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Gordon Jump Biography
Birth Name:
Gordon Alexander Jump
Birth Place:
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Profession
Actor
Fast Facts
- Best known as radio-station manager Arthur Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati, he ironically began his career working as a radio-station employee
- Played a character called Wib the Clown on a weekend children's program in Topeka, KS, in the early 1960s
- First acting role of note on national TV was as a guest on the show Daniel Boone
- Played the auctioneer in the 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
- Played a child molester on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
- Began portraying Ol' Lonely, the Maytag repairman, in commercials and print advertisements in 1989
Relationships
- Cynthia Jump -- Daughter
- Kiva -- Daughter
- Laura -- Daughter
- Maggi Jo -- Daughter
- Anna F. Inge -- Ex-wife
- Chris Jump -- Son
- Betty McKeever -- Wife