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Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, film director, humanitarian, and musician. Among other awards, he has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He has also received numerous awards and honors for his extensive humanitarian work and involvement with charitable organizations. He is a supporter of various veterans' organizations and founded the Lt. Dan Band (named after his character in Forrest Gump), which plays at military bases around the world. His acting career started on stage with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1983 when he directed and starred in a production of Sam Shepard's True West for which he earned a Obie Award. He would later earn four Tony Award nominations including for his performances in The Grapes of Wrath and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He earned the Tony Award's Regional Theatre Award alongside the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He first starred in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men which he also directed and produced. Sinise played George Milton alongside John Malkovich who played Lennie. One of his most well-known roles is as Lieutenant Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump (1994) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in other feature films including Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), Ransom (1996), Frank Darabont's The Green Mile (1999) and Impostor (2002). His television performances include Harry S. Truman in Truman (1995), for which he won a Golden Globe, and the title role in the television film George Wallace, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award. He had a leading role as Detective Mac Taylor in the CBS drama series CSI: NY (2004–13). From 2016 to 2017, he starred as Special Agent Jack Garrett in Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. In 2017, he had a role on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. He has also been a narrator on multiple docuseries and documentaries.
Gary Sinise
Sheriff Jack Dashwood
for Sheriff Jack Dashwood in The Battle of Comanches
Suggested by jakubduda
In a small town of the Wild West, people of many different pasts and ambitions cross paths. Jebediah “Jeb” Henry, a Confederate veteran, tries to live a quiet life on his farm. Mary T. Moore arrives from New York, seeking a new and better life, while Irish immigrant John Coleman fights his way forward as a boxer, hoping to earn enough to start his own business. The town is led by Sheriff Jack Dashwood and deputies Tom Rutherford, Arthur Griswold. British businessman Richard Stringfellow runs saloon, while Claire Livingstone oversees the local brothel and fiercely protects her territory. Edward “Bloody Ed” Littleton, a former outlaw turned butcher, seeks redemption through good deeds and faith. Also Marion Ashford, a former slave working as an assistant to John Thame, the town’s blacksmith, mysterious man with a scar across his eye and a past as a trapper. Thomas Cornelius Pendleton, a Union veteran haunted by War, much like Jeb, that paradoxically binds them together. Jeb finds feelings for Mary. Thomas Orpington, a bounty hunter arrived on a job. Al Sotheby appears, a traveler and only survivor of a brutal Comanche attack. When a group of Comanches is spotted on the hills overlooking the town, Jeb recognizes it as a sign of an impending attack. Sotheby confirms. Sheriff Dashwood order evacuation of women and children by train, but not everyone leaves, Mary, Claire, and others choose to stay. Jeb, Pendleton, Coleman, Orpington, Thame, Bloody Ed, Dashwood and his men prepare town for defense. At dawn battle begins. A massive army of Comanche warriors surges in from all sides. The town is a battlefield. Dozens of civilists join the defense: farmers, laborers, merchants, and even those who never held a gun before. Bullets fly, buildings burn, and the streets fill with dust and blood. Many fall, but the town does not surrender. Its desperate battle of all who chose to stay and face their fate. And though they emerge victorious, the cost of that victory is far too big.
