G.W. Bailey

Actor Aug 27 (age 81) Port Arthur, Texas, USA 1972–2020 (48 year career)

5.9 avg rating

Biography

George William Bailey was born on August 27, 1944, in Port Arthur, Texas. Bailey started college at Lamar University in Beaumont and eventually transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock; but he did not complete his studies. He worked at local theater companies during the mid 1960s until his move to California in the 1970s. Here he began work on television series such as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976) and CHiPs (1977). He eventually got a movie debut role in the Chuck No…

Known For

Film

Police Academy

Lieutenant Harris

Film

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Lieutenant (uncredited)

Film

Short Circuit

Skroeder

Film

Home on the Range

Rusty (voice)

Film

The Closer

Louie Provenza

Film

Mannequin

Captain Felix Maxwell

Film

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Film

Major Crimes

Lt. Louie Provenza

Filmography

Acting (84)

Movies (51)

Highly Functional

2017

as Dan

My Boy

as Chet

The Newest Pledge

as Mr. Hodgkinson

Cake: A Wedding Story

2007

as Howard Canter

Home on the Range

2004

as Rusty (voice)

6.1

The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story

as Det. Gates

Scorcher

as General Moore

Saint Paul

as Barnabas

The Thin Blue Lie

as K.C.

Jesus

as Livio

Solomon

as Azarel

Seduction in a Small Town

1997

as Pat Carter

6.0

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

1996

as Ralph Coulter

5.1

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

1995

as Lieutenant (uncredited)

6.3

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

as Captain Harris

Dead Before Dawn

as Masterson

No Child of Mine

as Lamar Jenkins

An American Story

as Tom Cantrell

Bed of Lies

as Zeke Zbranek

Write to Kill

as Dean Sutton

Before the Storm

as Director Waugh

Doublecrossed

1991

as Camp

3.9

Memories of M*A*S*H

1991

as Self / Luther Rizzo

A Mother's Justice

1991

as Joe Comminger

6.2

Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story

1991

as Brother

Q & A

1990

as Bartender (uncredited)

5.8

Love and Lies

1990

as Sgt. Halsey

Fine Things

1990

as Grossman

5.8

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

as Harris

The Gifted One

as Dr. Winslow

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

1988

as Harris

5.2

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

1987

as Captain Harris

5.5

Mannequin

1987

as Captain Felix Maxwell

6.8

Downpayment on Murder

as Kyle

Burglar

as Ray Kirschman

Hawaiian Dream

as Sgt. Pierce

Short Circuit

as Skroeder

A Winner Never Quits

as Tatum

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

1985

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Rustlers' Rhapsody

as Peter

Warning Sign

as Tom Schmidt

Into Thin Air

as Sergeant Frasier (uncredited)

7.0

North Beach and Rawhide

1985

as Sheriff

Police Academy

as Lieutenant Harris

Runaway

as Chief

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

as Tom Quigley

Bitter Harvest

as Jim Laszlo

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

as Holfeld

A Force of One

as Erwin

Summer of My German Soldier

1978

as Corporal

5.8

The Runaway Barge

1975

as Booker

Television (33)

DC's Stargirl

2020

as Mr. Dugan

7.7

Major Crimes

2012

as Lt. Louie Provenza

The Closer

as Louie Provenza

Nip/Tuck

as Wesley Kringle

American Dreams

as Colonel Graves

Saint Paul

as Barnabas

Jesus

2000

as Livio

8.6

Solomon

1997

as Azarel

The Jeff Foxworthy Show

as Big Jim Foxworthy

Dinosaurs

as Sarge (voice)

Under Cover

as Director Waugh

War and Remembrance

Roomies

Murder, She Wrote

as Lt. Faraday

Goodnight, Beantown

as Albert Addelson

St. Elsewhere

as Hugh Beale

Remington Steele

as Maynard Stockman

Simon & Simon

Murder in Texas

as Richard "Racehorse" Haynes

Flo

Benson

The French Atlantic Affair

as Jake (uncredited)

Lou Grant

as Arlo Karp

CHiPs

as Drunk Driver

Soap

as The Hobo

How the West Was Won

as Ivie

Lucan

Charlie's Angels

as Mumford

Laverne & Shirley

Starsky & Hutch

as Slade

Happy Days

Harry O

M*A*S*H

as Sgt. Rizzo