They show up to their fashion shows dressed rather casually. That’s all anybody on that show cares about. GM: No, they came looking for me specifically. There’s no nonsense with him. AVC: I hadn’t realized that. But then someone once said to me that people think “Star Trek” is filmed on location! GM: Well, that was fascinating because of the director. I haven’t even heard a rumor yet. What do you think is the long-term appeal of “Simon & Simon”? His father, Barlow Connally (Gerald McRaney), a … I tell people all the time, if you could make a good living at it, I’d still be doing rep, because that’s where all the fun is. 1 Cast 1.1 Main Cast 1.2 Recurring cast 2 Season 4 Trivia 3 Broadcast Episode Robert Taylor as Sheriff Walt Longmire Katee Sackhoff as Deputy Victoria "Vic" Moretti Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry Standing Bear Cassidy … And I think people got timid. But it was a challenge as well. Monday's Best Deals: Tenet Blu-ray, NFL Mugs, Cuisinart Slow Cooker, Outdoor Heaters, and More. AVC: And you were on some of them multiple times. He and I had the same acting teacher. I really liked it. Yeah, that was my description of Delta. And their line producer, Pat McKee, is a guy who started out as a trainee on Simon & Simon in the old days, so there’s an association with a couple of people on that show. GM: Well, that was a fascinating character to play, just being on West Wing. It was a fluke, my getting to play leading-man roles for a while, but I’m really a character guy. GM: Oh, God. And at the same time, I was doing those little low-budget films and a little piecemeal work in various and sundry other projects. But I opened it up, having the shoot-out with Matt Dillon. We had just met, we were introduced, and we hugged each other instead of shaking hands. His aunt Wilma was a sometimes casting agent in New Orleans for films. Favorite book or book you’re reading right now? I was a two-time loser when Delta and I met. GM: No, it didn’t. AVC: Growing up with cowboys began your interest in movies, and then you ended up appearing on the definitive cowboy series, and on three separate occasions, no less. GM: Oh, just that idiotic conceit of stomping on a glass with a bare foot. GM: Well, there was the time that Willie had a new album coming out, and he wanted me to listen to an early copy of it. [Laughs.] Oh, also on Simon & Simon, in 1984, when the Summer Olympics were going to be in L.A., Phil decided it would just be a logistical nightmare trying to shoot in competition with all the traffic that would be going on around the Olympics. GM: I didn’t care for the experience, quite frankly. Instead of being, “Let’s make this the best show we can make about this subject,” it was, “Yeah, but are people going to tune in in big numbers to watch this?” As it turned out, they didn’t tune in in big numbers anyway. Meanwhile, Branch is curious about a possible relationship between his father and Jacob Nighthorse. Being stuck in Hawaii at a five-star hotel is not bad. GM: Oh, yes. What a great guy to work with. McRaney portrayed wealthy businessman “Raymond Tusk” on Seasons One and Two of the streaming drama “House of Cards.”. Come on. We just had a ball making that show. So we had a wonderful time on that show because we very rarely did anything! That’s the only other series besides Rockford that you did on four separate occasions. We had such wonderful directors on that show and some wonderful writers, and what I’d do was just get in their hip pocket and follow them around like a puppy dog, watching them do what they did. None whatsoever. There would’ve been the eventual burning of the town, because the original Deadwood got basically burnt to the ground and then rebuilt. Gerald was born and raised in Collins, Mississippi, and is an avid angler and lover of the outdoors. ], GM: What a great role that was. That’s basically the premise of the show – the adventures that are had by the vice president and her secret agent. The rodeo comes to Durant in this week’s Longmire, and plenty of folks are taking the “Ride ’Em Cowboy” directive to heart. But it gave me an opportunity to direct and it gave me an opportunity to write, and of course when Major Dad came around, I was one of the executive producers on that show. Follow Connie on Twitter at. Viewing “Longmire” on Netflix: “High Noon,” Episode 403. I think I could do this!”. GM: Yeah, I had, and a lot of them were there at Universal. The third season of Longmire wrapped up many ongoing storylines, finally unveiling the fate of David Ridges, Branch's shooting, Vic's past in Philadelphia, and most importantly, what happened to Walt's wife in Denver. I married Delta Burke! AVC: That’s great that, at least to some extent, you can still find yourself in awe of other actors. Well, there’s not that much to tell – I’m sort of a hard-ass guy. This is terrific!” And it was done. GM: No, not really. Based on the 'Walt Longmire' mystery novels by Craig Johnson. Things like that. AVC: …and they’re all absolutely epic. GM: No, other than driving the humvee, I think that’s about as close to doing a stunt as I did on that movie, so I don’t know why I’ve got a credit as doing stunts on that. Barlow aligns himself by bringing up examples of Nighthorse’s unscrupulous practices. And it had no bearing in reality whatsoever and was… really not a very pleasant experience. She discovers after she has gotten the  job that there has been, throughout history, a special agent that works totally at the command of the vice president, and no one else in the government knows about this agent. And he has wonderful instincts. Wolfgang just sort of let me do whatever I wanted to do in the character. I just remember having to learn it. He also portrayed “Barlow Connelly” on contemporary Western drama “Longmire” and, over the last year, has simultaneously performed arcs on … I’m a redneck kid from Mississippi, born and raised a Southern Baptist. For instance, you did four episodes of The Rockford Files, playing four different characters. (If you’re a fan of the series and haven’t had the opportunity to dive into the new season yet, you may want to skip ahead to the next role, lest you learn more than you’d like about where things are headed with McRaney’s character.). I never worked with him. What draws you to a project? But it didn’t happen. I’m sort of the barrier between the two, but my boss won’t listen to me. I bumped into Jon at the Emmys. Branch refuses, saying that Walt was technically off duty at the time, had solved the crime, and recovered the painting. I’m still in touch all the time with Jim Beaver, and working with Timothy [Olyphant] is terrific. Not a problem. I’m sure! Secret affairs are the theme for this episode, for both major and minor players alike in a somewhat lighter, more comedic installment of the drama. GM: Oh, well, on that one… I think you might be able to appreciate this one: I’d get so fascinated watching [Robert] Duvall work, I forgot it was my turn to talk! I’m doing a scene with him, and I’m just watching this guy do what he does, and it’s so simple and it’s so powerful and it’s just so damned good… I just got caught up watching him and totally forgot I was in a scene with him, which was a little embarrassing. But I just thought they wrote me some fascinating and wonderful stuff to play, and I had a ball doing it. That’s what I’ve always been. And that came as a direct result of doing a play that Horton Foote had written in New York, off-Broadway. Writing, acting, singing… I don’t care what it is. AVC: It would appear that your first on-camera appearance, excluding any commercials that might’ve preceded it, was playing Wesley Stuart in Night Of Bloody Horror. You don’t notice those sort of things so much as a guest actor. One is Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and the other is Claudius in “Hamlet.”. It really was. And it beats the hell out of working for a living. AVC: Did you happen to have a good Incredible Hulk anecdote? Gerald Lee “Mac” McRaney was born on August 19, 1974, in Collins Mississippi, United States America. And then I think people started to pay too much attention to some of the stuff the critics were saying, like, “How is this show going to sustain? And then they started second-guessing themselves. He was a series regular in the first season of Jericho and the final season of Deadwood. The actor: Gerald McRaney started his acting career in the late ’60s and kept so busy throughout the ’70s that it seemed like he was in every hour-long drama on the primetime schedule. I’m playing all manner of different roles. AVC: The year you did the Simon & Simon reunion movie, you also starred in Jake Lassiter: Justice On The Bayou, a character featured in a series of novels by Paul Levine. But I have had the most fascinating career, particularly this latter part of it. AVC: Prior to your acting career, word has it that you got your hands dirty in the oil fields of Louisiana, but how did you find your way into acting in the first place? And I began to get the feeling that what we were doing wasn’t really right, because it sort of indicated that post-apocalyptic life was not only survivable but, you know, wasn’t really all that bad! What a character. That was terrific. GM: That’s the most beneficial role of my life, easily. [Laughs.] I’m really supposed to be a character actor. AVC: Tusk was reportedly influenced by, if not directly based on, Warren Buffett. Again, a beautifully written part, but of course the most important thing is that it’s what really introduced me to my wife [Delta Burke]. With Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase. From what I’ve read, there’s apparently an LSD freak-out after someone spikes the ice cream. I started out in a rep company, where you’re carrying a spear one night and being the king the next. But nothing bad. Directed by Michael Offer. GM: Oh, God, I don’t know if I’ll remember it! But she was terrific. Longmire is produced by The Shephard/Robin Company in association with Warner Horizon Television. Back then, every day must’ve brought you another new experience. Some people complained that the language was hard to learn, but to me it wasn’t. GM: Yeah, as much as anything else. [Laughs.] GM: Never. And who could? An avid reader, Connie is a huge fan of monthly serial romance novels and Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series. Also like Justified, the series featured some of the best dialogue on TV, and you'll likely even recognize a number of faces, as Jim Beaver, Garret Dillahunt, W. Earl Brown, Gerald McRaney… AVC: During the run of Simon & Simon, you and Jameson also teamed up to work on a film called Jackals, directed by Gary Grillo, who was a director on the show. McRaney holds the distinction of being the last guest star to meet "Matt Dillon" in a gunfight on Gunsmoke (1955) - in the episode, Gunsmoke: Hard Labor (1975), first broadcast on February 24, 1975 (he lost). Was there any discernible difference from your perspective? AVC: There are probably half a dozen posters for the movie that are floating around the internet…. GM: None. What’s your secret to a successful relationship? I started to do it, and then at Ole Miss, where I went to college, I was in a lot of the productions the first year. AVC: Your ’70s output is a significant amount of ground to cover, but are there any of those guest appearances during that era that particularly stand out for you? There’s a law of diminishing returns that comes into play at some point. He was a very good actor. It was a magnificent experience. And then, again, he wrote a three-story arc for this guy that he had been building up to for a season and then just kept asking me to come back. We had lunch together the first day, and we had our first date just after we finished doing that episode, and basically we’ve been together every day ever since. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. What am I getting myself into?” And then he wound up just being this great guy who I still hang out with. It’s all about the quality of the show. Those are the things that always attracted me, and those are the things that make or break a good show. And it turned out that he got through the surgery fine, I got back, and I was on my way to the set when my agent stopped me and gave me the script, so I got there a little bit early and was able to read it. [Laughs.] Most of the time, he was sitting in his canvas chair with a cup of coffee and a cigarette, chewing the fat with whoever wanted to. And that’s been my career all the way along, really. Interview: Gerald McRaney Talks Longmire, Agent X and Simon & Simon. I like her, I really do. [Laughs.] Anyone who’s that good at something they do, I’m still in awe of that, and I hope I never get over it. For a long time after I quit smoking, I drank nothing but tea because there was too strong of an association – my morning started with newspapers, cigarettes and strong coffee. I was a guest actor on the show, my participation in it was the blink of an eye, and to really notice things like that, you have to experience a few episodes and see how the editing has changed, how scripts overall have changed, what the tone has been that isn’t anymore, or has the philosophy of the show changed, or the theme? Some actors would complain that he would change dialogue on them at the last moment, but I loved it, because it was always being refined, always being perfected. Our paths crossed, but we never got a chance to work together. I think she’s a terrific lady. To have an acting partner of that kind of immense talent and to be able to go one-on-one with him, it’s like a tennis player playing a great opponent or a football player being a receiver to a great quarterback. So I did. No, not right now. And I keep looking over my shoulder for what might be gaining on me! He’s incredibly intelligent and has his own sometimes-bizarre take on life, but there’s this essential truth to Milch. Yes. But it was an episode that was written by Nick Corea, who was a writer-producer on that show. GM: Well, it’s interesting: That actually sort of helped me. What the hell do I know about Hebrew? Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. AVC: This next one is the most obscure thing on my list—there’s not even so much as a clip from it on YouTube—but the credits alone are fascinating enough that it’s a must-ask. Not even if you’re in the fashion business. GM: Yes, but I think he was tempted from time to time. McRaney is American television and movie actor and is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon and Simon, Major Dad, and Promised Land. “Longmire” will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But the way that role came about was that I had gotten as far as testing for the studio and it was down to me and a couple of other guys for a thing called Gypsy Warriors, which was going to be a series about two Americans during World War II who go behind enemy lines in France and work with the underground at making ready for the invasion of Europe. He said, “I don’t know what the role is.” “Doesn’t matter.” “I don’t know what kind of money it is.” “I don’t care! One of my favorites also! Clyde McRaney is the father of Gerald McRaney and his mother is Edna McRaney. And to work with Kevin [Spacey] was so much fun. Gerald has been lucky to have such caring parents. I grew up in the south! I mean, you couldn’t make any real money working in that rep company. Well, I’ve had three cups of coffee today and I had five cups of tea yesterday. AVC: And yet it was obviously not the only movie that you made with Joy N. Houck Jr. How did you fall into his orbit in the first place? GM: Major Dad was an exceptional, exceptional experience. I’ve never had what you would call a breakout. Although he’s more or less downshifted back into character-actor mode over the course of the past several years, McRaney has no complaints about the end result, which has given him the opportunity to work his way into the ensembles—sometimes briefly, sometimes for lengthy arcs—of such series as Deadwood, Justified, and House Of Cards. You can say to your wife, “I’ll be home at 8 p.m. this evening, let’s have dinner together,” which you can’t do with a movie or an hour-long TV show. McRaney can currently be seen in the fourth season of Longmire, the series’ first since making the jump to Netflix. And I asked to be let out of it. He is best known for his role on the television show Simon & Simon, Major Dad and Promised Land. I had to stay away from the coffee in order to stay away from the cigarettes. I feel very, very fortunate to be doing the things I’m doing right now. 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