G.W. Bailey
Born: 1944-08-27 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Known For: Acting
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 Southwest Texas State University. In 1994, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree of Fine Arts Theatre; and, for the 1999-2000 school year, he was the Artist in Residence.
Filmography
2020
- DC's Stargirl as Mr. Dugan
2017
- Highly Functional as Dan
2015
- My Boy as Chet
2012
- Major Crimes as Lt. Louie Provenza
- The Newest Pledge as Mr. Hodgkinson
2007
- Cake: A Wedding Story as Howard Canter
2005
- The Closer as Louie Provenza
2004
- Home on the Range as Rusty (voice)
- The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story as Det. Gates
2003
- Nip/Tuck as Wesley Kringle
2002
- American Dreams as Colonel Graves
- Scorcher as General Moore
2000
- Saint Paul as Barnabas
- Saint Paul as Barnabas
- The Thin Blue Lie as K.C.
1997
- Solomon as Azarel
- Solomon as Azarel
- Seduction in a Small Town as Pat Carter
1996
- The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Ralph Coulter
- The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Ralph Coulter
1995
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Big Jim Foxworthy
1994
- Police Academy: Mission to Moscow as Captain Harris
1993
- Dead Before Dawn as Masterson
- No Child of Mine as Lamar Jenkins
1992
- Bed of Lies as Zeke Zbranek
- An American Story as Tom Cantrell
1991
- Dinosaurs as Sarge (voice)
- Under Cover as Director Waugh
- Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story as Brother
- Doublecrossed as Camp
- Write to Kill as Dean Sutton
- A Mother's Justice as Joe Comminger
- Memories of M*A*S*H as Self / Luther Rizzo
- Before the Storm as Director Waugh
1990
- Q & A as Bartender (uncredited)
- Fine Things as Grossman
- Love and Lies as Sgt. Halsey
1989
- Police Academy 6: City Under Siege as Harris
- The Gifted One as Dr. Winslow
1988
- War and Remembrance as Jim Grigg
- Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach as Harris
1987
- Mannequin as Captain Felix Maxwell
- Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol as Captain Harris
- Hawaiian Dream as Sgt. Pierce
- Roomies
- Burglar as Ray Kirschman
- Downpayment on Murder as Kyle
1986
- Short Circuit as Skroeder
- A Winner Never Quits as Tatum
1985
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Warning Sign as Tom Schmidt
- Into Thin Air as Sergeant Frasier (uncredited)
- North Beach and Rawhide as Sheriff
- Rustlers' Rhapsody as Peter
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Lt. Alex Tibideaux
- Police Academy as Lieutenant Harris
- Runaway as Chief
1983
- Goodnight, Beantown as Albert Addelson
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Hugh Beale
- Remington Steele as Maynard Stockman
- The Capture of Grizzly Adams as Tom Quigley
1981
- Simon & Simon
- Murder in Texas as Richard "Racehorse" Haynes
- Bitter Harvest as Jim Laszlo
1980
- Flo
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Holfeld
1979
- Benson
- The French Atlantic Affair as Jake (uncredited)
- A Force of One as Erwin
1978
- Summer of My German Soldier as Corporal
1977
- Lou Grant as Water Man
- Soap as The Hobo
- CHiPs as Drunk Driver
- How the West Was Won as Ivie
- Lucan
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Mumford
- Laverne & Shirley
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Slade
- The Runaway Barge as Booker
1974
1972
- M*A*S*H as Sgt. Rizzo