Actor / Director Profile

First-rate chameleon character actor from the scruffy 'George 'Gabby' Hayes'-like Sgt. Pepper in Dances with Wolves (1990), to the straight-laced National Security Officer Jack Doherty in Air Force One (1997), to the black stovepipe-hatted Mosley Baker in The Alamo (2004), Everett has also created a whole host of other memorable, idiosyncratic characterizations, albeit in, perhaps, lesser known films: Alfredo in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), Assistant Coach to James Earl Jones in Best of the Best (1989), Rabbitt in Prison (1988) starring Viggo Mortensen, etc. Television audiences have seen him as Rory Carmichael, the condemned Alabama death row inmate in the pilot episode of "The Beast" (2001) on "CSI: Miami" (2002), "The District" (2000), "Profiler" (1996), "Picket Fences" (1992), etc.He's also an accomplished country/folk singer/songwriter (RCA album: Porchlight On In Oregon (and other recordings)), cellist, guitarist and little-known humorist; Member of the Actor's Studio, recipient of ITT International Fellowship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Scholarships to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, NYU School of the Arts, Perry-Mansfield School of Drama and Dance, native of Oregon, son of Viennese parents; 12 years of New York and regional theatre/22 years of Los Angeles.