“We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took a nickel from the public trough, and I'm very proud of that. But, on the other hand, they essentially worked themselves to death. Both of them.”

American retired actor

Ken Wahl is an American retired actor best known for playing undercover FBI agent Vinnie Terranova on the television series Wiseguy. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for that role. Wahl’s work is tied above all to Wiseguy, the crime drama that made him widely known on television. His name is associated with a performance built around an undercover agent, and the recognition he received reflects that single, defining part.