Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III on July 5, 1950) is an American musician and occasional actor. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis & The News, a rock group based in San Francisco, California that was the highest-selling American band of the 1980s by singles. The band is perhaps best remembered in American popular culture by their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future, as well as Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel American Psycho, which devotes an entire chapter to the band. Huey Lewis also played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.

Biography
Lewis has made appearances in several movies. The first was a cameo in Back to the Future (1985), as a judge in the Hill Valley High School band audition. The band also recorded two songs for the soundtrack, including the hit "The Power of Love". Huey's second movie appearance was in Short Cuts (1993), in which Lewis had a much more significant role.
Lewis also made an appearance in the music video for Reba McEntire's 1992 single 'Is There Life Out There' as Reba's husband.
In addition, Lewis appeared in the first few minutes of the movie Sphere (1998) as the helicopter pilot. After that role, he had a large part in Shadow of a Doubt (1998) which appeared on Showtime. He had an uncredited role in Dead Husbands (1998) as the husband killed during the opening credits. He did not appear in Die Hard (1988), although Dennis Hayden, the actor who plays one of the terrorists (the one who poses as the Nakatomi lobby security guard) bears a striking resemblance to Lewis and is often mistaken for the singer.
Duets (2000) was probably Lewis' largest role in a major Hollywood feature film. In it, he played Gwyneth Paltrow's father, Ricky Dean, a karaoke hustler. Duets led to the smash-hit duet "Cruisin'" (a cover of the Smokey Robinson classic) with Paltrow. Unreleased as a single, the song nevertheless reached the top spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart. Next, he appeared in a film, .com for Murder, starring Nastassja Kinski.
In 2004, Lewis appeared in a couple episodes of the television show One Tree Hill as Haley James Scott's father Jimmy James.
Most recently Huey made his Broadway debut in the six-time Tony award-winning musical Chicago, starring as attorney Billy Flynn.

Acting
He has been married to Sidney Conroy since 1984, and resides in Ross, California. He has two children: Kelly (born 1983) and Austin (born 1985). His interests include golf, baseball, fishing, owning a Racing car, and a Harley Davidson.

Personal life

Albums
All told Huey Lewis (mainly with the News) has scored 20 Top Ten hits over Billboard's Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock Charts(not counting the groups participation in the #1 "We Are The World" charity Single). Both "Power of Love" and "I Want a New Drug" were million selling singles.

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The band are generally considered pioneers of MTV, a medium which was new, when the band were breaking out on the charts with their amazing run of hit singles.
Huey Lewis & The News are the favorite band of both Marty McFly (Back to the Future) and Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is reportedly a huge fan of Huey Lewis and the News.
The title character in the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan shares various photographs of his favorite son, named "Hooey Lewis".
References are often made to the band in shows like The Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy.
He played Reba McEntire's husband in her video "Is There Life Out There".
He covered the Beatles' "Oh! Darling" on the tribute album Come Together: America Salutes the Beatles.
His maternal grandfather is responsible for devising the plastic covering of babybel cheese.
On the opening segment of Saturday Night Live in October, 2006, Borat (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) mentioned he has three sons, one of whom is named Huey Lewis.