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CAST BIOS JOHN SCHNEIDER (Jim Klecan) – Though he will forever be associated with the popular “The Dukes of Hazzard,” John Schneider’s career has run the gamut from film, TV, music and Broadway. Inspired by an early love of movies, such as film classics James Cagney’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Schneider began acting at the age of eight, performing in theater in his native Mount Kisco, New York, where he was born in 1960. The young thesp continued stage acting in Atlanta, after a move with his mother in 1974. Four years later, after learning about a casting search 24-to-30-year-olds from the South for “Dukes,” the 18-year-old John auditioned the part of Bo Duke, lying about his age and background and bringing a six-pack of beer – and landing the part. The popular series ran for seven seasons on CBS from 1979 to 1985. John continued making countless appearances in TV and film throughout the 80s and 90s, including a 1986 remake of John Ford’s western classic, “Stagecoach,” this time starring Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Schneider as the coach driver originally portrayed by Andy Devine. He had the recurring role of Daniel Simon on CBS’s “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” as well as appearances on “Diagnosis Murder,” “Veronica’s Closet” and others – plus the first appearance, in 1995, of the devil on “Touched By An Angel,” a performance which convinced the network to pick up the fledgling series. John became familiar to a whole new generation of fans playing Clark Kent’s father, Jonathan, on “Smallville,” on the WB television network for five seasons, from 2001 to 2006.
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