Gervais Duan "G. D." Spradlin (born August 31, 1920) is an American actor. He often plays devious Southern authority figures. He is credited in over 70 television and film productions, and has performed alongside such notable actors as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Robert Duvall, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Jack Palance, Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Nolte, and Harrison Ford....
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Gervais Duan "G. D." Spradlin (born August 31, 1920) is an American actor. He often plays devious Southern authority figures. He is credited in over 70 television and film productions, and has performed alongside such notable actors as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Robert Duvall, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Jack Palance, Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Nolte, and Harrison Ford.
Spradlin was born in Daylight, Garvin County, Oklahoma. He first began his career as an attorney working in Venezuela and then became an independent oil producer forming Rouge Oil Company. Before he turned to acting he was active in local politics campaigning for John F. Kennedy in 1959. He joined the Oklahoma Repertory Theatre in 1964 after his daughter, Wendy Spradlin, took him to a father-daughter acting competition.
A notable break for Spradlin resulted from his work in television in the 1960s. Fred Roos, an accomplished producer,...
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