Steven Robert Guttenberg born August 24, is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for playing Carey Mahoney in the Police Academy films from to On television, he started his career in the CBS sitcom Billy He was a contestant during season 6 of the dance competition series Dancing with the Stars Guttenberg was born on August 24, [ 1 ] in Brooklyn , New York. During that time, he auditioned for and won a part in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter.
After playing an uncredited bit part in the suspense film Rollercoaster , [ 11 ] Guttenberg had his first screen credit in the TV movie Something for Joey Next he played the starring role in the high school comedy The Chicken Chronicles , set in Beverly Hills in He had a supporting role in a tennis romance film Players In , a Coca-Cola commercial featured him trying to help a non-English-speaking woman fix a flat bicycle tire.
In the same year, he starred in the Nancy Walker -directed Can't Stop the Music , a semi-autobiographical movie about the disco group Village People.
Guttenberg starred in the action-comedy The Man Who Wasn't There and had a supporting part in the post-apocalyptic television movie The Day After He starred in The Ferret a pilot for a TV series which was not picked up. In , Guttenberg played the lead role in Police Academy.
Guttenberg then had the romantic male lead in Cocoon , another box-office success. A comedy in which he starred, Bad Medicine , was not particularly successful. Also in , he starred in Short Circuit opposite Ally Sheedy , another very popular film.
