December 29, 2024 - January 4, 2025
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Richard Gere Rosalind Eleazar in “Missing You”
OF THE AGENCY ON PARAMOUNT+ WITH SHOWTIME Q: Is “The Agency” the first TV series Richard Gere has done? A: As far as U.S. audiences are concerned, that Paramount+ with Showtime espionage saga is the actor’s first show as a continuing cast member, but he actually did an earlier series overseas. “MotherFatherSon” was a 2019 British drama about a family caught up in dynamics of power and politics, with Gere as the clan’s patriarch, a newspaper owner. His ex-wife was played by the late Helen McCrory (“Peaky Blinders,” “Skyfall”), who was married in real life to actor Damian Lewis (“Homeland,” “Billions”). Though the bulk of Gere’s career has been focused on theatrical movies, he did some TV work in his early professional years. He had one of the lead roles in “Strike Force,” a 1975 NBC project that had a story connected to events dramatized in the Oscar-winning 1971 film “The French Connection.” In fact, Sonny Grosso, one of the New York police detectives involved in that true narcotics case, co-wrote “Strike Force.”
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Gere also had a guest role in a 1976 episode of Telly Savalas’s CBS police drama “Kojak,” and he spent quite a few years away from TV cementing his movie fame in features including “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (1977), “American Gigolo” (1980), “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982) and “Pretty Woman” (1990). However, he did return to the home screen in 1993 with a role in the HBO film “And the Band Played On,” and he voiced his animated likeness in a 2001 episode of Fox’s “The Simpsons.” He also appeared on Martha Stewart’s HGTV show “Martha Knows Best” in 2020.