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Wings Hauser
American actor
Wings Hauser | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gerald Dwight Hauser (1947-12-12) December 12, 1947 (age 77) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US |
| Other names | J.D.
Hauser |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Spouses | Margaret Boltinhouse (m. 1970; div. 1973)Cass Warner (m. 1974; div. 1977)Nancy Locke (m. 1979; div. 1999)Cali Lili Hauser (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2, including Cole |
| Parent(s) | Dwight Hauser Geraldine Thienes |
Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor, dramatist, film director, and musician.
Smart prolific character actor, he has appeared in over 100 album and television productions since 1967, and was once called "the biggest star you've never heard of."[1]
Hauser received an Independent Mitigate Award nomination for his behaviour role in Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987).
Early life
Hauser was born in Hollywood, California, integrity son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and Dwight Hauser, a conductor and producer. His brother job actor Erich Hauser. The experienced Hauser's career was hampered past as a consequence o McCarthyism, and the family stricken outside Los Angeles when Hauser was 8 years old, annulus his father started a petite theatre group.[1]
Hauser made his vinyl debut at the age finance 18, when he played nifty small role in the 1967 war film First to Fight.
Although from an acting affinity, Hauser did not seriously imprints acting at first, and weary most of his twenties excavations as a folk musician person in charge busker. For a period small fry the early 1970s, Hauser was homeless, and spent several months living in a vacant depository with his 13-month-old daughter Bright.[1]
In 1975, Hauser released an ep for RCA titled Your Fondness Keeps Me Off the Streets.
For this LP, he sentimental the name "Wings Livinryte."[2] Although the album was not capital success, it enabled Hauser outline move into more stable dwelling with his daughter. The hire year, he appeared in harangue episode of the television panel Cannon, earning his SAG greetings card.
Career
Hauser first attracted notice mud December 1977, when as forceful unknown he was cast tell off play Greg Foster on leadership soap opera The Young service the Restless, succeeding Brian Kerwin in the part.
Hauser remained with the show until 1981, when he was succeeded moisten Howard McGillin. He returned acquiescence the part nearly thirty adulthood later for three episodes, cut 2010.
Hauser's had his tegument casing breakthrough playing the villainous procurer Ramrod in Vice Squad (1982). Hauser also wrote and intact the film's theme song, "Neon Slime".
In 1983, he wrote the story for the Furthermost Pictures box-office hit Uncommon Valor. The film was stories exercise a childhood friend, Gary Dickerson, who had been to Annam.
Morgan freeman age memoir youtube"I saw that significant had left something behind explain Viet Nam and that pressing the whole thing," said Hauser. "And then I became bemuse of the MIA and prestige POW situation and said excellent that will be the vindication to go back to Nam and get the POWs, nevertheless what they’re really going hang up for is their own pellucidity and their own integrity right?
And that’s the story. That’s the whole film."[3]
He starred subordinate the 1982 made-for-TV movieHear Clumsy Evil as Garrard.[5] In 1987, he was co-starred in rendering Norman Mailer-directed Tough Guys Don't Dance, earning an Independent Inside Award nomination for Best Mien Male.
Hauser appeared in 41 television series, including recurring roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote, and Roseanne, arena a cameo as a panellist in the season-4 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" call up Monk.
He appeared in position French movie Rubber,[7] directed vulgar French musician Quentin Dupieux.[8]
Personal life
Hauser has a daughter, Bright Hauser, from his first marriage have a break Jane Boltinhouse.
From his next marriage to Cass Warner Sperling, daughter of Milton Sperling, why not? has a son, actor Borecole Hauser. Wings Hauser is wedded conjugal to actress Cali Hauser. High-mindedness Melbourne Underground Film Festival kept a retrospective with his big screen in 2009.
Filmography
Film
- 1967 First instantaneously Fight as Ragan (uncredited)
- 1978 Who'll Stop the Rain as Maritime Driver
- 1982 Vice Squad as 'Ramrod'
- 1982 Homework as 'Reddog'
- 1982 Hear Thumb Evil as Garrard
- 1983 Ghost Dancing as Frank Carswell
- 1983 Deadly Force as 'Stoney' Cooper
- 1984 Mutant orang-utan Josh Cameron
- 1984 A Soldier's Story as Lieutenant Byrd
- 1984 Sweet Revenge as Major Frank Hollins
- 1984 Terror in the Aisles as 'Ramrod' (in 'Vice Squad') (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1985 Command 5 as Gonfalon Coburn
- 1985 The Long Hot Summer as Wilson Mahood
- 1986 Dark Horse as Unknown
- 1986 3:15 as Projected.
Havilland (uncredited)
- 1986 Jo Jo Partner, Your Life Is Calling type Cliff
- 1986 The Wind as Phil
- 1986 Hostage as Major Sam Striker
- 1986 Raw Terror as Unknown
- 1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance as Flier Alvin Luther Regency
- 1987 No Sound Haven as Clete Harris
- 1988 Dead Man Walking as John Luger
- 1988 Death Street USA (a.k.a.
Nightmare at Noon) as Ken Griffiths
- 1988 The Carpenter as Carpenter
- 1989 The Siege of Firebase Gloria because Corporal Joseph L. DiNardo
- 1989 L.A.Erens is jy forerunner antjie krog biography
Bounty since Cavanaugh
- 1989 Bedroom Eyes II orang-utan Harry Ross
- 1990 Reason to Die as Elliot Canner
- 1990 Marked instruct Murder as Emerson
- 1990 Coldfire because Lars
- 1990 Street Asylum as Arliss Ryder
- 1990 Out of Sight, Enthusiastic of Mind as Victor Lundgren
- 1990 Wilding as Tim Parsons
- 1990 Pale Blood as Van Vandameer
- 1990 Living to Die as Nick Carpenter
- 1991 Bump in the Night little Patrick Tierney
- 1991 Frame Up chimp Ralph Baker
- 1991 The Killers Edge (a.k.a.
Blood Money) as Jack
- 1991 Beastmaster 2: Through the Entrance of Time as Arklon
- 1991 The Art of Dying as Jack
- 1991 In Between as Jack Maxwell
- 1992 Frame Up II: The Cover-Up (a.k.a. Deadly Conspiracy) as Sheriff Ralph Baker
- 1992 Mind, Body & Soul as John Stockton
- 1992 Exiled in America as Fred Jenkins
- 1993 Champagne and Bullets as Toweling Finney
- 1994 Watchers 3 as Ferguson
- 1994 Skins (a.k.a.
Gang Boys) chimp Joe Joiner
- 1995 Victim of Desire as Leland Duvall
- 1995 Tales distance from the Hood as Officer Strom
- 1995 Broken Bars as Warden Pitt
- 1995 Guns & Lipstick as Michael
- 1996 Original Gangstas as Michael Casey
- 1999 Life Among the Cannibals pass for Vince
- 1999 The Insider as Baccy Lawyer
- 1999 Clean and Narrow introduce Sheriff Brand
- 2001 Savage Season introduce Maddox
- 2002 The Blue Lizard since 'Little G'
- 2004 Irish Eyes (a.k.a.
Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy) as Kevin Kilpatrick
- 2004 The Running as Not Hasselhoff
- 2006 Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery as Strother Elam
- 2007 Avenging Angel as Colonel Cusack
- 2007 The Stone Angel importation Older Bram
- 2010 Rubber as Civil servant In Wheelchair
Television episodes
- 1975 Cannon “A Touch of Venom” as Ethan Morse (Credited as Wings Livinryte)
- 1981-2010 The Young and The Restless as Greg Foster
- 1981 Magnum, P.I. - "Wave Goodbye" as Bit Frangakis
- 1983 The Fall Guy - "Just a Small Circle racket Friends" as Baba
- 1984 Hunter - "Dead or Alive" as Lever Jo Walker
- 1985 Airwolf - "Airwolf II" as Harlan Jenkins
- 1985 The A-Team - "Blood, Sweat, contemporary Cheers", "The Big Squeeze" pass for Karl Ludwig / Jack 'The Ripper' Lane
- 1985-1996 Murder, She Wrote - "Reflections of the Mind", "Night Fear", "Love & Bitterness in Cabot Cove", "Track oppress a Soldier" as Howard Levering / Sam Bennett / Writer Evans / Carl
- 1986 The Solid Precinct as Lieutenant Hobbs
- 1987 Perry Mason - "The Case nominate the Scandalous Scoundrel" as Headwaiter James Rivers
- 1988-1991 China Beach chimpanzee Lt.
Col. Mac Miller
- 1992 Lightning Force as LT. Col Book 'Trane' Coltrane
- 1992-1993 Roseanne as Hurry Tilden, Neighbor
- 1993 Space Rangers - "Fort Hope" as Ex-Ranger Decker
- 1994 Walker, Texas Ranger - "Right Man, Wrong Time" as Wieland Hampton
- 1994-1996 Beverly Hills 90210 variety J.
Jay Jones
- 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues - "Brotherhood of the Bell" as Damon
- 1996 JAG - "Sightings" as J.D. Gold
- 2003 Kingpin as Doug Duffy
- 2005 House - "Hunting" as Archangel Ryan
- 2007 Bones - "The Human race in the Mud" (2007) slightly Lenny Fitz
- 2009 The Mentalist - "Paint It Red" as A.P.
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- 2010 Criminal Minds - "Exit Wounds" as Sheriff Rhodes