Michael Gaston

Acting

Born November 5, 1962, Walnut Creek, California, USA

Michael Gaston (born November 5, 1962) is an American film and television actor. He played agent Quinn on the show Prison Break, Gray Anderson on the CBS drama series Jericho, also appeared in the first season of The Sopranos as a compulsive gambler in trouble with Tony. He portrayed General Tommy Franks in the Oliver Stone film W. Michael Gaston has appeared in over twenty films, including Ransom, Cop Land, 13 Days, The Crucible, Double Jeopardy and High Crimes, Sugar, and Body of Lies as well as the cop partner to Jimmy Smits in the movie Bless the Child. The actor has also had roles in numerous TV dramas, including The Sopranos, The West Wing, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Fringe, ABC's The Practice, and 24. He has appeared in comedies as well, including Ally McBeal and Malcolm in the Middle. Gaston has had various on and off Broadway roles, including A Day in the Death of Joe Egg on Broadway, and Henry V and Landscape of the Body. Gaston is married with two children.

Filmography

• 2026Disclosure Day — General Dobbs
• 2026Lone Rider — Richard Lovett
• Daredevil: Born Again — Chief Gallo
• 2025Jean Jacket
• Long Bright River — Daniel
• Sheriff Country — Enoch Barlow
• The Waterfront — Sheriff Clyde Porter
• Five Days at Memorial — Arthur 'Butch' Schafer
• Fleishman Is in Trouble — Dr. Donald Bartuck
• 2021A Mouthful of Air — Ron
• Mayor of Kingstown — Morass
• 2020Spenser Confidential — Captain Boylan
• The Expecting — Ted
• The Good Lord Bird — Mayor Fontaine Beckham
• The Code — HH Carrick IV
• 2019Togo — Joe Dexter
• Treadstone — Dan Levine
• 2018First Reformed — Edward Balq
• 2018Irreplaceable You — Crochet Master
• Strange Angel — Virgil Byrne
• 2018The Land of Steady Habits — Mitchell Ashford
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — President Pickett
• Yellowstone — Auction Manager
• 2017The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Richard Wilson
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Judge Wagaman
• Designated Survivor — John Royce
• Blindspot — Thomas Carter
• 2015Bridge of Spies — Agent Williams
• The Man in the High Castle — Mark Sampson
• Chicago P.D. — Patrick O'Neal
• How to Get Away with Murder — Henry Wiliams
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Dam Worker
• Madam Secretary — Hugh Haymond
• Murder in the First — Alfred Arkin
• Power — Judge Tapper
• 2014Red John
• The Leftovers — Dean
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Gerald Sharpe
• The Americans — Agent Bartholomew
• The Following — Sheriff Windsor
• 2012Big Miracle — Porter Beckford
• Elementary — Kurt Yoder
• Person of Interest — Mike Richelli
• Unforgettable — Mike Costello
• 2010Hurricane Season — Coach Frank Landon
• 2010Inception — Immigration Officer
• Terriers — Ben Zeitlin
• 2009Home — Hermann
• NCIS: Los Angeles — CIA Agent Doug Emmerich
• The Good Wife — Ernie Nolan
• Three Rivers
• White Collar — Thompson
• 2008Body of Lies — Holiday
• Fringe — Sanford Harris
• Raising the Bar — Robert Shepherd
• 2008Sugar — Stu Sutton
• The Mentalist — Gale Bertram
• 2008W. — General Tommy Franks
• Damages — Roger Kastle
• Mad Men — Burt Peterson
• Saving Grace — Charlie Hudson
• Brotherhood — Mr. Speaker
• Jericho — Gray Anderson
• 2006Lonely Hearts — D.A. Hunt
• 2006Out There — Wayne
• 2006The Notorious Bettie Page — Mr. Gaughan
• Blind Justice — Lt. Gary Fisk
• Bones — Agent Brandt Walker
• Numb3rs — Gil Fisher
• Prison Break — Quinn
• 2005Runaway — Jesse Adler
• 2005Stay — Sheriff Kennelly / Security Officer
• 2004Mind the Gap — Priest
• NCIS — Major Dougherty
• 2002Far from Heaven — Stan Fine
• First Monday
• Hack — Claymore
• 2002High Crimes — Major Waldron
• John Doe — Gary Murchison
• Without a Trace — George Stanley
• 24 — General David Brucker
• The Guardian — Coach Steve Bernardo
• 2000Bless the Child — Det. Frank Bugatti
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Rick Chilson
• 2000Cora Unashamed — Arthur Studevant
• Deadline — Walter Fresco
• Ed — Frank Kerwin
• Malcolm in the Middle — Mel
• The $treet — Jerry
• 2000Thirteen Days — Captain of USS Pierce
• 1999Double Jeopardy — Cutter
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Buddy, Donald Bazinski, Malcolm Field, Gary Wald
• Now and Again
• The Sopranos — Alex Mahaffey
• The West Wing — Eric Hayden
• Third Watch — Sergeant
• 1999Wayward Son — Edgar
• Ally McBeal — Mark Horace
• 1997Cop Land — IA Detective #2 - Rubin
• Oz — Zeke Bellinger
• The Practice — Roland Hubert
• Profiler — Art Behar
• 1996Ransom — Agent Jack Sickler
• Spin City — Detective
• 1996The Crucible — Marshal Herrick
• 1995Hackers — S.S. Agent Bob
• JAG — Makaway, Col. Lewis Atwater
• New York News — Charles Powell
• 1995Sudden Death — Hickey
• 1994Amateur — Sharpshooter
• ER — Rick
• New York Undercover
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Lt. Commander Alex Clifton
• The Adventures of Pete & Pete — Mr. Markle
• 1993The Wedding Banquet — Justice of the Peace
• Law & Order — Peter Gardner, Wheeler, Ron Fletcher, Defense Attorney Delany, Jim Wyman
• A Great Depression — Gary
• Spenser Confidential 2 — Captain John Boylan