Lyle Waggoner

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

This 60s and 70s TV heartthrob was the proverbial tall, dark and classically handsome actor. Completing the solid package was a great, muscular build, smooth charm, an almost perfect set of teeth and a marvelously resonant voice. Born in 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Lyle Waggoner certainly paid his dues before being handed his breakthrough as the suave announcer on The Carol Burnett Show (1967) in the late 1960s. The one-time peddler of encyclopedias door-to-door, prior to his prime TV job, appeared in poorly-made sci-fi and beach party flicks with such dubious titles as Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966), Swamp Country (1966), Reise ins Zentrum der Zeit (1967) and Catalina Caper (1967). In time, he was more than just a gorgeous hunk who gave a good voice and they began to incorporate Waggoner into the show as a comedy sketch partner along with the other regulars Vicki Lawrence and Harvey Korman. A game, good-natured ensemble player who showed fine comedy instincts, he proved quite sound as a dreamy, straight-man foil to the ogling Burnett. His better scenes typically had him essaying the superficial cad or gleamy-toothed, self-important star. After seven seasons on the knockabout variety show, however, Waggoner felt like a "third banana" and yearned to take a chance on solo stardom. During his off-times, he had prepared himself by appearing in summer stock and/or dinner theater in such breezy assignments as "Boeing, Boeing", "Send Me No Flowers" and "Once More, with Feeling". He also hosted a syndicated quiz show, entitled It's Your Bet (1969), and earned added "exposure" as Playgirl Magazine's first semi-nude centerfold in 1973. Not long after his departure from the Burnett show, he landed the role of Major Steve Trevor on the popular comic strip-based series Wonder Woman (1975) playing the dashing, no-nonsense boss to Diana Prince. Again, the challenge was not there and he remained on the periphery for only three seasons. In later years, Waggoner became more personality than performer and only sporadically appeared in glossy mini-movies and TV episodes, and even less so in feature films (Love Me Deadly (1972), Surf II (1984) and Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991) to name a few). None of his roles carried much weight. Perhaps surmising that he was undone by being too perfect a specimen, he wisely looked into business ventures and, in 1979, successfully started up "Star Waggons" which served film/TV companies with rental trailers. His charming, vainglorious romancer act has obviously been for the cameras only. The former Hollywood ladies' man has been married only once, to wife Sharon Kennedy, an actress as well as a financial consultant and realtor. The couple have been wed for well over 50 years and have two sons. Still good-looking and fit at age 70+, he enjoys homes in both California and Wyoming. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Lyle Waggoner’s flixes, followed by DIRECTV compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Lyle Waggoner on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2003. See the full graphs of the number of Lyle Waggoner movies released per year from 1970 till 2003.

Top Genres

Lyle Waggoner works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Horror Genre flixes. 20% of Lyle Waggoner movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Lyle Waggoner worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Lyle Waggoner has worked on is 5.5.

5.5 / 10

Lyle Waggoner's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Adventure,Fantasy
Wonder Woman (1975)

The adventures of the greatest of the female superheroes.

7/1060 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Adventure,Comedy,Fantasy
Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991)

The story centers on the battle for the mythical Sword of Aktar and its kidnapped keeper Ulric. But for a few stop-motion prehistoric creatures, the heroic Thane must save a beautiful ...

2.9/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).