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Gerald McRaney: Career, Personal life & Early life

Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards. He most recently starred as Admiral Hollace Kilbride on NCIS: Los Angeles. He was a series regular in the first season of the CBS drama series…

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Gerald McRaney topic overview

The analysis highlights Career, Personal life and Early life as prominent areas in the source structure around Gerald McRaney.

Related topics
86
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
90
Extracted relationships
11
Concept neighborhoods
14
Bridge connections
90

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 38 topics
Personal life · 29 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Early life · 5 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Actor
Born
Gerald Lee McRaney (1947-08-19) August 19, 1947 (age 79) Collins, Mississippi, U.S.
Children
3
Spouses
Pat Moran ​ ​(m. 1981; div. 1989)​ · Delta Burke ​(m. 1989)​
Years active
1969–present

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life

Career

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Gerald McRaney connects Entity context

The extracted context around Gerald McRaney shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Gerald McRaney → .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…, Delta Burke ​(m. 1989)​, Pat Moran ​ ​(m. 1981; div. 1989)​ Another extracted example is Gerald McRaney → Gerald Lee McRaney (1947-08-19) August 19, 1947 (age 79) Collins, Mississippi, U.S.. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Gerald McRaney

Top relations

Spouses · 3
Gerald McRaney → .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…, Delta Burke ​(m. 1989)​, Pat Moran ​ ​(m. 1981; div. 1989)​
Born · 1
Gerald McRaney → Gerald Lee McRaney (1947-08-19) August 19, 1947 (age 79) Collins, Mississippi, U.S.
Children · 1
Gerald McRaney → 3
Occupation · 1
Gerald McRaney → Actor
Years active · 1
Gerald McRaney → 1969–present
related to External links · 1
Gerald McRaney → IMDb

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

mcraney series role appeared drama cbs starred played recurring television film season actor nbc also one simon 1989 episodes episode

Gerald McRaney relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 11 structured relationships around Gerald McRaney. Examples in this analysis include Gerald McRaney → Born → Gerald Lee McRaney (1947-08-19) August 19, 1947 (age 79) Collins, Mississippi, U.S. and Gerald McRaney → Children → 3. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Gerald McRaneyBornGerald Lee McRaney (1947-08-19) August 19, 1947 (age 79) Collins, Mississippi, U.S.1.00infobox
Gerald McRaneyChildren31.00infobox
Gerald McRaneyOccupationActor1.00infobox
Gerald McRaneySpouses.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…1.00infobox
Gerald McRaneySpousesPat Moran ​ ​(m. 1981; div. 1989)​1.00infobox
Gerald McRaneySpousesDelta Burke ​(m. 1989)​1.00infobox
Gerald McRaneyYears active1969–present1.00infobox
Gunsmokeinstance ofMcRaney appeared in multiple episodes of shows0.80text
Police Womaninstance ofMcRaney appeared in multiple episodes of shows0.80text
and Barnaby Jonesinstance ofMcRaney appeared in multiple episodes of shows0.80text
Gerald McRaneyrelated to External linksIMDb0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Gerald McRaney bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Television, Appeared and Actor. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Gerald McRaney
    • Television
    • Appeared
    • Actor
    • Republican
    • Simon
    • Film
    • Series
    • Angeles
    • Burke
    • Los
    • Ncis
    • Delta
  • gerald mcraney
    • Television
    • Appeared
    • Actor
    • Republican
    • Simon
    • Film
    • Series
    • Angeles
    • Burke
    • Los
    • Ncis
    • Delta
  • primetime emmy award for outstanding guest actor in a drama series
    • Born
    • Role
    • Recurring
    • Film
    • Television
    • Burke
    • Guest
    • Primetime
    • Final
    • General
    • Nbc
    • Two
  • cbs
    • Series
    • Role
    • Drama
    • Final
    • Season
    • Also
    • Played
    • Starred
    • Dad
    • Guest
    • Los
    • Major
  • major dad
    • Dad
    • Major
    • Simon
    • One
    • Television
    • Cbs
    • Played
    • Drama
    • Starred
    • Series
    • Mcraney
  • nbc
    • Dr
    • Us
    • General
    • Recurring
    • Played
    • Recently
    • Role
    • Two
    • Episodes
    • Series
    • Starred
  • simon & simon
    • Episode
    • Burke
    • Guest
    • Delta
    • Two
    • Television
    • Cbs
    • Played
    • Role
    • Series
  • this is us
    • Dr
    • Nbc
    • Recently
    • Recurring
    • Role
    • Series
    • Played
    • Drama
    • Appeared

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Gerald McRaney, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Gerald McRaney with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Gerald McRaney — Career · splits 52 ⟂ 39
Gerald McRaney — Personal life · splits 61 ⟂ 30
Gerald McRaney — Overview · splits 76 ⟂ 15
Gerald McRaney — Early life · splits 85 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Gerald McRaney

Nodes91
Edges90
Triples11
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021978
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Gerald McRaney to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career, Personal life & Early life, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Gerald McRaney · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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