Gil Gerard

Gil Gerard

Born: January 23, 1943
in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Gilbert C. Gerard is an American actor, most notable for his role as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979–81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Gerard was employed as an industrial chemist, and within a few years of starting he became regional manager of a large chemical company headed by governor Winthrop Rockefeller. Gerard's employers said they would appoint him as the firm's vice president if he undertook a master's degree, so he resigned rather than explain that he did not have a bachelor's degree.

He then went to New York City where he studied drama by day and drove a taxicab at night. Gerard picked up a fare who showed a lively interest in the problems of unknown, unemployed actors. He told Gerard to report in a few days to the set of Love Story, which was being filmed on location in New York. When Gerard arrived on the Love Story set, he was hired as an extra. Later that day, he was singled out for a "bit" role, but his role was not included in the finished film.

During the next few years, he did most of his acting in 400 television commercials, including a stint as spokesman for the Ford Motor Company. After small roles in Some of My Best Friends Are..., and Man on a Swing, Gerard gained a prominent role in the daytime soap opera, The Doctors. Gerard formed his own production company in partnership with a writer-producer, co-authored a screenplay called Hooch and filmed it as a starring vehicle for himself. With Hooch completed, he appeared in Ransom for Alice! and Universal's Airport '77. A guest appearance on Little House on the Prairie impressed producer-star Michael Landon, who cast him in the leading role in the 1978 TV movie Killing Stone.

Gerard then landed his best-known role, as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century which ran from 1979-81, with the feature-length pilot episode being released theatrically some months prior to the first broadcast of the series. After this, he was featured in a number of other TV shows and movies, including starring roles in the 1982 TV movie Hear No Evil as Dragon, the short-lived series Sidekicks and E.A.R.T.H. Force.

In 1992, Gerard presented the reality TV series Code 3, and for the remainder of the 1990s, Gerard made guest appearances on various TV shows, including Fish Police, Brotherly Love, The Big Easy, Days of Our Lives and Pacific Blue.

In January 2007, Gerard was the subject of the one-hour documentary Action Hero Makeover on the Discovery Health Channel, which documented his year-long progress after undergoing life-saving mini-gastric bypass surgery in October 2005. According to the program, he had been struggling with his weight for 40 years, losing weight only to gain it back. By the time of the program's production, his weight had risen to over 350 pounds (159 kg). Within ten months he lost a total of 145 lb (66 kg).

Gerard and his Buck Rogers co-star Erin Gray reunited in 2007 for the TV film Nuclear Hurricane, and also returned to the Buck Rogers universe by playing the characters' parents in the pilot episode of James Cawley's Buck Rogers Begins Internet video series in 2009.

Gerard guest-starred as Admiral Jack Sheehan in "Kitumba", the January 1, 2014, episode of the fan web series Star Trek: Phase II.

In 2015, Gerard voiced Megatronus in Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Movies for Gil Gerard...

Space Captain and Callista
Title: Space Captain and Callista
Character: Lance
Released: December 9, 2019
Type: Movie
A young man with Asperger's Syndrome, under the shadow of his overprotective mother, wants to live independently. A tough-as-nails teen girl has a troubled, chaotic home life. Their unlikely friendship is tainted by outsiders' suspicions and accusations.
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The Nice Guys
Title: The Nice Guys
Character: Bergen Paulsen
Released: May 15, 2016
Type: Movie
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
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Blood Fare
Title: Blood Fare
Character: Professor Meade
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
A Civil War ghost story with a modern twist.
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The Lost Valentine
Title: The Lost Valentine
Character: Neil Thomas Jr
Released: January 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot Neil Thomas makes a promise he isn't sure he can keep - to return to the train station safe by their next anniversary. For sixty years Caroline Thomas keeps her promise by waiting at the train station until her missing in action husband can finally keep his with the "lost valentine." The message and meaning shows romance and love can be real; worth fighting, and maybe even dying for.
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Ghost Town
Title: Ghost Town
Character: Preacher McCready
Released: October 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Reb Halland, who lives in the era of Wild West, has made a deal with the devil to gain immortality alog with his gang. Preacher McCready is trying to protect the small town by placing five totems around the town in the shape of pinnacle. One day, an collector passes by the town and sees one of the totems pinned to the earth and he decides to take it. When the man takes the totem out of ground Halland and his gang arrives and start killing everyone. The film moves to the present day when a group of college students driving back home from another city after a debate contest suddenly find themselves at this town. Soon they start to be murdered one by one, and it will be up to them to find the secret of this town and destroy Halland and his gang.
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Dire Wolf
Title: Dire Wolf
Character: Col. Hendry
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A vicious genetically modified creature that's half human and half dire wolf escapes from a research facility so it can go on a murderous rampage in a quiet rural community. It's up to the easygoing Sheriff Parker, eager game warden Jim, and a couple of government agents to stop the beast before things get too out of hand.
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Reptisaurus
Title: Reptisaurus
Character: General Morgenstern
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
When a group of friends get stranded on a seemingly deserted island, they soon realize that they're not alone.
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Bone Eater
Title: Bone Eater
Character: Big Jim Burns
Released: February 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople
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Nuclear Hurricane
Title: Nuclear Hurricane
Character: Bob
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Linda is trapped when the nuclear power plant in which she works threatens a meltdown, while her girlfriend takes on a major storm which could destroy their island home.
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Air Rage
Title: Air Rage
Character: Victor Quinn
Released: July 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the hostages dead and decide to get payback by massacring the village. Upon their return home to the US, they must face the consequences.
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The Stepdaughter
Title: The Stepdaughter
Character: Jesse Conner
Released: October 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Growing up, Susan Miller survived countless foster homes and years of abuse and neglect with one, burning goal: to someday find the birth mother who abandoned her - and get revenge.
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Fugitive Mind
Title: Fugitive Mind
Character: Karl Gardner
Released: September 14, 1999
Type: Movie
A man finds out that he was brainwashed to kill an important government official.
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Mom, Can I Keep Her?
Title: Mom, Can I Keep Her?
Character: Reinhart
Released: June 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Timmy Blair has the usual twelve-year-old's share of problems: his father is too busy at work, his new stepmother loads him with chores, and school life is as difficult as ever. When a furry friend follows him home from school, Timmy is delighted. There's only one problem. His new-found buddy is a 500 pound gorilla
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Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Big Mike
Released: September 16, 1995
Type: TV
Brotherly Love is an American sitcom that ran from September 16, 1995 to April 1, 1996, on NBC, and then moved to The WB, where it aired from September 15, 1996 until May 18, 1997. The series was created by Jonathan Schmock and Jim Vallely, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television and Walt Disney Television. The primary focus of the series is on the relationship of three brothers, played by Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence and Andrew Lawrence.
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Soldier's Fortune
Title: Soldier's Fortune
Character: Robert E. Lee Jones
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to rescue her.
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Commando Earth Force
Title: Commando Earth Force
Character: Dr. John Harding
Released: September 16, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: E.A.R.T.H. Force
Character: Dr. John Harding
Released: September 16, 1990
Type: TV
E.A.R.T.H. Force is an American action adventure television series starring Gil Gerard. The series aired 3 episodes on CBS from September 16, 1990, to September 29, 1990, before being canceled due to low ratings. The show is about an elite group, the Earth Alert Research Tactical Headquarters, that was brought together by a dying millionaire to prevent environmental disasters around the world.
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Final Notice
Title: Final Notice
Character: Harry Stoner
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Detective Harry Stoner has only a few clues. A year ago someone mutilated the nude photos found in the city library's art books. And shortly after, a young murder victim was found carved up in the same grisly way. Now, more mangled art books have suddenly turned up. And it's Harry's job to make sure another corpse doesn't.
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Title: Nightingales
Character: Dr. Paul Petrillo
Released: January 21, 1989
Type: TV
Nightingales is an American medical drama television series follows the stories of Christine Broderick, a supervisor of student nurses and her five nursing students: Sam, Bridget, Yolanda, Becky, and Allyson. Other hospital personnel include Christine's love interest, Dr. Paul Petrillo; the head nurse, Lenore Ritt; and the chief of staff, Dr. Garrett Braden.
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George Lucas' Star Tours
Title: George Lucas' Star Tours
Released: December 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Originally aired in late 1986 during NBC's "Disney Sunday Movie."
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Title: Sidekicks
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: TV
Sidekicks is a 1986-1987 Disney Channel martial arts TV series
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Fury to Freedom
Title: Fury to Freedom
Character: Officer
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Martial arts champion Raul Ries was weaned on anger and fueled by rage – a destructive path that led him to the brink of the murder-suicide of his family and himself. But on the darkest night of his life, Someone intervened. The man who refused to show weakness faces Someone so powerful that he is finally broken and taken from... Fury to Freedom.
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International Airport
Title: International Airport
Character: David Montgomery
Released: May 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
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Stormin' Home
Title: Stormin' Home
Character: Bobby Atkins
Released: April 5, 1985
Type: Movie
An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
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For Love or Money
Title: For Love or Money
Character: Mike
Released: November 20, 1984
Type: Movie
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
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Hear No Evil
Title: Hear No Evil
Character: Dragon
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.
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Not Just Another Affair
Title: Not Just Another Affair
Character: Bob Gifford
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.
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Help Wanted: Male
Title: Help Wanted: Male
Character: Johnny Gillis
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: Movie
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
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Monsters, Madmen & Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction
Title: Monsters, Madmen & Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction
Character: Host
Released: October 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Retrospective on science fiction and fantasy films from early efforts like George Melies' "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) to George Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977).
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Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Buck Rogers
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: TV
20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Title: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Character: Capt. William " Buck " Rogers
Released: March 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis.
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Killing Stone
Title: Killing Stone
Character: Gil Stone
Released: May 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Returning from prison after serving ten years on trumped-up charges, a freelance writer tries to uncover the truth behind a homicide involving the son of a U.S. senator in this pilot for a prospective series.
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Hooch
Title: Hooch
Character: Eddie Joe
Released: September 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Hooch is an inexpensive regional exploitation action-comedy (hicksploitation) about a small county in the Appalachians and its many moonshine-brewing inhabitants, who are all struggling to make a living. The older "brewers" are pissed off at the success of handsome young upstart Eddie Joe, who is charmingly stealing their regular customers. Meanwhile, the owner of the country store (also a moonshiner) conspires with a trio of carpetbagging Mafioso who want to take over the moonshine business in that county as an extension of their Northern business ventures.
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Ransom for Alice!
Title: Ransom for Alice!
Character: Clint Kirby
Released: June 2, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1890s Seattle, a deputy marshal and his female partner set out to bust up a ring that kidnaps teenage girls and sells them into prostitution.
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Airport '77
Title: Airport '77
Character: Frank Powers
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
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Title: Battle of the Network Stars
Released: November 13, 1976
Type: TV
Battle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of nineteen of these competitions were held, all of which were aired by ABC. In 2013, the show appeared in TV Guide's list of the 60 greatest game shows ever.
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Title: Baretta
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Man on a Swing
Title: Man on a Swing
Character: Donald Forbes
Released: February 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
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Some of My Best Friends Are...
Title: Some of My Best Friends Are...
Character: Michel Mireaux
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Marty Cobb
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Title: Code 3
Released: April 2, 1957
Type: TV
Code 3 is an American crime drama that aired in syndication in 1957. The stories were all based on actual files of the Los Angeles sheriff's office.