(I found this image here.)
An explanation: Since the name Gary is going extinct, I thought it incumbent upon me to celebrate more notable Garys than myself. This is the eleventh of a series!
Gary Cole is, according to Wikipedia, "an American actor & voice artist." You probably know him best as Bill Lumbergh from Office Space, but he's all over the place.
When did you first become aware of him? Like everyone else, from Office Space.
Surely he was in other things before that? He played the father in the mildly entertaining Brady Bunch movies in the 90s, but I don't think it was a star-making turn. I'm pretty sure Office Space put him on the map.
But did you know his name, I mean, even after you saw Office Space? I always read credits, but, to tell the truth, I wouldn't have been able to tell you his name even after that film. Maybe it wasn't a big break for him after all. What the hell do I know?
Do you like him as an actor? One of the rumors that was going around when Office Space was in its heyday (& this might just have been in Austin, since the city was proud it was filmed there) was that he was something of a humorless person, & the reason he's so funny in the movie is because he didn't quite get how funny the character was. I don't know if that's true - he plays very dry characters very well, so I imagine his sense of humor is close to that.
Like in Veep? Oh, yeah. He's great in that show!
But you wouldn't see a movie or a TV show just because he was in it, would you? Probably not.
Is his name really Gary? Gary Michael Cole.
Do you know why he was named Gary? He was born in 1956, the year Love In The Afternoon came out, so if he folks were film fans, I'd say the enduring popularity of Gary Cooper had something to do with it.
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