Gary Houston
Actor
December 17, 1948 (77 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2024 | Screams from the Tower · as Very Old Man |
| 2023 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. · as Paul Hutchins |
| 2022 | Shining Girls · as Meatpacking Brother |
| 2022 | Somebody Somewhere · as Jerry |
| 2019 | Working Man · as GaryOn Plex |
| 2018 | Slice · as Lennox |
| 2017 | Game Day · as Doctor |
| 2017 | Princess Cyd · as Peter Van HoustonOn Plex |
| 2017 | Chicago Justice · as Judge Emmet Sanford |
| 2016 | Medal of Victory · as Judge Parr |
| 2015 | Chicago Med · as Ron Holt |
| 2015 | Uncle John · as Ace |
| 2015 | Consumed · as Ted |
| 2014 | Fargo · as Major Hamar |
| 2012 | No God, No Master · as Frederic C. Howe |
| 2012 | Chicago Fire · as Uncle Brad |
| 2011 | The Dilemma · as Camera Clerk |
| 2011 | Shameless (US) · as Clerk |
| 2009 | Watchmen · as John Mclaughlin |
| 2008 | Leverage · as Adam Waldman |
| 2008 | The Express · as Marty Harrigan |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye · as Forensics Agents |
| 2008 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles · as Mr. Ferguson |
| 2006 | The Astronaut Farmer · as Dr. Livingston |
| 2005 | Proof · as Professor Barrow |
| 2005 | Prison Break · as Suit #2 |
| 2003 | Uncle Nino · as JerryOn Plex |
| 2000 | Brother 2 · as Mennis |
| 2000 | Love 101 · as Professor |
| 1997 | Night of the Lawyers · as Mr. XOn Plex |
| 1996 | Early Edition · as Gregor / Mystery Man |
| 1996 | Fargo · as Irate Customer |
| 1994 | The Childhood Friend · as Ross |
| 1994 | Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent · as Leonard KapskinOn Plex |
| 1993 | The Untouchables (1993) · as Harry Guzik |
| 1992 | Hoffa · as Government Agent In Bar |
| 1992 | A League of Their Own · as Ray Foster (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Dillinger · as Hostile Reporter |
| 1990 | Gabriel's Fire · as Judge Albertson |
| 1989 | Robot Jox · as Sportcaster |
| 1989 | Major League · as Ross Farmer |
| 1986 | Crime Story · as Deputy #2On Plex |
| 1986 | Jack and Mike · as Photographer |
| 1986 | Raw Deal · as Patrovita ThugOn Plex |
| 1985 | Lady Blue · as Sanders |
| 1984 | E/R (1984) · as Dr. Krell |
| 1984 | The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck · as Perry |
| 1984 | The Roommate · as Student Advisor |
| 1983 | Class · as Salesman |
| 1982 | Chicago Story · as Detective Jenks |
| 1981 | The Children Nobody Wanted · as Sadistic Orderly |
| 1980 | My Bodyguard · as Drunk In The Park (uncredited) |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers · as Nazi |
| 1978 | A Wedding · as Caterer (uncredited) |
| 1984 | E/R (1984) · as Play |