Michael Gaston
{{short description|American actor (active 1990– )}}
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Michael Gaston is an American film and television actor. He played agent Quinn on the show Prison Break, Gray Anderson on the CBS drama series Jericho, and appeared in the first episode of The Sopranos as Alex Mahaffey, a compulsive gambler in trouble with Tony. He had a recurring role in The Mentalist as CBI Director Gale Bertram.{{cite web |author=Gencarelli, Mike |date=September 19, 2011 |title=Interview with Michael Gaston |url=http://www.mediamikes.com/2011/09/interview-with-michael-gaston |publisher=Media Mikes |access-date=September 19, 2012}}
Career
Gaston started his professional career in a 1990 off-Broadway production of The Taming of the Shrew, continuing with other off-Broadway productions through the years, including a 1996 production of Henry V, and a 2018 production of I Was Most Alive With You, amongst others. He has also performed on Broadway, in a 2003 production of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and a 2013 production of Lucky Guy.{{cite web|first=Jessie|last=Cadle|url=http://chqdaily.com/2012/07/27/guest-artists-share-relationships-on-stage-and-off-in-fifty-ways|title=Guest artists share relationships on stage and off in 'Fifty Ways'|work=The Chautauquan Daily|publisher=Chautauqua Institution|location=Chautaqua, New York|date=July 27, 2012|access-date=September 19, 2012}}
Gaston portrayed General Tommy Franks in W. He has appeared in more than twenty films, including Bridge of Spies, Sudden Death, Ransom, Cop Land, Thirteen Days, The Crucible, Double Jeopardy, High Crimes, Sugar and Body of Lies and Bless the Child. He has had roles in numerous TV dramas, including The Sopranos, The West Wing, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Fringe, The Practice, and 24.
Personal life
Gaston has two children.
On October 10, 2017, during a wave of sexual assault allegations against several men in Hollywood, Gaston detailed in a series of tweets an incident in 1992 when the director of a play he was appearing in groped him sexually during a rehearsal. He stated, "I give the benefit of what little doubt I have to any woman who claims a powerful man treated her inappropriately. Because it happened to me."{{cite web|first=Derek|last=de Koff|url=https://www.queerty.com/james-van-der-beek-michael-gaston-reveal-sexually-harassed-male-hollywood-execs-20171012|title=James Van Der Beek and Michael Gaston reveal they were sexually harassed by male Hollywood execs|website=Queerty|publisher=Q.Digital|location=San Francisco, California|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1993
| Justice of the Peace | |
| 1994
| Amateur | Sharpshooter | |
| rowspan=2| 1995
| Hackers | Agent Bob | |
| Sudden Death
| Hickey | |
| rowspan=2| 1996
| Ransom | Agent Jack Sickler | |
| The Crucible
| Marshal Herrick | |
| 1997
| Cop Land | Rubin | |
| rowspan=2| 1999
| Edgar | |
| Double Jeopardy
| Cutter | |
| rowspan=2| 2000
| Det. Frank Bugatti | |
| Thirteen Days
| Captain of USS Pierce | |
| rowspan=2| 2002
| Maj. Lucas Waldron | |
| Far from Heaven
| Stan Fine | |
| 2004
| Priest | |
| rowspan=3| 2005
| Runaway | Jesse Adler | |
| The Notorious Bettie Page
| Mr. Gaughan | |
| Stay
| Sheriff Kennelly | |
| rowspan=2| 2006
| Out There | Wayne | |
| Lonely Hearts
| D.A. Hunt | |
| rowspan=4| 2008
| Sugar | Stu Sutton | |
| Home
| Herman | |
| Body of Lies
| Holiday | |
| W.
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| 2009
| Coach Frank Landon | |
| 2010
| Immigration Officer | |
| 2012
| Porter Beckford | |
| 2015
| Williams | |
| 2017
| Edward Balq | |
| rowspan=2| 2018
| Crochet Master | |
| The Land of Steady Habits
| Mitchell Ashford | |
| 2019
| Togo | Joe Dexter | |
| 2020
| John Boylan | |
| 2021
| Ron | |
= Television <!-- Michael Gaston played Chief Patrick O'Neal in 2022 for Chicago P.D. (2014-). I cannot figure out how to add things to the table below. -->=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1993
| The Adventures of Pete & Pete | Mr. Markle | Episode: "Day of the Dot" |
| 1994
| Wheeler | Episode: "Old Friends" |
| 1995
| Charles Powell | Episode: "The Using Game" |
| rowspan=3| 1996
| Lt. Harding | Episode: "Fire Show" |
| One Life to Live
| Spike | 1 episode |
| Homicide: Life on the Street
| Lt. Commander Alex Clifton | Episode: "Control" |
| rowspan=2| 1997
| Profiler | Art Behar | 3 episodes |
| Law & Order
| Ron Fletcher | Episode: "Entrapment" |
| 1998
| Detective | Episode: "Three Men and a Little Lady" |
| rowspan=5| 1999
| Alex Mahaffey | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Nathan Dixon
| Nathan Dixon | TV movie |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
| Buddy | Episode: "A Single Life" |
| JAG
| Makaway | Episode: "Shakedown" |
| Law & Order
| Mr. Delany | Episode: "Harm" |
| rowspan=5| 2000
| Sergeant | Episode: "Spring Forward, Fall Back" |
| Now and Again
| Deputy Mayor | 2 episodes |
| Oz
| Zeke Bellinger | Episode: "The Bill of Wrongs" |
| Cora Unashamed
| Arthur Studevant | TV movie |
| Deadline
| Walter | 5 episodes |
| rowspan=4| 2001
| Jerry | Episode: "Junk Bonds" |
| 100 Centre Street
| Detective Seger | Episode: "A Shot in the Dark" |
| Ed
| Frank Kerwin | Episode: "Exceptions" |
| Law & Order
| Major Jim Wyman | Episode: "White Lie" |
| rowspan=2| 2002
| Mark Horace | 2 episodes |
| The Practice
| Roland Hubert | Episode: "The Cradle Will Rock" |
| rowspan=4| 2003
| Ed | Frank Kerwin | Episode: "Frankie" |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
| Malcolm Field | Episode: "Damaged" |
| John Doe
| Gary Murchison | Episode: "Family Man" |
| Hack
| Claymore | Episode: "Hidden Agenda" |
| rowspan=7| 2004
| Coach Steve Bernardo | Episode: "Legacy" |
| NCIS
| Major Dougherty | Episode: "One Shot, One Kill" |
| Malcolm in the Middle
| Mel | Episode: "Softball" |
| The West Wing
| Eric Hayden | Episode: "Eppur Si Muove" |
| Without a Trace
| George Stanley | Episode: "Legacy" |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
| Rick Chilson | Episode: "Bad Words" |
| JAG
| Col. Lewis Atwater | Episode: "This Just in from Baghdad" |
| rowspan=2| 2005
| Lt. Gary Fisk | 13 episodes |
| Prison Break
| Quinn | 2 episodes |
| 2006
| Mr. Speaker | 4 episodes |
| 2006–2008
| Jericho | 20 episodes |
| 2007–2012
| Damages | Roger Kastle | 8 episodes |
| 2008
| ER | Rick | Episode: "The Chicago Way" |
| rowspan=8|2009
| Pete Gardner | Episode: "Bailout" |
| Numbers
| Gil Fisher | Episode: "The Fifth Man" |
| Fringe
| 4 episodes |
| Saving Grace
| Charlie Hudson | Episode: "Am I Going to Lose Her?" |
| U.S. Attorney
| Douglas G. Smith | TV movie |
| White Collar
| Thompson | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Raising the Bar
| Robert Shepherd | 2 episodes |
| Last of the Ninth
| Lt. John "The Rug" White | TV movie |
| 2009–2013
| Mad Men | Burt Peterson | 4 episodes |
| rowspan=3|2010
| 24 | General David Brucker | 2 episodes |
| Rubicon
| Donald Bloom | 4 episodes |
| Terriers
| Ben Zeitlin | 4 episodes |
| 2010–2013
| Gale Bertram | 17 episodes |
| 2011–2012
| Mike Costello | 22 episodes |
| 2012–2013
| Barton Sinclair | 5 episodes |
| 2013
| Agent Bartholomew | Episode: "Pilot" |
| rowspan=3|2014
| Kurt Yoder | Episode: "Paint It Black" |
| Turn: Washington's Spies
| General Charles Scott | 5 episodes |
| How to Get Away with Murder
| Henry Williams | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2014–2015
| Ernie Nolan | 2 episodes |
| 2014–2017
| Dean | 7 episodes |
| 2014–2022
| Parish / Chief Patrick O'Neal | 3 episodes |
| rowspan=6|2015
| Sheriff Windsor | Episode: "Reunion" |
| Person of Interest
| Mike Richelli | Episode: "Control-Alt-Delete" |
| NCIS: Los Angeles
| CIA Agent Doug Emmerich | Episode: "Expiration Date" |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
| Actor | Episode: "Infrastructure" |
| Royal Pains
| Ed Harper | Episode: "Secret Asian Man" |
| Blue Bloods
| Jim Voutay | Episode: "All the News That's Fit to Click" |
| 2015–2018
| Mark Sampson | 13 episodes |
| 2015–2020
| Tom Carter | Recurring (season 1), guest (season 5); 8 episodes |
| rowspan=6|2016
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Donald Bazinski | Episode: "Catfishing Teacher" |
| Bones
| Agent Brandt Walker | Episode: "The Secret in the Service" |
| The Interestings
| Gil Wolf | Pilot |
| BrainDead
| Lawrence Boch | Episode: "Taking on Water: How Leaks in D.C. Are Discovered and Patched" |
| Murder in the First
| Alfred Arkin | 8 episodes |
| Designated Survivor
| James Royce | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Hugh Haymond | 5 episodes |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| Richard Wilson | TV movie |
| 2017–2020
| Power | Judge Tapper | 6 episodes |
| 2018
| President Andrew Pickett | 2 episodes |
| 2018–2019
| Virgil Byrne | 15 episodes |
| rowspan=3|2019
| The Code | General H.H. Carrick IV | Episode: "Blowed Up" |
| Treadstone
| Dan Levine | Main cast |
| The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
| Judge Wagaman | Episode: "It's the Sixties, Man!" |
| rowspan=3|2020
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Gary Wald | Episode: "The Longest Night of Rain" |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
| Episode: "Alien Commies from the Future!" |
| The Good Lord Bird
| Mayor Fontaine Beckham | Episode: "Jesus Is Walkin'" |
| 2020–2021
| For Life | Liam McClinchey | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2022
| Arthur "Butch" Schafer | 6 episodes |
| Fleishman Is in Trouble
| Dr. Bartuck | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2025
| Commissioner Phil Gallo | 6 episodes |
| The Waterfront
| Sheriff Clyde Porter | 4 episodes |
References
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