Jerry Winsett

About Jerry Winsett

Jerry Winsett began his performing career singing with his own band in Clarksville and Nashville, Tennessee. He then found his way to the stage at Austin Peay State University, where he won numerous awards and was elected to the position of President of the Alpha Psi Omega honorary dramatics fraternity. Before leaving Tennessee, Jerry performed professionally at Nashville Children's Theater, Theatre Nashville, and Opryland USA as well as many other Southern stages in such productions as "1776", "Wind in the Willows", "Man of La Mancha", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". He has returned to Tennessee many times as a guest artist at events such as the Tennessee Arts/Tennessee Artists Festival where he created the role of Danny (aka Cupid) in the musical "Constellations from the Heart" and as a guest artist at A.P.S.U. in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum".Jerry left Tennessee for New York City, where his night club act, "Schoch and Jerry" (with Tim Schoch), was rated "Tops in Town" by Showbusiness Magazine. He spent a year in Manhattan Punchline's "Comedy Corps" and appeared Off Broadway in "The Rivals", "Lorenzaccio", "Smoke", and "The Smiling Assassins".Then he headed west. L.A. stage credits include "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Richard Basehart Theatre; and "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Alchemist" at The Globe. (Regarding his performance in "The Alchemist", reviewers called him "a monster of sexual rapacity".) He then trod the boards as Sir Toby Belch in The Nevada Shakespeare Festival's production of "Twelfth Night", and performed in the premiere production of "Pssst! Tell 'em Joe Sent Ya" at Back On Broadway Dinner Theatre. Just before leaving L.A., Jerry was seen as Renfield in Dancing Dog Theatre Company's highly praised production of "Dracula" and starred with Lane Davies in The Santa Susana Repertory Company's acclaimed production of "Man of La Mancha". (Dale Wasserman, author of "... La Mancha" was one of S.S.R.C. founding Board Members.) Jerry was also on the board of directors of Dancing Dog Theatre Company, L.A.'s first producing classical repertory Theatre Company as well as being the Administrative Director of Santa Susana Repertory Company.On "the big screen" Jerry has been featured in such films as "Radio Days", "The Chosen", "One Crazy Summer", "The Sicks O'Clock News", "Almost An Angel", "Tax Season", "Sunset Strip" and "Paulie". He portrayed "Merton the Farmer" in the film, "Torque" produced by the same production team that brought us "Fast and Furious" and "XXX". Jerry was recently in production for the films "The Red Cape" and "Bolden" to be released in 2016.No stranger to television, Jerry has starred in a score of TV commercials in every situation imaginable... from trying to feed a recalcitrant kitty for "Tender Vittles" to a special effects extravaganza for "TV-Guide" and packing an elevator for "Fed-Ex". He's been seen as everything from a Female Choir director to a dancing Taste Bud and was in the original "Time to Make the Donuts" commercial for Dunkin Donuts.Jerry has co-starred on numerous television shows including "Newhart", "It's Gary Shandling's Show", "Mr. Belvedere", "Coach", " Life Goes On" and the pilot for "Live Shot". He has starred on "Superior Court", "Divorce Court", "Family Medical Center" and "Sweethearts" and was a hit as the corrupt Mayor Lloyd Lloyd, a series regular, in the Nickelodeon TV series "The Snooker Re...

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Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (TV-Tipp vom 27.07.2020)

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The Visual Feast Of HUNGER | FOCAL

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