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Michael McGrady
Character actor Michael McGrady often plays tough guys in the movies and on TV. In 1984, the actor made his onscreen debut in the football biopic "The Bear," alongside Gary Busey and Harry Dean Stanton. After working steadily in supporting parts throughout the 1980s and '90s, including stints on "Murder, She Wrote," "Picket Fences," "24," and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," McGrady was cast in a continuing role as the hitman Buchalter in the innovative "Day Break." Premiering in 2006, the sci-fi mystery followed a framed District Attorney (Taye Diggs) who had to continually repeat the same day in order to solve a murder. But viewers found the show's continuing, double-backing storyline difficult to grapple with and the show was soon cancelled. In 2009, McGrady claimed his biggest role yet, as Detective Daniel Salinger on the gritty cop drama "Southland." Acclaimed for its first season, the show was cancelled on the cusp of its second. Thankfully for McGrady, it was resurrected by TNT for another season of episodes.
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Michael McGrady
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13% |
|
Tokarev | Danny Doherty (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
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Freelancers | Robert Jude (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 52% |
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The Perfect Family | Frank Cleary (Character) | $107.7K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
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Keith | Pete Anderson (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 44% |
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Evolution | Fireman (Character) | $38.3M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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Five Aces | Sean Haggerty (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 42% |
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The Deep End of the Ocean | Jimmy Daugherty (Character) | $13.4M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad City Blues | Clarence Jefferson (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
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Operation Delta Force II: Mayday | Captain Skip Lang (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome to Paradise | Mark Sheridan (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet |
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White Dwarf | Lt. Strake (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vanishing Act | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet |
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Quick | Hellman (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 47% |
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The Babe | Lou Gehrig (Character) | $17.0M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Child Lost Forever | Dennis (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coopersmith | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I'll Take Romance | Unknown (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet |
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Born to Race | Walt (Character) | $19.5K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Bear | Gene Stallings (Character) | - | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 66% | S.W.A.T. | Agent Phil Kaminski (Guest Star) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | FBI | Tom Brennan (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | SEAL Team | C.O. Harrington (Guest Star) | 2018-2019 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Chicago P.D. | Supervising ASA James Osha (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| 42% | 74% | Beyond | Tom (Character) | 2017-2018 |
| 89% | 76% | Lethal Weapon | Henry Butler (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| 95% | 91% | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Voss (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| 24% | 65% | Training Day | Sam O'Keefe (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 61% | 78% | Scorpion | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 72% | 85% | Ray Donovan | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013-2016 |
| 96% | 67% | Battle Creek | Jack Stanton (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 73% | 77% | Constantine | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Rizzoli and Isles | Rick Sullivan (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 66% | 80% | Mob City | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 90% | 97% | Southland | Detective Daniel "Sal" Salinger (Character) | 2009-2013 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Walter Dunn (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Hawaii Five-0 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 88% | 92% | Longmire | Warren Stark (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 82% | 87% | Castle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 76% | 61% | Body of Proof | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | CSI: Miami | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Lie to Me | Gil Wallace (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 61% | 77% | Prison Break | Captain Hutchinson (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 35% | 67% | Eleventh Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | The Mentalist | Coach Dieter (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 92% | 88% | Leverage | Sheriff Hastings (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 50% | 100% | Day Break | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 2008 |
| 90% | 83% | Bones | Coach Morse (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 83% | 84% | The Closer | Mr. Delaney (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Without a Trace | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Guardian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 56% | 79% | Star Trek: Enterprise | Nausicaan Prisoner (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 87% | 87% | 24 | Raymond Brown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Agency | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Providence | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 74% | 86% | The X-Files | Sheriff Kurt Frey (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sentinel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 14% | No Score Yet | The Faculty | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 82% | No Score Yet | Christy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story | Larry Fortensky (Character) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under Suspicion | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Bo Wilder (Guest Star) | 1987 1989 1991-1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guns of Paradise | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | Quantum Leap | Oscar (Guest Star) | 1989 |