Arrested and released on bail after a fight with his wife, Tiani Warden. [25 January 1999]
Had a plum-sized tumor removed from his sinus cavity. [May 1997]
He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Father of Jake Busey.
Nearly died of head injuries in a motorcycle accident in December 1988.
Starred with Russell Wong in the unreleased 1997 pilot episode of "Hawaii Five-O". This pilot episode was filmed in Hawaii, but was not released due to a decision from CBS-TV executives.
Made a rare public appearance at the "Ray & Sharon Courts Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show" at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in North Hollywood. He sold personally autographed pictures from his own collection and charged $15.00 to take a picture with him. [October 4, 1999]
Was the last man killed on the TV show "Gunsmoke" (1955).
Attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas in the Early 1960s.
Filed for divorce from Tiani Warden; later withdrawn. [9 June 1998]
Transferred to Oklahoma State University, where he quit school one class short of graduation.
Had a successful local band, The Rubber Band, in Stillwater, OK. Moved to Hollywood to pursue his music career.
Appeared on Tulsa television as the character "Teddy Jack Eddy", along with the host Gailard Sartain, in Mazeppa's Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting.
As of June, 2003, has started taking pilot lessons at a flight school at the Santa Monica airport. This is the same flight school where his son, Jake Busey, did his flight training.
He was in a band called Carp (showed David Letterman an old LP of the band on "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)).
Member of the Promise Keepers, a Christian-based mens' organization.
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William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944 in Goose Creek, Texas) is an American film actor.
He began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. He also starred in a local television comedy show called Mazeppa in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In film, Busey is often cast as a rebel. Many consider his most noteworthy role to be his portrayal of Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Among other roles, he also starred in the film adaptation of Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf, Silver Bullet, and starred opposite Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon.
Busey attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, where he became interested in acting. He is listed as one of the university's "outstanding alumni." He then transferred to Oklahoma State University, where he quit school one class short of graduation. Busey began his career in television guest roles. For example, he was the last person killed on the last episode of Gunsmoke.
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. Busey made a remarkable recovery, however, and encouraged all cyclists to wear helmets. Busey had been a heavy drug user, and in 1995 almost died from a cocaine overdose. Only prompt medical attention saved his life; he narrowly escaped going to jail. Busey claimed that he suffered a terrifying near death experience in which he saw hell and the devil. He was so affected that he announced he had become a born-again Christian. He joined Promise Keepers and preached against drug abuse.
In 1990, Busey co-starred next to Danny Glover in Predator 2.
In the summer of 2003, Busey starred in the 13-episode reality show I'm with Busey on Comedy Central.
Busey resembles Nick Nolte, an actor with whom he has sometimes been confused.
Busey is now also known to younger people for his cameo appearance on The Simpsons. Appearing in a police information video, Busey (as himself) explains restraining orders to the viewer, peppering his lecture with bouts of loud laughter at hilariously inappropriate moments. He even mocks himself, claiming that the reason he knows so much about restraining orders is because he has been the subject of twelve of them, his crime apparently "being too real."
Somewhat unkindly, the "Busey" class in the school featured in the popular television comedy Malcolm In The Middle is a repository for dim, disruptive and mentally challenged children.
He is the father of actor Jake Busey.
Busey appeared on a recent (July 19,2005) episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno promoting his fitness show (as the second guest), and amused the audience and primary guest U.S. Senator John McCain with an extended philosophical explanation of his oxymoronic phrase: "hidden reality revealed."
He is also famous for his "Buseyisms." For example, the word "sober" becomes "Son Of a Bitch Everything's Real," while "doubt" becomes "Debating On Understanding Bewildering Thoughts." "Romance" becomes "Relying On Magnificent And Necessary Compatible Energy."
Busey starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Fit Club 2, where he lost 39 pounds.
Most recently, Busey has taken a lead role in the controversial Turkish action film Valley of the Wolves. He plays a Jewish doctor, conspiring with renegade American soldiers in occupied Iraq to steal the organs from slain or captured Iraqis and sell them on the black market. Among other things, the film in general and his role in particular has been criticized in American media outlets for being anti-semitic.
