He also appeared in Rookie of the Year, The Firm, Black Sheep, Lost Highway, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.īusey sang the song "Stay All Night" on Saturday Night Live in March 1979 (season 4, episode 14), and on the Late Show with David Letterman in the 1990s. In the 1990s, he had prominent supporting roles in successful action films such as Predator 2, Point Break and Under Siege. He played one of the primary antagonists opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the action comedy Lethal Weapon. Cab and Insignificance, and the Stephen King adaptation Silver Bullet. In the 1980s, Busey's films included the critically acclaimed western Barbarosa, the comedies D.C.
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In the same year he also starred in the small yet acclaimed drama Straight Time and the surfing movie Big Wednesday, which is now a minor cult classic. For his performance, Busey received the greatest critical acclaim of his career and the movie earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics' Best Actor award for him. In 1978, he starred as rock legend Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story with Sartain as The Big Bopper.
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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 1976, he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, road manager to Kris Kristofferson's character in the remake film A Star is Born. In 1974, Busey made his major film debut with a supporting role in Michael Cimino's buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. Gary Busey at the premiere of A Star Is Born in 1976 In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley", he was the last person killed on the series Gunsmoke (in the third-to-last episode, No. Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. He played in a band called Carp, which released one album on Epic Records in 1969. When he told Gailard Sartain his character needed a name, Sartain replied, "Take three: Teddy, Jack and Eddy." For his skits on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero, belligerent, know-it-all character. He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the name "Teddy Jack Eddy" a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting on station KTUL (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Gary Busey (standing), Mark Hamill and Jack Elam from The Texas Wheelers, 1974īusey began his show business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band.
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