Gerald McRaney is an actor, producer and director. He began his acting career in the late 1960s. Throughout his career, he has starred in a long list of television series and movies. As a guest star on Gunsmoke, he was the last to face Marshall Matt Dillon in a gunfight.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574468/bio In 2010, he began a role as a CIA boss on the television series, Undercovers.http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/gerald-mcraney/bio/151866

McRaney joined the drama club in high school, after a knee injury stopped him from being able to play football.http://www.tv.com/gerald-mcraney/person/9682/summary.html He has been married three times. He married his current wife, Delta Burke, in 1989. They do not have any children together, but he has a son and two daughters from his previous marriages.http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/gerald-mcraney/bio/151866

Gerald McRaney has played many roles in TV series and movies. He started his acting career portraying villains. This changed when he joined, Jameson Parker, on Simon & Simon in 1981. McRaney and Parker played brothers who ran a private detective agency. The show aired from 1981 until 1989.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081930/

In 1989, McRaney landed his next role as Major John MacGillis, on the series, Major Dad. The Major meets journalist, Polly Cooper. The two hit it off immediately, and within weeks they get married. The Major goes from being single to a married father of three girls. The adjustments the family has to make along the way gave viewers many heartfelt moments and laughs during the five years the show was on the air.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096643//ref

• Undercovers—series, 2010

• The A-Team—movie, 2010

• Jericho—series, 2006-2007

• Deadwood—series, 2005-2006

• The West Wing—series, 2001-2004

• Take Me Home: The John Denver Story—TV movie, 2000

• Promised Land—series, 1996-1999

• Touched by an Angel—series, 1995-1998

• The Stranger Beside Me—TV movie, 1995

• Not Our Son—TV movie, 1995

• Deadly Vows—TV movie, 1994

• Major Dad—series, 1989-1993

• Murder by Moonlight—TV movie, 1989

• Simon & Simon—series, 1981-1989

• The Incredible Hulk—series, 1978-1980

• How the West Was Won—Mini-series, 1979

• The Jordan Chance—TV movie, 1978

• The Rockford Files—series, 19757-1977

• The Incredible Hulk: Death in the Family—TV movie, 1977

• Hawaii Five-O—series, 1976

• Gunsmoke—series, 1973-1975http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574468/

• "I had to consider that it's not just a pilot I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line."—Gerald McRaney talking about making the decision to turn down a pilothttp://www.abilitymagazine.com/mcraney_interview.html
• "In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it. "'—Gerald McRaney talking about smoking laws'http://www.abilitymagazine.com/mcraney_interview.html