Whip Hubley

American actor

Whip Hubley
Born	Grant Shelby Hubley, Jr. New York City, U.S.
Education	University of Vermont
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985–present
Spouse	Dinah Minot
Children	3
Relatives	Season Hubley (sister) Susan Minot (sister-in-law)

Grant Shelby Hubley Jr., known as Whip Hubley, is an American actor.^[1]

Early life and education

Hubley was born in New York City, the son of Julia Kaul (née Paine) and Grant Shelby Hubley, an entrepreneur, oil investor, and writer. He attended the Buckley School for Boys in Upper East Side, Manhattan. As a resident of Montclair, New Jersey he attended Montclair Academy which then became part of Montclair Kimberley Academy, graduating in 1975.^[2]^[3] He is the brother of actress Season Hubley, also the former brother-in-law of Kurt Russell, and uncle of Season and Kurt's son, Boston Russell.

Career

He played the role of Mischa in the 1987 film Russkies,^[4] and Hollywood in the 1986 film Top Gun. Hubley said when he first read the script for Top Gun, he thought it would be an ensemble film but producers focused the story around Maverick when they "realized what they had with Tom."^[5]

He later played Brian Hawkins in the Showtime miniseries More Tales of the City (1998) and its follow-up Further Tales of the City (2001). These miniseries were sequels to the PBS miniseries Tales of the City (1994), which starred Paul Gross in the role of Brian. From 1996 to 1999, Hubley had the lead role of Sheriff Tom Hampton on the revival of Flipper.

According to a 2022 interview with the Portland Press Herald, Whip Hubley works as a manager for a construction firm in Southern Maine and acts in local theater productions.^[5] In april 2023, Hubley was randomly stopped by an officer of the South Portland Maine Police Department, in a good-natured call.^[6]

Personal life

Hubley currently resides in South Portland, Maine, after spending over thirty years in Santa Monica, California. He is married to Dinah Minot, a former producer for Saturday Night Live^[1] and has three children, Molly, Ella and Ben.^{[citation needed]} He met his wife while they were students at the University of Vermont.^[7] His wife is the sister of writer Susan Minot.^[8]

Filmography

1985 St. Elmo's Fire as Raymond Slater
1985 Magnum, P.I. (TV series) as Stu (1 episode)
- "Round and Around" TV Episode (as Grant Hubley)
1986 Firefighter (TV) as Lance
1986 Club Life (1986) as Herb
1986 North and South, Book II (TV miniseries) as Lieutenant Stephen Kent
1986 Top Gun as Lieutenant Rick 'Hollywood' Neven
1987 Russkies as Mischa
1988 I'll Be Home for Christmas (TV)
1989 Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (TV) as Charlie Cates
1989 The Cover Girl and the Cop (TV)
1989 Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (TV) as Robert O'Donnell
1989 Nasty Boys (TV pilot)
1989 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (TV)
1989-1991 Life Goes On (TV series) as Dr. Oliver Matthews
1991 Wife, Mother, Murderer (TV) as Lieutenant Gary Carroll
1992 Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel as Chester DeSoto
1992 Devlin (TV) as Sam Lord
1993 Lake Consequence (TV) as Jim
1993 Coneheads as F-16 Pilot
1993 Bounty Tracker as Ralston
1994 Babylon 5 (TV series) "Signs and Portents" as Raider #1
1994 Unveiled as Peter Masters
1994 Dead at 21 (TV series) as Agent Winston
1994 Someone Else's Child (TV) as Danny
1995 Species as John Carey
1994-1996 Murder, She Wrote (TV series) as Musician / Randy Jinks
1996 Executive Decision as Sergeant Baker
1995-2000 Flipper (TV series) as Tom Hampton
1996 A Very Brady Sequel as Explorer / Dead Husband
1996 Driven as Jason Schuyler
1996 Daddy's Girl as Mark Springer
1997 Black Scorpion II: Aftershock as Michael Russo
1997 Profiler (TV series) as Drew Brenneman
1998 The Secrets of My Heart as Parker
1998 More Tales of the City (mini TV series) as Brian Hawkins
1998 Mike Hammer, Private Eye (TV series) as Loolie / Julius Llewellyn Sterling
2000 Practice (TV series) as Craig Hansen
2000 The Fugitive (TV series) as Brian Collier
2001 Fangs as Dr. John Winslow
2001 The Division (TV series) as Scott Berwin
2001 Charmed (TV series) as Detective
2001 Further Tales of the City (mini TV series) as Brian Hawkins
2001 The District (TV series) as Agent Harris
2002 MDs (TV series) as Fetterhoff
2003 CSI: Miami (TV series) as Nick Gordon
2003 The Handler (TV series) as Detective Colman
2004 A Cinderella Story as Sam's Dad
2007 Brothel as Brian
2007 Murder 101: College Can Be Murder (TV) as Stuart Evans
2009 Homeland as Edward
2013 Drones as Colonel Wallace

References

^ ^a ^b "Dinah Minot Marries Grant Hubley, Actor". The New York Times. June 5, 1988. Archived from the original on January 13, 2019.
^ "MKA News Post - Montclair Kimberley Academy". www.mka.org. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ "Caption", The Montclair Times, February 21, 1974. Accessed June 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Grant Hubley, left, a student at Montclair Academy and a son of Mrs. Julie P. Hubley of South Mountain Ave., and Karen Kelley, right, a student at The Kimberley School, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kelley, of Warren Pl., discuss their new school, a combination of Brookside School, The Kimberley School and Montclair Academy with Richard W. Day, principal of the school."
^ Canby, Vincent (November 6, 1987). "FILM: 'RUSSKIES,' A COMEDY ADVENTURE". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b "South Portland actor who took off in original 'Top Gun' has left Hollywood behind". Press Herald. 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
^ This 'Top Gun' Star Stopped by the South Portland, Maine, Police Department, 97.5 WOQK Radio, 6 April 2023, retrieved 29 May 2024
^ Writer, Bob KeyesStaff (2019-03-22). "Actor whose career soared with 'Top Gun' now at home in Maine, and back on stage". Press Herald. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^ Smith, Dinitia (2004-05-27). "The Minots, A Literary Clan Whose Stories Divide Them". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-05.