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Robert Pine (born July 10th, 1941) is an American actor who has starred on television and in film. He is probobly best known for his role as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the hit NBC television series CHiPs from 1977 to 1983.
Pine was born Granville Whitelaw Pine in Scarsdale, New York. He is married to actress Gwynne Gilford, who made a couple of appearance on CHiPs as the wife of Sgt. Joe Getraer. They are the parents of actor Chris Pine and actress Katie Pine.
Pine starred on the soap operas Days of Our Lives as Walker Coleman in 1987 and on The Bold and The Beautiful as Stephen Logan in 1988, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, and 2001. He also starred in the 2001 science fiction TV series Black Scorpion as Major Worth. He has co-starred in films too. He appeared in Independence Day (1996) as the President`s Cheif of Staff, Red Eye (2005) as a grompy hotel guest, Empire of the Ants (1977), and his first film, Gunpoint (1966).
Pine has made guest appearances in many TV shows, some of those shows include CBS` Gunsmoke, Lost In Space, Barnaby Jones, and Lou Grant. He also appeared on NBC`s Knight Rider. On CBS` Magnum P.I., he appeared as Thomas Magnum`s father in a flashback episode, with Tom Selleck in the title role. In the late 1980s, Pine appeared as Zack`s father in an episode of Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Star Trek Voyager (as an Akritirian Ambassador named Liria in the season 3 episode The Chute), Star Trek Enterprise (as a Volcan Captain Tavin in the season 1 episode Fusion), Six Feet Under, and Match Game.
In January 1994, Pine guest starred as Bart Tupelo on CBS` Harts of the West comedy/western starring Beau Bridges and Lloyd Bridges.
Pine reprised his role as Joe Getraer in the 1998 TNT TV movie CHiPs `99. His character was now the CHP commissioner.
Pine was also the Fisherman in episode "The Storm" in the Nickelodeon show Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Recently, Pine has done voiceover work for the video games SOCOM: Confrontation and Bionic Commando.
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