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Lee Horsley

Acting Born May 15, 1955 Muleshoe, Texas, USA 24 credits

Biography

Lee Arthur Horsley is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston, and Paradise. He starred in the 1982 film The Sword and the Sorcerer and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove.

Horsley began his acting career touring in stage productions of West Side Story, Damn Yankees, and Oklahoma!. In 1981, he portrayed TV detective Archie Goodwin in the short-lived NBC drama series Nero Wolfe. He played the title character in the detective series Matt Houston, as well as Ethan Allen Cord in the Western Heritage Award-winning series Paradise. This was followed by a lead role on Bodies of Evidence.

He appeared in the feature-length cult film The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and appeared in its sequel Tales of an Ancient Empire in 2010. He recorded the audiobook edition of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. In 2006, Horsley and Marshall R. Teague traveled the world in search of exotic game on the Outdoor Life Network for the reality show, Benelli's Dream Hunts. In 2012. he appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained, as Sheriff Gus, and also has a role as a stagecoach driver in Tarantino's 2015 western The Hateful Eight.

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Known for

Film

Django Unchained

as Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow)
Film

The Hateful Eight

as Ed

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten

as Talon

Full filmography

  • The Love Boat (1977) as Greg Munford
  • Touched by an Angel (1994) as Guy Garfield
  • North and South (1985) as Rafe Beaudeen
  • Django Unchained (2012) as Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow)
  • Matt Houston (1982) as Matt Houston
  • The Hateful Eight (2015) as Ed
  • The Man from Snowy River (1994) as Seamus O'Neil
  • Nero Wolfe (1981) as Archie Goodwin
  • Bodies of Evidence (1992) as Lieutenant Ben Carroll
  • Hawkeye (The First Frontier) (1994) as Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo
  • Paradise (1988) as Ethan Allen Cord
  • The Hateful Eight (2019) as Ed
  • Crossings (1986) as Nick Burnham
  • The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) as Talon
  • Thirteen at Dinner (1985) as Bryan Martin
  • Night of 100 Stars II (1985) as Self
  • Wind on Water (1998)
  • Home Song (1996) as Tom Gardner
  • Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010) as Talon
  • The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) as Capt. John Cain
  • Palomino (1991) as Tate Jordan
  • French Silk (1994) as Detective Cassidy
  • Showdown at Area 51 (2007) as Diamond Joe Carson
  • Infidelity (1987) as Nick Denato