Willie Aames Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
After becoming an award-winning, platinum-selling writer, producer/director Willie Aames took a 5-year hiatus and became a 6-star cruise director spending his time circling the globe and visiting over 127 countries. Recently Aames returned to his roots in the acting and film-making splitting his time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC with his ...
Full Name
Willie Aames
Net Worth
$14 Million
Date Of Birth
July 15, 1960
Place Of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Height
1.68 m
Occupation
Actor, film and television director, television producer, screenwriter
Profession
Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Television Director
Paradise, Zapped!, Cut and Run, Scavenger Hunt, Bibleman: Conquering the Wrath of Rage, Bibleman: Shattering the Prince of Pride, Bugtime Adventures: Not to Bee: The Story of Esther, Bugtime Adventures: Joy to the World: The Christmas Story, Bugtime Adventures: Riding for a Fall: Elisha Heals Naaman
TV Shows
Charles in Charge, Eight Is Enough, Bibleman, Celebrity Fit Club, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, The Edge of Night, Dungeons & Dragons, The Swiss Family Robinson, Family, We'll Get By, The Krypton Factor, Benjamin Franklin
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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[2007 interview] Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think. I plan to spend the second half of my life free. I've never been happier.
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I never thought of myself as handsome.
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When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.
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[about his church's influence on his finally getting clean and sober] When I listened to this guy on the radio, he seemed to understand what was going on with me. So Maylo and I checked this guy out at his church. We sat in the back and had a terrific time. People were warm and friendly. They didn't seem to mind that I was dressed in leather and that my girlfriend had purple hair. It didn't matter to them what we looked like or who we were. It only mattered that we were there.
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I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.
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I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
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You get to a point where you have one of two choices. You either put a gun to your head or you pray.
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Fact
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Worked for Regent Sevens Seas as a Cruise Director 2015 on the Mariner and Voyager ships.
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Assistant cruise director on MS Nautica of Oceania Cruise Lines. Performed twice a week as a singer. [September 2010]
Cruise Director on Oceania Cruise ship Marina [July 2012]
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As of late 2009, he is working his way toward being a fully licensed financial advisor. It is his hope that his experiences will help others get through dire financial straits. [November 2009]
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Cruise director on M/S Regatta of Oceania Cruise Lines [December 2011]
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His first child, a son named Christopher, is a bass player for a rock band.
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One of his first acting jobs as a youngster was in an ad for Phillips 66.
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Father was a firefighter.
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Fondly refers to his character of Bibleman as "a grape in a cape".
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Willie, his wife Maylo McCaslin, his son Christopher Upton, and his son's date were robbed at gunpoint on January 7, 2007, while they were walking around Hollywood. They were not injured.
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Son, Christopher William Upton, was born on 25 June 1981. Daughter, Harleigh Upton (aka "Harleigh Jean Upton") was born on 21 July 1990.
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During his Eight Is Enough (1977) years, he formed a rock band (Willie Aames & Paradise). His band made appearances on an Eight Is Enough (1977) episode, The Easter Seals Telethon, United Cerebal Palsy Telethon & Kids Are People Too.
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Met his second wife, actress Maylo McCaslin, on the set of Rocky Road (1985), a cable-TV show in which he was guest-starring, in 1984.
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The youngest of two older brothers and an older sister.
