
Gary Houston (born December 17, 1948, in California) is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, and theatre director whose career has spanned over 60 years. He is best known for his work in Chicago's theater scene, where he has been active since 1969. A former production coordinator and writer at the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston created the original role of Roger (the "Mooning King of Rydell High") in the world premiere of Grease at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago, where his wife Hedda Lubin (married December 30, 2004) originated the role of Frenchie. As a director, he won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Overall Technical Design for the 1977 Chicago premiere of Peter Handke's Kaspar at Goodman Theatre, and directed the first production to open at Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Wallace Shawn's Our Late Night, 1977), with a cast that included John Malkovich, Terry Kinney, Laurie Metcalf, and Joan Allen. His film and television credits include The Blues Brothers (1980), Major League (1989), A League of Their Own (1992), Hoffa (1992), Fargo (1996), Proof (2005), The Astronaut Farmer (2007), Eagle Eye (2008), Watchmen (2009), Game Day (2018), Princess Cyd (2017), and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023). On television he has appeared in Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Fargo (TV), Shameless, Prison Break, Shining Girls, and Leverage. He also taught Acting for Film at Columbia College Chicago, taking over the class from his friend Joe Mantegna, and is a published playwright and short fiction writer with work in the Chicago Quarterly Review.

as Uncle Charlie

as Paul Hutchins

as Doctor

as Lennox

as Peter Van Houston

as Ted

as Frederic C. Howe

as Camera Clerk

as John McLaughlin

as Marty Harrigan

as Forensics Agents

as Dr. Livingston

as Professor Barrow

as Jerry

as Mr. Christman

as Mennis

as Professor

as Mr. X

as Irate Customer

as Ross

as Leonard Kapskin

as Government Agent in Bar

as Ray Foster (uncredited)

as Sportcaster

as Ross Farmer

as Patrovita Thug

as Salesman

as Sadistic Orderly

as Drunk in the Park (uncredited)

as Nazi

as Caterer (uncredited)

as Self (uncredited)