Alfie Wise, best known for starring in films and television shows alongside his close friend Burt Reynolds, passed away on July 22, 2025, from natural causes in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 82 and is survived by his longtime fiancée, Stephanie Bliss.
Born Ralph Louis Wise on November 17, 1942, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, he served as class president throughout junior high and high school, then again at Penn State, where he graduated in 1964. After serving in the U.S. Navy, where he produced and hosted shows aboard ship, Wise moved to Los Angeles and got his start in television as an NBC page. His first credited roles came in the early 1970s, including an appearance in the ABC pilot Call Her Mom and an episode of The Sandy Duncan Show.