# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-busey
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:15:05.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-busey"
name: "Gary Busey"
slug: "gary-busey"
description: "William Gary Busey is an American actor. He portrayed Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. His other starring roles include A Star Is Born (1976), D.C. Cab (1983), Silver Bullet (1985), Eye of the Tiger (1986), Lethal Weapon (1987), Hider in the House (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Under Siege (1992), The Firm (1993), Drop Zone (1994), Black Sheep (1996) and Lost Highway (1997)."
tagline: "American actor (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CUN2008_Oscar_party_Gary_Busey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           26.81357733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000997/"
    handle:    "nm0000997"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.garybusey.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump