Gary Busey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-06-29 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Goose Creek, Texas, USA

Gary Busey

Biography

William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in over 120 films, as well as making regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Busey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1990

Predator 2

as Peter Keyes

1987

Lethal Weapon

as Mr. Joshua

1991

Point Break

as Agent Angelo Pappas

1997

Lost Highway

as Bill Dayton

1998

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

as Highway Patrolman

1992

The Player

as Gary Busey

1994

Drop Zone

as Ty Moncrief

1993

Rookie of the Year

as Chet Steadman

2002

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

as Richmond Claremont

1999

The Girl Next Door

as Sheriff Larson

1978

The Buddy Holly Story

as Buddy Holly

1978

Straight Time

as Willy Darin

1973

The Last American Hero

as Wayne Jackson

2007

Maneater

as Grady Barnes

1994

Chasers

as Sergeant Vince Banger

1982

Barbarosa

as Karl Westover

1980

Carny

as Frankie

1992

Under Siege

as Commander Krill

1976

The Gumball Rally

as Gibson (Camaro Team)

1997

Steel Sharks

as Cmdr. Bill McKay

2005

No Rules

as Leroy Little

1986

Eye of the Tiger

as Buck Matthews

2006

Crooked

as John Rouse

2005

The Gingerdead Man

as Millard Findlemeyer

1983

D.C. Cab

as Dell

1986

2001

A Crack in the Floor

as Tyler Trout

1996

Black Sheep

as Drake Sabitch

2005

Chasing Ghosts

as Marcos Alfiri

1988

Act of Piracy

as Ted Andrews

1996

Carried Away

as Major Nathan Wheeler

1985

Insignificance

as The Ballplayer

2007

Homo Erectus

as Krutz

1993

The Firm

as Eddie Lomax

1994

1991

Voices That Care

as Self - Choir Member

1994

Surviving the Game

as Doc Hawkins

2004

2008

Beyond The Ring

as Tony De Luca

2004

Latin Dragon

as Thorn

1978

Big Wednesday

as Leroy "The Masochist" Smith

1976

A Star Is Born

as Bobbie Ritchie

2012

Piranha 3DD

as Clayton

2003

Quigley

as Archie Channing

2004

Border Blues

as LAPD medium Michael March

1997

Plato's Run

as Plato

2003

The Prize Fighter

as Whitey Ferguson

1989

Hider in the House

as Tom Sykes

2000

Tribulation

as Tom Canboro

1970

1988

Bulletproof

as Frank 'Bulletproof' McBain

2004

Ghost Rock

as Jack Pickett

1995

Man with a Gun

as Jack Rushton

1997

Lethal Tender

as Mr. Turner

2020

The Follow-Up

as Self (archive footage)

1980

1998

Rough Draft

as Nelson Keece

1999

1999

Two Shades of Blue

as Jack Reynolds

1992

Canvas

as Ozzy Decker

2001

Down 'n Dirty

as D. A. Mickey Casey

1997

The Rage

as Art Dacy

1973

Lolly-Madonna XXX

as Zeb Gutshall

1996

The Chain

as Frank Morrisey

2000

G-Men from Hell

as Lt. Langdon

1973

Hex

as Giblets

1993

South Beach

as Lenny

2013

1997

Suspicious Minds

as Vic Mulvey

2013

Bounty Killer

as Van Sterling

1994

Warriors

as Frank Vail

1992

Chrome Soldiers

as Jim 'Flash' Gordon

1989

The Neon Empire

as Frank Weston

1991

Wild Texas Wind

as Justice Parker

1973

Blood Sport

as David Lee Birdsong

1984

The Bear

as Paul W. Bryant

2002

On the Edge

as Felix

2004

2010

1974

The Law

as William Bright

2014

Behaving Badly

as Chief Clark

1998

Soldier

as Church

2002

Hooded Angels

as Sheriff

1972

Dirty Little Billy

as Basil Crabtree

2014

Guido

as Steve Kaufman

1996

Sticks & Stones

as Book's Dad

1996

The Real Thing

as Foreman

1998

Detour

as Mo Ginsburg

2003

2009

Hallettsville

as Sheriff David Ketchum

1986

2006

The Hard Easy

as Vinnie

2015

Entourage

as Gary Busey

2006

Cloud 9

as Gary Busey

2015

Bikini Model Academy

as Uncle Seymore

2000

Hot Boyz

as Tully

2016

1968

Wild in the Streets

as Concert Attendee (uncredited)

-

Downtown Bus

as Gruce Gissler

2016

Candiland

as Arnie/God

2005

Shade of Pale

as Billings

-

The Hand Job

as Blind Master

2006

2016

Mamaboy

as Coach Dombrowski

2006

Dr. Dolittle 3

as Butch (voice)

2007

2015

Mansion of Blood

as Zacharia

2018

Camp Manna

as Jack Cujo Parrish

2006

Descansos

as The Keeper

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as John C. Calhoun (voice)

2019

Butcher's Bake Off: Hell's Kitchen

as Millard Findlemeyer (archive footage) (uncredited)

1985

Silver Bullet

as Uncle Red

1967

The Love-Ins

as Hippie with Loudspeaker (uncredited)

2024

Holy Cash

as Actor

2005

Buckaroo

as Dr. Brawn

2002

Sam & Janet

as Bartender

2000

Production

1975

Nashville

as Music

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