Lee Horsley

Biography

Lee Arthur Horsley is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston, and Paradise. He starred in the 1982 film The Sword and the Sorcerer and recorded the audiobook edition of Lonesome Dove. Horsley began his acting career touring in stage productions of West Side Story, Damn Yankees, and Oklahoma!. In 1981, he portrayed TV detective Archie Goodwin in the short-lived NBC drama series Nero Wolfe. He played the title character in the detective series Matt Houston, as well as Ethan Allen Cord in the Western Heritage Award-winning series Paradise. This was followed by a lead role on Bodies of Evidence. He appeared in the feature-length cult film The Sword and the Sorcerer in 1982, and appeared in its sequel Tales of an Ancient Empire in 2010. He recorded the audiobook edition of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. In 2006, Horsley and Marshall R. Teague traveled the world in search of exotic game on the Outdoor Life Network for the reality show, Benelli's Dream Hunts. In 2012. he appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained, as Sheriff Gus, and also has a role as a stagecoach driver in Tarantino's 2015 western The Hateful Eight.

Most Known For

The Love Boat

as Greg Munford

Touched by an Angel

as Guy Garfield

North and South

as Rafe Beaudeen

Django Unchained

as Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow)

The Hateful Eight

as Ed

Matt Houston

as Matt Houston

The Man from Snowy River

as Seamus O'Neil

Nero Wolfe

as Archie Goodwin

Hawkeye (The First Frontier)

as Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo

Bodies of Evidence

as Lieutenant Ben Carroll

The Sword and the Sorcerer

as Talon

Thirteen at Dinner

as Bryan Martin

Paradise

as Ethan Allen Cord

Crossings

as Nick Burnham

Wind on Water

Night of 100 Stars II

as Self

Showdown at Area 51

as Diamond Joe Carson

Tales of an Ancient Empire

as Talon

Home Song

as Tom Gardner

French Silk

as Detective Cassidy