Robert Wuhl

Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer who began on screen with a starring part in the 1980 comedy The Hollywood Knights and a smaller one in Flashdance (1983). He went on to bigger roles in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bull Durham (1988), and Tim Burton's Batman (1989), playing the reporter Alexander Knox. His film credits also include Mistress (1992), The Bodyguard (1992), Blue Chips (1994), and Cobb (1994). He earned two Emmy Awards as a co-writer of the Academy Awards broadcasts in 1990 and 1991, and he wrote episodes of Police Squad! in 1982. Between 1996 and 2002 he created and starred in the HBO comedy Arliss as a sports agent, and he later performed one-man history shows for HBO. Born in Union, New Jersey, he studied at the University of Houston.