Raised in Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Virginia, then he served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a disc jockey in Florida, before beginning an acting career.
[2] He played the mellow cop in the Cheech and Chong feature motion picture Up in Smoke (1978).
As a screenwriter, he received a "story by" credit on South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) a movie western directed by Dwight Yoakam.
[dubious – discuss] As a still photographer he shot the cover for Dwight Yoakam's first album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
Otto Felix studied radio & television at Cambridge School of Broadcasting, Boston ( Later renamed Grahm Junior College. )