Life and career

Hauser was born Gerald Dwight Hauser in Hollywood, California, the son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and director and producer Dwight Hauser (1911-1969). His brother is actor Erich Hauser.

In 1975, Hauser released an album for RCA entitled Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets. For this LP he used the name Wings Livinryte. Hauser first attracted notice in 1977 in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Greg Foster. He has appeared in 41 television series, including recurring roles in Beverly Hills 90210, Murder, She Wrote and Roseanne, and a brief cameo as a juror in the season 4 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" of the hit TV series Monk.

In 1983, he wrote the story that became the Paramount box-office hit, Uncommon Valor. Hauser has also appeared in Vice Squad, Deadly Force, No Safe Haven and Tough Guys Don't Dance, and the French movie Rubber, which is directed by French musician Quentin Dupieux.

Personal life

Hauser has a daughter, Bright Hauser, from his first marriage to Jane Boltinhouse. From his second marriage, to Cass Warner, he has a son, actor Cole Hauser. Wings Hauser is married to actress Cali Hauser. A cult film festival, "The Melbourne Underground Film Festival," held a Wings Hauser retrospective in 2009.

Filmography

• First to Fight (1967)
• Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
• Magnum PI (1981)
• Vice Squad (1982)
• Homework (1982)
• Deadly Force (1983)
• Fall Guy played Baba Episode "Just a Small Circle of Friends" Se2 Ep23 (1983)
• Terror in the Aisles (1984)
• Mutant (1984)
• A Soldier's Story (1984)
• Hunter (1984)
• The Long Hot Summer (1985)
• Airwolf (1985)
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
• The A-Team (1985 & 1986)
• The Last Precinct (1986)
• No Safe Haven (1987)
• Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
• The Carpenter (1988)
• Dead Man Walking (1988)
• Death Street USA (aka: Nightmare At Noon) (1988)
• The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989)
• Wilding (1990)
• Pale Blood (1990)
• Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
• Roseanne (1993) (as neighbor Ty Tilden)
• Watchers 3 (1994)
• Walker Texas Rangers (1994)
• Tales from the Hood (1995)
• Life Among the Cannibals (1996)
• JAG - Season 1, Episode 11: Sightings (1996)
• The Insider (1999)
• Kingpin (2003)
• Irish Eyes (2004)
• House - Season 2, Episode 7: Hunting(2005)
• Bones (TV series) - Season 3, Episode 10: The Man in the Mud (2007)
• Avenging Angel (2007)
• The Stone Angel (2007)
• Rubber (2010 film)
• Criminal Minds - Season 5, Episode 21: Exit Wounds (2010)

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