I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

He played a receptionist in two different episodes of The Rockford Files and a heroin-addicted Vietnam War veteran in one episode of Hawaii Five-O. Gerald participated in the Dukes of Hazzard series in the episode "Hazzard Connection" (November 9 1979). In 2010 he played a recurring role as CIA handler Carlton Shaw in the NBC action drama Undercovers.

Gerald Lee "Mac" McRaney (born August 19 1947) is an American television and movie actor. He was a series regular for the first season of Jericho and the final season of Deadwood. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon Major Dad and Promised Land.