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William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944), best known as Gary Busey , is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in over 120 films, as well as making regular appearances on Law & Order , and Entourage . He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in .

Early life

Busey was born in Goose Creek (now Baytown) , Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia (n e Arnett), a homemaker , and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager. He graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg , in southeastern Kansas, on a football scholarship, he became interested in acting. He then transferred to Oklahoma State University in , where he quit school just one class short of graduation.

Career

Busey began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names "Teddy Jack Eddy" and "Sprunk", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in , called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). He played in a band called Carp , who released one album on Epic Records in 1969. Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley," he was the last person killed on the series (in the antepenultimate episode, No. 633 "The Busters").

In 1976 he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, road manager to 's character in the remake film . On the DVD commentary of the film, Streisand says Busey was great and that she had seen him on a TV series and thought he had the right qualities to play the role.

In 1978, he starred as in with Sartain as . The movie earned Busey an Academy Award nomination and the National Society of Film Critics ' Best Actor award . In the film, he changes the lyrics to the song "Well All Right" and sings, "We're gonna love Teddy Jack." a reference to his Teddy Jack Eddy persona. In the same year he also starred in the surfing movie Big Wednesday .

In the 1980s, Busey's roles included Silver Bullet , Barbarosa , Insignificance and Lethal Weapon . In the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Lost Highway , Point Break and Black Sheep .

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