After becoming an award-winning, platinum-selling writer, producer/director Willie Aames took a 5-year hiatus and became a 6-star cruise director spending his time circling the globe and visiting over 127 countries. Recently Aames returned to his roots in the acting and film-making splitting his time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC with his wife Winnie Hung. Aames has two children, Christopher and Harleigh.
Born on the same date as Kim Alexis.
(July 2012) Cruise Director on Oceania Cruise ship Marina
(July 2005) Competing on VH1s "Celebrity Fit Club" .
Assistant cruise director on MS Nautica of Oceania Cruise Lines. Performed twice a week as a singer.
Worked for Regent Sevens Seas as a Cruise Director 2015 on the Mariner and Voyager ships.
His first child, a son named Christopher, is a bass player for a rock band.
(December 2011) Cruise director on M/S Regatta of Oceania Cruise Lines
(November 2009) As of late 2009, he is working his way toward being a fully licensed financial advisor. It is his hope that his experiences will help others get through dire financial straits.
Father was a firefighter.
One of his first acting jobs as a youngster was in an ad for Phillips 66.
Fondly refers to his character of Bibleman as "a grape in a cape".
Willie, his wife Maylo McCaslin , his son Christopher Upton, and his sons date were robbed at gunpoint on January 7, 2007, while they were walking around Hollywood. They were not injured.
Son, Christopher William Upton, was born on 25 June 1981. Daughter, Harleigh Upton (aka "Harleigh Jean Upton") was born on 21 July 1990.
The youngest of two older brothers and an older sister.
Met his second wife, actress Maylo McCaslin , on the set of "Rocky Road" , a cable-TV show in which he was guest-starring, in 1984.
During his "Eight Is Enough" years, he formed a rock band (Willie Aames & Paradise). His band made appearances on an "Eight Is Enough" episode, The Easter Seals Telethon, United Cerebal Palsy Telethon & Kids Are People Too.
Dated his "Eight Is Enough" TV sister Connie Needham.
You get to a point where you have one of two choices. You either put a,gun to your head or you pray.
I never thought of myself as handsome.
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
God continues to work miracles in my life. .
