G. W. Bailey Bio, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth, Education, Height, Movies

G. W. Bailey Biography

G. W. Bailey is a well-known American actor. Bailey dropped out of college and spent the mid-1960s working at local theaters before relocating to California in the mid-1970s. On the short-lived detective show Harry O., he had a small recurring role as a crime scene police officer.

G. W. Bailey Age

He was born George William Bailey on August 27, 1944, in  Port Arthur, Texas, USA. Bailey is 78 years old as of August 2022.

G. W. Bailey Education

He attended Lamar University in nearby Beaumont before transferring to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. In 1993, he returned to college and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas.

G. W. Bailey Height

Bailey stands at a height of 5′ 7″ (1.7 m) tall.

G. W. Bailey Family

Attempts to establish the identities of his mother and father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.

G. W. Bailey’s Wife

William was married to Eleanor June Goosby on 2 April 1966  but later divorced in 1999. They have 2 children together.

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G. W. Bailey Career

Bailey dropped out of college and spent the mid-1960s working at local theaters before relocating to California in the mid-1970s. On the short-lived detective show Harry O., he had a small recurring role as a crime scene police officer. He then landed one-off episodic roles on television shows like Starsky and Hutch and Charlie’s Angels. In A Force of One (1979), an early Chuck Norris film, he made his film debut. By the late 1970s, he’d landed his breakthrough role in M*A*S*H as the scheming, cigar-chomping goldbricker Sgt. Luther Rizzo. In Rustler’s Rhapsody, he also played Tom Berenger’s sidekick (1985). He was the Artist-in-Residence for the 1999-2000 school year. In the late 1990s, he appeared in three of the seventeen television films and miniseries produced for the TNT television network, Solomon (1997), Jesus (1999), and Paul (2000). (2000). Bailey was the Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation from 2001 to 2019, which provides trips and activities to hundreds of young cancer patients each year. After his goddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia, he began volunteering with the organization.

G. W. Bailey’s Net Worth

George has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars as of 2023.

G. W. Bailey Movies

  • St. Paul (2000)
  • The Thin Blue Lie (2000)
  • Scorcher (2002)
  • Home on the Range (2004)
  • Nip/Tuck (2005)
  • The Closer (2005–2012, TV Series)
  • Cake: A Wedding Story (2007)
  • Left Turn Yield (2007)
  • Johnny’s Gone (2011)
  • The Newest Pledge (2012)
  • Cupcake Wars Guest Judge (2012)
  • I Am Death (2013)
  • Highly Functional (2017)
  • Major Crimes (2012–2018, TV Series)
  • Til Life Do Us Part (2020, short film)
  • Stargirl (2022, 1 episode)