Birthday: 1921-12-23

Place of Birth: New York City, New York USA

Wiki Biography: Short, dark, tough-talking and rough-looking American character actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin received his start on the stage after pondering a career in law. After a stint with the US Marine Corps, he used the GI bill to train in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Throughout the early 1950s he was frequently seen on TV drama and highlighted his stage career with a national tour of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as Stanley Kowalski, with the incomparable Tallulah Bankhead starring as Blanche DuBois, and as mental patient Cheswick opposite Kirk Douglas' Randle McMurphy in 1963's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on Broadway. O'Loughlin made little impression in films at the beginning, what with an offbeat romantic lead role in the low-budget Lovers and Lollipops (1956) and a small role in the more impressive A Hatful of Rain (1957), but he later toughened things up a bit with parts in In Cold Blood (1967), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and, especially, Desperate Characters (1971). Things finally came together for him on 1970s TV when he nabbed the role of Lt. Ryker in the TV cop series "The Rookies" (1972) replacing Darren McGavin, who played the same role in the pilot. O'Loughlin was affecting in mini-movies as well, especially as the patriarch in the tearjerker Something for Joey (1977) (TV) with Geraldine Page. He played stern in other less successful TV series such as "Automan" (1983) and continued acting into the millennium, albeit less and less.