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Paul Linke

Paul Linke

Actor · b. 1948 · New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paul Linke (born May 6, 1948) is an American actor, known for his role as Officer Artie Grossman in CHiPs, a television series about the motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol. Linke has worked in film and extensively in television, mostly portraying mild-mannered everyman roles. Linke was born in New York, New York, the son of Richard O. Linke, a personal manager, producer, and partner of Andy Griffith. During the timeframe of his character on the television series CHiPs, Linke played a similar role as Sheriff Bruce Smith in the cult classic, slasher film parody Motel Hell (1980). He also appeared in the film Parenthood (1989). His career has included appearances on many well known television series such as, The Waltons, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, M*A*S*H, Knots Landing, St. Elsewhere, Quantum Leap and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He appeared in a 1985 episode of Three's a Crowd, a short-lived television sitcom spinoff of Three's Company starring John Ritter. Linke later spoke at Ritter's memorial service. In 2000 Linke co-wrote and directed the acclaimed stage play "Save it for the Stage: The Life of Reilly" with actor Charles Nelson Reilly, which was later made into the 2006 film "The Life of Reilly". Linke met his first wife, Francesca "Chex" Draper, a musician and composer, at a party in Los Angeles in 1976. They married in 1978 and had three children together, Jasper, Ryan and Rose. When his wife died of cancer in 1986, Linke channeled his grief into writing and performing a play called Time Flies When You're Alive. First presented as a one-man show in Los Angeles and HBO drama, the work was then developed into the book Time Flies When You're Alive: A Real-Life Love Story. The very emotional work has garnered critical acclaim. Linke later remarried Christine Healy in 1991. They have one child together, a daughter named Lily. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Linke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie7.2

    K-PAX

    2001 · 2.9K votes

  • Movie5.7

    Big Bad Mama

    1974 · 76 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Parenthood

    1989 · 747 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Smart House

    1999 · 174 votes

  • Movie6.9

    No One Would Tell

    1996 · 97 votes

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    Heart Like a Wheel

    1983 · 31 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Shrunken Heads

    1994 · 34 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Motel Hell

    1980 · 274 votes

  • Movie6.4

    CHiPs '99

    1998 · 21 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Grand Theft Auto

    1977 · 61 votes

  • Movie7.6

    The Dreamer of Oz

    1990 · 10 votes

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    Daddy's Boys

    1988 · 4 votes

  • Movie4.5

    The Fear Inside

    1992 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Where Are My Children?

    1994 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Every Woman's Dream

    1996 · 7 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Three for Two

    1975 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.4

    KGB: The Secret War

    1985 · 4 votes

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    Killing Mr. Griffin

    1997 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Shootdown

    1988 · 6 votes

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    1987 · 5 votes

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    Thirst

    1998 · 10 votes

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  • TV6.9

    Knots Landing

    1979 · 47 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

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    Quantum Leap

    1989 · 803 votes

  • TV7.1

    Diagnosis: Murder

    1993 · 128 votes

  • TV7.3

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    1990 · 846 votes

  • TV5.8

    Melrose Place

    1992 · 191 votes

  • TV7.9

    M*A*S*H

    1972 · 769 votes

  • TV7.3

    21 Jump Street

    1987 · 206 votes

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    The Waltons

    1972 · 106 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

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    Judging Amy

    1999 · 84 votes

  • TV7.4

    Strong Medicine

    2000 · 17 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hunter

    1984 · 102 votes

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  • TV7.6

    Happy Days

    1974 · 319 votes

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    Profiler

    1996 · 74 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Flash

    1990 · 532 votes

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    CHiPs

    1977 · 154 votes

  • TV6.1

    Hooperman

    1987 · 11 votes

  • TV5.6

    Supertrain

    1979 · 5 votes

  • TV6.5

    Capital News

    1990 · 2 votes