Jeffrey Charles William Michael "Jeff" Conaway
(October 5, 1950 - May 27, 2011)
Jeff Conaway was an American actor best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the US television series Taxi and Babylon 5.
Conaway appeared in the original cast of the Broadway musical Grease, as an understudy to several roles including that of the lead male character, Danny Zuko. He and his friend John Travolta reunited in the 1978 motion picture musical Grease, in which Travolta played Zuko and Conaway his buddy Kenickie.
Conaway was married three times. His first short-lived marriage, at 21, to a dancer he had been seeing for two years, was annulled.[4] His second marriage, from 1980 until their divorce in 1985, was to Rona Newton-John, sister of his Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John. His third marriage was to Keri Young from 1990 until their divorce.
On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances believed to be pain medication. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors decided there was nothing they could do to revive him. Conaway died the following morning. An autopsy performed on Conaway revealed that he died of various causes, including pneumonia and encephalopathy attributable to drug overdoses.
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