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CSI: crime
scene investigation
“Captain
Jim Brass” (Paul
Guilfoyle)
Jim Brass was born into a middle
class family in Newark.
When the riots hit in the mid-sixties, Brass was in college. Something
about the injustice made him decide on a career in law enforcement. He
approached his job with the zeal of a reformer, and at first he gained
much notoriety for his tenacious investigative style. Unfortunately,
tenacious investigators tend to be indiscriminate. When they see someone
do something wrong, they go after the crime, even if the criminals are
cops, and that’s what happened to Brass.
He
became a Serpico-like figure in
New Jersey. He cleaned up the department, but
the effort cost him his marriage and what little relationship he had
with his daughter. When the dust cleared, Brass headed for
Second
Chance City,
landing at CSI. He could get his fix of the investigative process
without having to expend any personal capital. His life gently slid into
strip bars and J&B doubles, and all was well enough until a young newbie
named Holly Gribbs showed up. Her death cost Brass his job and, in some
ways, his peace of mind.
Since Holly died,
Brass has been transferred back to homicide. He’s not sure if he likes
it, but it’s familiar and it’s easy, and that’ll do for the short term.
The long term is irrelevant for Brass, because he stopped believing in
the future long ago.
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Veteran actor
Paul Guilfoyle has starred in numerous feature films, including Random
Hearts,
Cadillac Man, Anywhere But
Here, The Negotiator,
Amistad,
Air Force One,
LA Confidential,
Ransom,
Extreme Measures,
Striptease,
Quiz Show,
Primary Colors,
Wall Street, Session 9,
Final Analysis, Night Falls in
Manhattan
and In Dreams. Most
recently, he completed work on the film “Tempesta. He also counts among
his independent credits the films The
Local Stigmatic
and Looking for Richard, both projects starring and spearheaded
by Al Pacino, and soon to be available on DVD.
Guilfoyle, a member
of the famed Actors’ Studio, has also earned a number of impressive
theatrical credits, including the Broadway productions Search and
Destroy, The
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,
American
Buffalo, Richard III
and Glengarry Glenross. He
has also appeared in the productions Death Defying Acts,
Those the Rivers Keeps,
Loose Ends,
Endangered Species
and
Henry V.
His television
credits include the series Secret Agent Man, Law and Order,
Miami Vice,
Wiseguy and
Crime Story, as well as the television movies Notorious,
September, Curiosity Kills,
Unnatural Pursuits,
Amelia Earhart
and the Emmy-nominated HBO film Live from Baghdad.
Guilfoyle
was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, and now lives in
New York
with his wife and daughter. His birth date is April 28.
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