Gary Busey

In the summer of 2003, Gary Busey starred in the 13-episode reality show I'm with Busey on Comedy Central. He died on November 18, 2002, from a heart attack. In his later years Busey has become obsessed with his health (perhaps as a result of a wild lifestyle as a youth), adhering to a strict exercise and diet regime in an attempt to maintain his physical and mental abilities. For his appearance as the abusive father of protagonist Nick Nolte in Affliction he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998. He is listed as one of the university's "outstanding alumni.". He then appeared in movies such as Young Guns II (1990), The Nutty Professor (1996), The Cherokee Kid (a 1996 TV movie), and Maverick (1994). Busey attended Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, where he became interested in acting. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing sulfur, and returned to screen in the 1990s.

Despite this, many consider his most noteworthy role as Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, he did not appear in any films during the 1980s. He is widely sought after for his intricate knowledge of martial arts. He was particularly fine in Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973); and modified his "tough guy" image in satires and comedies, such as What Did You Do in the War Daddy? (1966), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Waterhole # 3 (1967) and The President's Analyst (1967). Busey is often cast as a rebel of some sort. Born in Laurel, Nebraska, Coburn became famous as the "tough guy" in a variety of films, including the western The Magnificent Seven (1960), the World War Two POW drama The Great Escape (1963), the spy movie Our Man Flint (1966) and its sequel In Like Flint (1967), the Sergio Leone 'spaghetti western' Duck You Sucker aka A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), and Sam Peckinpah's war movie Cross of Iron (1977). He began his show-business career as a drummer in The Rubber Band. James Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an American movie actor.

Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film actor.