Gail Cronauer

Acting

Gail Cronauer

Born 1948-12-23 · Dallas, Texas, USA

Gail Cronauer is an American stage, television, and feature film actress and an acting professor. She has performed films as diverse as Oliver Stone's JFK to the TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger. She is a recipient of the 2007, Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum award, for her role in the Lyric Stage production, Master Class. Gail also has taught acting at Southern Methodist University, Webster College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Illinois State University, and she currently teaches at Collin College, in the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area in the state of Texas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gail Cronauer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

JFK poster
7.6

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

JFK

1991

Killing Faith poster
5.8

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.

Killing Faith

2025

Boys Don't Cry poster
7.4

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Boys Don't Cry

1999

Seventy-8 poster
10.0

It is present day in Arkham Heights, a seemingly desolate town that has decayed much since the eighties. Renny Meeks is a lonely, mentally challenged man with an IQ of 78, who sacks groceries at a small store. He's a simple man, recently released from an institution for a crime he was accused of that rocked the town ten years ago.

Seventy-8

2004

The Seventh Day poster
5.2

A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.

The Seventh Day

2021

Selena poster
7.7

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

Selena

1997

The Newton Boys poster
6.1

The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.

The Newton Boys

1998

Flesh and Bone poster
6.0

Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumatic past that eats away at him returns when he meets Kay Davies, a woman connected to the bloody event. Against all odds, Arlis and Kay fall in love; however, when his father, Roy, reappears in his life -- with the coldhearted Ginnie in tow -- Arlis must deal with his past demons.

Flesh and Bone

1993

The Vast of Night poster
6.6

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

The Vast of Night

2019

Infamous poster
6.5

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Infamous

2006

Dr. T & the Women poster
4.9

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.

Dr. T & the Women

2000

Carried Away poster
5.8

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a new student in his class. His affair with Catherine and losing his teaching job forces Joseph to take a look at his previously dull life and to decide how he wants to live the rest of it.

Carried Away

1996

Walking Tall: Lone Justice poster
5.8

In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a traitor in the agency and takes her to his ranch to protect her life.

Walking Tall: Lone Justice

2007

Little Boy Blue poster
6.0

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.

Little Boy Blue

1998

Walking Tall: The Payback poster
5.8

A man goes back to his hometown that is now overrun with crime and single-handedly takes justice into his own hands.

Walking Tall: The Payback

2007

The Senior poster
6.7

At 59, Mike Flynt may be too old to be on a college football field, but not too old to feel the weight of unfinished business. After nearly four decades, he returns to his alma mater to take the hit that changed everything. Bruised, doubted, and nearly broken, he pushes for one more game, not for glory, but for the teammates he lost, the family he fractured, and the ending he still believes is possible.

The Senior

2025

Tarot Curse poster
4.4

After a Tarot reading in New Orleans, a group of students are horrified to realize the cards are predicting their gruesome deaths one by one.

Tarot Curse

2025

Texas Cotton poster
5.0

An aging lawman is convinced a mysterious stranger arrested in his small town is innocent. His investigation stirs up a hornet's nest that will change the town forever.

Texas Cotton

2018

One of These Days poster
6.1

In the Texan “Hands on a Hardbody” competition, contestants stand around a new pickup truck for days, touching it with one hand. Whoever holds out the longest wins the truck.

One of These Days

2021

Spilt Milk poster
6.0

A disgruntled grocery store clerk can't quit living in the past until one night his store gets robbed and it changes his future forever.

Spilt Milk

2011

The Substitute Wife poster
5.5

In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.

The Substitute Wife

1994

Beyond the Farthest Star poster
7.4

A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, Beyond the Farthest Star tells the story of Pastor Adam Wells, a minister driven by the prospect of achieving greatness as the next nationally syndicated TV Evangelist who must decide whether to give up his opportunity at “celebrity” and, even his own life, in order to become something even greater… A loving husband and father to his wife and daughter.

Beyond the Farthest Star

2015

The Sector poster
3.4

In a dystopian world, a bounty hunter sets out to capture a ruthless band of outlaws who have kidnapped an important father and daughter through a world of multiverses. Unbeknownst to the Outlaws and the Bounty Hunter is that another, more powerful man known only as The Finisher has plans of his own.

The Sector

2016

Warning: Parental Advisory poster
6.8

The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with 'obscene' lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it.

Warning: Parental Advisory

2002