Career
He began his career as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War. Wheeler was born in Hitchin, England in 1939. He was a war photographer for United Press International in Vietnam, and he photographed the fall of Saigon for Newsweek.
Wheeler had moved to Beirut, Lebanon in the early 1970s and freelanced throughout the Middle East for a number of European magazines.
Wheeler is married to actress Pamela Bellwood.