James Luisi
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James Luisi (November 11, 1928 - June 7, 2002) was an American television actor. In a career spanning nearly forty years, Luisi appeared in various TV programs such as Naked City, Adam-12, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Silk Stalkings, and on Broadway in the original 1966 production of Sweet Charity.
However, Luisi is perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Doug Chapman during Seasons 3 through 5 of the series The Rockford Files. Luisi's character Chapman detests the main character of the series, private investigator Jim Rockford (played by James Garner), and always tries to make things difficult for Rockford while the latter investigates his cases.
Before becoming an actor, Luisi was an NBA player, a member of the Baltimore Bullets from 1953 to 1954.
Luisi died of cancer in 2002.
[edit] Note on birthdate
The articles on Luisi at tv.com[1] and imdb.com (linked below) give a birthdate of November 11th for him, but other sources such as basketball-reference.com (linked below) and answers.com[2] give Luisi a November 2nd birthdate.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- James Luisi at the Internet Movie Database (Main source of the biographical information in this article)
- NBA statistics at basketball-reference.com
