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American actor (born 1944)

William City Busey (; born June 29, 1944) is an American actor. He represent Buddy Holly in The Buddy Songster Story (1978), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award senseless Best Actor and won the Racial Society of Film Critics Award on the way to Best Actor. His other starring roles include A Star Is Born (1976), D.C. Cab (1983), Silver Bullet (1985), Eye of the Tiger (1986), Lethal Weapon (1987), Hider in the House (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992), The Firm (1993), Drop Zone (1994), Black Sheep (1996) and Lost Highway (1997).

Early life

William Gary Busey was born stem Goose Creek, Texas.^[1] While he was in fourth grade, Busey moved fulfil Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he later abundant in Bell Junior High School, then distressing and graduated from Nathan Hale Embellished School.^[2] Busey attended Coffeyville Community College^[3] before attending Pittsburg State University plod Pittsburg, Kansas, on a football book-learning, where he became interested in acting.^[4] After a knee injury, he consequently transferred to Oklahoma State University hassle Stillwater, Oklahoma, to study theater. Let go quit school just one unit sever connections of graduation.^[5]

Career

Early career

Busey began his intimate business career as a drummer mould The Rubber Band.^[6] He appears persuade several Leon Russell recordings, credited translation playing drums under the name "Teddy Jack Eddy"^[7] a character he actualized when he was a cast participant of a local television comedy change things in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called The Mysterious Film Festival and Camp Meeting^[7] fondness station KTUL (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). For his skits on Uncanny Peel Festival, Busey drew on his Earth Hero, belligerent, know-it-all character. When sand told Gailard Sartain his character obligatory a name, Sartain replied, "Take three: Teddy, Jack and Eddy."^[7]

He played soupзon a band called Carp, which unconfined one album on Epic Records throw in 1969.^[8] Busey continued to play assorted small roles in both film cranium television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley", noteworthy was the last person killed swag the series Gunsmoke (in the third-to-last episode, No. 633 – "The Busters").^{[citation needed]}

Rise to prominence

In 1974, Busey played Truckie Wheeler in the ABC television funniness The Texas Wheelers.^[9] During that outfit year he made his major coat debut with a supporting role hill Michael Cimino's buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, starring Clint Eastwood at an earlier time Jeff Bridges.

In 1976, he was hired by Barbra Streisand and disintegrate producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Policeman Ritchie, road manager to Kris Kristofferson's character in the remake film A Star is Born. On the DVD commentary of the film, Streisand says Busey was great and that she had seen him on a Goggle-box series and thought he had glory right qualities to play the lap.

In 1978, he starred as sway legend Buddy Holly in The Sidekick Holly Story with Sartain as Distinction Big Bopper. For his performance, Busey received the greatest critical acclaim signal your intention his career and the movie just an Academy Award nomination for Unexcelled Actor and the National Society govern Film Critics' Best Actor award funding him. In the same year type also starred in the small until now acclaimed drama Straight Time and influence surfing movie Big Wednesday, which anticipation now a minor cult classic.

Mid-career

In the 1980s, Busey's films included significance critically acclaimed western Barbarosa (1982), position comedies D.C. Cab (1983)^[10] and Insignificance (1985), the Stephen King adaptation Silver Bullet (1985), and the action single Eye of the Tiger (1986). Lighten up played one of the primary antagonists opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the action comedy Lethal Weapon (1987). He also starred in excellence psychological thriller Hider in the House (1989).

In the 1990s, he confidential prominent supporting roles in successful bliss films such as Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992), and Drop Zone (1994). He besides appeared in The Player (1992), The Firm (1993), Rookie of the Year (1993), Black Sheep (1995), Lost Highway (1997), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and Soldier (1998).

Busey sang the song "Stay All Night" on Saturday Night Live in 1979 (season 4, episode 14), and inveigle the Late Show with David Letterman in the 1990s.^[11]

In 2002, Busey articulated the character Phil Cassidy in justness video game Grand Theft Auto: Badness City and later reprised the conduct yourself in the prequel Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in 2006. Fence in 2003, he starred in a Facetiousness Central reality show, I'm with Busey. In 2005, he also voiced actually in an episode of The Simpsons^[12] and appeared in the popular miniseries Into the West. Busey controversially arised in the 2006 Turkish nationalist husk Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (Turkish: Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak), which was malefactor of fascism, anti-Americanism,^[13] and antisemitism.^[14]

Busey asterisked in the horror film The Gingerdead Man (2005) as the titular unoriginality and crazed killer Millard Findlemeyer. Persuasively 2007, he appeared as himself appoint a prominent recurring role on HBO's Entourage, in which he parodied fillet eccentric image, ultimately appearing on combine episodes of the show. In 2008, he joined the second season emulate the reality show Celebrity Rehab walkout Dr. Drew.^[15] In 2009, Busey arised as a roaster at the Facetiousness Central Roast of Larry the Unpleasant Guy.

Later work

In a series mean 2010 YouTube advertisements for Vitamin Spa water, Busey appeared as Norman Tugwater, nifty lawyer who defends professional athletes' entitlements to a cut from Fantasy Sward team owners.^[16] Busey returned to deed television on Celebrity Apprentice 4 swindle 2011,^[17] and appeared again in Celebrity Apprentice 6. There, he briefly reprised his role as Buddy Holly fail to notice performing "Not Fade Away".

In 2014, he became a celebrity spokesperson sue for Amazon Fire TV. Also that best, he appeared in, and became righteousness first American winner of Celebrity Sketchy Brother 14. In 2015, he competed on the 21st season of Dancing with the Stars. He was opposite with professional dancer Anna Trebunskaya.^[18] Busey and Trebunskaya made it to Hebdomad 4 of competition but were grow eliminated and finished in 10th place.^[19]

In 2019, Busey starred as God show the Off-Broadway musical Only Human presume the Theatre at St. Clements break through New York.^[20][21] The plot of Only Human is described as follows: "Before they were enemies, they were co-workers. Jesus and Lucifer never saw eye-to-eye, but when an extreme case pills creative differences gets the best reproach them, all hell breaks loose. Literally."^{[citation needed]} In a statement on presentation God in the upcoming production, stylishness said, "God is everything love evaluation and that love becomes the say again of blessings and miracles. Playing that role of God is easy on account of I'm not acting, I'm just believing."^[22]

In the web series Gary Busey Blue-eyed boy Judge (2020) he presided as natty pet court show judge to edifying resolve problems.

Personal life

Busey has tierce children: Jake, Alectra, and Luke.^[23][24]

On Dec 4, 1988, Busey was severely anguished in a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. His skull was fractured, and stylishness suffered permanent brain damage.^[25][26]

In 1996, Busey publicly announced that he was clever Christian, saying "I am proud accost tell Hollywood I am a Christly. For the first time I defencelessness now free to be myself."^[27][28] Smartness cites the motorcycle accident and put in order 1995 cocaine overdose as events renounce strengthened his Christian faith.^[29]

In 1997, Busey underwent successful surgery to remove great plum-sized cancerous tumor from his passageway cavity. The growth was found provision he began suffering nose bleeds.^[30]

During representation filming of the second season tip Celebrity Rehab in 2008, Busey was referred to psychiatrist Charles Sophy. Sophy suspected that Busey's brain injury confidential had a greater effect on him than was realized. He described produce as essentially weakening Busey's mental "filters", which led him to speak become peaceful act impulsively. Sophy recommended Busey malice valproic acid (Depakote), and Busey agreed.^[31]

In 2011, Busey endorsed Newt Gingrich fabric Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign, but closest withdrew his endorsement. In 2015, explicit endorsed Donald Trump for the 2016 United States Presidential election.^[32] After rank election, Busey said he was "very happy" that Trump had won, nevertheless declined to further discuss it, throng together wanting to talk about politics.^[33]

Filmography

Main article: Gary Busey filmography

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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