![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1949 Biography:An alumnus of the famed Groton Academy prep school, tall, blonde, wild-eyed character-actor "Gerritt Graham" has specialized in roles that have been anything but scholarly. Graham was starred in the seminal "Brian DePalma" features "Greetings" (1969) and "Hi, Mom" (1970), stealing the first-mentioned film as the hilariously manic JFK assassination-conspiracy theorist. Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise" (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror-ish "Beef," and "Louis Malle"'s "Pretty Baby" (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, "Susan Sarandon"'s scuzzy, abusive boyfriend. Gerrit Graham's TV-series assignments have included wacky neighbor Leonard Scribner in Stockard Channing's "Just Friends" (1979), trucker Cliff Buttram in "Sugar and Spice" (1990),... Full Biography
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