1. Theodore William Lange III is an American actor, director and screenwriter best known for his roles as bartender Isaac Washington in the TV series The Love Boat and Junior in That's My Mama.
16 Facts About Ted Lange
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Ted Lange was born in Oakland, California, in 1948, the son of Geraldine and Theodore William Jr.
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Ted Lange completed an associate of arts degree at Merritt Junior College in Oakland before majoring in Drama at San Francisco City College.
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At City College, Ted Lange was particularly active on the theatre scene and named Best Actor by the Black Students Association.
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Ted Lange won a scholarship to the University of Colorado Shakespearean Festival in the summer of 1968.
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Ted Lange is a directing alum of The American Film Institute.
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Ted Lange made his Broadway debut in the musical Hair and was featured in the first national touring of the show.
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Ted Lange performed in a one-man show, Behind the Mask: An Evening with Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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In 1999, Lange directed two episodes of Love Boat: The Next Wave, the UPN series based on The Love Boat.
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Ted Lange has done extensive theater work as playwright and stage director.
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Ted Lange has penned 17 plays, including George Washington's Boy, a historical drama about the relationship between the first president and his favorite slave, along with the comedy Lemon Meringue Facade.
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Ted Lange remained close to Gavin MacLeod, his acting mentor, who was a Palm Springs resident and saw his plays.
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In 2006, Ted Lange appeared in the fourth season of the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club.
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Ted Lange married Sheryl Thompson in 1978, and they divorced in 1989.
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Ted Lange's mother, Geraldine Lange, was a personal secretary to a San Francisco mayor and was public affairs director of KBHK-TV in San Francisco in the early 1970s.
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Ted Lange has been the recipient of the James Cagney Directing Fellow Scholarship Award from the American Film Institute along with the Paul Robeson Award from Oakland's Ensemble Theatre.