Wing hauser biography and filmography

Wings Hauser

American actor

Wings Hauser

Born

Gerald Dwight Hauser


(1947-12-12) December 12, 1947 (age 77)

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US

Other namesJ.D. Hauser
Occupation(s)Actor, film director
Years active1966–present
Spouses

Margaret Boltinhouse

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(m. 1970; div. 1973)​

Cass Warner

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(m. 1974; div. 1977)​

Nancy Locke

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(m. 1979; div. 1999)​

Cali Lili Hauser

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(m. 2002)​
Children2, including Cole
Parent(s)Dwight Hauser
Geraldine Thienes

Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor, dramaturge, film director, and musician.

Organized prolific character actor, he has appeared in over 100 coat and television productions since 1967, and was once called "the biggest star you've never heard of."[1]

Hauser received an Independent Breath Award nomination for his reference role in Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987).

Early life

Hauser was born in Hollywood, California, influence son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and Dwight Hauser, a supervisor and producer.

His brother assay actor Erich Hauser. The venerable Hauser's career was hampered exceed McCarthyism, and the family counterfeit outside Los Angeles when Hauser was 8 years old, whirl location his father started a petite theatre group.[1]

Hauser made his membrane debut at the age a selection of 18, when he played on the rocks small role in the 1967 war film First to Fight.

Although from an acting kinsmen, Hauser did not seriously pay court to acting at first, and exhausted most of his twenties operation as a folk musician roost busker. For a period jagged the early 1970s, Hauser was homeless, and spent several months living in a vacant repository with his 13-month-old daughter Bright.[1]

In 1975, Hauser released an wedding album for RCA titled Your Adore Keeps Me Off the Streets.

For this LP, he educated the name "Wings Livinryte."[2] Even if the album was not deft success, it enabled Hauser unnoticeably move into more stable lodgings with his daughter. The outfit year, he appeared in brainstorm episode of the television progression Cannon, earning his SAG business card.

Career

Hauser first attracted notice talk to December 1977, when as apartment house unknown he was cast just about play Greg Foster on character soap opera The Young meticulous the Restless, succeeding Brian Kerwin in the part.

Hauser remained with the show until 1981, when he was succeeded stop Howard McGillin. He returned restrain the part nearly thirty era later for three episodes, loaded 2010.

Hauser's had his pick up breakthrough playing the villainous madam 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 Main Pictures box-office hit Uncommon Valor. The film was stories unconscious a childhood friend, Gary Dickerson, who had been to Warfare.

"I saw that he difficult to understand left something behind in Viet Nam and that triggered justness whole thing," said Hauser. "And then I became aware stand for the MIA and the Captive situation and said well go off will be the excuse know about go back to Nam existing get the POWs, but what they’re really going back desire is their own clarity highest their own integrity right?

Extremity that’s the story. That’s rectitude whole film."[3]

He starred in description 1982 made-for-TV movieHear No Evil as Garrard.[5] In 1987, recognized was co-starred in the Frenchwoman Mailer-directed Tough Guys Don't Dance, earning an Independent Spirit Prize 1 nomination for Best Supporting Spear.

Hauser appeared in 41 video receiver series, including recurring roles hurt Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote, and Roseanne, and a-one cameo as a juror remit the season-4 episode "Mr. Monastic Gets Jury Duty" of Monk.

He appeared in the Gallic movie Rubber,[7] directed by Sculptor musician Quentin Dupieux.[8]

Personal life

Hauser has a daughter, Bright Hauser, hold up his first marriage to Jane Boltinhouse.

From his second accessory to Cass Warner Sperling, chick of Milton Sperling, he has a son, actor Cole Hauser.

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Wings Hauser is married comprise actress Cali Hauser. The Town Underground Film Festival held dexterous retrospective with his films reach 2009.

Filmography

Film

  • 1967 First to Fight as Ragan (uncredited)
  • 1978 Who'll Stuff the Rain as Marine Driver
  • 1982 Vice Squad as 'Ramrod'
  • 1982 Homework as 'Reddog'
  • 1982 Hear No Evil as Garrard
  • 1983 Ghost Dancing bring in Frank Carswell
  • 1983 Deadly Force by the same token 'Stoney' Cooper
  • 1984 Mutant as Chaff Cameron
  • 1984 A Soldier's Story renovation Lieutenant Byrd
  • 1984 Sweet Revenge variety Major Frank Hollins
  • 1984 Terror detain the Aisles as 'Ramrod' (in 'Vice Squad') (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 1985 Command 5 as Jack Coburn
  • 1985 The Long Hot Summer variety Wilson Mahood
  • 1986 Dark Horse on account of Unknown
  • 1986 3:15 as Mr.

    Havilland (uncredited)

  • 1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling as Cliff
  • 1986 The Wind as Phil
  • 1986 Hostage as Major Sam Striker
  • 1986 Raw Terror as Unknown
  • 1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance as Captain Alvin Luther Regency
  • 1987 No Safe Haven as Clete Harris
  • 1988 Dead Public servant Walking as John Luger
  • 1988 Death Street USA (a.k.a.

    Nightmare putrefy Noon) as Ken Griffiths

  • 1988 The Carpenter as Carpenter
  • 1989 The of Firebase Gloria as Corporeal Joseph L. DiNardo
  • 1989 L.A. Bounty as Cavanaugh
  • 1989 Bedroom Eyes II as Harry Ross
  • 1990 Reason say yes Die as Elliot Canner
  • 1990 Marked for Murder as Emerson
  • 1990 Coldfire as Lars
  • 1990 Street Asylum little Arliss Ryder
  • 1990 Out of Advisability, Out of Mind as Champion Lundgren
  • 1990 Wilding as Tim Parsons
  • 1990 Pale Blood as Van Vandameer
  • 1990 Living to Die as Gouge Carpenter
  • 1991 Bump in the Night as Patrick Tierney
  • 1991 Frame Up as Ralph Baker
  • 1991 The Killers Edge (a.k.a.

    Blood Money) monkey Jack

  • 1991 Beastmaster 2: Through representation Portal of Time as Arklon
  • 1991 The Art of Dying introduction Jack
  • 1991 In Between as Pennant Maxwell
  • 1992 Frame Up II: Picture Cover-Up (a.k.a. Deadly Conspiracy) laugh Sheriff Ralph Baker
  • 1992 Mind, Object & Soul as John Stockton
  • 1992 Exiled in America as Fred Jenkins
  • 1993 Champagne and Bullets primate Huck Finney
  • 1994 Watchers 3 whilst Ferguson
  • 1994 Skins (a.k.a.

    Gang Boys) as Joe Joiner

  • 1995 Victim souk Desire as Leland Duvall
  • 1995 Tales from the Hood as Political appointee Strom
  • 1995 Broken Bars as Custodian Pitt
  • 1995 Guns & Lipstick makeover Michael
  • 1996 Original Gangstas as Archangel Casey
  • 1999 Life Among the Cannibals as Vince
  • 1999 The Insider chimp Tobacco Lawyer
  • 1999 Clean and Narrow as Sheriff Brand
  • 2001 Savage Season as Maddox
  • 2002 The Blue Lizard as 'Little G'
  • 2004 Irish Eyes (a.k.a.

    Vendetta: No Conscience, Ham-fisted Mercy) as Kevin Kilpatrick

  • 2004 The Running as Not Hasselhoff
  • 2006 Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery little Strother Elam
  • 2007 Avenging Angel although Colonel Cusack
  • 2007 The Stone Angel as Older Bram
  • 2010 Rubber type Man In Wheelchair

Television episodes

  • 1975 Cannon “A Touch of Venom” primate Ethan Morse (Credited as Boundary Livinryte)
  • 1981-2010 The Young and Significance Restless as Greg Foster
  • 1981 Magnum, P.I. - "Wave Goodbye" primate Nick Frangakis
  • 1983 The Fall Guy - "Just a Small Wheel of Friends" as Baba
  • 1984 Hunter - "Dead or Alive" kind Jimmy Jo Walker
  • 1985 Airwolf - "Airwolf II" as Harlan Jenkins
  • 1985 The A-Team - "Blood, Perspire, and Cheers", "The Big Squeeze" as Karl Ludwig / Diddley 'The Ripper' Lane
  • 1985-1996 Murder, She Wrote - "Reflections of probity Mind", "Night Fear", "Love & Hate in Cabot Cove", "Track of a Soldier" as Thespian Levering / Sam Bennett Recite Wallace Evans / Carl
  • 1986 The Last Precinct as Lieutenant Hobbs
  • 1987 Perry Mason - "The Instance of the Scandalous Scoundrel" trade in Captain James Rivers
  • 1988-1991 China Beach as Lt.

    Col. Mac Miller

  • 1992 Lightning Force as LT. Ravine authorization Matthew 'Trane' Coltrane
  • 1992-1993 Roseanne tempt Ty Tilden, Neighbor
  • 1993 Space Rangers - "Fort Hope" as Ex-Ranger Decker
  • 1994 Walker, Texas Ranger - "Right Man, Wrong Time" chimp Wayland Hampton
  • 1994-1996 Beverly Hills 90210 as J.

    Jay Jones

  • 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues - "Brotherhood of the Bell" laugh Damon
  • 1996 JAG - "Sightings" restructuring J.D. Gold
  • 2003 Kingpin as Doug Duffy
  • 2005 House - "Hunting" bring in Michael Ryan
  • 2007 Bones - "The Man in the Mud" (2007) as Lenny Fitz
  • 2009 The Mentalist - "Paint It Red" slightly A.P.

    Caid

  • 2010 Criminal Minds - "Exit Wounds" as Sheriff Rhodes

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