One of the small screen’s most reliable heavies during the early 1970’s, veteran television actor Gerald McRaney successfully made the daunting shift from bad guy to good guy roles starting in the early part of the following decade. Best known as street-smart elder brother Richard “Rick” Simon on the popular eighties detective drama, “Simon & Simon” (CBS, 1981-88), this low-key, mustachioed TV actor was a mainstay of primetime series television for thirty plus years, including, into the new millennium, such high profile shows as “Deadwood” (HBO, 2004-06) and the hit nuclear drama, “Jericho”
