Ted Wass

After Blossom ended its run in 1995, Wass retired from acting and focused only on directing episodic television series, such as Spin City, The Big Bang Theory, Less than Perfect and 2 Broke Girls.

[1] He appeared on Broadway with his Soap co-star Diana Canova in Neil Simon's They're Playing Our Song.

[5] Wass starred in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983),[1] one of the post-Peter Sellers films in the franchise, as Detective Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, engaged by Police Chief Dreyfus to track down Inspector Clouseau.

[6] He played struggling musician Bobby Shelton (who trades his soul — and his family — to become an ill-fated rock star "Billy Wayne") in the black comedy film Oh, God!

Wass' first wife was actress Janet Margolin, who died in December 1993 at age 50 from ovarian cancer.