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Wings Hauser, the versatile character actor who is known for his intensive turns Jo Jo dancer, your life callsPresent Vice squad And Hard boys don’t dancehas died. He was 77.

Hauser died on Saturday in his house in Santa Monica after a long fight with COPD, his daughter, Bright Hauser, told The Hollywood reporter. She noticed that he last used an oxygen tank.

The survivors also include his son, actor Cole Hauser, who is now playing the fixer Rip Wheeler Yellowstone.

Hauser had his breakthrough when he was a psychopath as a psychopath as a lamrod in Avco embassy Pictures’ Grell Vice squad (1982), directed by horror veteran Gary Sherman. He also sang the title song for the film “Neon Slime”.

Later he played a racist officer in the US Army in The story of a soldier (1984), director of Norman Jewison; A cocaine dealer in Jo Jo dancer, your life calls (1986) with Richard Pryor; And a policeman in Hard boys don’t dance (1987), written and staged by Norman Mailer. For this last he received a Spirit Award nomination.

Hauser’s first prominent role came when he joined the occupation of the CBS soap opera The boys and the restless To play Greg Foster in 1977. He held three seasons with the role and came back for a few episodes in 2010.

Under dozens of appearances on television, the charismatic actor also appeared as a lieutenant colonel Miller at ABC China Beach In 1990-91, as Conner’s family neighbor Ty Tilden on Roseanne In 1992-93 and as a bounty Hunter J. Jay Jones on Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1994-96.

Gerald Dwight Hauser was born on December 12, 1947 in Hollywood. His father, Dwight Hauser, was an actor and screenwriter (The Radio Drama The whistler) That the Hollywood Blacklist fell victim to. His mother Geraldine was the daughter of Tom Thienes, who wrote washA book of the verse in the 1920s.

Hauser appeared in the 1967 war film First fights And played football at school -he got his nickname for playing the Wingback position at the Thousand Oaks High School and the Northridge Military Academy -before concentrating on acting and music.

He said he was homeless in the 1970s and lived with his little daughter in a free garage in Macarthur Park in La. He turned things in 1975 with an appearance in an episode from CBS. cannon and by publication, as Wings Livinryte, Your love keeps me away from the streetsAn RCA album from Easy Listening Country Pop.

Later in the decade he continued to dive Baretta And Emergency! and staged in Karel Reisz Who stops the rain (1978) with Nick Nolte.

Through a friend who had served in Vietnam, Haus created the story for the war film Unusual bravery (1983) under the direction of Ted Kotcheff and the leading role with Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze and Robert Stack and he led films including Cold fire (1990), The art of dying (1991) and Skins (1994).

He played towards Adam West in the 1986 NBC series The last district and in the syndicated action series from 1991-92 Flash.

His resume included with a large screen wilderness (1990), Beastmaster 2: Through the portal of the time (1991), Michael Mann’s The insider (1999) and rubber (2010) and TV guest spots on The autumn manPresent hunterPresent AirwolfPresent Murder, she wrote, the young driversPresent monkPresent Rizzoli & Isles And Criminal heads.

The survivors also include his wife Cali, whom he married in 2002 and worked together in an indie film and music studio. his two sisters; and his grandchildren Hutchinson, Holden, Ryland, Colt and Steely Rose. His brother Erich died in 2017.