Don Swayze

Don Swayze is an American actor known for dramatic series, soap operas, feature films, and theater. Born in Houston, he made an early screen appearance as a dancer in Urban Cowboy (1980). His feature credits include Mark in Shy People (1987), a brief cameo in The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold (2006), and roles in Father for Charlie, Edge of Honor, Heathens and Thieves, Death Ring, and Alamo: The Price of Freedom. On television he appeared in the soap operas The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives, played Gus, a werewolf, in six episodes of True Blood, and had roles in Longmire, Criminal Minds, General Hospital, American Horror Story: 1984, and Deadwood: The Movie, along with guest spots on Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, and NCIS. His stage work includes Man of La Mancha, Lone Star, and Jane Fonda: In the Court of Public Opinion.