Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.
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The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.
I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
I've done a lot of TV, but not film.