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William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film and stage actor, and artist. He has appeared in a large variety of 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.
Busey was born William Gareth Jacob Busey 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 (located 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.
Busey began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band.[citation needed] He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names "Teddy Jack Eddy" and "Sprunk",[citation needed] 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 on station KTUL (which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi"). For his skits on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero, belligerent, know-it-all character. When he told Gailard Sartain his characer needed a name, Sartain replied, "Take three: Teddy, Jack and Eddy."
Actors: Timothy Conyers (director), Timothy Conyers (editor), Timothy Conyers (writer), Jessica Rice (actress), James Vineyard (actor), McQuiston Stoddard (actress), Bobby Kirk (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Andrew Putschoegl (editor), Scott Beehner (actor), Eileen O'Connell (actress), Lowell Northrop (actor), Lowell Northrop (writer), Lowell Northrop (director), Ian Gary (actor), Greg Roman (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
But I still can't really tell you why I'm blue
And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
And the reasons you'll never really find
You took me out to breakfast
I guess that means that's better
But in your room I still know what to do...
And now I know I've got to
Do all these things without you
Although I don't need a clue
It still tells me what to do, yeah!
And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
But I still can't really tell you why I'm blue
And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
And the reasons you'll never really find
You took me out in the night too
I'd have to see what I'd do
Because when I do it, then we do it all!
Because that's what I'm like with you
And now I know you've gone home
Back to wherever you came from
And all I've got is a song
On a record I don't even own, aaaah!
And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
But I still can't really tell you
Bout my bruise
And I'm learning how to fight
Kissing you goodnight
And the reasons you'll never really fi-i-ind