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Paul Linke

Actor, WriterBorn May 6, 1948 (77 years)
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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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Baywatch
  • 21 Jump Street
  • Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
  • Hunter
  • Knots Landing
  • Big Bad Mama
  • No One Would Tell
  • The Guest House
  • Shootdown
  • Three for Two

Known For

  • CHiPs
  • Motel Hell
  • Smart House
  • Grand Theft Auto
  • The Fear Inside
  • Every Woman's Dream
  • Time Flies When You're Alive

Paul Linke Filmography

2016
The Guest House · as Detective Collins
2016
2006
Fallen Angels · as Eli
2001
K-PAX · as Stuart Hessler
2000
Strong Medicine (TV Series) · as The Warden
1999
Judging Amy (TV Series) · as Principal Dick Waxwood
1999
Smart House · as Tuttle
1998
CHiPs '99 · as Grossman
1998
Thirst · as Governor
1998
1997
1997
Friends 'Til the End · as Detective
1996
Every Woman's Dream · as Narrator
1996
Profiler (TV Series) · as Bobby Perkins
1996
No One Would Tell · as Rod Merredi
1995
Awake to Danger · as Cast
1994
Lady in Waiting · as Max
1994
Family Album (TV Series) · as Wardrobe Man
1994
1994
Shrunken Heads · as Mr. Larson
1993
Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) · as Evelyn's Husband
1993
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) · as Church Deacon
1992
1992
The Fear Inside · as Carl Landers
1992
Melrose Place (TV Series) · as Man At Aids Support Group
1991
Plymouth · as Ernie
1991
Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor · as Battalion Chief Powers
1990
The Dreamer of Oz · as Opie (uncredited)
1990
1990
1990
The Flash (TV Series) · as Ted Preminger
1989
Parenthood · as George Bowman
1989
1989
Baywatch (TV Series) · as Man At The Marina
1989
Quantum Leap (TV Series) · as Lionel
1988
Shootdown · as Martin Henderson
1988
Daddy's Boys · as Traveling Salesman
1987
Into the Homeland · as Red Hughes
1987
Hooperman (TV Series) · as T.j.
1987
1987
21 Jump Street (TV Series) · as Mr. Tomkins
1986
The New Gidget (TV Series) · as Big Ed Ginty
1985
Space Rage · as Duffy
1985
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Eddie Mapp
1984
Three's a Crowd (TV Series) · as Dr. Smith
1984
Hunter (TV Series) · as Dale Shawn
1984
Santa Barbara (TV Series) · as Myers
1983
Heart Like a Wheel · as Reporter #2
1982
St. Elsewhere (TV Series) · as Dr. Herb Benzig
1980
Motel Hell · as Sheriff Bruce Smith
1979
Knots Landing (TV Series) · as Tapper Shell
1979
Supertrain (TV Series) · as Waiter
1978
The Paper Chase (TV Series) · as Cast
1977
CHiPs (TV Series) · as Arthur Grossman
1977
Grand Theft Auto · as Collins Hedgeworth
1976
Moving Violation · as Deputy Frank
1976
Laverne & Shirley (TV Series) · as Milo
1975
Three for Two · as Alfred (segment "mike & Pauline")
1975
Three for the Road (TV Series) · as Cast
1975
The Strongest Man in the World · as Peter 'porky' Peterson
1974
Big Bad Mama · as Bank Teller
1974
Police Woman (TV Series) · as Harry
1974
Happy Days (TV Series)
1972
M*A*S*H (TV Series)
1972
The Waltons (TV Series)
1970
The Baby Maker · as Sam

1996
E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Self
1987
Biography (TV Series) · as Self
1961
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Actor

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