Biografia
Kenny Morse literally grew up in show business as the son of a famed New York production executive (who brought us such television classics as "Howdy Doody", "Naked City" and "The Defenders" and movies such as "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Main Event"). As a child actor, Kenny had many parts on episodic television shows, commercials and was one of the original cast members of the National Tour of the Broadway show "Grease" and "Pontius Pilate" in the Los Angeles company of "Jesus Christ Superstar". A graduate of Boston University School of The Arts, he continued acting in commercials and also behind the scenes in production management through the '80's as an Assistant Production Manager or Location Manager on many television movies. Kenny was offered an opportunity in 1987 to take his acting and management experience to help make better drivers at a school that originated "Comedy" traffic school. In 1990, Kenny created "Ask Mr. Traffic" as a Los Angeles television and talk radio show. As a regular contributor on KFI Radio in LA, Kenny made the "Mr.Traffic" name famous in LA he was honored with the Southern California Cable Association's "Diamond Award" for "Best Live Call-in Show and The show ran from 1990-2008 as the longest running Live Call-in Show on Southern California Cable. Being "Mr. Traffic" got Kenny noticed by world wide press, and Mr. Traffic has appeared on many local and national television shows ranging from "Good Morning America," "Talk Soup," and profiles done on him on "Extra", CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and FOX news, and was profiled in August 2009 in a 5 page article in The New Yorker Magazine. He hosted his own radio show "The Driving Show with Mr. Traffic", on KRLA in Los Angeles, and a regular fill-in host on TalkRadio 790 KABC in addition to contributing to many other local, national and international TV & Radio shows. For the past 4 years, Kenny was featured on the Premiere Radio Network's Sirius/XM channels, hosting "Drivetime with Mr. Traffic" where he interviewed the biggest driving safety officials in our government.
Kenny played "Dr. Culkin" in 2004's "Tales From Beyond," produced the Longest Running Nightclub Show in West Hollywood called Karaoke With Kenny (named "Best Karaoke in LA" by L.A. Magazine) for 22 years while continuing his radio, TV and teaching work as "Mr. Traffic." In 2012, he returned to acting the feature film "The Newest Pledge", playing a Priest with James Franco in 3 episodes of ABC's "General Hospital" and has been playing a Doctor ever since on the show. Kenny and has been working as an AFTRA "Rehearsal Actor/Stand-in" on American Idol as Steven Tyler's stand in 2 seasons, and 2014, Ryan Seacrest's stand in for finale and Harry Connick Jr. for the season, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, The Biggest Loser, The annual MDA Show of Strength Telethon, The Guys Choice Awards, The Alma Awards, The Huading Awards, ABC's Splash and many many other live shows. Kenny performed a special bit with Jennifer Lawrence for the 2013 Oscars and as Howie Mandel's stand in for 2 seasons for all rehearsals on America's Got Talent.
