I was raised in St. Louis, MO. My father died in a car accident when I was two years old. I never had any brothers or sisters, so my Mother was head of the household during my formative years. We moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962, and lived on the waterfront in Sausalito aboard an old ferry boat named "The S. S. Vallejo".

I attended Marin Country Day School, and during eighth grade, I play "Colonel Fairfax" in Gilbert and Sullivan's Yeomen of the Guard. If there was any time in my life when I was "bit by the acting bug", that was it.

After four years at Tamalpais High School, where I earned All-League Honors in Soccer, the University of

Washington brought me aboard to play for the Huskies. I majored in Political Science, but during my senior year I took an acting class. After many nights of shooting pool, drinking beer, and entertaining my friends at the Red Robin Tavern with a flawless impersonation of Muhammad Ali, I was encouraged to go to Hollywood.

Four years later, in 1983, I got my SAG card after playing "the Starter" in Hot Dog...The Movie.

In 1990, I had a three year contract role on the short-lived Fox youth-oriented serial drama Tribes. Since then, I've done mostly Co-Starring roles on episodic television, as well as some commercials, and several plays.