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McKean began his career (as well as the characters of Lenny and Squiggy) in Pittsburgh while a student at Carnegie Mellon; David Lander was a fellow student at CMU.
Lenny and the Squigtones is a fictional musical group headed in character by Michael McKean and David Lander, the two actors who played Lenny and Squiggy on the U.S. television series Laverne & Shirley, which is set primarily in the 1950s.
Feb 21, 2006 · McKean got his start playing Lenny in the 1970s sitcom Laverne and Shirley. He is currently co-starring in the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game. Out of 'Tap': Michael McKean with Harry...
McKean was born in New York City at Manhattan Women's Hospital, now part of the Mt. Sinai St. Luke's complex on Amsterdam Avenue. He is the son of Ruth Stewart McKean, a librarian, and Gilbert S. McKean, one of the founders of Decca Records, and was raised in Sea Cliff, New York, on Long Island.
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May 21, 1995 · Michael McKean and David L. Lander, who played Laverne and Shirley’s oddball pals Lenny and Squiggy, were friends who met as drama majors at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Tech (now called Carnegie...
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Jun 7, 2013 · He was actually in the touring band of Lenny and the Squigtones—playing Mr. Nigel Tufnel, as a matter of fact—and then he went off to do The Long Riders, for which he grew a beard, so he wasn...
Jun 3, 2013 · When he played Lenny on ABC’s popular 1976-83 sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” Michael McKean realized he could easily become typecast as his dumb, lovable Fonzie wannabe and pal of the...
