Gary grew up on stage in Chicago and got the acting bug at a very young
age. When he was 7 years old, he followed his performing sister,
Debbie, to an acting class at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
He regrets giving up the chance to act with Danny Kaye in the movie
Skokie because he was registered to start college classes when shooting
began. After graduating from college with a performance degree, he
moved to San Francisco. He did not find any stage acting work that
interested him, so he took his first camera acting class with Jim
Bressi, one of the original Marlboro Cowboy models. Jim also appeared
in many films and TV shows and taught Gary to "come down" from the
stage, into the camera.
Although Gary has hosted an international TV show called The Help at
Home Live Show for seven years, does VO, and corporate videos, his real
love is film work. He has been on sets with the likes of David Fincher,
Kevin Spacey, Ralph Winter, Donald Sutherland, Danny Trejo, Orlando
Bloom, Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, John Rhys-Davies, Tim Conway,
Mel Tillis, and his good friend Tom Lester, who played "Eb" from the
hit sitcom Green Acres.