Kirk Baily

Kirk Baily (February 2, 1963 – February 28, 2022) was an American actor.

Kirk Baily
Born	Kirk William Baily (1963-02-02)February 2, 1963 Adrian, Michigan, U.S.
Died	February 28, 2022(2022-02-28) (aged 59) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Bo Williams
Education	Miami University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1972–2022
Spouse	Peggy Ziegler ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 2019)​
Partner	Ranjani Brow
Children	2

He was best known for his role as Kevin "Ug" Lee on the Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts, and later for his voice acting roles in animation and video games.

Early life

Baily was born in Adrian, Michigan on February 2, 1963.^[1]

His father Harold Baily was a Navy veteran from Adrian, and his mother Barbara Baily (née Moats) a teacher from Ney, Ohio.^[2]

Baily cited Abbott and Costello, Dick Van Dyke, The Three Stooges and Tim Conway as early creative influences since he and his four brothers enjoyed watching them on television.^[3][4]

Education

He graduated from Adrian High School in 1981, where he was a baseball player and swimmer.^[5]

Baily graduated from the Theatre program at Miami University in 1985 after starring in their production of The Front Page that same year.^[6] He was a member of Ohio Lambda, Miami University's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.^[7]

He moved to New York after college to further study theatre.^[1] After moving to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue acting full-time, he performed with The Groundlings and The Second City while working as an acting coach and high school drama teacher.^[8][9]

Career

And then there was my favorite, Ug. Kirk Baily is the actor who played him and was just a perfect guy to have on set. The guy would throw himself into anything. There wasn’t a single thing he couldn’t do. He had a rubber face, kind of a young Don Knotts. He was just perfect. He would get stung by bees, throw himself in the lake, get knocked over backwards. The character believed he was the ultimate power at summer camp and he found out that that was not the truth and that the kids truly had the power.^[10]

—Steve Slavkin, Salute Your Shorts

Baily starred as camp counselor Kevin "Ug" Lee on the popular Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts from 1991 to 1992.^[11]

He had a recurring role as Greg Madigen during the final season of Melrose Place in 1999.^[12]

Baily found success as a voice actor, starring as Tetsuya Kajiwara in Fushigi Yûgi, Millions Knives in Trigun, and Shin in Cowboy Bebop.^[13] He also worked doing ADR looping for film and television.^[14]

Personal life

Baily ruptured his left ear drum after diving into Franklin Canyon Lake while filming the Salute Your Shorts episode "Ug's Girlfriend is Coming" in 1991, causing permanent hearing loss.^[4]

He was married to Peggy Ziegler from 1993 until their divorce in 2019.^[15] They had two children, Bella Clare and Bowen.

Baily and Michael Ray Bower were groomsmen for the wedding of their former Salute Your Shorts castmate Danny Cooksey in 1998.^[16]

He is survived by his partner, actress Ranjani Brow and his two children.^[17]

Death

Baily and Ranjani Brow

Baily became sick, tested positive for lung cancer in August 2021, but stated he would continue to do dubbing projects as long as he was able to. He died in Los Angeles from heart failure caused by the disease on February 28, 2022, 26 days after his 59th birthday.^[18]

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank and DC League of Super-Pets were his final projects and both were dedicated in his memory.^[19]

Sam Roberts memorialized Baily on the March 2, 2022, episode of Sam Roberts Now.^[20]

A celebration of life was held for Baily in Pasadena, California, on May 21, 2022.^[21]

Filmography

Live-action

List of acting performances in film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1989	Alexa	Tony		[22][23]
1990	Lifestories	Philip Richardson	Episode: "Steve Burdick"	[23]
1991	Voodoo Dawn	Kevin		[22][23]
1991	Absolute Strangers	Arnie	Television film	[24][25]
1991–92	Salute Your Shorts	Kevin 'Ug' Lee	26 episodes	[22][24]
1993	Caroline at Midnight	Detective #2		[24]
1994	Greyhounds	Billy Bruno	Television film	[24][25]
1994	Silk Stalkings	Gary Holden	Episode: "Maid Service"; uncredited	[26]
1994	Models Inc.	Barry	Episode: "In Models We Trust"	[27]
1995	Houseguest	Stuart the Manager		[22][24]
1995	Sisters	The Creep	Episode: "100"
1995	Black Day Blue Night	Mayor's Assistant		[24]
1996	Beverly Hills, 90210	Tony Spencer	Episode: "Coming Out, Getting Out, Going Out"; credited as Kirk Bailey	[28]
1997	The Larry Sanders Show	Ed	Episode: "Pain Equals Funny"	[24]
1997	The 6th Man	Coach Nichols		[22][24]
1997	Back in Business	Yuppie		[24]
1997	Pacific Blue	Mike Grant	Episode: "Matters of the Heart"	[22]
1998	3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain	Carl		[22][24]
1998	7th Heaven	Joe James	Episode: "Time to Leave the Nest"	[27]
1998	Indiscreet	Larry Neal	Television film	[22][24]
1998	Outside Ozona	Agent Tony Cole		[24]
1999	Melrose Place	Greg Madigan	3 episodes	[22][24]
1999	Soccer Dog: The Movie	Ref		[23]
1999	Star Trek: Voyager	Magnus Hansen	Episode: "Dark Frontier"	[22][24]
2000	Rocket's Red Glare	Mr. Matthews	Television film	[25]
2001	Judging Amy	Harry Winter	Episode: "Between the Wanting and the Getting"	[24]
2001	FreakyLinks	Officer Scott Hanover	Episode: "Subject: Police Siren"	[24]
2001	Felicity	Financial Aid Officer	2 episodes; credited as Kirk Bailey	[27]
2002	NYPD Blue	Roger Simmons	Episode: "Humpty Dumpty"	[22][24]
2004	Life on Liberty Street	ER Intern	Television film	[27]
2008	Bottle Shock	Loan Officer		[22][23]
2008	Nobel Son	Wil Cavalere		[25]
2011	Five	Scott	Television film	[27]
2015	The3Tails Movie: A Mermaid Adventure	Head Coast Guard		[22]

Voice

Anime

List of voice performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1998	Fushigi Yûgi: Memories First OAV	Tetsuya Kajiwara	Credited as Bo Williams	[29]
1998	Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Reflections OAV 2	Tetsuya Kajiwara	Credited as Bo Williams	[29]
1999	Fist of the North Star	Gibara	Episode: "Tremble & Die! - Villains of Night Fog Valley!"; credited as Bo Williams	[13]
1999	Mobile Suit Gundam	Cpt. Garma Zabi	Credited as Bo Williams	[13][29]
1999	Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow	Cpt. Garma Zabi	Credited as Bo Williams	[13][29]
1999	Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory	Pilot of Bloom's Shuttle		[29]
1999	Dual! Paralle lunlun monogatari	United Team Alliance	3 episodes; credited as Bo Williams	[13]
1999	Cowboy Bebop	Shin	2 episodes; credited as Bo Williams	[29]
2001	Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team	Fed Gossiper / Unit 2	Credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2001	Gate Keepers	Train Passenger	Credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2001	Hand Maid May	Raffle Ticket Man	Credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2001	Ah! My Goddess: The Movie	Additional Voices	Credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2001	Vampire Princess Miyu	Father	Episode: "Reiha Has Come"	[13]
2001	Metropolis	Marduk / Scientist		[13]
2001	Saint Tail	Crook 2	Episode: "Legend of Happiness?! The Clock Tower Commotion"	[13]
2002	Armitage III: Dual Matrix	Robot Security Guard / Unit Dispatcher		[13]
2002	Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran	Beninosuke / Junai Yoshikawa	13 episodes	[13]
2002	.hack//Liminality Vol. 1: In the Case of Mai Minase	Masaya Makino		[13]
2002	Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Eikoden	Tetsuya Kajiwara	4 episodes; credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2003	Trigun	Millions Knives (Adult)	8 episodes; credited as Bo Williams	[29]
2003	Rurouni Kenshin	Reisui	Episode: "The Magic of Feng Shui"; credited as Bo Williams	[13]
2003	Cowboy Bebop: The Movie	Robber D		[13]
2003	Android Kikaider: The Animation	Ichiro Komyoji	Episode: "Kodoku na Ningyô"	[13]
2003	.hack//Liminality Vol. 4: Trismegitstus	Masaya Makino		[29]
2004	Yukikaze	Press Reporter #2		[13]
2004–06	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	Yamaguchi / Kawashima	13 episodes	[13]
2005	Rescue Me Mave-Chan	Classmate 1		[13][29]
2011	From Up on Poppy Hill	Additional Voices		[13]

Film

List of voice performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1992	Twin Dragons	Voice	English dub	[27]
2002	Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra	Additional Voices	English dub	[24]
2003	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Additional Voices		[23]
2004	Shaolin Soccer	Additional Voices	English dub	[23]
2004	Shark Tale	ADR Group
2006	Over the Hedge	Additional Voices		[22][23]
2006	Open Season	Additional Voices		[23][24]
2008	Dead Space: Downfall	Walla	Direct-to-video	[24]
2008	The Tale of Despereaux	Additional Voices
2010	Vampires Suck	Voice Actor		[23]
2010	Buried	411 Male Operator		[23][24]
2010	Yogi Bear	Additional Voiceover		[23][24]
2011	Open Season 3	Additional Voices		[24]
2011	Rango	ADR Group
2011	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil	Voice		[25]
2011	Spy Kids: All the Time in the World	Voice		[25]
2011	The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol	Additional Voices	Short film	[29]
2012	Chronicle	Additional Voices		[27]
2012	ParaNorman	Blithe Hollow Townperson		[24][25]
2012	Hotel Transylvania	Additional Voices		[24][25]
2013	Frozen	Additional Voices		[24][25]
2014	Feast	Additional Characters	Short film	[22]
2014	Big Hero 6	Additional Voices		[24][25]
2015	My All American	Additional Voices		[27]
2017	The Boss Baby	ADR Group
2017	The Star	Additional Voices		[24][25]
2018	The Meg	Voice		[25]
2018	Bumblebee	Brawn / Decepticon Soldier		[23][24]
2019	Missing Link	New Worlder		[23][24]
2020	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run	Additional Voices		[29]
2022	Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	Additional Voices	Dedicated to his memory; released posthumously
2022	DC League of Super-Pets	Additional Voices	Dedicated to his memory; released posthumously	[19]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2000	Galerians	Birdman / Dr. Pascale	Credited as Bo Williams	[29]
2000	Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force	Crewman Mitch Cstalos / Malon	Credited as Kirk Bailey	[13]
2003	.hack//Infection	Additional Voices		[13]
2003	.hack//Mutation	Additional Voices		[13]
2003	.hack//Outbreak	Additional Voices		[13]
2004	.hack//Quarantine	Additional Voices		[13]
2004	Shadow Hearts: Covenant	Hien	Credited as Bo Williams	[29]
2008	Condemned 2: Bloodshot	Thieves / Vagrants / Rioters	Credited as Kirk Bailey	[13]