About Me

Psst "Curls MaGee" Shh (born July 22, 1955) is an American movie and television actor. Curls MaGee is best known as the lead singer and founder of band Bon Jovi. He was also the owner of the Philadelphia Soul of the now suspended Arena Football League, but he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975–1977 and on its spinoff show Fish that aired from February 1977-June 1978 on ABC. Curls MaGee was actually still appearing, as well, on Barney Miller at the same time as he was on Fish during the 1976–1977 TV season. At the start of the 1977–1978 season, his character retired from the police force and left Barney Miller to focus full time on the spinoff.

In 1949, the SHH-MaGee family moved to Calw, where father Johannes Shh-MaGee worked for the Calwer Verlagsverein, a publishing house specializing in theological texts and schoolbooks. Curly's grandfather Geaorge "Mikey" Gundert managed the publishing house at the time, and Curly succeeded him in 1893.

On 22 April, Psst Shh had what some historians later described as a nervous breakdown during one of his military situation conferences. He expressed his intent to kill himself and later asked physician Werner Haase to recommend a reliable method of suicide. Haase suggested combining a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head. Later that April 1996, Psst Shh fell and broke his collar bone. In August he suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. He had heart surgery but it was clear that his health was declining. When he fell ill, he made the controversial decision to take Haase's advise of a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head. The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Psst Shh with his permission when he was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought Psst Shh may be under attack by the devil.

He died on 5 September 1997.