Wings Hauser

Wings Hauser
Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor and occasional director. He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his supporting role in Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987).
Life and career
Hauser was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and director and producer Dwight Hauser (1911–1969). His brother is actor Erich Hauser. In 1967, Hauser landed his first acting role as a marine rifleman in the World War II-drama First to Fight.
In 1975, Hauser released an album for RCA entitled Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets. For this LP, he used the name Wings Livinryte. Hauser first attracted notice in 1977 in The Young and the Restless as Greg Foster. He starred in the 1982 made-for-TV-movie Hear No Evil as Garrard. Hauser appeared in forty-one television series, including recurring roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote, and Roseanne, and a cameo as a juror in the season 4 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" of Monk.
In 1983, a story he wrote became the Paramount box-office hit Uncommon Valor. Hauser appeared in the 1982 movie Vice Squad as the pimp "Ramrod," and performed the song "Neon Slime" for the opening and closing credits. He appeared in Deadly Force, No Safe Haven, Tough Guys Don't Dance, and the French movie Rubber, directed by French musician Quentin Dupieux.
Personal life
Hauser has a daughter, Bright Hauser, from his first marriage to Jane Boltinhouse. From his second marriage to Cass Warner Sperling, daughter of Milton Sperling, he has a son, actor Cole Hauser. Wings Hauser is married to actress Cali Hauser. The Melbourne Underground Film Festival held a retrospective with his films in 2009.
Filmography
Film
1967 First to Fight as Ragan (uncredited)
1978 Who'll Stop the Rain as Marine Driver
1982 Vice Squad as 'Ramrod'
1982 Homework as 'Reddog'
1982 Hear No Evil as Garrard
1983 Ghost Dancing as Frank Carswell
1983 Deadly Force as 'Stoney' Cooper
1984 Mutant as Josh Cameron
1984 A Soldier's Story as Lieutenant Byrd
1984 Sweet Revenge as Major Frank Hollins
1984 Terror in the Aisles as 'Ramrod' (in 'Vice Squad') (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985 Command 5 as Jack Coburn
1985 The Long Hot Summer as Wilson Mahood
1986 Dark Horse as Unknown
1986 3:15 as Mr. Havilland (uncredited)
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling as Cliff
1986 The Wind as Phil
1986 Hostage as Major Sam Striker
1986 Raw Terror as Unknown
1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance as Captain Alvin Luther Regency
1987 No Safe Haven as Clete Harris
1988 Dead Man Walking as John Luger
1988 Death Street USA (a.k.a. Nightmare at Noon) as Ken Griffiths
1988 The Carpenter as Carpenter
1989 The Siege of Firebase Gloria as Corporal Joseph L. DiNardo
1989 L.A. Bounty as Cavanaugh
1989 Bedroom Eyes II as Harry Ross
1990 Reason to Die as Elliot Canner
1990 Marked for Murder as Emerson
1990 Coldfire as Lars
1990 Street Asylum as Arliss Ryder
1990 Out of Sight, Out of Mind as Victor Lundgren
1990 Wilding as Tim Parsons
1990 Pale Blood as Van Vandameer
1990 Living to Die as Nick Carpenter
1991 Bump in the Night as Patrick Tierney
1991 Frame Up as Ralph Baker
1991 The Killers Edge (a.k.a. Blood Money) as Jack
1991 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time as Arklon
1991 The Art of Dying as Jack
1991 In Between as Jack Maxwell
1992 Frame Up II: The Cover-Up (a.k.a. Deadly Conspiracy) as Sheriff Ralph Baker
1992 Mind, Body & Soul as John Stockton
1992 Exiled in America as Fred Jenkins
1993 Champagne and Bullets as Huck Finney
1994 Watchers 3 as Ferguson
1994 Skins (a.k.a. Gang Boys) as Joe Joiner
1995 Victim of Desire as Leland Duvall
1995 Tales from the Hood as Officer Strom
1995 Broken Bars as Warden Pitt
1995 Guns & Lipstick as Michael
1996 Original Gangstas as Michael Casey
1999 Life Among the Cannibals as Vince
1999 The Insider as Tobacco Lawyer
1999 Clean and Narrow as Sheriff Brand
2001 Savage Season as Maddox
2002 The Blue Lizard as 'Little G'
2004 Irish Eyes (a.k.a. Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy) as Kevin Kilpatrick
2004 The Running as Not Hasselhoff
2006 Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery as Strother Elam
2007 Avenging Angel as Colonel Cusack
2007 The Stone Angel as Older Bram
2010 Rubber as Man In Wheelchair
Television episodes
1975 Cannon “A Touch of Venom” as Ethan Morse (Credited as Wings Livinryte)
1981-2010 The Young and The Restless as Greg Foster
1981 Magnum, P.I. - "Wave Goodbye" as Nick Frangakis
1983 The Fall Guy - "Just a Small Circle of Friends" as Baba
1984 Hunter - "Dead or Alive" as Jimmy Jo Walker
1985 Airwolf - "Airwolf II" as Harlan Jenkins
1985 The A-Team - "Blood, Sweat, and Cheers", "The Big Squeeze" as Karl Ludwig / Jack 'The Ripper' Lane
1985-1996 Murder, She Wrote - "Reflections of the Mind", "Night Fear", "Love & Hate in Cabot Cove", "Track of a Soldier" as Howard Levering / Sam Bennett / Wallace Evans / Carl
1986 The Last Precinct as Lieutenant Hobbs
1987 Perry Mason - "The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel" as Captain James Rivers
1988-1991 China Beach as Lt. Col. Mac Miller
1992 Lightning Force as LT. Col Matthew 'Trane' Coltrane
1992-1993 Roseanne as Ty Tilden, Neighbor
1993 Space Rangers - "Fort Hope" as Ex-Ranger Decker
1994 Walker, Texas Ranger - "Right Man, Wrong Time" as Wayland Hampton
1994-1996 Beverly Hills 90210 as J. Jay Jones
1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues - "Brotherhood of the Bell" as Damon
1996 JAG - "Sightings" as J.D. Gold
2003 Kingpin as Doug Duffy
2005 House - "Hunting" as Michael Ryan
2007 Bones - "The Man in the Mud" (2007) as Lenny Fitz
2009 The Mentalist - "Paint It Red" as A.P. Caid
2010 Criminal Minds - "Exit Wounds" as Sheriff Rhodes
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Wings Hauser (Aveleyman)
1947 births
Male actors from Los Angeles
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Living people
Warner family