The cast list for Murdaugh: Death in the Family features no shortage of all-stars successfully portraying the real-life people involved in the true-crime drama, and TV and film veteran Gerald McRaney is one of them. The Simon & Simon, Major Dad , and This Is Us alum had a particularly tall order when it came to playing Randolph Murdaugh III, the father of Alex Murdaugh (played by Jason Clarke ) in the series, given his stature in the story and the relative lack of video footage widely available of him.

Randolph was a titanic figure in the Murdaugh family, for better and for worse. As the Hulu series shows, he was right in the thick of it when it came to some of the family’s biggest scandals, like the boat wreck that killed Mallory Beach and began the chain of events that would r

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