Portrait of Lee Horsley

Lee Horsley

Acting

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.

Born: May 15, 1955

Place of Birth: Muleshoe, Texas, USA

Filmography

2012
Django Unchained

as Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow)

2007
Showdown at Area 51

as Diamond Joe Carson

2003
Dismembered

as Joe Kenny

1999
Nightmare Man

as Ed Cody

1996
Home Song

as Tom Gardner

1994
The Man from Snowy River

as Seamus O'Neil

1994
Touched by an Angel

as Guy Garfield

1994
Hawkeye (The First Frontier)

as Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo

1994
1994
French Silk

as Detective Cassidy

1994
Unlawful Passage

as Peter Browning

1992
Bodies of Evidence

as Lieutenant Ben Carroll

1991
Palomino

as Tate Jordan

1990
The Face of Fear

as Graham Harris

1989
1988
Paradise

as Ethan Allen Cord

1987
Infidelity

as Nick Denato

1986
Crossings

as Nick Burnham

1985
North and South

as Rafe Beaudeen

1985
Thirteen at Dinner

as Bryan Martin

1985
When Dreams Come True

as Alex Kazloff

1982
1982
Matt Houston

as Matt Houston

1981
Nero Wolfe

as Archie Goodwin

1977
The Love Boat

as Greg Munford