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My Take
Gary Busey is the rare actor whose raw presence outruns any script. His Oscar-nominated turn as Buddy Holly showed real discipline, yet what I treasure is the untamed energy he brings to everything after: film, stage, television, voice work, even producing. He belongs to a vanishing breed of American character actors who feel genuinely unpredictable on screen, as if the camera merely happened to catch them living. Polished performers are everywhere; Busey's jagged edges are irreplaceable. I will always choose an actor who risks looking unhinged over one who plays it safe, and few have risked it as fearlessly as he has.
Overview
William Gary Busey (; born June 29, 1944) is an American actor. He portrayed Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. His other starring roles include A Star Is Born (1976), D.C.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Gary Busey
- Name (Japanese)
- ゲイリー・ビジー
- Reading
- げいりー・びじー
- Born
- June 29, 1944 (age 81)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Monkey
- Origin
- Baytown, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / stage actor / television actor / voice actor / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Robert E. Lee High School
- University
- Pittsburg State University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.garybusey.com
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.