1. Bruce McGill worked with director Michael Mann in the films The Insider, Ali, and Collateral.
19 Facts About Bruce McGill
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Bruce McGill portrayed an older Captain Braxton in one episode of Star Trek: Voyager and voiced Lloyd Waterman, the owner of Waterman Cable, on The Cleveland Show.
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Bruce McGill played Ralph Houk in Billy Crystal's made-for-television film 61*.
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Bruce McGill was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Adriel "Squeaky" Rose, an artist from San Antonio, and Woodrow Wilson Bruce McGill, a real estate and insurance agent.
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Bruce McGill 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.
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Bruce 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, a role Bruce McGill was desperate to take at the time, recalling his days as a young unemployed actor sitting in a New York City casting office.
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Bruce McGill duplicated this talent in MacGyver, playing "Rock-The-Cradle" to lull a child in his care to sleep.
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Bruce 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.
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Bruce McGill has 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.
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Bruce McGill portrayed CIA Director George Tenet in Oliver Stone's film W and, in 2012, Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln.
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Bruce McGill reprised his role as D-Day from National Lampoon's Animal House in the short-lived 1979 ABC TV Spinoff Delta House.
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Bruce McGill played Willard Cates in the short-lived series Wolf Lake.
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Bruce McGill was scheduled to join the cast of Bionic Woman in the fall of 2007.
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Bruce McGill voiced Agent Buford in the video game Mercenaries.
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Bruce McGill appeared on ABC's 2010 TV show, No Ordinary Family.
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Bruce McGill played Major Ed Ryan in the third season Babylon 5 episode "Severed Dreams".
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Bruce McGill had a small role in a season 3 episode of Numb3rs as well as a season 3 episode of Psych.
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Bruce McGill 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.
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Bruce McGill narrated the 2018 season of the Fox News documentary series Scandalous.