Wendell Burton
Voice of young
Jerry Whittaker, minor
Wendell Burton is an American
television executive and former motion picture actor and
television actor, best known for his co-starring role
with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 movie The Sterile
Cuckoo. He became involved in college theatricals
while a student at Sonoma State College (later known as
Sonoma State University). His acting career began when
he won the title role in the San Francisco production of
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Burton was plucked
from obscurity to star opposite Minnelli as Jerry Payne,
the young college student with whom she falls in love in
The Sterile Cuckoo. In the 1990s he became a
sales executive for The Family Channel, and later
helped launch an independent TV station in Houston.
Wendell makes small appearances as Jerry Whittaker (Memories
of Jerry) and Mark Reed (No,
Honestly!).
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