Houston-born character actor Trey Wilson was at his best playing rural, authoritarian type roles, usually in comedic productions. He was really starting to hit his straps in feature films when he unfortunately succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage only days from his 41st birthday. Probably best remembered as fast talking, furniture store mogul "Nathan...
Raising Arizona, Bull Durham, Twins, Great Balls of Fire!, Miss Firecracker, A Soldier's Story, Married to the Mob, The House on Carroll Street, Scandal Sheet, Welcome Home, Three Warriors, End of the Line, Drive-In, Three Way Weekend
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Lynne Thigpen, Mary Catherine Wilson, Jerry Zaks and he were awarded the 1981 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Peformances for "Tintypes" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Cousin is Texas Senator Kenneth "Kim" Brimer (R-Senate District 10).
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The son of Donald Yearnsley Wilson and Irene Louise Wilson, he majored in English and theater at the University of Houston.
A popular Houston-born character player whose gravel tones and stocky build enabled him to play a variety of middle-aged, down-home tough guys, often villains.
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American stage and film actor Trey Wilson first gained a measure of public exposure on a very short-lived satirical TV series, The News Is the News (1983), in 1983.
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Married to Judy Wilson, the former Judy Blye, a well-known New York soap opera casting agent who has continued to live in Manhattan since Trey's death. They met while both were attending the University of Houston majoring in theater and married in 1975.
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The 1992 Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls" was dedicated to the memory and spirit of Trey.
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The film Welcome Home (1989) includes an "In Memoriam" to Trey Wilson in the end credits.
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Appears in Pat Benatar's music video "Love Is A Battlefield" as the father who throws her out of the house.
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