Gary Sandy

Gary Sandy Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: December 25, 1945

Age: 79 years old

Birth Place: Dayton, Ohio

Although Gary Sandy has had a solid career as a working actor since the early 1970s, the Ohio native will forever be best known for his one starring role, as the affable but beleaguered station manager Andy Travis on the cult favorite sitcom "WKRP In Cincinnati." After attending New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sandy spent much of the first half of the 1970s appearing on soap operas including "Another World," "As the World Turns," and "Somerset," while also working in Off-Broadway and Broadway shows and appearing in a few small films. In 1977, Sandy took a supporting role on Norman Lear's short-lived satirical soap opera parody "All That Glitters"; set in a world where gender roles were reversed, Sandy played the secretary of a high-powered female business executive.

The following year, creator Hugh Wilson cast Sandy as the center of his series "WKRP in Cincinnati"; as Andy Travis, the new program director who changes a failing AM radio station from elevator music to rock, Sandy played the straight man in an office filled with loons ranging from dissolute D.J. Dr. Johnny Fever to sleazy sales manager Herb Tarlek. Though it was a critical darling, the series never gained a particularly large audience, and it was canceled in 1982. Although Sandy appeared in a handful of TV shows and films following its demise, including a small role as a tobacco industry lawyer in "The Insider," he has largely focused on live theater since the 1980s.

Credits

Mickey Spillane's Encore for Murder

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Mike Hammer
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2023

A Place Called Home

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Douglas "Doc" Hamilton
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2004

Lightning: Fire From the Sky

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Luke
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2001

Martial Law

Guest Star
Series
1998

Against the Law

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Chief Leitner
Movie
1998

Mommy 2: Mommy's Day

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Anderson
Movie
1997

Unlikely Angel

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Charlie
Movie
1996

Diagnosis MurderStream

Guest Star
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1993

Murder, She WroteStream

Guest Star
Joe Blinn
Series
1984

For Lovers Only

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Peter Ward
Movie
1982

WKRP in CincinnatiStream

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Andy Travis
Series
1978

The Great Smokey Roadblock

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Charlie La Pere
Movie
1978

CHiPsStream

Guest Star
Series
1977

Starsky & HutchStream

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Series
1975

Shell Game

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Bellhop
Movie
1975

Barnaby JonesStream

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Series
1973

Hail to the Chief

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Tom Goodman
Movie
1972

Hail

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Tom Goodman
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1972

Some of My Best Friends Are...

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Jim Paine
Movie
1971