Howard Hesseman: Howard Hesseman. Actor: WKRP in Cincinnati. Howard Hesseman was a leading counter-culture figure since the late 1960s. He was a member of the improv group, "The Committee," for a decade in the 1960s/1970s. A character actor for many years on different television shows since the 1960s, he took small parts in The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Dragnet 1967 (1967), Soap (1977), and Sanford and Son (1972). The role that brought...