Trey Wilson

Houston-born character actor Trey Wilson was at his best playing rural, authoritarian type roles, usually in comedic productions. He was really starting to hit his straps in feature films when he unfortunately succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage only days from his 41st birthday.

Married to Judy Wilson, the former Judy Blye, a well-known New York soap opera casting agent who has continued to live in Manhattan since Trey's death. They met while both were attending the University of Houston majoring in theater and married in 1975.

Lynne Thigpen, Mary Catherine Wilson, Jerry Zaks and he were awarded the 1981 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Peformances for "Tintypes" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

American stage and film actor Trey Wilson first gained a measure of public exposure on a very short-lived satirical TV series, The News Is the News (1983), in 1983.

Best remembered roles were that of Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa in the TV miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985); Nathan Arizona, the father of a kidnapped quintuplet in Raising Arizona (1987); and as Joe Riggins, the minor league baseball manager in Kevin Costner's Bull Durham (1988).

Probably best remembered as fast talking, furniture store mogul "Nathan Arizona" looking for one of his missing sons (although he's not too sure which one !) in the off the wall comedy Raising Arizona (1987).

The film Miss Firecracker (1989) was dedicated to his memory.

Was cast as Leo in Joel Coen & Ethan Coen's Miller's Crossing (1990) before his death in 1989. The role then went to Albert Finney.

The film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was dedicated to Trey Wilson.

The 1992 Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls" was dedicated to the memory and spirit of Trey.