Brigadier Gerard and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in "How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa"). In "How
Gil Gerard 1982 TV movie "Hear No Evil" as Dragon, the short-lived series "Sidekicks" (1986) and "E.A.R.T.H. Force" (1990). In 1992, Gerard presented the reality TV series "Code 3", which followed firefighters from different areas of the US as they respond to emergency calls. The show ran on the Fox TV Network until the following year. For the remainder of the 1990s, Gerard made guest appearances on various TV shows, including "Fish Police", "Brotherly Love", "The Big Easy", "Days of Our Lives" and "Pacific Blue". In January 2007, Gerard was the subject of the one-hour documentary "Action Hero Makeover" on the Discovery