1. Tim Reid starred in a CBS series, Frank's Place, as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant.
17 Facts About Tim Reid
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Tim Reid is the founder and president of Legacy Media Institute, a non-profit organization "dedicated to bringing together leading professionals in the film and television industry, outstanding actors, and young men and women who wish to pursue a career in the entertainment media".
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Tim Reid was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and raised in the Crestwood area of Chesapeake, formerly Norfolk County, Virginia.
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Tim Reid had experienced segregation growing up in Norfolk, the majority of businesses around him being black-owned.
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Tim Reid earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Norfolk State College in 1968.
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Tim Reid started out on the short-lived The Richard Pryor Show.
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Tim Reid starred as DJ "Venus Flytrap" on the hit CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, in what is perhaps his best known TV role.
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In 1988, Tim Reid won an award from Viewers for Quality Television Awards as "Best Actor in a Quality Comedy Series" in Frank's Place.
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Tim Reid played the adult Mike Hanlon in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel It.
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Tim Reid had a starring role in the series Sister, Sister as Ray Campbell for the entire six-season run.
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Tim Reid had a recurring role on That '70s Show as William Barnett.
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Tim Reid directed and adapted a children's TV show called Bobobobs that aired in the late 1980s.
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Tim Reid is the creator of Stop the Madness, an after-school special video in the fight against drugs, recorded on December 11,1985.
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Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid built New Millennium Studios in 1997.
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In 1966, Tim Reid married Rita Ann Sykes; they divorced on May 9,1980.
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In July 2011, Tim Reid was named to the board of directors of the American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works.
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On May 10,2014, Tim Reid received a Virginia Commonwealth University honorary doctorate for his many outstanding and distinguished contributions after he delivered a commencement speech.