Gil Gerard

Gil Gerard will always be Captain Buck Rogers to me, the dashing lead of that 1979 space-opera revival that defined a certain late-seventies sense of adventure. But he was more than one iconic role: an actor who also produced and lent his voice to other work, a genuine all-rounder from Little Rock, Arkansas. The detail that sticks with me is the Eagle Scout in his record, hinting at a disciplined, earnest character behind the swashbuckling hero. He passed in 2025 at eighty-two, yet that retro vision of a fearless 25th-century explorer is exactly the kind of warm nostalgia I want to keep alive.

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Name (English)

Gil Gerard

Name (Japanese)

ギル・ジェラード

Reading

ぎる・じぇらーど

Born

January 23, 1943 – December 16, 2025

Origin

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Occupation

actor / film producer / television actor / film actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

High school

Catholic High School for Boys

University

University of Central Arkansas

Awards & achievements

• Eagle Scout

• Official sitehttp://gilgerard.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20Gerard
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350588

Tags

• Arkansas
• actor
• film producer
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.