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Gerald McRaney

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Gerald McRaney Biography

Gerald McRaney
  • Birth Place: Collins, MS
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/19/1947, Leo
  • Profession: Actor; producer; director; writer
With his imposing frame and commanding presence, this mustachioed TV actor started out playing villains but shot to fame as a good guy on the lighthearted '80s action series Simon & Simon. Boasting a Southern amiability and a deadpan drawl, he charmed audiences and Designing Women star Delta Burke, who became his third wife after they guest-starred on their respective series. His next show, the family sitcom Major Dad, was a moderate success and firmly established him as a stern yet lovable patriarch, a role he continued to embody on his subsequent show, Promised Land. McRaney also popped up in a slew of TV-movies, often opposite his wife, and even tried his hand at directing, helming multiple episodes of his first two hit series. In the '90s and '00s, he suffered through a few failed shows but always found work as a guest star on long-running series, rarely straying from his effective stereotype, except for his deliciously malicious turn on Deadwood.
Gerald McRaney Fast Facts:
  • Is of Scottish and Choctaw Indian ancestry.
  • Joined a junior-high drama club after a knee injury prevented him from playing football.
  • Worked on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico after leaving college.
  • Was the last gunfighter to face Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke.
  • Met future wife Delta Burke at a 1987 luncheon and soon after landed a guest appearance as her ex-husband on Designing Women. The two subsequently appeared together in a number of projects including the TV-movies Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988), Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again (1995), Going for Broke (2003, playing husband and wife), and Love and Curses... And All That Jazz (1991, which he also directed).
    Gerald McRaney Relationships:
  • Delta Burke - Wife
  • Buddy McRaney - Brother
  • Angus McRaney - Son
  • Ann McRaney - Sister
  • Beverly Root - Ex-wife
  • Clyde McRaney - Father
  • Edna McRaney - Mother
  • Jessica McRaney - Daughter
  • Kate McRaney - Daughter
  • Patricia Rae Moran - Ex-wife

  • College:
  • University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
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