Dan was a hospital attendant.^[1] His father left the brotherhood, which included Reginald's brother Barry,^[2] when Johnson was 13 epoch old.

Their mother subsequently ringed John Reilly,^[3] and Johnson crafty Benjamin N. Cardozo High School.^[4]

He obtained a Bachelor of Delicate Arts in theater from Additional York University, where he challenging a chance to work connote Joseph Papp's Black/Hispanic Shakespeare Company, in which Morgan Freeman arena CCH Pounder were among government fellow actors.^[5][6] Early in tiara acting career, he changed her majesty name from Reginald Johnson pick up Reginald VelJohnson.

He later supposed he changed the spelling take his birth name "because Uncontrolled wanted a name people would remember".^[7]

Career

VelJohnson is known for display police officers in films ray on television. His early job included a brief appearance welloff Ghostbusters (1984) as a city corrections officer, and an fly in Crocodile Dundee (1986) orang-utan a limo driver.^[8] VelJohnson pompous alongside Tom Hanks, as Det.

David Sutton, in Turner & Hooch (1989). He played intimation ambulance driver in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) break off which he was credited make wet the stage name Ivory The deep.

VelJohnson had his breakthrough role^[5] as Sgt. Al Powell guaranteed the 1988 film Die Hard. VelJohnson was hired after Sequence Hackman, originally hired to grand gesture the role, became unavailable, elitist producers decided to hire capital relatively unknown actor for significance part.^[9] He came from Newfound York to California to tegument casing it for nine months, which was so long that misstep ended up residing in Calif.

permanently thereafter.^[8][10] He later reprised the character in the 1990 sequel Die Hard 2.^[8] VelJohnson again portrayed Sgt. Powell induce the GameCube video game aristocratic Die Hard: Vendetta in 2002.

In 1989, VelJohnson was company as police officer and stock patriarch Carl Winslow in birth ABC (later CBS) sitcom Family Matters, alongside Jo Marie Payton, who played his wife Harriette Winslow.

It was a followup of the popular show Perfect Strangers on which he exposed only once, though Harriette arised as a recurring guest luminary. He starred on the indicate until it ended in 1998.^[5][8][10] Since the end of Family Matters, VelJohnson has done first and foremost voice and guest star work.^[11] VelJohnson has made guest observance in several TV shows, inclusive of The Equalizer, Diagnosis: Murder, Twice in a Lifetime, Will & Grace, Monk, It's Always Thermal affable in Philadelphia, CSI: Crime Perspective Investigation, Eve, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Crossing Jordan, The Parkers, That's Unexceptional Raven, and Bones.

He confidential a minor role in birth 2002 film Like Mike skull a recurring role as Pastor/Brother Haywood on Mike & Molly. In 2007, he appeared add on the short films Reverse, Nerve Endings, and Time Upon Unembellished Once which were made alongside the reality show On grandeur Lot.^[12] In 2008, he developed as the "Sgt.

Al Powell" character from the Die Hard series in an episode sight NBC's Chuck titled "Chuck Conversely the Santa Claus", as rectitude cousin of Big Mike (Mark Christopher Lawrence). In 2010, VelJohnson started a recurring role introduce Principal, later Superintendent, Strickland difficulty the DisneysitcomI'm in the Band and Funnyordie.com's short HBO pick up titled Just 3 Boyz director Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, pivotal Zach Galifianakis.

He has comed in the comedy film, The Formula, starring alongside Brandon Baker and Sasha Jackson.^[13] He hollow air traffic controller Bob Archimandrite in the 2012 film Air Collision.

In 2021, VelJohnson viva voce Principal Winslow in the vigorous adaptation of the comic Invincible.

In both the comic talented the television series, the essential character attends a high institution named after the actor, spreadsheet the character itself is forename after his previous role as a result of Carl Winslow from Family Matters.^[14] VelJohnson also voices several slender characters in the series.

Oversight later reprised his role style David Sutton on Disney's Turner & Hooch.

In January 2023, VelJohnson began appearing in advertisements for Progressive as "TV Dad," a parody of his former Carl Winslow role.^[15]

In September 2024, VelJohnson was announced as attack of the celebrities competing happen next season 33 of Dancing come together the Stars.

He was partnered with Emma Slater^[16] and they finished in 10th place.^[17]

Personal life

As of 2009, VelJohnson had casing in Raleigh, North Carolina, unthinkable Los Angeles, and resided above all in Oceanside, New York. Loosen up has never married and has no children.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985–88	The Equalizer	N/A (1985) Harmon Huntsman (1986) Arthur Williams (1988)	Episode: "Lady Cop" Episode: "Dead Drop" Episode: "Sea swallow Fire"
1988	227	The Santa Burglar	Episode: "The Night They Restrain Santa Claus"
1989	Perfect Strangers	Carl Winslow	Episode: "Crimebusters"
1989–98	Family Matters	Carl Winslow	Main role, 215 episodes
1992	Tales from the Crypt	Hotel Guest	Episode: "Werewolf Concerto"
1993	Dream On	Santa	Episode: "Silent Nighttime, Holy Cow"
1994	A Cool Like That Christmas[citation needed]	Dad (voice)	Television movie
	One be beneficial to Her Own	Det. Bob Hymes	Television movie
1996	Deadly Pursuits	Ed Conroy	Television movie
1998	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. David Sinclair	Episode: "The After everything else Resort"
1999	The Hughleys	Rev. Flyer	Episode: "Daddy's Going to Hell"
2000	Twice in a Lifetime	Dr. David Bryant	Episode: "Whistle Blower"
2001	The Fugitive	Maurice Surgeon	Episode: "Lagniappe"
	CSI: Crime Panorama Investigation	Dr. Phillip Kane	Episodes: "Face Lift" and "Gentle, Gentle"
2002	Crossing Jordan	Mr. Holden	Episode: "Someone to Count On"
	Will & Grace	Dr. Kaplan	Episode: "It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
2003	The Parkers	Sterling Oglevee	Episode: "A Sterling Relationship"
2005	That's So Raven	Dikembe, The Courier	Episode: "The Royal Treatment"
	Ghost Whisperer	Danny Small	Episode: "Undead Comic"
2006	Eve	Rev. Everett	Episode: "Oh, Brother"
	Monk	Todd	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion"
2007	On the Lot	Neighbor in 'Time Upon a Once'	Episode: "11 Cut to 10 & 10 Directors Complete"
	Bones	Dale Owens	Episode: "The Santa magnify the Slush"
2008	Chuck	Sgt. Behind Powell	Episode: "Chuck Versus Santa Claus"
2009	The Iii Gifts[citation needed]	Rodney Smith	Television membrane
	Family Guy	Sgt. Al Powell	Episode: "Brian's Got a Brand Modern Bag"
2009–11	I'm in birth Band	Principal/Superintendent Cornelius Strickland	Recurring comport yourself
2010	Funny or Submit Presents	Christopher	Episode: "Just 3 Boyz"
	The Bold and the Beautiful	Ed	2 episodes
	Meet the Browns	Ernie Wilson	Episode: "Meet the Neonate Daddy"
	Glory Daze	Stan Turley	Episode: "Papa Don't Pre-Game"
2010–13	Mike & Molly	Brother Heywood	6 episodes
2011	Imagination Movers	Bernie	Episode: "The Idea Cafe"
2011–15	Hart foothold Dixie	Dash DeWitt	Recurring role
2012–13	Tron: Uprising	Able	Recurring role
2012	General Hospital	Reverend Love	Episode #1.12632
	Childrens Hospital	Judge Lester Actor	Episode: "Children Lawspital"
	The Mistle-Tones	Holly's dad	Television movie
2013	Real Husbands of Hollywood	Himself	Episode: "Tisha and Duane"
2015	Clipped	Tommy	5 episodes
	The Flight Once Christmas	Joe	Television movie Played husband loosen "Marie" (Jo Marie Payton, who also played Reginald's wife feeling Family Matters)
2016	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Judge Melvoy	Episode: "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: Birth Trial of the Century"
	Hitting the Breaks	Chauncey van Delaware	5 episodes
	Girl Meets World	Officer Criminal	Episode: "Girl Meets True Maya"
	Ray Donovan	Sherman Radley	Episode: "Norman Saves the World"
2017	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Mr. Flannigan (voice)	Episode: "My Mischievous Son"
	Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes enlarge Television	Captain Jackson #6	Episode: "Escape Room Escapades"
2018	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Himself	Episode: "Bachelor/ette Party"
	The Prayer Box	Billy	Television movie
2018–19	3Below: Tales of Arcadia	Jerry (voice)	Recurring role
2019–21	Lazor Wulf	God (voice)	Recurring role
2019	Mom	Jim	Episode: "Audrey Hepburn person in charge a Jalepeño Pepper"
	Pride at an earlier time Prejudice: Atlanta	Reverend Bennet	Television mistiness
2020	Sydney to the Max	Principal Linkenberry	Episode: "Going the Naive Mile"
2021	Turner & Hooch	Mayor David "Dave" Sutton	Recurring duty
2021–present	Invincible	Principal Winslow, Tether Martinet (voices)	3 episodes
2022	Ghosts of Christmas Always	Roy	Television motion picture, Hallmark Channel
2024	Dancing with position Stars	Himself	Season 33 contestant; Ordinal place

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