Robert Pine


Robert Pine is an American actor who is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs.

Life and career

Pine was born in New York City, the son of Virginia and Granville Martin Pine, a patent attorney. He is married to Gwynne Gilford, who appeared in several episodes of CHiPs as Betty Getraer, the wife of Pine's character. They have two children, Chris and Katie.
Pine starred on the soap opera Days of Our Lives as Walter Coleman and had guest appearances in many American television shows, including Gunsmoke, Lost in Space, The Silent Force, The Wild Wild West, Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, and Knight Rider. On Magnum, P.I., he appeared as Thomas Magnum's father in a flashback episode. In the late 1980s, Pine guest-starred as Peter Morris, Zack's father, in an episode of Good Morning, Miss Bliss. For ', he guest starred as the Akritirian Ambassador Liria in the Season 3 episode "The Chute". For ', he guest-starred as Vulcan Captain Tavin in the Season 1 episode "Fusion |Fusion". Among his other credits are Six Feet Under, Beverly Hills 90210, and Match Game.
In the early 1990s, Pine portrayed two villains. For California Dreams, he played a wealthy racist who sabotages his daughter's friendship with drummer Tony. For the CBS Schoolbreak Special Big Boys Don't Cry, he played a pedophile who molests his two nephews. In 1994, he guest-starred as Bart Tupelo on CBS' Harts of the West comedy/western starring Beau Bridges and Lloyd Bridges. He reprised his role as Joe Getraer in the 1998 TNT TV movie CHiPs '99. In September 2013, he appeared as Grandpa Jack in Kaiser Permanente's television ad "Thrive - Perfectly Ordinary". He was the voice of the Bishop of Arendelle in Disney's 2013 animated movie Frozen.

Film

Television

Video games