Birthday: Aug. 8, 1947.
Birthplace: San Diego.
Occupation: Actor and entrepreneur.
Current home: Los Angeles.
Marital status: Married for 14 years to Marlene Harmon Wilcox.
Children: Derek, 24; Heidi, 21; Wendy, 17; Ryan, 5; and Chad, 3.
Cars: I switch between a Mustang and two motorcycles, a K12 BMW and a BMW cruiser.
Working on: “CHiPs ’99,” which airs Tuesday on TNT. It’s 15 years since I last played Jon Baker.
The last good movie I saw: “Saving Private Ryan.”
Magazines I read: Scientific American, Discovery, PC and digital video magazines.
Favorite pigout food: A gourmet dinner including peanut-butter-baked halibut with a great French white burgundy and creme brulee.
Favorite childhood memory: Sitting on my grandmother’s lap in a new Olds 88. She was rubbing my forehead and giving me little cars to play with.
Prized possession: My library and my five computers.
Nobody knows: I was in Vietnam, in the Marine Corps.
I’m better than anyone else when it comes to: Being a workaholic.
If I could do it over: I would make sure that I would perpetuate better offspring than myself.
My fantasy is: Sometimes I’m a fighter pilot in an F16, or a Formula One racecar driver. Sometimes I’m experiencing complete economic freedom.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: The most humorous. No one knows that about me today.
If I’ve learned one thing in life it’s: Communicate from the left–logical–side of the brain, not the right–emotional–side.
Major accomplishment: Surviving Vietnam.
Most humbling experience: I unfortunately made a record once. Big mistake.
The three words that best describe me: Simple, giving and paradoxical.
