David Rasche

• Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Birthday: August 7, 1944

A tall, blond, ruggedly handsome actor of stage, film and TV, David Rasche may be best remembered by sitcom cultists as the dim-witted but gung ho hero cop of "Sledge Hammer!" (ABC, 1986-88), a likably broad parody of Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry", and as Jack Trenton, the crooked financier doing court-ordered hospital community service, from 1992-94 on the NBC's "Nurses".

Born in St. Louis but raised in Illinois, Rasche received his theatrical training at Chicago's celebrated Second City. He eventua…more