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  • Clarence Gilyard Jr.

    Officer Benjamin Webster (1982-1983)

    8.9
    Clarence Gilyard Jr., who played 'Conrad McMasters' in the series Matlock for five seasons, has also appeared in the series Diff'rent Strokes and CHiPs. Among the feature films in which he has co-starred are Top Gun and Die Hard. He was born on Dec. 24, 1955 in Moses Lake, Washington, and grew up as one of six children in a military family. He attended the Air Force Academy before transferring to Sterling College in Kansas, where he played wide receiver on the football team and also became interested in acting. Gilyard is a real-life cowboy and devotes much of his free time to riding and roping in celebrity rodeos to benefit various children's charities. He is honorary chairman of and celebrity spokesman for Cowboys for Kids and also serves on the board of directors of the Children's Organ Transplant Association. Gilyard has two children and divides his time between Dallas and Rancho Mirage, California. His most famous role was as Texas Ranger Jimmy Trivette in the series Walker, Texas Ranger. He has also recently starred in the movies Left Behind and Left Behind: Tribulation Force. He also had a brief appearance in the Walker, Texas Ranger Reunion Movie that aired on CBS last fall.moreless

  • Tina Gayle

    Officer Kathy Linahan (1982-1983)

    5.8

  • Robert Pine

    Sgt. Joseph Getraer

    8.0
    Robert raised in Scarsdale, New York. His first goal was it to become a doctor but before finishing the study he decided to become an actor. His biggest role was the Sgt. Getraer in CHiPs but we also can see him in Matlock, different Star Trek series, Days of our lives, etc. Married to Gwynne Gilford in 1969. Father of actress Katy Pine. Son-in-law of actress Anne Gwynne.moreless

  • Michael Dorn

    Officer Jebediah Turner (1979-1982)

    8.9
    Michael previously starred in one of the most successful syndicated drama series in the history of television, Star Trek: The Next Generation. For seven years, he portrayed Lt. Worf, the Klingon security chief of the U.S.S. Enterprise and covered his leading man good looks with 90 minutes worth of make-up and prosthetics to create the other-worldly and beloved Worf. The first of the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast to join Star Trek on the big screen, Dorn played Lt. Worf's own grandfather in the 1991 hit feature Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. And, in the fall of 1994, the rest of the ST: TNG cast joined him in their first movie, Star Trek Generations. Dorn also appeared in Paramount's 1996 hit feature film Star Trek: First Contact co-stars in the ninth Star Trek feature film, Star Trek: Insurrection, released in November 1998, and battles the Remans in the tenth Star Trek film, Star Trek Nemesis in 2003. Although Dorn has found his greatest success through this enduring franchise, he had an active television career prior to being cast as Worf. He co-starred for three seasons as Officer Jed Turner on the popular NBC series CHiPS and guest starred in many primetime series including Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. But his ambitions weren't always to be an actor. Born in Texas and raised in Pasadena, California, he studied radio/television production at Pasadena City College and took his turn in front of the student cameras. When he left school his interests settled in music and it was there that he pursued his early professional career as a performer. He moved to San Francisco in 1973, then back to Los Angeles in 1976, making his living during that time playing and singing in several rock bands. Then in 1977 Michael landed a small part on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and thought his moment had arrived. Actually, his moment was still a few years away, but it was certainly a start. After completing the Star Trek: The Next Generation series and a feature film, Dorn hung up his trademark Worf forehead and moved on to Timemaster, a feature for SGE which was released in 1995. He also starred in the 1995 Showtime tele-film Amanda and the Alien, with Nicole Eggert and Stacy Keach. He did a star turn in the Showtime series The Outer Limits, and acted as host of the Discovery Channel's popular series The World of Wonder. His acting and voice-over work leave little leisure time, but what time he has, he spends in his single-seat military training jet, an F-86. He flies to air shows around the country and uses his plane as the ultimate private getaway.moreless

  • Paul Linke

    Officer Arthur Grossman

    7.5
    Was John Ritter's roommate at USC. And one of John's best friends.
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    Lou Wagner

    Harlan Arliss (1978-1983)

    7.2
    Lou Wagner is a very special individual. He has that unique ability to take very little and turn it into a fortune. Take for example his size. At
    5' 2", Lou was told his chances for success in this business were definitely slight. "Everyone said I'd never make it because of my " admits Lou, "but I quess I learned to turn that shortage into an asset!"

    Upon arriving in Los Angeles from his native San Jose, Lou banged his head against every door in town trying to find an agent, and was always turned down because he was too short or looked too young. "Finally, somone kiddingly said I should get a children's agent, and I thought 'Why Not?'. After all, even though I was 25 at the time, I could easily pass for a teenager. So I strolled into Mary Grady's office (a leading children's agent), talked my way into an interview, and was signed that day!".

    Such determination meant Lou was not afraid start at the bottom in search of what he wanted---or afraid to go to the top. After getting an agent, Lou immediately went to the best theatre group in town and asked for a job. "I went to Paul Levit," explains Lou, "who was running the prestigious Players Ring, and told him I'd work seven days a week, twelve hours a day for nothing, just for the opportunity to be around the very best! I got the job."

    Lou became a jack of all trades, mailing programs, running lights, painting scenery, selling tickets, and all the while learning. From this initial exposure to the theatre, Lou landed a small part playing leper. "I was thrilled," recalls Lou. "I went from a schlepper to a leper!"

    His hard work and tenacity throughout this period began to pay off when Lou began to land a variety of "smart alecky little kid roles" including parts on several successful series such as "Dragnet", "Lost in Space", and "Mayberry R.F.D.". He also landed a choice role in the hit movie "Airport", in which Lou, actually 29 at the time, played a boy 15. "It was a natural, " confesses Lou. "After all, with the countless work rules governing real teenagers, I discovered that every producer would rather work with an older, more mature actor if he could get away with it. I simply showed them how my short could help them work around these types of rules!."

    It was, as Lou recalls, "a crazy way to break into the business", but in the end it worked, for once in the door with a few credits and some experience under his belt, Lou began to land other, more substantial parts, such as starring roles on successful series' such as "Macmillan and Wife", "Columbo, and "Happy Days", and utimately his big breakthrough as "Lucius", the young idealistic ape in the widely hailed "Planet of the Apes" film. "Of all the work I've done, I'm still proudest of that, "admits Lou. ""I really believed in waht they were saying."

    During the second stage of his career, Lou devoted every dime he had towards studying. His list of teachers and coaches reads like a who's who of Hollywood including Second City's James Frawley, a master at comedy and improvisational techniques, Lou Antonio, now a successful director, Madeleine Sherwood, and even Lee Strasberg of the famed Actors Studio. "I originally was a caretaker for them in return for room and board and, of course, some lessons," explains Lou. "And I'm still associated with them to this day."

    This constant studying plus the continuous work and experience he was receiving, meant that Lou was ready when his next opportunity came along. Riding high in the mid 1970's after completing two more sequels to the "Planet of the Apes" films (one of which featured Lou as a co-star), and having found some financial security through landing a choice commercial role as "the Professor" in the original McDonald Land commercials opposite "Ronald McDonald" (a role he played for over 15 years), Lou landed a small role on a new series called "CHips". As Lou recalls, "it was originally just a small possibly recurring part. They were looking to add other characters to the show and so they were very eager to see what I coud do," Impressed with his work, and the public's response to Wagner's lovable creation "Harlan Arliss", the whiz kid mechanic with the chip on his shoulder because he was too short to become a cop, the producers of "CHips" expanded Lou's part, making him a regular on the show for five years, and eventually building whole stories and subplots around his character. "It was a wonderful time for me as an actor," explains Lou, "Because they were always coming to me for suggestions and ideas regarding my character, and allowing me the freedom to experiment with the role."

    Now, having successfully completed five years on a top 10 show, and several box office successes such as "Airport" and the "Planet of the Apes" films, one is tempted to ask "What's next for Lou Wagner?" "Well," smiles Lou, "I may have stopped growing physically some time ago, but I hope I never stop growing as an actor!" There are a million roles left I'd like to play, and for a character actor like myself, I hope a hundred years left to do them!"

    It's a dream he seems destined to fulfill, for if there is one thing Lou Wagner has never been short on, it's determination and success!moreless

  • Tom Reilly

    Officer Bobby "Hot Dog" Nelson (1982-1983)

    3.2
    Thomas Michael Reilly III was born in Kansas, and later moved to New Jersey with his family. His father owned a trucking company and his mother was a nurse. Tom also has two younger sisters. Tom is 43 years old and is 6'2" tall. (weight: not known at this time, but still very sexy...I'm sure !!) As a young man, Tom had many choices to consider. However, football captured his attention. He had dreams of a pro football career. He was attending New Jersey's Montclair State College when he was approached about becoming an actor. His manager suggested Modeling as a stepping stone to acting. Within a month, Tom signed with a New York agency and jetted off to exotic locations on assignment for Pierre Cardin and Calvin Klein. Tom has traveled to many places including France, Italy, Malta, Japan, and Puerto Rico, all before the age of 21. (To be continued...) check back...P.S. If you happen to have a tape of Tom's Football Glory days ?? (I love footbal) I want one...email me !!! Denamoreless

  • Randi Oakes

    Officer Bonnie Clark (1979-1982)

    3.4

  • Brianne Leary

    Officer Sindy Cahill (1978-1979)

    7.6
    Brianne is of Black Irish descent. She was a gymnastics champion at Canyon Del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona. She went on to the State Championship in 1974 and placed in the top three (I can't remember her exact placement). She was a companion to Robert Conrad in the late 70s (of "The Wild Wild West" (1965) and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (1976) fame). She was also a companion to Barry Newman (of "Petrocelli" (1974) fame). Her mother was the Assistant City Editor for the Arizona Daily Star and she is cousin to writer Timothy Leary. First appeared on TV as a contestant on "Match Game 73" (1973) in 1976 winning $2,600. Just three years later, she gained fame as an actress and appeared as a panelist. She is the only person to be both a contestant and a panelist on the show. She was in New York City doing a "lite" TV news story when the World Trade Center was attacked. During the war in Afghanistan, she used every connection she had to be sent there to cover the war for CNN because she was tired of her "lite" news assignments. She wrote about her experiences in Oprah Winfrey's "O" magazine. She attended Pima Junior College in Arizona, USA. Developed the Paw Plunger, a self-contained device for cleaning dogs' paws when they come in from outdoors. In 1996 she later created a Canadian children's TV show Stickin' Around with Robin Steele. In early 2000, she was a co-anchor on WNYW New York's Good Day New York.moreless

  • Bruce Jenner

    Officer Steve McLeish (1981-1982)

    4.9
    After winning a gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games, Bruce Jenner has gone on to winning seasons in life. He's known to millions as a motivational speaker, TV personality, sports commentator, commercial spokesperson, entrepreneur, actor, producer, and representative of companies such as Visa, MCI, Coca-Cola, and Anheuser-Busch. Jenner travels around the country speaking to corporate and community groups about finding the champion within, and he runs several successful businesses with his wife, Kris. The Jenners live with their five children in Hidden Hills, California.moreless

  • Larry Wilcox

    Officer Jon Baker (1977-1982)

    7.4

  • Erik Estrada

    Officer Frank "Ponch" Poncherello

    6.3
    Erik Estrada was born Henry Enrique Estrada in New York City on March 16th 1949 to Renildo and Carmon. Erik has one brother(Joey) and one sister( Carmen) Erik has been married three times, Joyce Miller, Peggy Rowe(Mother of his two sons, Anthony and Brandon).Presently he is married to Nanette Dernise Mirkovich (Mother of his daughter Francesca born Jan, 5th 2000) Before he wanted to act he had intentions of being a cop in New York City, But when he enrolled in his high school drama club because of a girl he was interested in he ended up getting the lead role in a play. Getting his first acting job when actor/dirctor Don Murray choice him to star in a true story " Cross and the Switchblade" Then in 1977 he landed a role in the biggest hit show of the late 70's early 80's "CHiPs" When "CHiPs" was cancelled in 1982 Erik went back to his acting roots in New York to star in a limited engagment in the off-broadway production of " True West"moreless

  • Brodie Greer

    Officer Barry Baricza (1977-82)

    4.7
    Brodie grew up in Brentwood, California. He attended Pacific Palisades High School and exceled in football, baseball, and track. He received a full scholarship to San Jose State University for football as a defensive back, where he was an all-conference starter for three years. It was while at San Jose State that he began taking drama courses. After graduating in 1974, he returned to Los Angeles and began an acting career. He worked in commercials and small roles in soap operas before landing the role of Officer Barry "Bear" Baricza on "CHiPs" in 1977. Brodie was on the show for five years and filmed 112 episodes. After "CHiPs," he guest starred on many TV shows, including "LOVE BOAT" and "FANTASY ISLAND." He continues to act in commercials, television programs, and movies. He currently works as a real estate agent for Coldwell Bankers in Pacific Palisades. (This biographical information was taken from the "CHiPs-99" website, which is sadly no longer in existence.)moreless

  • Bruce Penhall

    Cadet Bruce Nelson (1982-83)

    2.4

  • Jill Jaress

    pregnant woman

    0.0
    In addition to acting, Jill owns four feature film scripts, three of which are romantic comedies.

  • Frank Ashmore

    Lance

    9.6

  • Frank Ashmore

    Larry Fletcher

    9.6

  • Joe Basile

    Ricardo

    7.7

  • Dean Butler

    Himself

    5.7

  • Zitto Kazann

    Imre Kovacs

    8.6
    Zitto Kazann is most known as the scary devil Henry in Kimberly Shaw's (Marcia Cross) mind on Melrose Place. He did not only scare Kimberly with his threatening, frightening voice but also a lot of the viewers. This was so spectacular, no one had even seen before. Brilliant acting too, so why hasn't Zitto got any bigger roles? He only plays gypsies, but I can see he looks very exotic! Anyway, our devil Henry made Kimberly try to kill several of our beloved Melrose friends by making her make a bomb - KABANG!moreless

  • Fran Ryan

    Lady Driver

    9.3

  • Fran Ryan

    Nancy

    9.3

  • Nicky Katt

    Pat McGuire

    8.7
    Nicky Katt was born on May 11th, 1970 in South Dakota, USA. He is best known for his role as unorthodox teacher Harry Senate in Boston Public. Katt started acting at the age of 7, when he appeared on the TV Series CHiPS. He continued to work through the 1980's landing several different roles on different shows. Katt had two careers in a way. One being a child actor of the late 1970's and early 1980's. The other being the character actor of the 1990's. In the 1990's, he often played the bully or the thug. Katt is talented and at ease in front of the camera on either television or feature film, he has an impressive body of work. Katt got married to Annie Morse on August 7th, 1999 but divorced her in 2001.moreless

  • Wendy Phillips

    Joanne

    9.1
    married to actor Scott Paulin since 1981 one daughter, Virginia Dare graduated from the University of California, Berkeley parents (Jean Shelton & Wendell Phillips) were both acting teachers made her acting debut in the tv movie "Death Be Not Proud" with Robby Bensonmoreless

  • Simon Oakland

    Guest Star

    8.4
    Simon Oakland was a very recognizable character actor who enjoyed a long career of playing gruff, authority figures and tough guys, much in the mold of Edward G. Robinson. He was a fixture on television and in films and was regarded by his fellow actors as a consummate professional.

    Oakland started out as a musician, but began acting in the late 1940s. He had a string of successful performances on Broadway before he moved to Hollywood with a breakout performance in I Want to Live! (1958). Oakland played the tough, compassionate reporter who comes to Susan Hayward's defense. These characteristics would define many of the roles Oakland would play in his career.

    Oakland could also be seen in Tony Rome, West Side Story (as Lt. Schrank), and Psycho as the psychiatrist who delivers the memorable epilogue about Norman Bates.

    Simon Oakland was a mainstay on television, with starring, guest and recurring roles in several popular programs. One of his best known roles was Tony Vincenzo, the bulldog newspaper editor who clashed with Darren McGavin on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Oakland was also a co-star of Baa Baa Black Sheep and had a recurring role on The Rockford Files as rival private eye Vern St. Cloud.

    After a long career, Oakland died of cancer in 1983, one day after his 68th birthday.moreless

  • Simon Oakland

    Bruno

    8.4
    Simon Oakland was a very recognizable character actor who enjoyed a long career of playing gruff, authority figures and tough guys, much in the mold of Edward G. Robinson. He was a fixture on television and in films and was regarded by his fellow actors as a consummate professional.

    Oakland started out as a musician, but began acting in the late 1940s. He had a string of successful performances on Broadway before he moved to Hollywood with a breakout performance in I Want to Live! (1958). Oakland played the tough, compassionate reporter who comes to Susan Hayward's defense. These characteristics would define many of the roles Oakland would play in his career.

    Oakland could also be seen in Tony Rome, West Side Story (as Lt. Schrank), and Psycho as the psychiatrist who delivers the memorable epilogue about Norman Bates.

    Simon Oakland was a mainstay on television, with starring, guest and recurring roles in several popular programs. One of his best known roles was Tony Vincenzo, the bulldog newspaper editor who clashed with Darren McGavin on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Oakland was also a co-star of Baa Baa Black Sheep and had a recurring role on The Rockford Files as rival private eye Vern St. Cloud.

    After a long career, Oakland died of cancer in 1983, one day after his 68th birthday.moreless

  • Milton Berle

    Himself

    8.7
    In a career that has spanned eight decades, and included everything from silent films to vaudeville to Broadway to radio, Milton Berle qualifies as one of the personifications of "show business". Despite making a mark in each of the aforesaid media, Berle achieved his greatest success as the first acknowledged superstar of television. Between 1948 and 1956, Tuesday nights belonged to the comedian. The success of his weekly variety show earned him the honorific titles of "Mr. Television" and "Uncle Miltie." Famous for his extremely high energy level and for a series of outlandish characterizations--especially those featuring the star in drag--Berle was at the top of the TV ratings for several seasons, but when the inevitable fade occurred, he was unable to find a subsequent suitable vehicle for his talents. He did, however, stay prominent in the public eye via many TV specials, both those built around him and in guest star spots, where his trademark cigar, snide wisecracks, unctuous manner and withering glare at the camera were put to good use.

    Berle began his career as a child model, posing for the advertising campaign for Buster Brown shoes. He entered films in 1914, appearing in the serial The Perils of Pauline and Mack Sennett's Tillie's Punctured Romance. Reportedly, he appeared in over 50 silent films as a child performer. Berle began to perform on stage in 1920 in the Broadway production of Floradora. Appearances in vaudeville, where the comedian perfected his wiseguy persona, led to engagements in editions of Earl Carroll Vanities and the Ziegfeld Follies. He returned to features in New Faces of 1937 (1937) and made sporadic appearances in the 1940s, including Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Always Leave Them Laughing (1949).

    After establishing himself in the developing medium of TV, Berle returned to features and the stage, searching for the role that would duplicate his success on the small screen. Like others comics who became TV personalities (e.g., Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett, Sid Caesar), Berle had trouble shaking the public's perception of him as anything other than Uncle Miltie. His return to Broadway in Herb Gardner's play The Goodbye People (1968) was short-lived. He had moderate success touring in Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1970) and later in the sex farce Norman, Is That You? (1975).

    His feature work since 1960 has also been sporadic. He appeared as himself, hired to coach a showgirl (Marilyn Monroe) in comedy in George Cukor's Let's Make Love (1960), was a henpecked motorist in Stanley Kramer's all-star It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), partnered with Margaret Leighton as a mourner in Tony Richardson's sardonic The Loved One (1965), and delivered a dramatic portrayal of a Jewish gangster in Lepke (1975). He has continued to work into the 1990s, appearing in the 1995 direct-to-video children's film Storybook.

    On TV, Berle has made numerous guest appearances on comedies, variety shows and specials and dramas. An attempt to revive his variety show in the mid-60s failed to attract audience attention. Berle has proven himself capable as a dramatic performer on the small screen. He earned a Best Actor Emmy nomination for his dramatic performance in the Doyle Against the House episode of The Dick Powell Show (NBC, 1961) and a Best Guest Actor Emmy nomination for his turn as a veteran actor struggling with Alzheimer's Disease in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 (Fox, 1995).

    Uncle Miltie succumbed to colon cancer on March 27, 2002 at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA.moreless

  • Cindy Williams

    Herself

    8.9

  • Peter Marshall

    Himself

    8.4
    Born Pierre LaCock (or la Cocque) in 1927 in Huntington, WV, he was the son of a pharmacist and the younger brother of Joanne la Cocque, who moved from being a successful model to a movie star in the 1940s and 1950s under the name Joanne Dru. He began singing in big bands as a teenager during the 1940s, then took a job as a page at NBC, and moved through different varieties of employment before finding himself broke and in Los Angeles in 1949. He hooked up with a slightly older contemporary, Tommy Noonan, in a comedy duo called Noonan & Marshall; the duo made several appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show and got cast in a handful of films at the outset of the 1950s. Marshall's obvious talent for comedy was augmented by his good looks and he had a sporadically successful, busy career over the next 15 years as an actor, working in a variety of stage and film vehicles, among them a London production of Bye Bye Birdie and the abortive Warner Bros. sequel to Mister Roberts, Ensign Pulver. Perhaps his best performance was as the young officer trapped underground with a group of allied and enemy troops in Edgar G. Ulmer's World War II drama The Cavern. That film, made in 1965, was the last screen performance that Marshall was able to give as an anonymous working actor. In 1966, NBC and the sponsors were looking for a host for a new program called The Hollywood Squares, in which well-known actors and comedians were invited to give comical (and often comically wrong answers) to leading, sometimes double-entendre questions. Somebody at the network noticed Marshall's photograph on top of a pile of publicity materials, liked what they saw and the fact that he'd acted and had also done comedy, and called him in. Starting in October 1966, and lasting until 1981, he was the host of the extraordinarily popular program, which became a kind of pop culture fixture for decades. He ceased his career as a working actor, although he did co-write the screenplay for (and appear in) Maury Dexter's notorious 1968 anti-marijuana drama Maryjane, starring an overage Fabian. He also hosted a syndicated variety show during the 1970s and was a frequent guest as a host, singer, or dancer, on programs like The People's Choice Awards. Since The Hollywood Squares, he has appeared onscreen (usually as a game show host) and done comedy in films such as Annie, and poked fun at his own image on the Fox network comedy series In Living Color. He also has a recording career, and starred in HMS Pinafore with the London Symphony Orchestra. Marshall remains busy in his seventies and his son, Pete LaCock, is a well-known major league baseball player. Bruce Edermoreless

  • Herb Edelman

    Sanders

    8.0
    Herb Edelman was born in Brooklyn in 1933. Before becoming an actor, Edelman studied to be a veterinarian at Cornell University, but he left during his first year. His other occupations included a journalist, a radio operator and announcer for the Armed Forces, and, after dropping out of Brooklyn College, a hotel manager. Edelman started acting in theater, where he performed in Barefoot in the Park; he played the same role in the 1968 movie. Edelman made appearances in many TV shows, movies, and TV movies over the years, but he is probably best remembered for his recurring role as Dorothy Zbornak's ex-husband Stan on the long-running sitcom The Golden Girls. Sadly, Herb Edelman died in 1996 at age 62 of emphysema.moreless
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