Gary Swanson

ACTOR, PRODUCER

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After completing his degree in English Literature and graduating with honors from C.W. Post College, Gary Swanson put aside a career as a professional high diver on The Atlantic City Steel Pier and began working immediately as Greg Mercer on NBC Daytime Soap Opera, "Somerset" in New York City. While starring in the popular daytime drama, he met with the famed acting teacher and father of The Method, Lee Strasberg. Swanson studied with Strasberg both privately and at The Actors Studio after auditioning and becoming one of the very few lifetime members accepted into this elite acting company. Under Strasberg's tutelage, Swanson became one of the highest rated actors on television.Swanson continued his work with Strasberg for eight years while building his career as a working actor in New York and Los Angeles. His movie career kicked off in 1974, and since then he has starred in fifteen feature films. He has guest starred in numerous television series and films, theatrical productions and hundreds of national network commercials.He has starred and worked with some of the greatest directors in the world - Arthur Hiller, Willaim Friedkin, Peter Masterson, Nicolas Roeg, and Philip Noyce. Swanson's teaching credits are numerous, he began with Carlin Glynn at Tajas Productions in 1983. Credits include a summer at Circle In The Square. He taught basic technique at The Actors Studio where he continues to collaborate.In 1994, James Lipton and the executive committee of The Actors Studio, Paul Newman, Norman Mailer, Ellen Burstyn, Estell Parsons, Arthur Penn, asked Gary to be one of four teachers tasked with launching the Masters Program at the New School of Social Research, which came to be known as "Inside the Actors Studio," for three years.Swanson has also focused on his own courses, as a part of this he has, and still is been personally coaching many well-known actors, and is conducting weekly workshops with small groups of developing artists. In 2006, he initiated The Montauk Group, a deeply impacting and intensive summer workshop and theater group.He also writes monthly column for the Hamptons publication, The Montauk Sun. "From An Actors Point Of View" . He also has wrote the script for "Lost In The Hamptons" which is in pre-production.Swanson lives between Manhattan and Montauk, New York. - IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Turner Mojica

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Gary Swanson’s flixes, followed by YouTube compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Gary Swanson on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1982 to 2019. See the full graphs of the number of Gary Swanson movies released per year from 1982 till 2019.

Top Genres

Gary Swanson works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Thriller Genre flixes. 24% of Gary Swanson movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Gary Swanson worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Gary Swanson has worked on is 5.7.

5.7 / 10

Gary Swanson's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Drama,Romance,War
Trooper (2010)

A story of a father and son, two veterans from two very different Wars, helping each other to get through each day, and heal the wounds of War.

7.7/1093 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Crime
Vice Squad (1982)

A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.

6.4/1097 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Adventure
Ransom (1988)

6.2/10108 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Drama,Thriller
Retina (2017)

A young woman participates in a medical study. After a series of nightmares and unusual side effects, the line between dreams and reality is blurred. She finds herself on the run from those involved, desperate to uncover the truth.

4.2/1087 min

Available in 18 platform(s).