Gerald McCullouch: CSI Actor

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:37 Written by admin Friday, 30 January 2009 07:10

Meet Gerald McCullouch, the actor who is best known for playing Bobby Dawson on the CBS television series ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.’ See photos, video and a biography of the CSI actor here.

Gerarld McCullouch is in the news today because he successfully and bravely fended off an attack by a would-be mugger, as he was riding the subway in New York City. The actor was working on his laptop, uploading a video to YouTube when the mugger attempted to snatch it from him. McCullouch, a trained boxer who practices three or four times a week took on the assailant, delivering body shot to the chest. The mugger pulled a 10-inch knife in retaliation leading to a fierce confrontation.

I yelled at the top of my lungs, ‘Get the [bleep] away from me!’ That’s when the knife came down into my back. I don’t know whether he lost his grip or what, but the blade didn’t penetrate my leather jacket.

“We were in each other’s face. I think I punched him again as the doors closed and the train started leaving the station. I’m watching MTA workers on the platform looking in. I thought, ‘Great, now I’m alone in this car with him.’

Thanks to the intervention of the train conductor who pulled the actor into the next car and the several police officers who entered the car and handcuffed and arrested the would be assailant, the actor escaped unharmed. He said in an interview that he fought back because he had been in “the[boxing] ring about eight hours before. Also, I didn’t want to give up my computer after working on my video all that time.”

It was the actor’s second confrontation with a mugger; he was previously held up at gunpoint in 2001.

As a biography, Gerald McCullouch was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 30, 1967 so his age is 41. He attended Florida State University, studying in the BFA Musical Theatre Program. Prior to college, his first job as a performing artist was as a singer in the country western revue at Six Flags Over Georgia when he was 16 years old. The aspiring actor survived a near fatal car crash during his sophomore year of college, in which he suffered a severe head injury that left him in a short-term coma.

After months of rehabilitation, he began his professional career first in Atlanta, Georgia and then in New York City where he found success as an actor in commercials. He also did work in film and theater, in both singing and nonsinging roles, notably as the title character in the musical ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in a European tour.

For the past nine seasons, Gerald McCullouch has become widely known for his role as Bobby Dawson, a ballistics expert in the hit CBS TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a drama series which chronicles the work of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they investigate the circumstances in mysterious homicides and other crimes. As is the actor, the character is openly gay, as revealed during the show’s season in 2003.

He is also widely seen as a recurring guest host of FYE! on E!TV. He also pursues a career as a stand up comic and has performed in top clubs including Caroline’s and Gotham in New York City and Improv in LA. Additionally, he has numerous professional credits as a model, film and TV director, screenwriter, and photographer.

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