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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.
Mar 31, 2015 · The first time America noticed McKean was on Laverne and Shirley, but the Lenny and Squiggy characters started while McKean and David Lander were College students in Pittsburgh. Michael was ...
Jun 3, 2013 · June 3, 2013 12 AM PT. 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 ...
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.
Mini Bio. 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.
- Actor, Director, Composer
- October 17, 1947
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.
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...
