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George Gerdes shall soon be seen guest starring as "Shockley Tawes" in the Criminal Minds episode entitled "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" on CBS. He also will be on an upcoming episode of Dexter on Showtime entitled "Angel of Death." George has recently completed work on two feature films: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo directed by David Fincher starring Daniel Craig plus Saving Lincoln directed by Salvador Litvak with a cast including Bruce Davidson, Penelope Ann Miller and Tom Amandes. This season George has guest starred on Castle for ABC and FOX TV's Bones.

An ever changing chameleon, George is best known to some movie fans as ‘Borg Guillarson,’ the vicious dog-sledding Swede in Disney’s Iron Will; to True Blood fans, he’s Sid Matt Lancaster, Sookie Stackhouse’s Louisiana attorney. X-Files aficionados remember him as the fiery southern preacher in ‘The Miracle Man.’ Seinfeld devotees know Gerdes as the vigilante leader in the classic ‘Bubble Boy’ episode.

George has been DeNiro’s affable blue collar boss in Jacknife and the bullying 18th-Century Marshal confronting Anthony Hopkins in Spielberg’s Amistad. As Brooklyn Joe, the dapper hit man in The Squeeze with Meatloaf as his silent sidekick, Gerdes pursued Michael Keaton through the dark streets of Manhattan. Morphing from being a born again rapist on NYPD Blue into the sympathetic, yet explosive detective in William Friedkin’s Jailbreakers on HBO’s Rebel Highway. He recurred as a loving granddad on ER and a hired killer on General Hospital.

Gerdes was in the original Broadway cast of Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway he starred as the painter Soutine in Modigliani, and Eddie, the loose-cannon of a Wyoming cowboy in Sam Shepherd’s Fool For Love. Lloyd Richards directed George as the volatile baseball legend Ty Cobb in Lee Blessing’s Cobb. Regional theater credits include Actors Theater of Louisville, the Alliance in Atlanta, The Old Globe in San Diego, New Haven’s Long Wharf, and The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

As a singer-songwriter and recording artist, George Gerdes was on United Artists Records. His two albums for UA, entitled respectively, Obituary and Son of Obituary created a very special cult of Gerdes fans. They included Peter Sellers and John Belushi, who became George’s friends. Joni Mitchell christened Gerdes song ‘Say So What Else Is New?’ as “The happiest sad song I’ve ever heard.”

On the NYC legit musical stage, George starred in Carol Corwin’s To Whom It May Concern directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald and Richard Dresser’s The Hit Parade directed by Don Scardino.

Television
Criminal Minds ('11)	Guest Star	CBS
Dexter ('11)	Guest Star	Showtime
Castle ('11)	Guest Star	ABC
True Blood	Guest Star	HBO
Bones	Guest Star	FOX
Lost	Guest Star	ABC
The Unit	Guest Star	CBS
ER	Recurring Guest Star	NBC
What About Brian	Guest Star	ABC
Brothers and Sisters	Guest Star	ABC
Cold Case	Guest Star	CBS
Numbers	Guest Star	CBS
Alias	Guest Star	ABC
Threshold	Guest Star	CBS
The District	Guest Star	CBS
The Practice	Guest Star	ABC
NYPD Blue	Guest Star	ABC
Seventh Heaven	Guest Star	Fox
Line of Fire	Guest Star	ABC
X-Files	Guest Star	Fox
Seinfeld	Guest Star	NBC
Nash Bridges	Guest Star	CBS
Pensacola	Guest Star	CBS
Chicago Hope	Guest Star	CBS
Picket Fences	Guest Star	CBS
High Incident	Guest Star	ABC
Renegade	Guest Star	Syndicated
Nowhere Man	Guest Star	WB
Running Dragon	Guest Star	Syndicated
Perry Mason Mysteries	Guest Star	NBC
LA Law	Guest Star	NBC

FIlm
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ('11)	Supporting	David Fincher
Saving Lincoln ('11)	Supporting	Salvador Litvak
Answers To Nothing	Supporting	Matthew Leutwyler
The Passing	Supporting	John Harwood
Buckaroo	Lead	James A. Brooks
Rumor Has It	Supporting	Rob Reiner
Hidalgo	Supporting	Joe Johnson
Bats	Supporting	Lousi Mormeau
Amistad	Supporting	Steven Spielberg
Iron Will	Lead	Charles Haid
Spark	Lead	Garret Williams
Jailbreakers	Lead	William Friedkin
Boiling Point	Supporting	James B. Harris
Single White Female	Supporting	Barbet Schroeder
Jacknife	Supporting	David Jones
The Squeeze	Lead	Roger Young
Amelia Earhart	Supporting	Yves Simonteau
Attack of the 50ft Women	Supporting	Christopher Guest
Stealth Fighter	Lead	Jay Andrews

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Video Games
Command & Conquer 4	Hard Boiled

Theatre
A Few Good Men	Don Scardio	Music Box Theatre
Fool For Love	Sam Shepard	Fairbanks Theatre
Modigliani	Allen R. Belknap	Astor Place
To Whom It May Concern	Geraldine Fitzgerald	St. Stephens