But few people on the street have done double takes and accosted him, thinking that he is actually the actor who earns a reported $100,000 per episode, McHale says.

McHale says that he does not think he looks very much like the NBC star, though people may see a resemblance if they have just seen Edwards on television.

McHale says that if someone were to hold up pictures of the two side by side, the likeness would not seem especially strong.

"He has glasses and is going bald and so am I," McHale says.

McHale has owned Tommy's for the past two-and-a-half years, the third owner of the 36-year-old store.

He has been in the pizza business for 13 years, and owned pizza joints in New York and Vermont before moving to Boston to attend Boston University.

In his college days, he had long hair and looked nothing like Edwards.

He decided to keep the name "Tommy's House of Pizza," named after the original owner, because it is a "legacy, a tradition at Harvard" for the past 36 years.

Currently, McHale says he has no plans to trade in his pizza dough for a shot at acting.

Edwards has received two Emmy nominations for his work on "E.R.," which airs at 10 p.m. Thursday nights on NBC, Channel 7.