Gerald McRaney

Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards. He most recently starred as Admiral Hollace Kilbride on NCIS: Los Angeles. He was a series regular in the first season of the CBS drama series Jericho and the final season of the HBO series Deadwood. He appeared in a recurring role as main antagonist Mason Wood in season eight of Castle. Recently, he played Barlow Connally in the A&E series Longmire and had a recurring role in the NBC series This Is Us as Dr. Nathan Katowski, a role which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

McRaney was born in Collins, Mississippi, the son of Clyde and Edna McRaney.^{[citation needed]} He is of Scottish and Choctaw ancestry. He graduated from Long Beach High School in Long Beach, Mississippi, then attended the University of Mississippi. Before finding success as an actor, McRaney worked in the Louisiana oil fields.

In film, he starred in Night of Bloody Horror (1969), a low-budget slasher film in which he played the lead character Wesley Stuart.

On television, McRaney appeared in multiple episodes of shows such as Gunsmoke, Police Woman, and Barnaby Jones. He appeared in The Dukes of Hazzard in the episode "Hazzard Connection" (November 9, 1979), played a receptionist in two different episodes of The Rockford Files, and portrayed Tim Ryder, a heroin-addicted Vietnam War veteran in one episode of Hawaii Five-O. In addition, he starred in numerous episodes of The Incredible Hulk playing roles as a jealous boyfriend, a jealous race car driver, an angry police officer, and a disturbed police chief, and his miniseries roles include Dr. Henderson in Women in White (1979) and a town local, Harry Owens in Roots: The Next Generations (1979).

McRaney became known for his role as Rick Simon, co-starring alongside Jameson Parker, in the popular CBS detective series Simon & Simon from 1981 to 1989. During his time on the series, he appeared with Parker in the film Jackals (1986), and appeared twice on sitcom Designing Women. He then starred as Major John McGillis in the successful CBS family sitcom Major Dad (1989–1993), and Russell Greene in the CBS family drama Promised Land (1996–1999), a spinoff of the popular series Touched by an Angel where he originated the character. He also portrayed business mogul Adam Brock in the last eight episodes of Darren Star's primetime soap opera Central Park West, which ran on CBS from 1995 to 1996.

McRaney later appeared as General Alan Adamle in two episodes of the NBC drama The West Wing. He also played a prominent role in the third and final season of the HBO television series Deadwood (2005–2006), as gold prospector George Hearst; and starred in the CBS postapocalyptic series Jericho as Johnston Green.

Additionally, he has acted in many television films, such as: Not Our Son (1995); A Holiday Romance (1999); Going for Broke (2003); and Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004), as General George S. Patton. He also starred in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder (episode 1.13 "Lily") as Det. Andy Ruggio and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (episode 9.24 "All In").

In the late 2000s, McRaney co-hosted the Outdoor Life Network hunting and shooting series The World of Beretta, drawing on his own sport interests. The series featured the sponsor's rifle and shotgun products in a number of hunting locations around the world, and often featured a celebrity shooter to hunt with McRaney.