Gil Gerard

Gilbert C. Gerard is an American actor, most notable for his role as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979–81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Gerard was employed as an industrial chemist, and within a few years of starting he became regional manager of a large chemical company headed by governor Winthrop Rockefeller. Gerard's employers said they would appoint him as the firm's vice president if he undertook a master's degree, so he resigned rather than explain that he did not have a bachelor's degree. He then went to New York City where he studied drama by day and drove a taxicab at night. Gerard picked up a fare who showed a lively interest in the problems of unknown, unemployed actors. He told Gerard to report in a few days to the set of Love Story, which was being filmed on location in New York. When Gerard arrived on the Love Story set, he was hired as an extra. Later that day, he was singled out for a "bit" role, but his role was not included in the finished film. During the next few years, he did most of his acting in 400 television commercials, including a stint as spokesman for the Ford Motor Company. After small roles in Some of My Best Friends Are..., and Man on a Swing, Gerard gained a prominent role in the daytime soap opera, The Doctors. Gerard formed his own production company in partnership with a writer-producer, co-authored a screenplay called Hooch and filmed it as a starring vehicle for himself. With Hooch completed, he appeared in Ransom for Alice! and Universal's Airport '77. A guest appearance on Little House on the Prairie impressed producer-star Michael Landon, who cast him in the leading role in the 1978 TV movie Killing Stone. Gerard then landed his best-known role, as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century which ran from 1979-81, with the feature-length pilot episode being released theatrically some months prior to the first broadcast of the series. After this, he was featured in a number of other TV shows and movies, including starring roles in the 1982 TV movie Hear No Evil as Dragon, the short-lived series Sidekicks and E.A.R.T.H. Force. In 1992, Gerard presented the reality TV series Code 3, and for the remainder of the 1990s, Gerard made guest appearances on various TV shows, including Fish Police, Brotherly Love, The Big Easy, Days of Our Lives and Pacific Blue. In January 2007, Gerard was the subject of the one-hour documentary Action Hero Makeover on the Discovery Health Channel, which documented his year-long progress after undergoing life-saving mini-gastric bypass surgery in October 2005. According to the program, he had been struggling with his weight for 40 years, losing weight only to gain it back. By the time of the program's production, his weight had risen to over 350 pounds (159 kg). Within ten months he lost a total of 145 lb (66 kg). Gerard and his Buck Rogers co-star Erin Gray reunited in 2007 for the TV film Nuclear Hurricane, and also returned to the Buck Rogers universe by playing the characters' parents in the pilot episode of James Cawley's Buck Rogers Begins Internet video series in 2009. Gerard guest-starred as Admiral Jack Sheehan in "Kitumba", the January 1, 2014, episode of the fan web series Star Trek: Phase II. In 2015, Gerard voiced Megatronus in Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Known For: Acting

Born: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, 1943-01-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Some of My Best Friends Are...	Michel Mireaux	42
2	1974	Man on a Swing	Donald Forbes	58
3	1977	Airport '77	Frank Powers	56
4	1977	Ransom for Alice!	Clint Kirby	0
5	1977	Hooch	Eddie Joe	20
6	1978	Killing Stone	Gil Stone	0
7	1979	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Capt. William " Buck " Rogers	60
8	1980	Monsters, Madmen & Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction	Host	0
9	1982	Help Wanted: Male	Johnny Gillis	50
10	1982	Not Just Another Affair	Bob Gifford	43
11	1982	Hear No Evil	Dragon	40
12	1984	For Love or Money	Mike	35
13	1985	Stormin' Home	Bobby Atkins	0
14	1985	International Airport	David Montgomery	50
15	1985	Fury to Freedom	Officer	0
16	1986	George Lucas' Star Tours		0
17	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
18	1989	Final Notice	Harry Stoner	50
19	1990	Commando Earth Force	Dr. John Harding	0
20	1991	Soldier's Fortune	Robert E. Lee Jones	30
21	1998	Mom, Can I Keep Her?	Reinhart	40
22	1999	Fugitive Mind	Karl Gardner	58
23	2000	The Stepdaughter	Jesse Conner	42
24	2001	Air Rage	Victor Quinn	52
25	2007	Nuclear Hurricane	Bob	41
26	2008	The Bone Eater	Big Jim Burns	34
27	2009	Reptisaurus	General Morgenstern	39
28	2009	Dire Wolf	Col. Hendry	52
29	2009	Ghost Town	Preacher McCready	64
30	2011	The Lost Valentine	Neil Thomas Jr	70
31	2012	Blood Fare	Professor Meade	10
32	2016	The Nice Guys	Bergen Paulsen	71
33	2019	Space Captain and Callista	Lance	0
34		Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls	Buck Rogers	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Code 3		53
2	1963	Miss USA	Judge	60
3	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Marty Cobb	71
4	1974	Little House on the Prairie		79
5	1975	Baretta		63
6	1976	Battle of the Network Stars		72
7	1979	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Buck Rogers	70
8	1986	Sidekicks		60
9	1989	Nightingales	Dr. Paul Petrillo	50
10	1990	E.A.R.T.H. Force	Dr. John Harding	60
11	1995	Brotherly Love	Big Mike	66
12	1996	Pacific Blue	Raymond Annandale	53

Gil Gerard

Film

Television