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Bruce Travis McGill (born July 11, 1950) is an American actor. He worked with director Michael Mann in the movies The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), and Collateral (2004). McGill's other notable film roles include Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day in John Landis's Animal House, Sheriff Dean Farley in My Cousin Vinny, Matuzak in Timecop, Reverend Larson in Shallow Hal, Gene Revell in The Sum of All Fears, Edwin Stanton in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, and Lt. Brooks in Ride Along and its sequel Ride Along 2.

Bruce McGill
McGill in 2014
Born	Bruce Travis McGill (1950-07-11) July 11, 1950 (age 72) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin (B.A., Drama)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1977–present
Spouse	Gloria Lee ​ (m. 1994)​

Bruce McGill's television roles include Jack Dalton on MacGyver (1985–1992) and Det. Vince Korsak on Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016). He also portrayed Captain Braxton in several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1999) and voiced Lloyd Waterman, the owner of Waterman Cable, on The Cleveland Show (2009-2013). He played Ralph Houk in Billy Crystal's made-for-television film 61* (2001). In 2021, he had a recurring role in the NASCAR comedy series The Crew on Netflix.

Early life

McGill was born in San Antonio, Texas; the son of Adriel "Squeaky" Rose (née Jacobs), the late Jewish San Antonio artist;[1] and Woodrow Wilson McGill, a real estate and insurance agent.[2] He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in the northeastern part of San Antonio and from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in drama. He is related to former Texas State Senator A.R. Schwartz.

Career

Film work

McGill has starred in many films, perhaps his most well-known role being "D-Day" in the 1978 comedy classic National Lampoon's Animal House,[3] a role McGill was desperate to take at the time, recalling his days as a young unemployed actor sitting in a New York City casting office. In Animal House, he played the William Tell Overture by drumming his fingers on his windpipe. He duplicated this talent in MacGyver, playing "Rock-The-Cradle" to lull a child in his care to sleep.

Some of his films include Into the Night, Wildcats, The Last Boy Scout, My Cousin Vinny, Cliffhanger, Timecop, Black Sheep, Courage Under Fire, Rosewood, Three Fugitives, Club Paradise, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Sum of All Fears, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Matchstick Men, Runaway Jury, Cinderella Man, Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy, and Vantage Point.[3]

McGill is a favorite of director Michael Mann, having worked with him on three of his films: 1999's The Insider, 2001's Ali and 2004's Collateral. He has also appeared in four HBO TV films, first playing Yankees manager Ralph Houk in Billy Crystal's film 61* in 2001, then diplomat George Ball in the 2002 film Path to War; journalist Peter Arnett in Live from Baghdad later that year; and most recently Mac Stipanovich in the 2008 film Recount about the 2000 Presidential election in Florida. He portrayed CIA Director George Tenet in Oliver Stone's film W. and, most recently, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.

Television roles

McGill reprised his role as D-Day from National Lampoon's Animal House in the short-lived 1979 ABC TV Spinoff Delta House. His other television guest appearances range from Quantum Leap (in both the pilot and final episodes), Walker, Texas Ranger, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Crime Story, and Miami Vice (again, a Michael Mann production), to Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Braxton in the episode "Relativity". He also appeared multiple times as a regular guest star in MacGyver as the title character's comical best friend, soldier of fortune/bush pilot Jack Dalton. Echoing that role, McGill often plays friends of the lead character in film and television. In 1994 he made a guest appearance along with Jay Leno in the Emmy nominated TV series, Home Improvement.[4] He played Willard Cates in the short-lived series Wolf Lake. He was scheduled to join the cast of Bionic Woman in the fall of 2007.[5] He also voiced Agent Buford in the video game Mercenaries. In 2009, McGill appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Gordon Garrison, a zealously bigoted anti-immigration talk-show host who, after sparking a mini-riot in court, sets up the acquittal of the killer. McGill also appeared on ABC's 2010 TV show, No Ordinary Family.[6]

McGill also played Major Ed Ryan in the third season Babylon 5 episode "Severed Dreams" (which won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation). Babylon 5 producer J. Michael Straczynski originally intended for Everett McGill to play the role. However he did not know McGill's first name, so when he asked to have McGill contacted, Straczynski was asked if he meant Bruce McGill, to which he replied yes. Even though it became apparent to Straczynski when Bruce McGill met him to discuss the role that he was not the McGill Straczynski had in mind, Straczynski decided to use him instead.[7]

McGill also had a small role in a season 3 episode of Numb3rs as well as a season 3 episode of Psych.

McGill portrayed the character of veteran Boston Police Homicide Detective Vince Korsak on the TNT television crime drama, Rizzoli & Isles. The character of Korsak is the mentor and friend of Detective Jane Rizzoli, portrayed by Angie Harmon. Korsak saved Rizzoli's life from serial killer, Charles Hoyt. Korsak shot Hoyt's partner just before Hoyt was about to kill Rizzoli with a knife. In the episode "She Works Hard for the Money" (season 1 episode 4) Korsak is asked where he went to college. He responds "Didn't. Watched Animal House a few times."

McGill also had a recurring voice role on The Cleveland Show as Lloyd Waterman, the homosexual owner of Waterman Cable, where Cleveland Brown is employed as a cable installer.[8]

In the 2016 US presidential election, McGill narrated several commercials for Donald Trump during his campaign[9] It was reported in February 2017 that he would guest star as a decorated Vietnam War veteran in the television series NCIS.[10]

McGill narrated the 2018 season of the Fox News documentary series Scandalous.[11]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	Handle with Care	'Blood'
1978	F.I.S.T.	Hitman	Uncredited
1978	National Lampoon's Animal House	Daniel Simpson 'D-Day' Day
1981	The Hand	Brian Ferguson
1982	The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez	Reporter Blakely
1983	Silkwood	Mason 'Mace' Hurley
1985	Into the Night	Charlie
1986	Wildcats	Dan Darwell
	No Mercy	Lieutenant Hall
	Club Paradise	Dave, Jack's fireman buddy
1987	Waiting for the Moon	Ernest Hemingway
	End of the Line	Billy Haney
	The Secret of My Success	W. Shaw	Uncredited
1989	Three Fugitives	Charlie
	Out Cold	Ernie
1991	The Last Boy Scout	Mike Matthews
1992	My Cousin Vinny	Sheriff Dean Farley
1993	Cliffhanger	Treasury Agent
	A Perfect World	Paul Saunders
1994	Timecop	Director Eugene Matuzak
1996	Black Sheep	Neuschwander
	Courage Under Fire	McQuillan
1997	Rosewood	Duke Purdy
	Lawn Dogs	Nash
1998	Letters from a Killer	Brinker
	Ground Control	T.C. Bryant
1999	The Insider	Ron Motley
	A Dog of Flanders	William the Blacksmith
2000	Deep Core	Sam Dalton
	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Walter Hagen
2001	Exit Wounds	Frank Daniels
	Shallow Hal	Reverend Larson
	Ali	Bradley
2002	The Sum of All Fears	Gene Revell
2003	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	Stanford 'Stan' Marks
	Matchstick Men	Chuck Frechette
	Runaway Jury	Judge Frederick Harkin
2004	Collateral	FBI agent Frank Pedrosa
2005	Cinderella Man	James Johnston
	Elizabethtown	Bill Banyon
	Valley of the Heart's Delight	Horace Walsh
	Slow Burn	Godfrey
2006	Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy	Garrison
	Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil	General Norman T. Vance
2007	The Good Life	Frank Jones
	The Lookout	Robert Pratt
2008	Vantage Point	Phil McCullough
	W.	George Tenet
2009	Obsessed	Joe Gage
	From Mexico with Love	Billy
	The Perfect Game	Mr. Tanner
	Law Abiding Citizen	District Attorney Jonas Cantrell
2010	Fair Game	Jim Pavitt
2011	Apart	Dr. Thomas Abner
2012	Me Again	Earl 'Big Earl'
	Lincoln	Edwin Stanton
	For Greater Glory	Mark
	FDR: American Badass!	Louis
	Unconditional	Detective Miller
2014	Ride Along	Lieutenant Brooks
2015	Run All Night	Pat Mullen
2016	Ride Along 2	Lieutenant Brooks
2019	Waiting Game	Mel	Won for Best Actor at the Pasadena International Film Festival
	The Best of Enemies	Carvie Oldham
	Poms	Chief Carl
2020	The Big Ugly	Milt, Preston's right-hand man
2021	American Underdog	Jim Foster

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Delta House	Daniel Simpson 'D-Day' Day	Spin-off of National Lampoon's Animal House
1981	A Whale for the Killing	Glenn	Made-for-TV-Movie
1985	Miami Vice	Hank Weldon	Episode: "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" (S 2:Ep 3)
1985–1992	MacGyver	Jack Dalton	Recurring
1986	As Summers Die	V.D. Skinner	Made-for-TV-Movie
1987	The Last Innocent Man	Burt Matson	Made-for-TV-Movie
	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Vernon Gage	Made-for-TV-Movie
	Crime Story	Nathan Hill	S 2:Ep 8 "Love Hurts"
1989	The Easter Story	(Video short) (voice)
	Hardball	Dutch	S 1:Ep 7 "Time Bomb"
	Let's Get Mom	Bruce	Made-for-TV-Movie
	Quantum Leap	Ernie 'Weird Ernie'	Episode: "Genesis" (Pilot S 1:Ep 1 & 2)
1990	Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston	O'Meara	Made-for-TV-Movie
	The Flockens	Philip Flocken	Made-for-TV-Movie
1991	Davis Rules	Mike	2 episodes
	Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance	Shifton	Made-for-TV-Movie
	The Perfect Tribute	Lamon	Made-for-TV-Movie
	Tales from the Crypt	Lou Paloma	Episode: "The Trap"
1992	A Thousand Heroes	Flight Engineer Dudley Dvorak	Made-for-TV-Movie
1993	Quantum Leap	Al the bartender	Episode: "Mirror Image" (Series finale S 5:Ep 22)
	Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story	Morgan	Made-for-TV-Movie
	Walker, Texas Ranger	Boone Waxwell	Episode: "Bounty" (S 1:Ep 4) Badge of Honor" (S 2:Ep 1)
1995	Home Improvement	Doug O'Brien	Episode: "Brother, Can You Spare a Hot Rod?" (S 4:Ep 14)
1996	Tracey Takes On...	Michael Morris Daveen	Episode: "Law" (S 1: Ep 6)
	Babylon 5	Major Ed Ryan	Episode: "Severed Dreams" (S 3: Ep 10)
1998	Everything That Rises	Alan Jamison	Made-for-TV-Movie[12]
1999	Tracey Takes On...	Mr. Devine	Episode: "Scandal" (S 4:Ep 3)
	Star Trek: Voyager	Captain Braxton	Episode: "Relativity" (S 5:Ep 24)
2000	Running Mates	Senator Mitchell Morris	Made-for-TV-Movie
2001	Inside the Osmonds	George Osmond
	61*	Ralph Houk
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Jonas Scatter
2002	Path to War	George Ball
	Live from Baghdad	Peter Arnett
2003	Justice League	General McCormick (voice)	Episode: "Eclipsed" Part 1 & 2
2007	Numb3rs	Austin	Episode: "Contenders" (S 3: 16)
2008	Recount	Mac Stipanovich	Made-for-TV-Movie
2009	Psych	Fire chief Dan Trombly	Episode: "Earth, Wind and... Wait for It" (S 3:Ep 12)
2009	Law and Order: SVU	Gordon Garrison	Episode: “ Anchor” (S11:Ep 10)
2009–2013	The Cleveland Show	Lloyd Waterman (voice)	Recurring role; 22 Episodes
2010–2016	Rizzoli & Isles	Detective Vince Korsak	Main cast
2010	No Ordinary Family	Allan Crane	Episode: "No Ordinary Visitors" (S 1:Ep 6)
	Family Guy	Santa Claus (voice)	Episode: "Road to the North Pole" (S 9: Ep 7)
2011	Family Guy	John Williams (voice)	Episode: "It's a Trap!" (S 9: Ep 18)
2012	The Good Wife	Jeremy Breslow	Episode: "A Defense of Marriage" (S 4:Ep 9)
2013	The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents	Narrator	Miniseries
2016	Blue Bloods	Rick 'Big Rick' Wolf	Episode: "Unbearable Loss" (S 7: Ep 10)
2017	NCIS	Henry Rogers	Episode: The Wall (S 14: Ep 19)
	MacGyver	Detective Greer	Episode: "Bullet & Pen" (s2 ep11)
2018	Suits	Stanley Gordon	Recurring role; Season 7
	Scandalous	Narrator
	Shades of Blue	Jordan Ramsey	Recurring role; 9 episodes
2019	High & Tight	Jerry McMillan	TV movie
	The I-Land	Warden Wells	Miniseries
2021	The Crew	Bobby Spencer	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2022	Reacher	Mayor Teale
2022	Buried in Barstow	Von	TV Film
2023	Love and Death	Judge Tom Ryan

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominated work	Award	Category	Result
2013	Lincoln	Gold Derby Awards	Ensemble Cast	Nominated
2019	Waiting Game	Pasadena International Film Festival	Best Actor	Won

References

External links

• Bruce McGill at IMDb 
• Bruce McGill at AllMovie
• Bruce McGill at the Internet Broadway Database
• Bruce McGill at MacGyver Online

На других языках

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[es] Bruce McGill

Bruce Travis McGill (San Antonio; 11 de julio de 1950) es un actor estadounidense. Graduado en arte dramático en la Universidad de Texas. Anteriormente estudió en el instituto Douglas MacArthur High School en la parte noroeste de San Antonio.

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[ru] Макгилл, Брюс

Брюс Трэвис Макгилл (англ. Bruce Travis McGill; 11 июля 1950, Сан-Антонио) — американский актёр. Наиболее известен своим сотрудничеством с режиссером Майклом Манном в фильмах «Свой человек» (1999), «Али» (2001) и «Соучастник» (2004). Также известен ролями Джека Далтона в сериале «Секретный агент Макгайвер» (1985—1992) и детектива Винса Корсака в сериале «Риццоли и Айлс» (2010—2016).

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