Craig Wasson

Actor

Birthday March 15, 1954

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Ontario, Oregon, U.S.

Age 70 years old

Nationality United States

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1954

Craig Wasson (born March 15, 1954) is an American actor.

Wasson was born March 15, 1954, in Ontario, Oregon.

1977

He made his film debut in Rollercoaster (1977).

As Chuck Morgan the Bob Newhart show season 5 Episode 17 (1977)

Wasson's first feature film was the 1977 suspense thriller Rollercoaster.

1978

In 1978, he appeared in two films about the Vietnam war: first as a private in The Boys in Company C and then as a corporal in Go Tell the Spartans.

He also wrote and sang the haunting folk song "Here I Am (In Vietnam)", which served as the theme song for The Boys in Company C.

1980

Craig starred in the short-lived 1980 TV series Skag.

1981

For his role as Danilo Prozor in Arthur Penn's Four Friends (1981), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

In 1981, he played Don Wanderley, a Junior English professor in the film Ghost Story, in which his character has a torrid sexual relationship with a mysterious woman he later realizes is a ghost seeking vengeance.

1982

In 1982, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor for his performance in Four Friends.

1984

He is best known for his roles as Jake Scully in Brian DePalma's Body Double (1984), and Neil Gordon in Chuck Russell's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987).

He later starred as Jake Scully in the 1984 Brian De Palma suspense movie Body Double.

1987

His other big role was as Dr. Neil Gordon in the hit 1987 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

He starred alongside Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, and Laurence Fishburne.

1989

In 1989, Wasson starred as James Madison in A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation.

1991

Wasson was featured as Doug Ebert in the soap opera One Life to Live in 1991.

He has made guest appearances in a number of series, including The Bob Newhart Show, Phyllis, Skag, For Jenny with Love, Murder, She Wrote, M*A*S*H (TV series), Hart to Hart, Walker, Texas Ranger, Profiler, The Practice, Seven Days, The Secrets of Isis, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

2006

His most recent movie roles are in Akeelah and the Bee and Sasquatch Mountain, both released in 2006.

2011

Wasson is also a prolific narrator for audio books, having narrated Stephen King's 2011 novel 11/22/63, and other books by Stephen King, as well as books by James Ellroy and John Grisham.