Whatever Happened to ‘Wiseguy’ Star Ken Wahl?

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Ken Wahl celebrates his 69th birthday on February 14 and for many ’80s TV fans, he’ll always be remembered as Vinnie Terranova, the intense undercover agent at the center of the groundbreaking CBS crime drama Wiseguy. In 1990, he even won a Golden Globe Award for the role. Then, almost as quickly as he arrived, he seemed to disappear. So where did he go? The actor actually has a life story as wild and unbelievable as anything you’d see on an action-filled TV show.