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Wheeler<\/a> died Feb. 6 at his home in Claremont, California, his daughter, Johanna Wheeler<\/a>, told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wheeler also recurred on CBS\u2019 The Dukes of Hazzard<\/a> in 1982 as Mr. Rhuebottom, owner of a general store in Hazzard County, and he played William Frawley<\/a> alongside Frances Fisher<\/a> as Lucille Ball<\/a>, Maurice Benard<\/a> as Desi Arnaz<\/a> and Robin Pearson Rose<\/a> as Vivian Vance<\/a> on the 1991 CBS<\/a> telefilm Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter.<\/p>\n Unrecognizable under heavy latex makeup, Wheeler made his onscreen debut when he portrayed Gav and tussled with Mark Lenard<\/a>\u2019s Sarek, a Vulcan, on the second-season Star Trek<\/a> installment \u201cJourney to Babel,\u201d which premiered in November 1967 and ranks 42nd on THR\u2019s list of the show\u2019s best episodes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Wheeler, the well-known character actor who appeared in five Broadway musicals, guest-starred as Tellarites politician Ambassador Gav on Star Trek and performed in an unforgettable McDonald\u2019s commercial, has died. He was 95. Wheeler died Feb. 6 at his home in Claremont, California, his daughter, Johanna Wheeler, told The Hollywood Reporter. Wheeler also recurred on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2298136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/John-Wheeler-Actor-and-Singer-Known-for-\u2018Star-Trek-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298138,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298136\/revisions\/2298138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}