Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Babylon 5 (1994), Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) and Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999). He was married to his Babylon 5 co-star Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters) from 1995 to 1997 and they had one child together. Before becoming an actor he worked as a corporate pilot and a stockbroker.

Following his work on Babylon 5, Doyle ran as the Republican Party candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. During the primary, Doyle did not spend any money on the campaign, and received 43,000 votes, less than half as many as the victor, incumbent Brad Sherman. He lost the general election on November 7, 2000 with Sherman earning 66% of the vote to Doyle's 30%, the Libertarian candidate's 3%, and the Natural Law candidate's 1%. In December 2011, Doyle endorsed Ron Paul for the Presidency of the United States

Jerry unfortunatly was found unresponsive in his Las Vegas home and later died on July 27, 2016. The Clark County Coroner's Office later stated that Doyle died from natural causes, with complications from chronic alcoholism being a contributing factor