Creator / Richard Burgi

Richard William Burgi (born July 30, 1958 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American film and television actor.

He is best known for playing Detective Jim Ellison on The Sentinel and Karl Mayer on Desperate Housewives.

While his career started mainly in soap operas, he has played a wide variety of roles across television, alongside a fair handful of film roles.

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Works

Film

• Decoys
• Fatal Instinct
• Friday the 13th (2009)
• The Green Inferno
• Hostel Part II
• In Her Shoes

• Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Television

• 24
• Action
• Another World

• Body of Proof
• Blue Bloods
• Breakout Kings
• Burn Notice
• Castle
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• CSI: Miami
• Chuck
• Days of Our Lives
• Desperate Housewives
• Devious Maids
• The District
• Firefly
• The Flash (1990)
• General Hospital
• The Glades
• Grand Hotel
• Harper's Island
• Hawaii Five-0
• Hot in Cleveland
• Judging Amy
• Just Shoot Me!

• Knight Rider (2008)
• Las Vegas
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Lie to Me
• Mann & Machine
• NCIS
• Nip/Tuck
• One Tree Hill

• Reaper
• Rush Hour
• Seinfeld
• The Sentinel
• Shark

• The Young and the Restless

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