Boyd Gaines
Boyd Gaines | |
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 Boyd Gaines in January 2013 | |
| Born | Boyd Payne Gaines May 11, 1953 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse | Kathleen McNenny |
| Children | 1 |
Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American stage, film, television actor, and singer.
Early life and education
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to James and Ida Gaines. His early theatre training began at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, California, [1] where his talent and rich baritone voice was showcased in leading roles in plays, musicals and even opera. He attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's Group 8 (1975–1979).[2]
Career
Gaines has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, L.A. Law and Law & Order, Piece of Cake (1990), but perhaps he is best known for playing a dental student and dentist Mark Royer, who married Valerie Bertinelli's Barbara Cooper on TV's One Day at a Time[3] and as Coach Brackett from the 1981 movie Porky's. He also played Lt Ring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge and Jason in The Sure Thing (1985).[4][5]
Gaines is a voice actor, and is credited with recording several audiobooks.
He has appeared on the Broadway stage, in both musicals and plays. His first Broadway play was The Heidi Chronicles in 1989. He recently appeared in the Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People in 2012. Some of the musicals have been Company (1995), She Loves Me (1993) and Contact in 2000.[6] Other plays have been The Columnist (2012) and the 2010 revival of Driving Miss Daisy.[7] He appeared in the 2008 revival of Gypsy as Herbie, and won the Tony Award.[8]
He has appeared Off-Broadway, starting in 1978 with Spring Awakening and recently The Grand Manner by A. R. Gurney at Lincoln Center in 2010.[9][10]
In regional theatre, Gaines appeared in Our Town at the George Street Playhouse, New Jersey, in April 2014.[11]
Awards and nominations
Gaines was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play in 2007, for Journey's End, [12] making him the first actor to be nominated in each of the four Tony categories for which an actor is eligible.[7]
Only two male and three female performers have been nominated for all four Tony performance awards, the others being Raúl Esparza, Angela Lansbury, Jan Maxwell, and Audra McDonald.[13] Gaines was the first performer to be nominated for each of Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for She Loves Me, [14] Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2000 for Contact,[15] and again in 2008 for Gypsy and Best Actor in a Play in 2007 for Journey's End. Gaines won in three of the categories (and four of the five nominations), missing only for the performance in Journey's End.[7]
Personal
He is married to Kathleen McNenny. They have one child.[1]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Fame | Michael | |
| 1981 | Porky's | Coach Roy Brackett | |
| 1985 | The Sure Thing | Jason | |
| 1986 | Heartbreak Ridge | Lieutenant M.R. Ring | |
| 1987 | Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall | Sam Logan | Short film |
| 1988 | Call Me | Bill | |
| 1995 | The Grass Harp | Narrator | |
| 1996 | I'm Not Rappaport | Peter Danforth | |
| 1999 | The Confession | Liam Clarke | |
| 2004 | Second Best | Richard | |
| 2007 | Lovely by Surprise | Customer #1 | |
| 2007 | Funny Games | Fred | |
| 2010 | The Robber Barons of Wall Street | Rupert Baron | Short film |
| 2014 | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan | Theatrical release of Australian stage production |
| 2016 | No Pay, Nudity | Stephan | |
| 2016 | The Independents | Professor Green | Post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–1984 | One Day at a Time | Mark Royer | Main role (52 episodes) |
| 1984 | Hotel | Jeff Strider | Episode: "Wedding" |
| 1985 | Evergreen | Chris Bradford | TV miniseries |
| 1985 | MacGruder and Loud | Ellis | Episode: "Tarnished Blues" |
| 1985 | Remington Steele | Todd Myerson | Episode: "Grappling Steele" |
| 1985 | Hotel | Steven Parker | Episode: "Hearts and Minds" |
| 1986 | L.A. Law | Jim Perkins | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1986 | L.A. Law | Jim Perkins | Episode: "Those Lips, That Eye" |
| 1986 | Hotel | Rodger Gage | Episode: "Undercurrents" |
| 1986 | L.A. Law | Jim Perkins | Episode: "El Sid" |
| 1986 | L.A. Law | Jim Perkins | Episode: "Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer" |
| 1988 | Spenser: For Hire | Alfie Gainer | Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet" |
| 1988 | American Playhouse | Reverend Dobson | Episode: "Pigeon Feathers" |
| 1988 | Piece of Cake | Chris Hart | TV miniseries |
| 1989 | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Imposter | Episode: "Here's a Rough Way to Learn a Foreign Language" |
| 1990 | A Son's Promise | Dan Weston | TV film |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Yusha Auchincloss | TV miniseries |
| 1992 | Anything but Love | Episode: "Catherine Honey, I'm Home" | |
| 1992 | Murder, She Wrote | John Halsey | Episode: "Programmed for Murder" |
| 1993 | Law & Order | Lieutenant St. Claire | Episode: "Conduct Unbecoming" |
| 1994 | Frasier | Phil Patterson | Episode: "The Candidate" |
| 1995 | Law & Order | Nathan Barclay | Episode: "Wannabe" |
| 1997 | Law & Order | Oliver Shain | Episode: "Matrimony" |
| 1997 | Caroline in the City | Jerry | Episode: "Caroline and the Wayward Husband" |
| 1997 | Remember WENN | Congressman Bob Farraday | Episode: "A Girl Like Maple" |
| 1999 | Earthly Possessions | Announcer | TV film |
| 2001 | The Education of Max Bickford | Paul Finazzio | Episode: "Revisionism" |
| 2001 | 100 Centre Street | Casper Quince | Episode: "Queenie's Running" |
| 2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Paul Finazzio | Episode: "The Cost of Living" |
| 2002 | 100 Centre Street | Casper Quince | Episode: "Fathers" |
| 2003 | Queens Supreme | Steve Simon / Stan Standowski | Episode: "Flawed Heroes" |
| 2004 | Law & Order | James Rillard | Episode: "Coming Down Hard" |
| 2006 | Angela's Eyes | Colin Anderson | Main role (6 episodes) |
| 2009 | American Experience | Voice of Chairman Gray | Episode: "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | Richard Chatham | Episode: "Home" |
| 2015 | American Odyssey | Harrison's Father | Episode: "Drop King" |
| 2015 | Great Performances | Boolie Werthan | Episode: "Driving Miss Daisy" |
Stage productions
Broadway
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989–1990 | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone | Plymouth Theatre |
| 1992 | The Show Off | Aubrey Piper | Criterion Center Stage Right |
| 1993–1994 | She Loves Me | Georg Nowack | Brooks Atkinson Theatre |
| 1995 | Company | Robert | Criterion Center Stage Right |
| 1999 | Cabaret | Clifford Bradshaw | Studio 54 |
| 2000–2001 | Contact | Michael Wiley | Vivian Beaumont Theater |
| 2004–2005 | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #8 | American Airlines Theatre |
| 2007 | Journey's End | Lieutenant Osborne | Belasco Theatre |
| 2007 | Pygmalion | Colonel Pickering | American Airlines Theatre |
| 2008–2009 | Gypsy | Herbie | St. James Theatre |
| 2010–2011 | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan | John Golden Theatre |
| 2012 | The Columnist | Stewart Alsop | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre |
| 2012 | An Enemy of the People | Dr. Thomas Stockmann | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre |
Off-Broadway
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Spring Awakening | Melchoir Gabor | Joseph Papp Public Theater |
| 1979 | A Month in the Country | Aleksei Belyayev | Roundabout Stage 1 |
| 1980 | Vikings | Gunnar Larsen | Stage 73 |
| 1987 | The Maderati | Chuck deButts | Playwrights Horizons |
| 1988 | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone | Playwrights Horizons |
| 1992 | The Extra Man | Keith | New York City Center-Stage 1 |
| 1992 | The Comedy of Errors | Antipholus of Ephesus | Delacorte Theater |
| 1996 | The Shawl | Garner Globalis | Playhouse 91 Theater |
| 1997 | Major Barbara | Cusins | Irish Repertory Theatre |
| 1999 | Contact | Michael Wiley | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater |
| 2005 | Bach at Leipzig | Johann Friedrich Fasch | New York Theatre Workshop |
| 2010 | The Grand Manner | Guthrie McClintic | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater |
References
- ^ a b Buckley, Michael. "Gentleman of the Jury" theatremania.com, October 8, 2004
- ^ "Alumni News". Juilliard School. September 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-11-11.
- ^ One Day at a Time museum.tv, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ [Boyd Gaines at the TCM Movie Database
- ^ "Boyd Gaines About This Person, Filmography" The New York Times, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ Grode, Eric. "Boyd Wonder: A Professional Non-Dancing Actor Learns a Few Steps" Playbill, March 29, 2000
- ^ a b c "Boyd Gaines Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Curtain Down: LuPone 'Gypsy' Ends Run at Broadway's St. James Jan. 11" Playbill, January 11, 2009
- ^ "Boyd Gaines Off-Broadway" lortel.org, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ "Lincoln Center Theater: The Grand Manner" lct.org; accessed September 16, 2015.
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Tony Winner Boyd Gaines Will Head Cast of George Street's 'Our Town'" Playbill, March 25, 2014
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "61st Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards to Be Presented June 10" Playbill, June 10, 2007
- ^ "Facts" tonyawards.com, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ "Actor (Musical) Tony Award Winners (see 1994)" broadwayworld.com, accessed September 16, 2015
- ^ Lefkowitz, David; McBride, Murdoch; and Simonson, Robert. "'Copenhagen' And 'Contact' Win Top 1999-2000 Tony Awards" Playbill, June 5, 2000
Sources
- "Boyd Gaines Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- "Boyd Gaines Audio Books". AudioFile. 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
External links
- Boyd Gaines at IMDb
- Boyd Gaines at the Internet Broadway Database
- Gaines at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
