William Petersen

Petersen, who has one child from a previous marriage, married longtime girlfriend Gina Cirone in June of 2003. His last role was in Soylent Green (1973). From 2000 to the present, Petersen has starred as Gil Grissom in the successful CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. in sum, a Renaissance man"; sadly, he died two months prior to its formal presentation. Hathaway is a candidate for Vice President following the death of the incumbent. Never nominated for an Academy Award, in 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition that he had "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen .. In the 2000 release The Contender, Petersen played the role of Governor Jack Hathway. That same year he returned to Broadway in "Middle of the Night".

Instead, he worked on the 1987 made for TV movie Long Gone. In 1956 he had to sell off his large art collection for $3.25 million as part of his divorce settlement with Lloyd. In a move perhaps indicative of his career choices, Petersen is alleged to have passed on a part in Oliver Stone's Platoon, as it would have kept him away from his family. In the 1950s he was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was cleared of all suspicion. His film career began with a small part in the 1981 film Thief, and in 1986 he starred as Will Graham in Manhunter (later to be remade as Red Dragon). He was a popular box-office draw and was able to avoid flops. After attending Bishop Kelly High School in Boise, Idaho and Idaho State University, the latter on a football scholarship, Petersen became a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), he expanded into edgy psychological dramas including Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945); but he continued to accept gangster roles such as that of Johnny Rocco in the classic Key Largo (1948), one of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart.

William Petersen, an American actor, was born on February 21, 1953, in Evanston, Illinois. In the 1940s, after a good performance in Dr. A sensational performance as the gangster Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1930) led to him being typecast as a 'tough' for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final (1931), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad and A Slight Case of Murder (1938). He married the actress Gladys Lloyd in 1927. One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930 but left his stage career that year and made fourteen films in 1930-32.