G.W. Bailey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-08-27 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Port Arthur, Texas, USA

G.W. Bailey

Biography

​George William Bailey was born on August 27, 1944, in Port Arthur, Texas. Bailey started college at Lamar University in Beaumont and eventually transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock; but he did not complete his studies. He worked at local theater companies during the mid 1960s until his move to California in the 1970s. Here he began work on television series such as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976) and CHiPs (1977). He eventually got a movie debut role in the Chuck Norris movie A Force of One (1979) before landing the role of Luther Rizzo in MASH (1972-1983). In 1993, he returned to Texas to study again at Southwes...

Acting

1987

Mannequin

as Captain Felix Maxwell

1986

Short Circuit

as Skroeder

2000

Saint Paul

as Barnabas

2002

Scorcher

as General Moore

1985

Warning Sign

as Tom Schmidt

1984

Police Academy

as Lieutenant Harris

2004

Home on the Range

as Rusty (voice)

1987

Burglar

as Ray Kirschman

1996

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

as Ralph Coulter

1985

1992

An American Story

as Tom Cantrell

2012

The Newest Pledge

as Mr. Hodgkinson

1995

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

as Lieutenant (uncredited)

1990

Q & A

as Bartender (uncredited)

2007

Cake: A Wedding Story

as Howard Canter

1991

1984

Runaway

as Chief

1997

1993

Dead Before Dawn

as Masterson

1991

A Mother's Justice

as Joe Comminger

1991

Write to Kill

as Dean Sutton

1989

The Gifted One

as Dr. Winslow

1975

1985

Into Thin Air

as Sergeant Frasier (uncredited)

1991

Before the Storm

as Director Waugh

1985

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1990

Fine Things

as Grossman

2015

My Boy

as Chet

1993

No Child of Mine

as Lamar Jenkins

1987

Hawaiian Dream

as Sgt. Pierce

1991

Memories of M*A*S*H

as Self / Luther Rizzo

1992

Bed of Lies

as Zeke Zbranek

1990

Love and Lies

as Sgt. Halsey

1979

1997

Solomon

as Azarel

1999

Jesus

as Livio

1981

Bitter Harvest

as Jim Laszlo

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