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Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor, screenwriter, film director, and musician. A prolific character actor, he has appeared in over 100 film and television productions since 1967, and was once called "the biggest star you've never heard of."
Hauser received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his supporting role in Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987).
Early life
Hauser was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and Dwight Hauser, a director and producer. His brother is actor Erich Hauser. The elder Hauser's career was hampered by McCarthyism, and the family moved outside Los Angeles when Hauser was 8 years old, where his father started a small theatre group.
Hauser made his film debut at the age of 18, when he played a small role in the 1967 war film First to Fight. Although from an acting family, Hauser did not seriously pursue acting at first, and spent most of his twenties working as a folk musician and busker. For a period in the early 1970s, Hauser was homeless, and spent several months living in a vacant garage with his 13-month-old daughter Bright.
In 1975, Hauser released an album for RCA titled Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets. For this LP, he used the name "Wings Livinryte." Though the album was not a success, it enabled Hauser to move into more stable housing with his daughter. The same year, he appeared in an episode of the television series Cannon, earning his SAG card.
Career
Hauser first attracted notice in December 1977, when as an unknown he was cast to play Greg Foster on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, succeeding Brian Kerwin in the part. Hauser remained with the show until 1981, when he was succeeded by Howard McGillin. He returned to the part nearly thirty years later for three episodes, in 2010.
Hauser's had his film breakthrough playing the villainous pimp Ramrod in Vice Squad (1982). Hauser also wrote and performed the film's theme song, "Neon Slime".
In 1983, he wrote the story for the Paramount Pictures box-office hit Uncommon Valor. The film was stories of a childhood friend, Gary Dickerson, who had been to Vietnam. "I saw that he had left something behind in Viet Nam and that triggered the whole thing," said Hauser. "And then I became aware of the MIA and the POW situation and said well that will be the excuse to go back to Nam and get the POWs, but what they’re really going back for is their own clarity and their own integrity right? And that’s the story. That’s the whole film."
He starred in the 1982 made-for-TV movie Hear No Evil as Garrard. In 1987, he was co-starred in the Norman Mailer-directed Tough Guys Don't Dance, earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Male.
Hauser appeared in 41 television series, including recurring roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote, and Roseanne, and a cameo as a juror in the season-4 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" of Monk.
He appeared in the French movie Rubber, directed by French musician Quentin Dupieux.
Personal life
Hauser has a daughter, Bright Hauser, from his first marriage to Jane Boltinhouse. From his second marriage to Cass Warner Sperling, daughter of Milton Sperling, he has a son, actor Cole Hauser. Wings Hauser is married to actress Cali Hauser. The Melbourne Underground Film Festival held a retrospective with his films in 2009.
Filmography
= Film
== 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 Nick Frangakis
1983 The Fall Guy - "Just a Small Circle of Friends" as Baba
1984 Hunter - "Dead or Alive" as Jimmy Jo Walker
1985 Airwolf - "Airwolf II" as Harlan Jenkins
1985 The A-Team - "Blood, Sweat, and Cheers", "The Big Squeeze" as Karl Ludwig / Jack 'The Ripper' Lane
1985-1996 Murder, She Wrote - "Reflections of the Mind", "Night Fear", "Love & Hate in Cabot Cove", "Track of a Soldier" as Howard Levering / Sam Bennett / Wallace Evans / Carl
1986 The Last Precinct as Lieutenant Hobbs
1987 Perry Mason - "The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel" as Captain James Rivers
1988-1991 China Beach as Lt. Col. Mac Miller
1992 Lightning Force as LT. Col Matthew 'Trane' Coltrane
1992-1993 Roseanne as Ty Tilden, Neighbor
1993 Space Rangers - "Fort Hope" as Ex-Ranger Decker
1994 Walker, Texas Ranger - "Right Man, Wrong Time" as Wayland Hampton
1994-1996 Beverly Hills 90210 as 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 Michael Ryan
2007 Bones - "The Man in the Mud" (2007) as Lenny Fitz
2009 The Mentalist - "Paint It Red" as A.P. Caid
2010 Criminal Minds - "Exit Wounds" as Sheriff Rhodes
References
= Citations
== Sources
=External links
Wings Hauser at IMDb
Wings Hauser at AllMovie
Wings Hauser (Aveleyman)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The Stone Angel (film)
- Pemeran Pendukung Laki-laki Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)
- The Carpenter (film)
- Red Bull
- Katy Perry
- Shape note
- Into the Inferno (film)
- Queen of the Desert (film)
- Daftar perwakilan Jerman untuk Film Internasional Terbaik pada Academy Award
- WarnerMedia
- Wings Hauser
- Dwight Hauser
- Cole Hauser
- Hauser
- Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
- Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
- Uncommon Valor
- Tales from the Hood
- Vice Squad (1982 film)
- The Siege of Firebase Gloria
