Bruce McGill
Presented by Tim Matheson
When an actor makes as indelible a comic impression as BRUCE McGILL did driving his motorcycle up his fraternity’s staircase in Animal House, it can be tough to follow your own act. Yet the San Antonio-born UT graduate took his lucky break as a challenge, building a decades-long career of critically lauded roles in such cinematic productions as Mike Nichols’ Silkwood, Jonathan Lynn’s My Cousin Vinny, Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World, and Michael Mann’s Ali. After McGill created a series of gritty characters on television shows like MacGyver, the CSI series, Wolf Lake, and The Cleveland Show, he found some of the finest work of his career playing nonfiction characters in HBO films – diplomat George Ball in Path to War; journalist Peter Arnett in Live from Baghdad, and Mac Stipanovich in Recount. McGill’s reputation for playing tough also led to a role as CIA director George Tenet in Oliver Stone’s W. McGill currently stars in the television series Rizzoli and onscreen in Fair Game, about the uncovering of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Tim Matheson
Tim Matheson and Bruce McGill appeared together in the 1978 classic Animal House. Matheson’s many other film and television credits since include Van Wilder, The Story Of Us, She’s All That and Fletch. He was nominated twice for Emmy Awards for his guest role as Vice President John Hoynes on The West Wing. Other recent appearances include Burn Notice and Entourage.