M.C. Gainey

Overview

Born
January 18,1948·Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Birth name
Mike Connor Gainey
Height
1.89 m

Biography

Family

Spouse

Trademarks

Rich, smoke-burnished voice
Tough, menacing characters.

Trivia

Due to his interest in acting, he attained an extra role in theCharles BronsonvehicleHard Times (1975).There he met veteran character actorStrother Martin,who became a mentor for Gainey.
His given name "Mike Connor" is in memory of the first Irish governor of Mississippi, his home state.
Studied Shakespeare before pursuing his screen acting career in Hollywood.
Attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS.
He is a huge fan of jazz music and regularly attends the New Orleans Jazz Festival.

Quotes

With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
"'Swamp Thing' inCon Air (1997).In a movie that has so many villains, take a look at my character closely - not that it supports the weight of a careful examination - and you'll see that I don't really get in anyone's face, I don't really kill anyone, I'm not really a bad guy - I'm just a guy who likes to fly. He made the mistake of landing his plane full of controlled substances in the wrong place and finds himself in the system. In terms of bad guys, though, the character I played inBreakdown (1997)was a very bad human being. There's nothing redeeming about that character "- on the question, out of the characters he's played, who was his favorite and who was his least likable character.
[onSideways (2004)] It's really funny, I've been doing this for thirty years and I got more attention doing that - than anything else. It's almost transformed my career. If I'd only known thirty years ago, I would've dropped my pants then!
I don't really think of myself as a comic actor. In fact, I have a hard time watching myself. I take very little enjoyment from watching myself in things. It's a rare occasion when I look at something I did and say, "I was good, and I think I looked good, and I think I did a good job." That's a triumvirate I don't hit very often.