Harrison Page

{{short description|American television and film actor|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{BLP sources| date= June 2012}}

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Harrison Page is an American television and film actor who has appeared in many popular series, including Sledge Hammer!, Cold Case, JAG, ER, Ally McBeal, Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, Melrose Place, Quantum Leap, The Wonder Years, 21 Jump Street, Midnight Caller, Murder, She Wrote, Fame, Gimme a Break!, Benson, Hill Street Blues, Webster, The Dukes of Hazzard, Kung Fu, Kojak, Mannix, Soap, Bonanza, and Columbo.

A life member of the Actors Studio,{{cite book|first=David |last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio|url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-02-542650-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/279 279]|chapter=Appendix: Life Members of the Actors Studio as of January 1980}} Page is best known for playing the ill-tempered Captain Trunk in the ABC's 1980s police satire Sledge Hammer! He was also a regular on C.P.O. Sharkey, starring Don Rickles.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9E40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QmcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4655,2571856&dq=harrison+page&hl=en|title=Rickles' Co-star Harrison Page Greatly Enjoys The Life He Leads|date=January 21, 1977|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|page=5D|access-date=29 July 2012}} In 1977, Page was taping a scene with Rickles when Johnny Carson (who was recording The Tonight Show just down the hall) suddenly burst in and berated Rickles about breaking Carson's cigarette box—an all-time classic bit of late-night TV history.

Page also appeared in the cult film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in the box-office hit movie Lionheart (1990). In 1993, he appeared in Carnosaur.