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Rex Linn

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American actor

Person · Open Library

Born: 1956-11-13
Works: 3

Top works

Greatest Hits
Ender's Game Alive
Classic Stories of the American West Lib/E

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Film & TV

Acting · Spearman, Texas, USA

Rex Maynard Linn (born November 13, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Sgt. Frank Tripp in the CBS drama CSI: Miami and Kevin Wachtell in the television series Better Call Saul. He also played Richard Travers in the 1993 action thriller movie Cliffhanger. From 2017 to 2024, he played Principal Tom Peterson on Young Sheldon.

Known for

Happy's Place — Emmett2024
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage — Tom Petersen2024
Reba McEntire's The Hammer — Bart Crawford2023
MVP — Security Guard2022
Roar — Sheriff2022
Big Shot — Coach Bert2021
Big Sky — Buck Barnes2020
The Drone — Baker2019
An Acceptable Loss — The President2019
The L Word: Generation Q — Jeff Milner2019

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: FI
Active from: 1992-04-15

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 13,711x
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
· 2015 · cited 8,955x
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,671x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,587x

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Key dates

Born: 13 November 1956

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Rex
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Spearman
Occupation: television actor
Educated at: Oklahoma State University
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Official website: www.rexlinn.com

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1956 births 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male television actors American people of Dutch descent American people of German descent American people of Norwegian descent Casady School alumni Living people Male actors from Oklahoma City Male actors from Texas

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Jamie Lee Curtis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Django Unchained

Los Angeles Times

University of Southern California

Better Call Saul

University of Texas at Austin

Oklahoma State University alumni

People from Hansford County, Texas

What links here139 pages

Home on the Range

CSI: Miami, season 2

State of Affairs

Better Call Saul, season 3

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Cutthroat Island

Django Unchained

CSI: Miami, season 7

Wexler v. Goodman

Michele Gammino

CSI: Miami, season 4

Clear and Present Danger

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