An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert bulletin in several countries throughout the world, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child, since 1996. AMBER is officially a backronym for "America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response" but was originally named for Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old child who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996. Alternate alert names are used in Georgia, where it is called "Levi's Call" (named after Levi Frady); Hawaii, where it is called a "Maile Amber Alert" (named after Maile Gilbert); and Arkansas, where it is called a "Morgan Nick Amber Alert" (in memory of Morgan Chauntel Nick). Frady, Gilbert and Nick were all children who went missing in those U.S. states.

AMBER Alerts are distributed via commercial radio stations, satellite radio, television stations, and cable TV by the Emergency Alert System and NOAA Weather Radio (where they are termed "Child Abduction Emergency" or "Amber Alerts"). The alerts are also issued via e-mail, electronic traffic-condition signs, the LED billboards which are located outside of newer Walgreens locations, along with the LED/LCD signs of billboard companies such as Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor and Lamar, or through wireless device SMS text messages.

Those interested in subscribing to receive AMBER Alerts in their area via SMS messages can visit Wireless Amber Alerts, which are offered by law as free messages. In some states, the display scrollboards in front of lottery terminals are also used. The decision to declare an AMBER Alert is made by each police organization (in many cases, the state police or highway patrol) which investigates each of the abductions. Public information in an AMBER Alert usually consists of the name and description of the abductee, a description of the suspected abductor, and a description and license plate number of the abductor's vehicle, if available.

Activation criteria

The alerts are broadcast using the Emergency Alert System, which had previously been used primarily for weather bulletins, civil emergencies, or national emergencies. Alerts usually contain a description of the child and of the likely abductor. To avoid both false alarms and having alerts ignored as a "wolf cry", the criteria for issuing an alert are rather strict. Each state's or province's AMBER alert plan sets its own criteria for activation, meaning that there are differences between alerting agencies as to which incidents are considered to justify the use of the system. However, the U.S. Department of Justice issues the following "guidance", which most states are said to "adhere closely to" (in the U.S.):

# Law enforcement must confirm that an abduction has taken place. # The child must be at risk of serious injury or death. # There must be sufficient descriptive information of child, captor, or captor's vehicle to issue an alert. # The child must be 17 years old or younger. Many law enforcement agencies have not used #2 as a criterion, resulting in many parental abductions triggering an Amber Alert, where the child is not known or assumed to be at risk of serious injury or death.

It is recommended that AMBER Alert data immediately be entered into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Crime Information Center. Text information describing the circumstances surrounding the abduction of the child should be entered, and the case flagged as child abduction.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's (RCMP) requirements in Canada are nearly identical to the above list, with the obvious exception that the RCMP instead of the FBI is normally notified. One organization might notify the other if there is reason to suspect that the border may be crossed.

When investigators believe that a child is in danger of being taken across the border to either Canada or Mexico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, United States Border Patrol and the Canada Border Services Agency are notified and are expected to search every car coming through a border checkpoint. If the child is suspected to be taken to Canada, a Canadian Amber Alert can also be issued, and a pursuit by Canadian authorities usually follows. Mexico does not have a system similar to the Amber Alerts.

History

On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas. A neighbor who witnessed the abduction called the police, and Amber's brother, Ricky, went home to tell his mother and grandparents what had happened. On hearing the news, Amber's father, Richard, called Marc Klaas, whose daughter, Polly, had been abducted and murdered in 1993.

Richard Hagerman and Amber's mother Donna Whitson called the news media and the FBI. The Whitsons and their neighbors began searching for Amber. Four days after the abduction, a man walking his dog found Amber's body in a storm drainage ditch. Her killer was never found. Her parents soon established People Against Sex Offenders (P.A.S.O.). They collected signatures hoping to force the Texas Legislature into passing more stringent laws to protect children.

God's Place International Church soon donated office space for the organization, and as the search for Amber's killer continued, P.A.S.O. received almost-daily coverage in local media. Companies donated various office supplies, including computer and Internet service. Local Congressman Martin Frost, with the help of Marc Klaas, drafted the Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act. President Bill Clinton signed it into law in October 1996.

In July 1996, Bruce Seybert and Richard Hagerman attended a media symposium in Arlington. Although Richard had remarks prepared, on the day of the event the organizers asked Seybert to speak instead. In his 20-minute speech, he spoke about efforts that local police could take quickly to help find missing children and how the media could facilitate those efforts. A reporter from radio station KRLD approached the Dallas police chief shortly afterward with Seybert's ideas. This launched the Amber Alert.

For the next two years, alerts were made manually to participating radio stations. In 1998, the Child Alert Foundation created the first fully automated Alert Notification System (ANS) to notify surrounding communities when a child was reported missing or abducted. Alerts were sent to radio stations as originally requested but included television stations, surrounding law enforcement agencies, newspapers and local support organizations. These alerts were sent all at once via pagers, faxes, emails, and cell phones with the information immediately posted on the Internet for the general public to view.

Following the automation of the AMBER Alert with ANS technology created by the Child Alert Foundation, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) expanded its role in 2002 to promote the AMBER Alert, although in 1996 now CEO of the NCMEC declined to come in and help further the Amber Alert when asked to by Bruce Seybert and Richard Hagerman and has since worked aggressively to see alerts distributed using the nation's existing emergency radio and TV response network. "Amber's Story" is a TV movie that was made about her tragic story.

National growth

In October 2001, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched a campaign to have AMBER Alert systems established nationwide. In February 2002, the Federal Communications Commission officially endorsed the system. In 2002, several children were abducted in cases that drew national attention. One such case, the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Runnion, prompted California to establish an AMBER Alert system on July 24, 2002. According to Senator Dianne Feinstein, in its first month California issued 13 AMBER alerts; 12 of the children were recovered safely and the remaining alert was found to be a misunderstanding.

By September 2002, 26 states had established AMBER Alert systems that covered all or parts of the state. A bipartisan group of over 20 US Senators, led by Kay Bailey Hutchison and Dianne Feinstein, proposed legislation to name an AMBER Alert coordinator in the U.S. Justice Department who could help coordinate state efforts. The bill also provided $25 million in federal matching grants for states to establish AMBER Alert programs and necessary equipment purchases, such as electronic highway signs. A similar bill was sponsored in the U.S. House of Representatives by Jennifer Dunn and Martin Frost. The bill passed the Senate unanimously within a week of its proposal. At an October 2002 conference on missing, exploited, and runaway children, President George W. Bush announced improvements to the AMBER Alert system, including the development of a national standard for issuing AMBER Alerts. A similar bill passed the House several weeks later on a 390–24 vote. A related bill finally became law in April 2003.

The alerts were offered digitally beginning in November 2002, when America Online began a service allowing people sign up to receive notification via computer, pager, or cell phone. Users of the service enter their ZIP code, thus allowing the alerts to be targeted to specific geographic regions.

International expansion

Australia

The Australian state Queensland implemented a version of the AMBER Alerts in May 2005.

Canada

The program emigrated to Canada in December 2002, when Alberta launched the first province-wide system. At the time, Alberta Solicitor-General Heather Forsyth said "We anticipate an Amber Alert will only be issued once a year in Alberta. We hope we never have to use it, but if a child is abducted Amber Alert is another tool police can use to find them and help them bring the child home safely." The Alberta government committed to spending more than CA$1 million to expanding the province's emergency warning system so that it could be used effectively for Amber Alerts. Other Canadian provinces soon adopted the system, and by May 2004 Saskatchewan was the only province that had not established an Amber Alert system. Within the next year, the program was in use throughout the country.

Ontario

Ontario furthered its reach beyond media and highway signs by offering Amber Alerts on the province's 9,000 lottery terminal screens.

After the abduction and murder of Victoria Stafford a review of the Amber Alert program was implemented in Ontario. There was some concern regarding the strict criteria for issuing the alerts – criteria that was not met in the Stafford case – that resulted in an alert not being issued. Ontario Provincial Police have since changed their rules for issuing an alert from having to ''confirm'' an abduction and ''confirm'' threat of harm, to ''believe'' that a child has been abducted and ''believe'' is at risk of harm.

France

In February 2006, France's Justice ministry launched an apparatus based on the AMBER alerts named Alerte-Enlèvement (''abduction alert'') or Dispositif Alerte-Enlèvement (''abduction alert apparatus'') with the help of most media and railroad and motorway companies.

Ireland

In April 2009, it was announced that an AMBER Alert system would be set up in Ireland.

Malaysia

In September 2007, Malaysia implemented the Nurin Alert. Based on the AMBER alert, it is named for a missing eight-year-old girl, Nurin Jazlin.

Mexico

On April 28, 2011, Mexico joined international efforts to spread the use of the AMBER alert at official launch ceremony on April 28, 2011.

Netherlands

On November 11, 2008 AMBER Alert Nederland was launched in the Netherlands. On February 14, 2009, the first Dutch AMBER Alert was issued when a 4-year-old boy in Rotterdam went missing. He was found soon, safe and sound, after he was recognized by a picture on an electronic billboard in a fast food restaurant. This happened so soon even the transmission of the AMBER Alert was stopped before all intended recipients had gotten it.

United Kingdom

On April 1, 2007, the AMBER Alert system became active in North West England. An implementation across the rest of Britain was planned at that time. This was realized on May 25, 2010 with the nationwide launch of the Child Rescue Alert, based on the AMBER Alert system.

The first system in the UK of this kind was created in Sussex on November 14, 2002. This was followed by versions in Surrey and Hampshire. By 2005, every local jurisdiction in England and Wales had their own form of alert system.

Retrieval rate

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, of the children abducted by strangers and murdered, 75% are killed within the first three hours. Amber Alerts are designed to inform the general public quickly when a child has been kidnapped and is in danger so that "the public [would be] additional eyes and ears of law enforcement". As of August 2002, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that 17 children had been successfully recovered after an Amber alert was issued, including one case in which the abductor released the child after hearing the alert.

A Scripps Howard study of the 233 AMBER Alerts issued in the United States in 2004 found that most issued alerts did not meet the Department of Justice's criteria. Fully 50% (117 alerts) were categorized by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as being "family abductions", very often a parent involved in a custody dispute. There were 48 alerts for children who had not been abducted at all, but were lost, ran away, involved in family misunderstandings (for example, two instances where the child was with grandparents), or as the result of hoaxes. Another 23 alerts were issued in cases where police did not know the name of the allegedly abducted child, often as the result of misunderstandings by witnesses who reported an abduction.

Seventy of the 233 AMBER Alerts issued in 2004 (30%) were actually children taken by strangers or who were unlawfully traveling with adults other than their legal guardians.

Controversy about success rate

Some outside scholars examining the system in depth disagree with the "official" results. A team led by University of Nevada criminologist Timothy Griffin looked at hundreds of abduction cases between 2003 and 2006 and found that Amber Alerts actually played little apparent role in the eventual return of abducted children. Furthermore, AMBER Alerts tended to be "successful" in relatively mundane abductions, such as when the child was taken by a noncustodial parent or other family member. There was little evidence that Amber Alerts routinely "saved lives", although a crucial research constraint was the impossibility of knowing with certainty what "would have" happened if no Alert was issued in a particular case.

Griffin and co-author Monica Miller articulated the limits to AMBER Alert in a subsequent research article. They pointed out that AMBER Alerts are inherently constrained, because to be successful in the most menacing cases there needs to be a rapid synchronization of several felicitous events (rapid discovery that the child is missing and subsequent Alert, the fortuitous discovery of the child or abductor by a citizen, and so forth). Furthermore, there is a contradiction between the need for rapid recovery and the prerogative to maintain the strict issuance criteria to reduce the number of frivolous Alerts, creating a dilemma for law enforcement officials and public backlash when Alerts are not issued in cases ending as tragedies. Finally, the implied causal model of AMBER Alert (rapid recovery can save lives) is in a sense the opposite of reality: In the worst abduction scenarios, the intentions of the perpetrator usually guarantee that anything public officials do will be "too slow."

Because the system is publicly praised for saving lives despite these limitations, Griffin and Miller argue that AMBER Alert acts as "crime control theater" in that it "creates the appearance but not the fact of crime control". AMBER Alert is thus a socially constructed 'solution' to the rare but intractable crime of child-abduction murder. Griffin and Miller have subsequently applied the concept to other emotional but ineffective legislation such as Safe Haven laws and Polygamy raids, and continue their work in developing the concept of "crime control theater" and on the AMBER Alert system.

False alarms

Advocates for missing children are concerned that the public is becoming desensitized to AMBER Alerts because of a large number of false alarms — where police issue an AMBER Alert without strictly adhering to the U.S. Department of Justice's activation guidelines.

Effects on Traffic

thumb|215px|left|An electronic traffic-condition sign displaying an AMBER Alert. AMBER alerts are often displayed on electronic message signs. The Federal Highway Administration has instructed states to display AMBER alerts on highway signs sparingly, citing safety concerns from distracted drivers and the negative impacts of traffic congestion.

Many states have policies in place that limit the use of AMBER alerts on freeway signs. In Los Angeles, an AMBER alert issued in October 2002 that was displayed on area freeway signs caused significant traffic congestion. As a result, the California Highway Patrol elected not to display the alerts during rush hour, citing safety concerns. The state of Wisconsin only displays AMBER alerts on freeway signs if it is deemed appropriate by the transportation department and a public safety agency. AMBER alerts do not preempt messages related to traffic safety.

U.S. postage stamp

The United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp commemorating AMBER Alerts in May 2006. The 39-cent stamp features a chalk pastel drawing by artist Vivienne Flesher of a reunited mother and child, with the text "AMBER ALERT saves missing children" across the pane. The stamp was released as part of the observance of National Missing Children's Day.

Amber Alert Stamp

See also

Code Adam

Silver Alert

Child sexual abuse

FBI Victims Identification Project

Human trafficking

Prostitution of children

References

External links

U.S. government AMBER alert site

Our Missing Children (Government of Canada)

Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on Amber Alert program technology

Child Rescue Alert - UK equivalent of Amber Alert

AMBER Alert Nederland site, the Dutch Amber alert

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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Coordinates	19°2′2.04″N65°15′45.36″N
name	Gary Busey
birth name	William Gary Busey
birth date	June 29, 1944
birth place	Goose Creek, Texas, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1968–present
spouse	Tiani Warden (1996–2001; divorced)Judy Helkenberg (1968–90; divorced) }}

William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor and artist. He has appeared in over 120 films, as well as making regular appearances on ''Gunsmoke'', ''Walker, Texas Ranger'', ''Law & Order'', and ''Entourage''. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in ''The Buddy Holly Story''.

Early life

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, in southeastern 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.

Career

Busey began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names "Teddy Jack Eddy" and "Sprunk", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called ''The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting'' (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). He played in a band called Carp, who released one album on Epic Records in 1969. Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s. In 1975, as the character "Harvey Daley," he was the last person killed on the series ''Gunsmoke'' (in the antepenultimate episode, No. 633 – "The Los Carnales").

In 1976 he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, Road Manager to Kris Kristofferson's character in the remake film ''A Star is Born''. On the DVD commentary of the film, Streisand says Busey was great and that she had seen him on a TV series and thought he had the right qualities to play the role.

In 1978, he starred as Buddy Holly in ''The Buddy Holly Story'' with Sartain as The Big Bopper. The movie earned Busey an Academy Award nomination and the National Society of Film Critics' Best Actor award. In the film, he changes the lyrics to the song "Well All Right" and sings, "We're gonna love Teddy Jack..." a reference to his Teddy Jack Eddy persona. In the same year he also starred in the surfing movie ''Big Wednesday''.

In the 1980s, Busey's roles included ''Silver Bullet'', ''Barbarosa'', ''Insignificance'' and ''Lethal Weapon''. In the movie ''D.C. Cab'', Busey portrayed the character Dell. At one point, Dell is singing along with a cassette recording of Busey singing the song "Why Baby Why" (which Busey recorded, but still remains unreleased). In the 1990s, he appeared in ''Predator 2'', ''Rookie of the Year'', ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', ''Under Siege'', ''The Firm'', ''Lost Highway'', ''Point Break'' and ''Black Sheep''.

Busey sang the song "Stay All Night" on ''Saturday Night Live'' in March 1979, and on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' in the 1990s.

In 2002, Busey voiced the character Phil Cassidy in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', then again in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories'' in 2006. He also voiced himself on a 2005 episode of ''The Simpsons'', narrating an informational video about restraining orders.

Busey appeared in the 2006 Turkish film ''Valley of the Wolves Iraq,'' (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak, in Turkish). The film, accused of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U.S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a brave Turkish soldier; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv. In 2007, he appeared as himself on HBO's ''Entourage.'' Producers at HBO asked Busey to play a "character" on the show who was the self-named actor who is also a famous painter and sculptor.

In 2008, he joined the second season of the reality show ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew''. Per his contract and VH1's press release, he was to be part of the mentoring team and not a patient. Drew Pinsky has expressed a different opinion, saying that he can help by being in group meetings with others and is not part of the staff, but part of the patients of this second season. Busey returned to reality television in ''Celebrity Apprentice 4'', which premiered in March 2011,

In a series of 2010 YouTube advertisements for Vitamin Water, Busey appears as Norman Tugwater, a lawyer who defends professional athletes' entitlements to a cut from Fantasy Football team owners.

The following year, he was let go from the horror movie ''Mansion of Blood'' after filming half his scenes, due what his publicist, Michael Conley, called "contractual issues and misunderstandings."

Personal life

Family

In 1971, Busey's wife Judy Helkenberg gave birth to their son, William Jacob Busey, now known as actor Jake Busey. Busey and Judy divorced when Jake was nineteen.

Busey has a daughter named Alectra from a previous relationship.

On December 9, 2009, it was announced that Gary Busey and girlfriend Steffanie Sampson were expecting their first child in May 2010. On February 23, 2010, their son Luke Sampson Busey was born.

Motorcycle accident and brain damage

On December 4, 1988, Busey was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. His skull was fractured, and doctors feared he suffered permanent brain damage.

At the recommendation of Dr. Drew Pinsky, Busey was seen by psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy. Sophy suspected that Busey's brain injury has had a greater effect on him than realized. He described it as essentially weakening his mental "filters" and causing him to speak and act impulsively. He recommended Busey take a medication called Depakote, to which he agreed.

Legal issues

In May 1995, Busey was arrested for cocaine possession after being hospitalized for an overdose of cocaine and GHB.

On August 20, 1997, Busey was accused of pushing a stewardess who bumped him on a flight to Las Vegas. Upon the flight's landing, he was questioned by police, but no charges were filed.

On January 25, 1999, Busey was arrested after a fight with his wife. He was released on bail.

On December 2, 2001, Busey was again arrested for spousal abuse after his ex-wife Tiani Warden called authorities, complaining he left her bruised. Busey was released on $50,000 bail.

On September 7, 2004, Busey's landlord filed a lawsuit to evict him because Busey had refused to pay his rent for about three months.

On Sept 23, 2004, Busey was arrested for showing up late to a spousal support court hearing. His lawyer bailed him out two-and-a-half hours later.

Filmography

''Angels Hard as They Come'' (1971)

''The Magnificent Seven Ride!'' (1972)

''Dirty Little Billy'' (1972)

''Lolly-Madonna XXX'' (1973)

''Hex'' (1973)

''Blood Sport'' (1973)

''The Execution of Private Slovik'' (1974)

''The Last American Hero'' (1973)

''Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (as Garey Busey)'' (1974)

''The Law'' (1974)

''A Star Is Born'' (1976)

''The Gumball Rally'' (1976)

''The Buddy Holly Story'' (1978)

''Straight Time'' (1978)

''Big Wednesday'' (1978)

''Carny'' (1980)

''Foolin' Around'' (1980)

''Barbarosa'' (1982)

''Didn't You Hear...'' (1983)

''D.C. Cab'' (1983)

''The Bear'' (1984)

''Insignificance'' (1985)

''Silver Bullet'' (1985)

''Half a Lifetime'' (1986)

''Eye of the Tiger'' (1986)

''Let's Get Harry'' (1986)

''Lethal Weapon'' (1987)

''Bulletproof'' (1988)

''A Dangerous Life'' (1988)

''The Neon Empire'' (1989)

''Hider in the House'' (1989)

''Act of Piracy'' (1990)

''Predator 2'' (1990)

''Point Break'' (1991)

''My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys'' (1991)

''Wild Texas Wind'' (1991)

''Canvas'' (1992)

''Chrome Soldiers'' (1992)

''Under Siege'' (1992)

''Breaking Point'' (1993)

''The Firm'' (1993)

''Rookie of the Year'' (1993)

''South Beach'' (1993)

''Warriors'' (1994)

''Surviving the Game'' (1994)

''Drop Zone'' (1994)

''Chasers'' (1994)

''Man with a Gun'' (1995)

''Steel Sharks'' (1996)

''One Clean Move'' (1996)

''Livers Ain't Cheap'' (1996) (a.k.a. ''The Real Thing'')

''Black Sheep'' (1996)

''Carried Away'' (1996)

''Sticks & Stones'' (1996)

''The Chain'' (1996)

''Suspicious Minds'' (1997)

''The Rage'' (1997)

''Lost Highway'' (1997)

''Lethal Tender'' (1997)

''Plato's Run'' (1997)

''Rough Riders'' (1997)

''Rough Draft'' (1998) (a.k.a. ''Diary of a Serial Killer'')

''Soldier'' (1998)

''Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas'' (1998)

''Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms'' (1998)

''Detour'' (1998) (a.k.a. ''Too Hard to Die'')

''Hot Boyz'' (1999)

''The Girl Next Door'' (1999)

''No Tomorrow'' (1999)

''Two Shades of Blue'' (1999)

''Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang'' (1999)

''A Crack in the Floor'' (2000)

''Tribulation'' (2000)

''Glory Glory'' (2000) (a.k.a. ''Hooded Angels'')

''Inside The Metal Box'' (2000)

''Down 'n Dirty'' (2000)

''G-Men from Hell'' (2000)

''Frost: Portrait of a Vampire'' (2001)

''On the Edge'' (2002)

''Welcome 2 Ibiza'' (2002)

''Sam & Janet'' (2002)

''Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice'' (2002)

''The Prize Fighter'' (2003)

''Scorched'' (2003)

''Shadowlands'' (2003)

''Shade of Pale'' (2004)

''Motocross Kids'' (2004)

''Lexie'' (2004)

''El Padrino'' (2004)

''Border Blues'' (2004)

''Latin Dragon'' (2004)

''Ghost Rock'' (2004)

''American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004'' (2004)

''The Hand Job'' (2005)

''Souled Out'' (2005)

''No Rules'' (2005)

''Chasing Ghosts'' (2005)

''The Baker's Dozen'' (2005)

''Into the West'' (2005)

''Buckaroo: The Movie'' (2005)

''A Sight for Sore Eyes'' (2005)

''The Gingerdead Man'' (2005)

''The Hard Easy'' (2005)

''Descansos'' (2006)

''Valley of the Wolves Iraq'' (2006)

''Dr. Dolittle 3'' (2006) (voice)

''Shut Up and Shoot!'' (2006)

''Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride'' (2006)

''Soft Target'' (2006) (a.k.a. ''Crooked'')

''Quigley '' (2006)

''Lady Samurai'' (2007)

''Homo Erectus'' (2007) (a.k.a. ''National Lampoon's The Stoned Age'')

''Blizhniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter'' (2007)

''Succubus: Hell Bent'' (2007)

''Maneater'' (2007)

''Beyond the Ring'' (2008)

''Nite Tales: The Movie'' (2008)

''Hallettsville'' (2009)

''Down and Distance'' (2009)

''DaZe: Vol. Too (sic) – NonSeNse'' (2009)

Television

''Kung Fu'' (Season 1, Episode 15 ("The Ancient Warrior")) (1973)

''Gunsmoke'' (1975)

''The Texas Wheelers'' (ABC-TV 8-episode sitcom, 1974–75)

''Saturday Night Live'' (1979) (himself – host)

''Hawaii Five-O'' (1997 unaired pilot)

''Walker, Texas Ranger'' (1999)

''The Outer Limits'' (2000), Episode: "Revival"

''Law & Order'' (2001)

''King of the Hill'' (2001) (voice)

''Entourage ("Busey and the Beach", Season 1, Episode 6; "The Boys Are Back In Town", Season 2, Episode 1; "Gary's Desk", Season 4, Episode 8)'' (2004, 2005, 2007) (as himself)

''The Man Show'' (2002) (as himself)

''I'm with Busey'' (Comedy Central, 2003) (as himself)

''Penn & Teller: Bullshit!'' ("12 Stepping", 2004) (as himself)

''High Chaparall'' (2004) (as himself)

''The Simpsons (On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister, season 16, episode 11)'' (2005) (as himself)

''Celebrity Fit Club 2'' (VH1, 2005) (as himself)

''Esenin'' (2005, Russia) (Zinger, Isedora Dunkan's ex-husbund )

''Tom Goes to the Mayor'' (2006) (voice)

''Scrubs'' ("My Missed Perception", 2006) (as himself)

''Celebrity Paranormal Project'' (VH1, 2006) (as himself)

''The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest...'' (truTV, 2008) (as himself)

''The Cho Show'' (VH1, 2008) (as himself)

''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' (VH1, 2008) (as himself)

''The Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy'' (Comedy Central, 2009) (as himself)

''Conan'' (TBS, 2010) (as himself)

''Celebrity Apprentice'' (2011) (as himself)

Video games

''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' (voice) (2002)

''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories'' (voice) (2006)

''Saints Row 2'' (voice) (2008)

References

External links

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