Gary Busey in Fear and Loathing IN... | 1998

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Gary Busey in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998

Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro and Tobey Maguire
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
About this actor

Gary Busey (born William Gary Busey June 29, 1944 in Baytown, Texas) is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in over 120 films not including regular appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in The Buddy Holly Story. In December 1988 he fractured his skull in a motorcycle accident. Busey was born in Goose Creek (now Baytown), Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia (née Arnett), a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager. He graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1962. While attending Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, on a football scholarship, he became interested in acting. He then transferred to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he quit school just one class short of graduation. Busey began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. He appears on several Leon Russell recordings...