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<a href="/biography/gary-busey">William Gary Busey</a> is an American <a href="/biography/gary-busey">actor</a> who was born on June 29, 1944, in Cross Creek, Texas. Busey was the <a href="/biography/gary-busey">child</a> of Sadie Virginia Busey, a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager. He graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1962. While attending Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, on a football grant, Busey became intrigued with acting. He transferred to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he quit school only one class short of graduation.

Busey started his the entertainment biz profession as a drummer in a group known as The Rubber Band.[citation needed] He performed on a few <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Russell">Leon Russell</a> recordings, credited as playing drums under the names "<a href="/biography/gary-busey">Teddy Jack Eddy</a>" and "<a href="/biography/gary-busey">Sprunk</a>", a <a href="/biography/gary-busey">character</a> he made up when he was part of a nearby television satirical show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called “The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting” on station KTUL. For his performances on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero,  a pugnacious, know-everything character. When he told fellow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailard_Sartain">actor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailard_Sartain">Gailard Sartain</a> that his character required a name, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailard_Sartain">Sartain</a> answered, "Take three: <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Teddy</a>, <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Jack</a> and <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Eddy</a>;” thus <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Teddy Jack Eddy</a> was born.

Busey's first film appearance was as a biker in the low-budget “Angels Hard as They Come (1971). Over the next few years, he landed several film roles of similar genre, generally playing a country redneck or a surly, rebellious type role. His gravelly voice, Texas accent, and wide toothy grin often led him to play characters considered psychotic or bizarre. In 1974, Busey made his major film debut with a supporting part in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cimino">Michael Cimino</a>'s action film “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”, which featured <a href="/biography/clint-eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> and <a href="/biography/jeff-bridges">Jeff Bridges</a>. In 1976, Busey was enlisted by <a href="/biography/barbra-streisand">Barbra Streisand</a> and her producer/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Peters">sweetheart</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Peters">Jon Peters</a> to play Bobby Ritchie, street administrator to <a href="/biography/kris-kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a>'s character in the film “A Star is Born”. On the DVD analysis of the film, <a href="/biography/barbra-streisand">Streisand</a> says Busey was incredible and that she had seen him on a television series and thought that he had the right qualities play the character role.  In 1978, Busey was featured as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly">rock legend</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly">Buddy Holly</a> in The Buddy Holly Story with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gailard_Sartain">Sartain</a> as The Big Bopper.  This performance garnered Busey the best recognition of his professional career; the part earned Busey an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics' Best Actor award. In the film, he changes the verses to the melody "Well All Right" and sings, "We're gonna love <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Teddy Jack</a>" a <a href="/biography/gary-busey">reference</a> to his <a href="/biography/gary-busey">Teddy Jack Eddy</a> persona.

Throughout his acting career, Busey has been known for his personal quotes ala <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra">Yogi Berra</a>. While <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra">Yogi</a>’s quotes are considered nonsensically funny, Busey’s are edgier. Some notable examples “You know what "FEAR" stands for? It stands for "False Evidence Appearing Real". It's the darkroom where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan">Satan</a> develops his negatives”, “It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.”, “You know what "SOBER" stands for? It stands for "Son Of a Bitch, Everything's Real"!, “If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.” Sometimes they leave the reader just shaking their head like this post on Twitter; “Running backwards naked through a cornfield at midnight will show you where you've been.”

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In the 1980s, his parts included the discriminatingly acclaimed western “Barbarosa” (1982), the comedies “D.C. Taxicab” (1983) and “Insignificance” (1985), and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King">Stephen King</a> adaption “Silver Bullet” (1985). Maybe most eminently, he played one of the essential antagonists in the highly successful action comedy “Lethal Weapon” (1987), which starred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson">Mel Gibson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Glover">Danny Glover</a>.  In the 1990s, he had noticeable supporting parts in other action movies, for example, “Predator 2” (1990), “Point Break” (1991) and “Under Siege” (1992), which stay as some of his best-known parts today. He likewise showed up in various other eminent movies, for example, “Rookie of the Year” (1993), “The Firm” (1993), “Black Sheep” (1996), “Lost Highway” (1997), and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (1998) further building himself as a productive on-screen character actor in significant movies. A hefty portion of these parts are characterized by an element of quirkiness, or odd and unique identities.

In 1971, Gary’s wife Judy Helkenberg conceived their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Busey">child</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Busey">William Jacob "Jake" Busey</a>.  Gary and Helkenberg separated when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Busey">Jake</a> was 19 years of age. Busey has a little girl named Alectra from a past relationship. In February 2010, his girlfriend Stefanie Sampson conceived their child, Luke Sampson Busey. On December 4, 1988, Busey was extremely harmed in a motorcycle mishap in which he was not wearing a protective helmet. His skull was broken, and he nearly died. Specialists attending to Busey at the time were fearful that he had endured permanent brain damage. According to Busey: “It knocked a big hole in my skull, which filled with bone from my jaw.”

Gary Busey Has recently published an autobiography: "<a href="/biography/gary-busey">Buseyisms: Gary Busey</a>’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth". The book was released on September 7, 2018...which would have been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly">Buddy Holly</a>'s 82nd birthday. The actor discusses his near fatal motorcycle accident, his recovery from cocaine addiction, and other events and anecdotes from a life well lived. Gary says of the book: “This book is me, pulling back the curtains to my life and letting everyone see and feel my everything.” He explains in the book that he believes there is no real death and that it is “just a passing to another plateau.”

Gary Busey has developed a cult following among film fans, and has appeared in over two hundred different films and television shows. Busey says that Love stands for Living on Victorious Energy. It only seems fitting, for a man prone to acronyms ( what he term Buseyisms), that basic instructions before leaving earth stands for B-I-B-L-E. The book is about survival, redemption, and the chaotic life of Gary Busey; he looks at what lessons he's taken from those experiences and he also writes about what you might be able to learn from reading about them.

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