Mike Gassaway is a man of many talents. He has achieved things and been involved in events many people only dream of.
Among his accomplishments and achievements are setting two World Land Speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, running a horse in the Kentucky Derby, and winning an Emmy award for daytime television. Gassaway has also been instrumental in the careers of several iconic American mega-stars and has acted alongside a host of Hollywood A-listers.
Many people recognize Mike from appearing on the television series Friday Night Lights, where he played the TMU assistant head coach. He appeared in the reboot of Dallas in 2010 as Mr. Hold, and he played Scooter Libby in Oliver Stone’s movie W.
A brief telling of Mike Gassaway’s story begins in Oklahoma City.…show more content… I practiced law and raised our kids there. We had a great law practice. I represented a lot of high profile people and the law was very good to me,” said Gassaway
“Chuck Norris was an Oklahoma guy. We would hunt and do things together. Chuck moved out to L.A. and had a karate studio. He started breaking into the movies doing stung work with (agent) Alan Stein. When he had an opportunity to star in a feature movie called Breaker Breaker, he didn’t know anything about contracts, so he asked me if I could help him. I wrote up that deal for him. Then in 1977 he hit it big with his next movie Good Guys Wear Black. I did that deal for him and The Octagon deal before he transitioned into TV and his long-running series, Walker, Texas Ranger,” said Gassaway.
“I became a kind of a go-to guy in Oklahoma City,” said Gassaway. A list of artists and talents worked with him including Gary Busey, Reba McIntyre, Marilyn Manson, Toby Keith, Robbie Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice), and Wayne Coyne, front man for The Flaming Lips. He also represented several celebrities with legal issues including Carlos Santana, Macaulay Culkin, and John
