Gary Ballard

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Height: 5' 6"

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Gary Ballard's Main TV Roles

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Private Eye	Priest

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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Earned a B.A. in journalism and theatre from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).
Rode in a limo from LAX to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with Oprah Winfrey when she was in town to promote "The Color Purple". They discussed, among other things, growing up in Mississippi, he in Booneville, she in Kosciusko--about 130 miles apart.
Taught two undergraduate courses in oral interpretation while at MSU.
Grew up in Booneville, Mississippi, thirty miles from Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, sixty miles from Oxford, the long-time residence of author William Faulkner.
Earned an A.A. in liberal arts from Northeast Mississippi Junior College in his native Booneville.
Wrote Drama-Logue articles on four Screen Actors Guild presidents during the 80s: past presidents Howard Keel and Dennis Weaver, future president Melissa Gilbert and the current president at that time Ed Asner, plus an article on Gilbert's future husband Bruce Boxleitner when he was starring in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King".
Graduated from Booneville High School where he appeared in four plays.
Missed meeting actor Gerald McRaney at Ole Miss by only a few weeks. McRaney left school at the end of one semester, Gary transferred in at the start of the next semester. They discovered this when Gary wrote an article for Drama-Logue in 1983 on McRaney as the star of "Simon & Simon"; 23 years later Gary worked with Delta Burke, McRaney's wife, in the play "Southern Baptist Sissies" at Hollywood's Zephyr Theatre.

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