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Googy Gress is an American actor and producer who has appeared in films such as Apollo 13, Ashley's Ashes, and Babes in Toyland. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, and has a BFA from USC.
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Googy Gress is an actor and writer who was born in Brooklyn, NY and has worked in films such as The Flamingo Kid and Apollo 13. He is married to Clarinda Ross and has three children.
- August 11, 1958
Googy Gress. Francis Gress, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, NY. As an infant his father called him "his goo-goo baby" and that became Googy. As he was raised in Connecticut - where there is a state law that you must have a silly nickname - his stuck.
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Googy Gress (born 11 August 1958; age 65) is an actor who played The Overlooker in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy".
He was also a regular on G vs. E, along with Clayton Rohner. The series lasted one season, from 1999 through 2000; among the writers for this show was Ronald D. Moore. Among the Star Trek performers who made guest appearances on this series were Nichelle Nichols, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley and Dominic Keating.
Prior to this, Gress was a voice actor on the animated series Freakazoid!, along with Ricardo Montalban, David Warner, and Frank Welker.
He also has a number of films to his credit. In 1989, he appeared in Bloodhounds of Broadway with Voyager star Ethan Phillips and Trek guest actors Stephen McHattie, David Youse, Alan Ruck, Herschel Sparber, and George Ede. In 1995, he appeared in Apollo 13, along with another Hierarchy alien actor, Andy Milder. Other Star Trek performers who appeared in this film include Clint Howard, Brian Markinson, Brett Cullen. Joseph Culp, David Andrews, Ned Vaughn, Geoffrey Blake, John Short, Steve Rankin, John Wheeler, Bruce Wright, and Max Grodénchik.
Gress and Andy Milder appeared on-screen together again in Armageddon (1998, with J. Patrick McCormack, Peter White, Jason Isaacs, Matt Malloy, Brian Brophy, James Harper, Jim Fitzpatrick, Lawrence Tierney, Charles J. Stewart and Jeff Austin).
In 2002, Gress along with Larry Cedar did voice work for a 2 part episode of the cartoon The Zeta Project along with Diedrich Bader (who voiced the title character Zeta) and Kurtwood Smith.
Additional projects in which Gress appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
•What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon (1983 film, with Mark Holton)
•The Flamingo Kid (1984 film, with Steven Weber, Brian McNamara, Carole Davis and Sharon Thomas)
•Moxie (1985 film, with Michael Ensign and Tony Amendola)
•American Anthem (1986 film, with Michael Pataki, R.J. Williams and Michelle Phillips)
•Promised Land (1987 film, with Jay Underwood and Herta Ware)
•GoogyGress.com – official website
•Googy Gress at X (formerly Twitter)
•Googy Gress at the Internet Movie Database
•Goofy Gress at the Charmed wiki
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Googy Gress is an actor who has appeared in movies such as Apollo 13, Armageddon, and Jack Frost. He is also a producer of the film Ashley's Ashes. See his biography, filmography, and photos on TMDB.
