John O’Hurley

About

John George O’Hurley Jr. (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, and game show host. He played J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, provided the voice for King Neptune on SpongeBob SquarePants, and hosted the game show Family Feud from 2006 to 2010. O’Hurley also hosted To Tell the Truth from 2000 to 2002 in syndication.

O’Hurley was born in Kittery, Maine, the son of Jeana, a housewife and John George O’Hurley, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon.
O’Hurley attended Natick High School in Natick, Massachusetts, and Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut, but moved to DuBois, Pennsylvania, in ninth grade. He attended Cardinal Gibbons High School senior year, and graduated in 1972. O’Hurley graduated from Providence College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre. During the 1970s, prior to becoming an actor, O’Hurley was employed as a male exotic dancer at Studio 54 in New York City, New York, with the stage name “Johnny-O”.
O’Hurley performs charitable work for the Epilepsy Foundation due to the fact that his older sister, Carol, died in 1970 at age 17 due to epileptic seizures.

On Seinfeld, O’Hurley played…