Jason Patric

Jason Patric
Jason Patric at the 2004 Savannah Film Festival
Born	Jason Patric Miller, Jr. June 17, 1966 (1966-06-17) (age 43) Queens, New York, USA

Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor, and Jackie Gleason's grandson, perhaps best known for his roles in such films as The Lost Boys and The Alamo (in which he played James Bowie).

Family

Jason Patric, an Irish American,^[1] was born as Jason Patric Miller, Jr. in Queens, New York, the son of the Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller (né John Anthony Miller), and Linda Mae (née Gleason), who was the daughter of actor/comedian Jackie Gleason. His half-brother is actor Joshua John Miller.

Education

He attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School, an all-boys Salesian Roman Catholic school in Ramsey, New Jersey, and Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, California. He appeared in high school productions of Dracula and Grease. His high school drama classmates included Joely Fisher, Tricia Leigh Fisher and Kristin Vinton, daughter of singer Bobby Vinton.

Career

After graduation, he was cast in the television drama Toughlove alongside Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie, Dedee Pfeiffer and Lee Remick. The following year, Patric was cast in Solarbabies alongside Peter DeLuise, Jami Gertz, Lukas Haas, James LeGros and Adrian Pasdar, but the film was not successful.

In 1993, Patric starred alongside Wes Studi and Matt Damon as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood in the movie Geronimo: An American Legend.

Within a few years, Patric would reunite with Dern and Gertz for After Dark, My Sweet and The Lost Boys, respectively. All of his scenes in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line were cut before the film's release. He also appeared in the Alec Baldwin film The Devil and Daniel Webster, which was shot in 2001, and released in late 2007 under the title Shortcut to Happiness. He turned down the lead role in The Firm (1993), and the part went instead to Tom Cruise; he also turned down the role of Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004), which went to Jim Caviezel. He earned rave reviews for his performance as an undercover narcotics officer in 2002's Narc.

In 2005, Patric appeared on Broadway as "Brick", in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Ashley Judd, Ned Beatty and Margo Martindale.^[2]

Arrest

In 2004, Patric was arrested on charges of public intoxication and resisting arrest in Austin, Texas, and was involved in a physical confrontation with the arresting officer. Patric claimed the charges were false and that the officer assaulted him. The prosecuting attorney's office later dropped the charges, which included assault on a police officer. He subsequently sued the arresting officer for violating his civil rights, but the federal jury ruled in the officer's favor.^[3]

Filmography

• Solarbabies (1986)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• The Beast (1988)
• Denial (1990)
• After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
• Rush (1991)
• Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
• The Journey of August King (1995)
• Sleepers (1996)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
• Incognito (1997)
• Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (scenes deleted) (1998)
• Narc (2002)
• The Alamo (2004)
• Walker Payne (2006)
• Expired (2007)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• Downloading Nancy (2008)
• My Sister's Keeper (2009)

References

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External links

• Jason Patric at the Internet Movie Database