(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 twenty-fifh of a series!
Gary Grimes is, according to the Wikipedia, "a former American actor."
What does that mean, "former"? It means he acted for a time, & left the business.
Would I know him from anything? He appeared in a handful of television shows, & only six motion pictures. They were: Summer Of '42 (1972), The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972), Class Of '44 (1973), Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973), The Spikes Gang (1974), & Gus (1976).
Then he just quit? Apparently so.
Was it because of drugs or something like that? Did he go insane? Not at all. According to an interview he did in 2011, he said, "I got to the point where the work wasn't up to the quality that I wanted."
Were you familiar with his work? Not a lot. I mainly know about him as the guy who walked away. Not a lot of folks leave a life of stardom behind.
Even if he might not have been a big star? It seems to me that there are people in the industry that hold on to the smallest amount of fame & milk it for whatever they can get. I kind of feel like most television I watched in the 1970s was filled with "stars" desperate to extend their fifteen minutes.
Did you know there was another Gary Grimes who was somewhat famous? There was? Who?
This guy. Freaky. That's a crazy thing to me, to build a career essentially performing as another musician, & one that's still alive. The really Paul McCartney outlived his fake twin.
Apparently both of them were really named Gary. The living Gary Grimes is probably sad to see the name go. Plus!
What? His name is alliterative! That's too cool.
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