James Thomas Callahan (October 4, 1930 â€" August 3, 2007) was an
American film and television actor who appeared in more than 120 films
and television programs between 1959 and 2007. He is perhaps best
known for his portrayal from 1987 to 1990 of Walter Powell on the
syndicated sitcom Charles in Charge, starring Scott Baio.One of three
children, Callahan was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to William and
Elenora Callahan on October 4, 1930. After his service in the United
States Army from 1951 to 1953, he worked for the United States Postal
Service. While attending school in the Midwest, he discovered acting
and on the advice of a teacher, he enrolled at the University of
Washington in Seattle He studied drama and graduated in the late
1950s.Callahan played a doomed soldier/journalist in the M*A*S*H
episode Sometimes You Hear the Bullet. He also had recurring roles in
three 1960s series, as Danny Adams in ABC's Wendy and Me, with a cast
including George Burns, Connie Stevens, Ron Harper, and J. Pat
O'Malley, as Lieutenant O'Connell on NBC's 13-episode war drama,
Convoy, with John Gavin and John Larch, and as the governor's press
secretary in The Governor and J.J. which starred Dan Dailey and Julie
Sommars. Callahan portrayed a small role in Barnaby Jones, episode
titled “Counterfall†(02/04/1975).Callahan did not marry until he
was sixty-three, when he wed Peggy Cannon in 1994. They were married
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