Bruce Fairbairn (actor)
{{short description|American film and television actor}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Bruce Fairbairn
|image = The Rookies cast 1975.JPG
|caption = Fairbairn (bottom center) with Georg Stanford Brown, Kate Jackson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin and Sam Melville in The Rookies, 1975
|birth_name = Robert Bruce Fairbairn
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|02|19}}
|occupation = Film and television actor
|years_active = 1974–2000
|spouse = Jeri Fairbairn{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/152326025/|title=Action Line|work=The Akron Beacon Journal|location=Akron, Ohio|date=September 23, 1974|access-date=January 14, 2022|page=5|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}
}}
Robert Bruce Fairbairn (born February 19, 1947){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EGgzAEACAAJ|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999|page=73|publisher=McFarland|first=Harris|last=Lentz|date=July 2000|isbn=9780786409198|via=Google Books}} is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing for Officer Chris Owens in the American police procedural television series The Rookies.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/159456/Rookies/overview|title=The Rookies|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709165425/http://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/159456/Rookies/overview|archive-date=July 9, 2015|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}
Life and career
Fairbairn worked at a restaurant while he studied acting. He began his career in 1974, where Fairbairn succeeded departing actor Michael Ontkean on the police series The Rookies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/16/archives/tv-view-blue-blue-monday.html|title=TV View|first=John|last=O'Connor|work=The New York Times|date=March 16, 1975|access-date=January 14, 2022}} From 1974 to 1976, he played Officer Chris Owens on the series. On September 9, 1975, he was arrested for drunk driving in Los Angeles, California, for which he paid a fine.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/404223300/|title=Television cop is guilty|work=Wisconsin State Journal|location=Madison, Wisconsin|date=October 8, 1975|access-date=January 14, 2022|page=5|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/261791999/|title=100 subpoenaed in probe of pressroom violence|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|date=October 8, 1975|access-date=January 14, 2021|page=34|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} After The Rookies ended in 1976, Fairbairn guest-starred in television programs including Knight Rider, Matt Houston, Remington Steele, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Baywatch, The Incredible Hulk, Matlock, Simon & Simon and Charlie's Angels. He appeared in four films: Cyclone, Vampire Hookers (as "Tom Buckley"), 3 Strikes, The Hanoi Hilton. Returning to television, he played the recurring role of "Sheldon Ganz" in the legal drama television series L.A. Law, and, later, he played Ray Geary on the long-running primetime soap opera Knots Landing.
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0265440}}
- {{TCMDb name|915426%7C0}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/bruce_fairbairn/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors