John Byner

About John Byner

Who is it?: Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day: June 28, 1938
Birth Place:  New York City, New York, United States
Occupation: Actor, comedian, impressionist
Years active: 1967-present
Spouse(s): Eleanor Belcher (m. 1960; div. 1969) Sally Fisher (m. 1982; div. 1983) Ksenia Prohaska (m. 1985–?; divorced) Anne Gaybis (m. 1992)
Children: 4 (with Eleanor Belcher)

John Byner

John Byner was born on June 28, 1938 in  New York City, New York, United States, is Actor, Soundtrack. The proud owner of scores of dialects and hundreds of uncanny impersonations, slight, deadpan, rubber-faced, light-haired funnyman John Byner is the forerunner to such presently gifted comic impressionists as Dana Carvey and Frank Caliendo. Byner's spot-on impressions have run the entertainment and historical gamut -- from John Wayne, Walter Brennan and George Jessel to U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. As icing on the cake, he could unleash hilariously over-done singing vocals to such stylists as Johnny Mathis and Dean Martin. At his heyday in the late 60s and early 70s, John and Rich Little were the cream of the mimicking crop -- deservedly recognized as the "Men of 1,000 Impressions".Born John Biener on June 28, 1938 in New York City, he was the son of Michael Biener, an auto mechanic, and Christina Biener, a mental hospital attendant. His stand-up comedy career began in New York's Greenwich Village where he worked for a year for Max Gordon at Gordon's jazz club "Village Vanguard". He then went on to open for some of the finest jazz greats of his time and steadily became a favorite New York nightclub fixture. As he rose to the top of his game, he opened or headlined prominent niteries throughout the country included headlining stints at Basin Street East, Copa Cabana, Latin Quarter, The Rainbow Room and at such showrooms as Harrah's, The Sahara, The Sands, Caesar's Palace, The Tropicana and Las Vegas Hilton.John's TV career break happened in New York City on Merv Griffin's "Talent Scouts Show" in 1964. After great exposure on both Garry Moore and Steve Allen's variety shows in 1966 and 1967, he clowned around on Ed Sullivan's showcase program over two dozen times and Johnny Carson late-night haunt over three dozen times. He added to the laughs on Carol Burnett, Mike Douglas and Dean Martin's self-titled shows and became a veritable favorite with David Letterman and Jay Leno at night. He hosted and starred in his own summer variety series with The John Byner Comedy Hour (1972) which focused on sketch comedy and sitcom spoofs. John's series "Comedy on the Road," which aired for four seasons on A&E earned him his second Ace Award. The first came for his uproarious series Bizarre (1980), a half-hour sketch-styled program which aired for six seasons.As an actor John contributed side-splitting moments on such established 60s and 70s shows as "Get Smart", "Soap," "Maude" and "The Odd Couple" and made his film debut in the Barbra Streisand/'Ryan O'Neal' gagfest What's Up, Doc? (1972). While he never found a strong footing in film, he managed to add second-banana fun to a handful of slapstick vehicles for such top comic stars as Rodney Dangerfield.John's penchant for creating voices led to an expansive career in cartoons and voiceovers for Disney projects as well as the animated programs "Duckman," "Angry Beavers" and "Rug Rats." A cartoon segment entitled "The Ant and the Aardvark" on "The Pink Panther Show" series had the title characters voiced by Byner, who gave dead-on impressions of Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively. Married four times, John has four children from his first marriage.
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Occupation Actor
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born June 28, 1938 ( New York City, New York, United States)
Birthday June 28
Town/City  New York City, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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John Byner’s zodiac sign is Cancer. According to astrologers, the sign of Cancer belongs to the element of Water, just like Scorpio and Pisces. Guided by emotion and their heart, they could have a hard time blending into the world around them. Being ruled by the Moon, phases of the lunar cycle deepen their internal mysteries and create fleeting emotional patterns that are beyond their control. As children, they don't have enough coping and defensive mechanisms for the outer world, and have to be approached with care and understanding, for that is what they give in return.

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Biography/Timeline

1967

On a 1967 episode of Get Smart, he played a KAOS agent who made a phone call to the Chief of CONTROL (played by Edward Platt), performed a perfect impression of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and told the Chief he was fired and replaced with agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams).

1970

In the 1970s, Byner appeared several times on The Carol Burnett Show, where in one comedy Sketch he wore a Donald Duck costume and mimicked the cartoon character's distinctive voice. He appeared several times on talk shows hosted by David Letterman.

1976

Byner played a comedian/impersonator aboard a cruise ship in season 6 of Hawaii Five-O. His character, Duffy Malone, did impersonations of John Wayne and then got hit on the back of his head as a diversionary tactic by the bad guy. He had a recurring role in the situation comedy The Practice during its first season in 1976.

1980

In the 1980s, he hosted Bizarre, which re-introduced many people to hapless Daredevil Super Dave Osborne played by Bob Einstein. In 1983 he had a role as "Doc," who was Burt Reynolds' longtime childhood friend in the movie Stroker Ace. In 1985 the Walt Disney Company's animated feature The Black Cauldron was released, featuring Byner voicing the characters Gurgi and Doli. He was a regular Celebrity guest on Hollywood Squares during the John Davidson years and later hosted the 1988-89 syndicated game show Relatively Speaking. He appeared in an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series as a washed-up Ventriloquist.

1992

Byner was born John Biener in New York City, the son of Christina, a mental hospital attendant, and Michael Biener, a truck mechanic. Byner has been married four times, he had four children with his first wife Eleanor Belcher. He is currently married to Anne Gaybis since 1992.

2017

On May 26, 2017, it was reported that Byner had been cast in a supporting role in the Amazon Video horror anthology series Lore, which is based on the podcast of the same name. Byner portrays Patrick Boland, the father of Bridget Cleary (played by Holland Roden). Lore premiered on October 13, 2017.

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