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Name:
Alan Koss
Geboren am: 01. Okt. 1938
Geboren in: Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA)
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In
Cheers: Dort spielt er einen gelegentlichen Gast des
Cheers namens Alan.
Meistens hat er dann, wenn überhaupt, nur sehr kleine
Textrollen. Eigentlich sind es auch nur kurze Bemer-
kungen oder
Kommentare.
Privat:
For ten years TV
character actor Alan Koss appeared in the recurring role of
Alan on some fifty episodes of 'Cheers". Koss was born and
raised in the Boston area, and is a graduate of Boston
University. He served in the USMC in the late 1950s and became
a professional actor in 1967, working in a Theatre Company of
Boston production of "Marat-Sade", and then moving his young
family (wife, June, and children Joanne and Michael) to New
York City.
A lover of golf and a willing donator of his time, Koss has
been invited to appear at hundreds of charity fund-raisers
throughout the U.S. and Canada to aid local halfway houses for
drug and alchohol rehabilitation, shelters for battered wives
and abused children, local schools and hospitals. He has
helped national charities benefiting Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular
Dystrophy, The March of Dimes, Red Cross, American Diabetes
Association, American Lung Association, and The Heart
Association. Alan has played golf, waited on tables, sung and
joked, eaten gallons of chili, spoken with and signed pictures
for thousands of people. He has talked and laughed with many
who were terminally ill and cheered and hugged thousands of
Special Olympians.
Over the past twenty years Alan has played a part in raising
over six million dollars for charity. In addition to his guest
roles on TV and in movies, Alan has appeared in or his
distinctive voice heard in thousands of TV and radio
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