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Gary Houston (born December 17, 1948, in California) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, and theatre director whose career has spanned over 60 years. He is best known for his work in Chicago's theater scene, where he has been active since 1969. A former production coordinator and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston created the original role of Roger (the "Mooning King of Rydell High") in the world premiere of Grease at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago, where his wife Hedda Lubin (married December 30, 2004) originated the role of Frenchie. As a director, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Overall Technical Design for the 1977 Chicago premiere of…
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Gary Houston (born December 17, 1948, in California) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, and theatre director whose career has spanned over 60 years. He is best known for his work in Chicago's theater scene, where he has been active since 1969. A former production coordinator and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston created the original role of Roger (the "Mooning King of Rydell High") in the world premiere of Grease at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago, where his wife Hedda Lubin (married December 30, 2004) originated the role of Frenchie. As a director, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Overall Technical Design for the 1977 Chicago premiere of Peter Handke's Kaspar at Goodman Theatre, and directed the first production to open at Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Wallace Shawn's Our Late Night, 1977), with a cast that included John Malkovich, Terry Kinney, Laurie Metcalf, and Joan Allen. His film and television credits include The Blues Brothers (1980), Major League (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Hoffa (1992), Fargo (1996), Proof (2005), The Astronaut Farmer (2007), Eagle Eye (2008), Watchmen (2009), Game Day (2018), Princess Cyd (2017), and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). On television he has appeared in Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Fargo (TV), Shameless, Prison Break, Shining Girls, and Leverage. He also taught Acting for Film at Columbia College Chicago, taking over the class from his friend Joe Mantegna, and is a published playwright and short fiction writer with work in the Chicago Quarterly Review.
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A Fargo Christmas Story
as Uncle Charlie
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
as Paul Hutchins
Game Day
as Doctor
Slice
as Lennox
Princess Cyd
as Peter Van Houston
Consumed
as Ted
No God, No Master
as Frederic C. Howe
The Dilemma
as Camera Clerk
Watchmen
as John McLaughlin
The Express
as Marty Harrigan
Eagle Eye
as Forensics Agents
The Astronaut Farmer
as Dr. Livingston
Proof
as Professor Barrow
Uncle Nino
as Jerry
No Poster
No Tomorrow
as Mr. Christman
Brother 2
as Mennis
Love 101
as Professor
Night of the Lawyers
as Mr. X
Fargo
as Irate Customer
The Childhood Friend
as Ross
Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent
as Leonard Kapskin
Hoffa
as Government Agent in Bar
A League of Their Own
as Ray Foster (uncredited)
Robot Jox
as Sportcaster
Major League
as Ross Farmer
Raw Deal
as Patrovita Thug
Class
as Salesman
The Children Nobody Wanted
as Sadistic Orderly
My Bodyguard
as Drunk in the Park (uncredited)
The Blues Brothers
as Nazi
A Wedding
as Caterer (uncredited)
No Poster
The Lion Roars Again
as Self (uncredited)