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Willie Aames

  • Born: Jul 15, 1960 in Newport Beach, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'80s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: Charles in Charge, Zapped!, Killing Machine
  • First Major Screen Credit: Eight Is Enough: Season 01 (1977)

Biography

American actor Willie Aames, born Albert William Upton, spent his youth working steadily on television and occasionally in low-budget foreign and domestic features. He first began making guest appearances on television in 1969. In 1975, he was cast in Irwin Allen's short-lived adventure series The Swiss Family Robinson. One of his co-stars was a young Helen Hunt. By this time, he had also appeared in a few television movies, including Unwed Father (1974). In 1977, Aames began a long stint in one of his best-known roles, that of rebellious teen Tommy Bradford in the popular domestic comedy/drama Eight Is Enough. With his mop of dark blonde hair, slim physique, and handsome face, Aames became a popular teen idol. In 1979, Aames made his feature-film debut in Scavenger Hunt. When Eight Is Enough was finally canceled in 1981, Aames went on to appear in a couple more films, including Zapped (1982), before returning to series television in the role for which he may be best remembered, as Scott Baio's irresponsible foil in the sitcom Charles in Charge (1984-1990). Through this period he continued to show up in movies. Through much of the '80s, Aames battled with cocaine and depression and became notorious in Hollywood for his erratic behavior. By the time Charles was canceled in 1990, he had cleaned up his act, become a born-again Christian, married for the second time, and in 1991, decided to move to Kansas City where he became a producer and director of videos and commercials. In the mid-'90s, he began starring as an evangelical superhero in the Bibleman series of youth-oriented musical videos. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

 
 
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Willie Aames
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Birth name Albert William Upton
Born 15 July 1960 (1960--) (age 47)
Los Angeles, California, Flag of the United States United States
Spouse(s) Maylo McCaslin (1986-present)
Victoria Averbach (1979-1984) (divorced)

Willie Aames (born Albert William Upton July 15, 1960 in Orange County, California, U.S.) is an actor best known for the roles of Buddy Lembeck on Charles in Charge, Tommy Bradford on Eight is Enough and the voice of Hank on Dungeons & Dragons, the cartoon. He also hosted a game show The Krypton Factor from 1990-91.

He played the character of "Robbie Hamlin" on the ABC soap opera Edge of Night.

He attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach, CA, and was in both the choir and the Madrigal Ensemble.

During the late 70s/early 80s, he formed a rock band called "Willie Aames & Paradise", where he was lead singer/guitarist. Paradise was also the name of a movie in which he appeared with Phoebe Cates. He also appeared in the films Scavenger Hunt and Zapped! (with his future Charles in Charge co-star, Scott Baio).

From 1995 to 2004, he starred in a video series and annual touring performances as the Christian superhero Bibleman, although he has since retired from the role.

In 2005, he appeared on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club 2, where he lost 19 pounds. Aames is one of the more notorious contestants to appear on the show, after a huge blow-up with the trainer, Drill Instructor Harvey Walden IV. Aames gained weight at several of the show's weigh ins, but still managed to lose 10.2% of his body weight. Since appearing on the show, Aames has found a passion for hunting, and has his own hunting program on TV. Aames started Fit Club at 187 lbs, and finished the show at 168 lbs. Aames currently weighs about 175, and stays fit through his hunting endeavors and Cornish wrestling. Aames struggled with drugs and alcohol for over twenty years.[1]   He became a born–again Christian about three months before he married his second wife, Maylo McCaslin.

Aames has been married twice, and currently resides in Kansas with his second wife (actress Maylo McCaslin) (whom he married on 15 March 1986), and their daughter Harleigh Jean (born 1990). He has one son, Christopher (born 1981), from his first marriage.

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