Age: 42.
Occupation: Actor.
Birthplace: Palo Alto, Calif.
Current home: Toluca Lake, Calif.
Marital status: Married to actress Debi Richter of All Is Forgiven.
Children: Two from my first marriage, Arcadia, 13, and Brittany, 10.
Working on: I’ll be hosting Evening for Vietnam Veterans, a PBS show airing May 28; and I have one more year on my Hill Street Blues contract.
Worst job: Bouncer for a bar in Pittsburgh frequented by steelworkers. Two months after I started, Notre Dame alumni came in after the school lost a football game, and that was the end of that job.
The last good movie I saw was: Testament, with Jane Alexander.
I stay home to watch: Wonderworks on PBS with my daughters, and also National Geographic specials. I’m a documentary junkie.
The book I’ve been recommending lately is: The Path to Power, by James Caro, about President Lyndon Johnson.
Favorite performers: Sir Laurence Olivier, Ricky Skaggs and Tom Petty.
Favorite childhood memory: My grandfather’s flower garden.
Personal heroes: The children in the world’s war-torn areas. They don’t get a break from anybody, and yet they go on.
A really great evening to me is: Being on the beach with my wife, the children asleep in their sleeping bags in front of a fire, and just listening to the ocean, California-style.
My fantasy is: To be a musical performer.
I knew I was a grown-up when I: Saw my first child born.
My most irrational act: The first and last time I spanked one of my children.
My most irrational fear: Is never again seeing those close to me.
The worst time of my life: Being in a submarine armed with hydrogen warheads off the coast of Southeast Asia.
Major accomplishment: Being a husband and a father.
My most humbling experience: Was in 1961, in the Stanford stadium, when I met Rich Kopper, 6-foot-6, 260 pounds. He was the nose guard, I was the center, and I became one with the field.
The one thing everybody’s tried but me is: I’m over 40; I’ve tried everything.
