white flag. He doesn't play the score; he could be winning 7 to 1 and he's still going to shoot at a crazy shot that he could lose with. But he's a colorful person, so I like doing commentary on him." McCready continued to compete professionally as well as putting on exhibitions for charity events as late as 2005, winning the 2005 Virginia State Nine-Ball Championship title. Filmography In 1986, McCready played as the character Grady Seasons, a fictional infamous, hustler and top money-winner in all of pool, with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money. In 1985, Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, and Scorsese's casting director, Gretchen Rennell, had come to Norfolk, Virginia, to the US Open Nine-ball Championship in search of actual pool personalities to play character roles. McCready was engaged in a game with Efren Reyes and was selected to be in the movie because of his entertaining style of play. McCready had an established reputation in pool circles as one of the most feared money players. Career titles & Achievements 1979 Sacramento 9-Ball Open 1983 King of the Hill 1984 Clyde Childress Memorial 9-Ball Open 1985 B.C. Open 9-ball Championship 1987 Southern California 9-Ball Open 1991 Lexington All-Star 9-Ball 2005 Virginia State 9-Ball Championship 2017 Lifetime Pool in Action Award References American pool players American male film actors 1957 births Living people People from Elmhurst, Illinois Male actors from Illinois