Gerald McRaney

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Biography

One of the small screen's most reliable heavies during the 1970s, veteran television actor Gerald McRaney successfully made the daunting shift from bad guy to good guy roles beginning in the early part of the following decade. Best known as the street-smart and elder brother Richard "Rick" Simon on the popular 1980s detective drama, "Simon & Simon" (CBS, 1981-88), the lovably strict "Major Dad" (CBS, 1989-1993), and for his long, successful …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Other

Born

August 19, 1947

LATEST CREDITS

Weapons at War

Host

D-Day: The Total Story

Host

Where the Hell's That Gold?!

Jones

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

Richard "Rick" Simon

The President's Own

Host

City Killer

Lieutenant Eckford

Easy Prey

Christopher Wilder

Tornado Warning

Jake Arledge

Deadly Vows

Tom Rembert

Rivals!

Host

Vestige of Honor

Captain Chuck Phelan

Blind Vengeance

Gar Hager Sr

Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou

Jake Lassiter

Armed and Innocent

Bobby Lee Holland

Motorcycle Gang

Cal

Jefferson Davis: An American President

Voice

Memories Never Die

Howdy Tilford

A Thousand Men and a Baby

Captain John Hayward

Fast Forward

Alex--As an Adult

Someone She Knows

Frank Mayfield

Intimate Portrait: Delta Burke

Interviewee

Simon & Simon

Richard "Rick" Simon

Fatal Friendship

Hank Landrum

Scattered Dreams: The Kathryn Messenger Story

George Messenger

Not Our Son

George Keller